Nearly EUR 2.07 billion remained unused in the state treasury in the past fiscal year, which was mostly due to the slow movement of European Union funds, Aivar Soerd (Reform), a member of the Riigikogu Finance Committee, said. The Ministry of Finance gave the Finance Committee an overview of the 2025 budget surplus, which, according…
On March 9, Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine Oleksandr Krasnolutskyi held an online meeting with the Bureau for Chemical Substance of the Republic of Poland on the development of bilateral cooperation in chemical safety. Oksana Mylianyk, an expert from the Recovery and Reform Support Team (RST), also took part in the…
Russian regions, amid budget problems, have started to massively cut healthcare spending. In 2026, almost a quarter of the regions (19 out of 82) made such a decision. This follows from the budget reporting, which was studied by “Important Stories”. The figure turned out to be a record for the entire period of the war…
Russian retailers have sharply reduced the opening of home-based stores. By the end of 2025, the appearance of new retail outlets within walking distance slowed down by six times – this is the maximum drop since 2017, according to a study by Infoline. According to “Kommersant”, one of the key reasons was the decline in…
This year, Vinnytsia plans to install four more cogeneration units with a total capacity of 10 MW. This was reported by Andrii Ocheretnyi, deputy mayor of Vinnytsia. He noted that after the full-scale Russian invasion, the Vinnytsiamiskteploenergo municipal enterprise received cogeneration units on a grant basis, in particular from USAID, which provided electricity to city…
Consumer prices in Latvia increased by 0.2% in February compared with January, while annual inflation fell to 2.3%, down from 2.9% a month earlier, according to data released by the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. At the same time, the average consumer price level over the past 12 months rose by 3.6% compared with the…
The Commission for the Protection of Competition (CPC) has highlighted a troubling disparity in Bulgaria’s dairy sector: consumers face some of the highest prices for dairy products in the European Union, while local producers and processors struggle to survive. On March 10, the CPC convened a meeting in Plovdiv with dairy producers and processors from…