Georgian citizens have saved GEL 51 million ($17 million or EUR 16.6 million) since the beginning of imports of affordable medicines from the Turkish market that has caused a reduction of domestic prices, Georgia’s Deputy Health Minister Ilia Ghudushauri has said. The official presented updates on the effects of the imports from the Turkish pharmaceutical…
Estonia could have 2,000 vacancies for truck drivers until the end of 2022, which is why carriers want an exception for hiring Belarusians. Even now, Estonian logistics companies are looking for drivers from Uzbekistan and even India. Europe is short of some 400,000 truck drivers for almost 10% of vacant jobs. The problem will only…
Lithuania’s state railways have banned the transit of sanctioned Russian goods to and from the exclave of Kaliningrad, Anton Alikhanov, the region’s governor, has said. In a post on Telegram, he said the ban would affect up to half of products imported and exported through Lithuania. “We consider this to be a most serious violation…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs negotiates the re-opening of McDonald’s restaurants in Ukraine. As Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba posted on Facebook, with the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, McDonald’s, like many other companies, suspended the operation of restaurants in Ukraine for security reasons. But the MFA believes that now there are conditions to resume…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is convinced that Europe’s security is impossible without liberation from the chains of dependence that Russia has been creating for decades. He stated this in an address to the participants in the Prespa Forum Dialogue. “Any serious discussion of the security architecture in Europe must be based on…
Fifty miles south of Warsaw on the route to Krakow lie Europe’s largest orchards, a huge maze of roads and dirt paths winding their way through a jungle of apples. Buried deep in the bush, Tomasz Porowski and Marcin Hermanowicz are helping transform Poland’s relationship with cider. “It was never a big drink in Poland,”…
The pre-acceleration program for girls and women has announced the launch of the fourth edition, which will take place on July 11 – September 2. The organizers of the program will select 30 participants eager to start their own businesses, and registrations are open until June 24. The purpose of the XY Pre-Accelerator program is…