Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas is visiting Paris on June 13-14 where he is to sign a letter of intent on purchasing French self-propelled 155mm howitzers Caesar with newly appointed French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecorn. The ministers would also sign documents enabling the Lithuanian Ministry of Defence to join the development programme of the Caesar…
Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation for IT Development Oleksandr Bornyakov joined the panel discussion “Crypto at War: Behind Ukraine’s Historic Crypto Fundraiser”. The event took place within the framework of the global cryptoconference Consensus in Austin, USA. During the panel discussion, Oleksandr Bornyakov spoke about the development of the legal field in Ukraine for the…
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine expects to attract about $20 billion from foreign partners until the end of the year. “Until the end of the year, we expect to raise an additional $20 billion. This is what we are currently negotiating,” Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko said during a meeting of the…
On July 1, onward JSC Latvijas Gaze plans to increase natural gas tariffs for households by between 65.6% and 89.9% depending on consumption, according to the entry in the Latvian Herald. For households that consume up to 250 cubic meters a year, the differentiated end tariff with VAT and excise tax will increase by 65.7%,…
Two more Lithuania-based companies may be placed under administration due to EU sanctions on Russian, says the Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT). One company, the phosphate fertiliser producer Lifosa, has so far been the only company put under temporary administration after sanctions on its Russian owners threatened its operations. “The Finance Ministry has thus far…
The governor of Poland’s central bank has announced that Poland seems to be getting closer to the end of the monetary policy tightening cycle rather than to its beginning. “It cannot be ruled out that the Monetary Policy Council (RPP) will start cutting interest rates in the last quarter of 2023,” Adam Glapinski told reporters…
Samples of Lithuanian plant seeds were handed over to the Global Seed Vault in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard on June 9. The storage of duplicates will ensure that seeds could be retrieved and reproduced in Lithuania if necessary, according to the Environment Ministry. The Svalbard Seed Vault is the largest such facility in the…