Lithuania: USA to gift additional combat drones

Lithuania, which is buying Switchblade combat drones from the United States, will get additional drones in the form of support, Deputy Defence Minister Vilius Semeska has announced. “Regarding Switchblades, decisions have already been made, and we are waiting for a contract. We have already got consent enabling us to receive the technology, and we are…

Ukraine: PM names 2023 state budget priorities

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal chaired a meeting with the participation of Minister of Finance Serhii Marchenko and representatives of the Ministry of Finance regarding the main directions of the draft state budget of wartime. The Head of Government emphasized that the priorities of the state budget for 2023 included maintaining of macro-financial stability, financing of…

Poland: Central bank backs retaining zloty

Poland’s currency is one of the sources of its economic success and giving it up would be a grave mistake, the governor of Poland’s central bank has said in an interview for the Dziennik Gazeta Prawna newspaper. Commenting voices saying Poland should switch to the euro, Adam Glapinski said the fact that Poland had kept…