Turto Bankas (Property Bank), Lithuania’s centralised public property management company, was hit by a cyberattack on August 30, which briefly knocked out its external websites. The company believed it was a response to its “putinOut” campaign. The websites turtas.lt and valstybesturtas.lt were down between 12:30 and 13:00 as a result of a distributed denial of…
The international partners have provided Ukraine with $17.5 billion since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. “In total, our international partners have provided Ukraine with $17.5 billion since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion. We are grateful to everyone for this assistance, which allows us to ensure the economic stability of our state. At the…
Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk, wound up her working trip to Odesa and Mykolaiv region and expressed her sincere thanks to international humanitarian organizations that had been constantly helping Ukrainians since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the russian federation. “The state and…
Poland was one of the EU’s three biggest beer producers in 2021, Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, reported on August 30. Last year, just as in 2020, Germany was the top producer with 7.5 billion litres. This represents 23% of the total EU production of 33.1 billion litres of beer containing alcohol. Germany was followed…
Work is getting underway to refit HMS Quorn, a former British Royal Navy mine-hunting vessel purchased by Lithuania. The ship is expected to be ready for service with the Lithuanian Navy in two years. The Lithuanian Defence Ministry, which acquired HMS Quorn from the UK Ministry of Defence under a contract signed in April 2020,…
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has said the government has approved a draft budget for 2023, and described it as “an ambitious budget for a difficult time”. According to Morawiecki, the draft “includes a number of guidelines and outlays, which are to ensure security to Polish families”. “All the social programmes, which have been…
Speaker Igor Grosu together with deputy speaker Mihail Popsoi and deputy head of the economy, budget and finance commission Radu Marian met with a group of politicians and businessmen from Great Britain. The delegation was led by Lord Daniel Hannan, member of the House of Lords, adviser to the UK Board of Trade. According to…