As the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, starts deliberating the 2023 government spending bill, Finance Minister Gintare Skaiste says the primary focus is on supporting households and business in shouldering high energy prices. “The government is presenting the budget bill today, and we see it as a kind of shield to protect the population in this uncertain…
Igor Ivanov from Malaiesti, Orhei, runs an agricultural household that owns 19 hectares of orchards. To export fruit to the community market, he had to plant new trees, of a different generation. Last year, he delivered three loads of plums to Germany, but for that he needed international certification and had to comply with certain…
The government has introduced price caps on electricity bills for SMEs, social institutions and households in an effort to protect them from soaring energy costs. From December 1 until the end of 2023 the maximum electricity tariff for SMEs and institutions such as orphanages, schools and hospitals will be set at PLN 785 (EUR 161)/MWh,…
Up to GEL 3 billion ($1.08 billion) will be invested in infrastructure development across Georgia next year with the construction of highways remaining a priority, infrastructure minister Irakli Karseladze has said, while discussing the next year’s state budget. “This is a historical maximum”, said Karseladze of the amount of money allocated for his office in…
Marlena Malag, the family and social policy minister, said on October 11 that the government wanted to permanently add remote working to the Labour Code in order to make it easier for people to work from home. The minister referred to a news story in the Rzeczpospolita newspaper claiming that the government wanted to encourage…
Moldova has received a consignment of 188,000 doses of GCFLU tetravalent influenza vaccine, sources of the National Health Insurances Company (CNAM) have reported. According to the National Public Health Agency (ANSP), the vaccines were stocked in conditions of the refrigerating chain at the ANSP’s National Warehouse of Vaccines. The vaccines are to be carried and…
Siauliu Bankas has started converting Ukrainian hryvnias into euros, the first commercial bank to offer the service in Lithuania. However, only Ukrainians will be allowed to use the service to exchange up to 10,000 hryvnias. Converting the Ukrainian currency into euros became possible after Lithuania’s central bank signed agreements with its Ukrainian counterpart and Siauliu…