100,200 doses of an Omicron-adapted coronavirus vaccine have reached Lithuania, the Health Ministry said on October 3. Adapted to the Omicron subtypes BA.4 and BA.5, the vaccine will be used as the first or second booster shots. Vaccine makers plan to deliver more than half a million doses of the adapted vaccines in October, the…
Poland’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 43.0 points in September 2022 from 40.9 points in August, economic researcher S&P Global reported on October 3. Economists polled by PAP predicted the PMI would reach 40.1 points in September. Both manufacturing and new orders contracted in September amid inflation pressure, while business sentiment remained low. Polish…
President Maia Sandu greeted the wine-makers and vine-growers who participated in the National Wine Day in the centre of Chisinau and the regions on October 1-2. According to the presidential press service, the head of state expressed admiration and gratitude for those who worked in this industry of Moldova – a quarter of million people,…
Polish companies will start to reduce employment costs when they are no longer able to pass rising costs on to consumers, an economist from business lobby Lewiatan has warned. Poland’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 43.0 points in September 2022 from 40.9 points in August, economic researcher S&P Global reported on October 3. In…
Cooperation prospects and the growing dynamics of tourism recovery in Georgia were discussed on October 3 at a meeting between the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Serkan Kaptan, the president of TAV Airports, the company managing two of the largest airports in the country. The meeting noted the pandemic had posed “a number of…
The Lithuanian Defence Ministry seeks that almost $3 million contributed by the country to a NATO trust fund aimed at supporting Afghanistan’s security forces be transferred to Ukraine. The Cabinet is expected to adopt the respective protocol decision this week. According to the ministry, $2.876 million (2.94 million euros) contributed by Lithuania to the NATO-run…
On October 1, the Convention on Common Transit came into effect in Ukraine. The relevant statement was made by the Ukrainian Finance Ministry. “On October 1, the provisions of the Convention on Common Transit entered into force for Ukraine, and businesses got an opportunity to internationally transport goods to 35 other member states, using a…