Poland’s estimated unemployment rate in April stood at 5.3%, against 5.4% in March, the family and social policy minister said on May 9. Close to 879,900 unemployed people were registered at labour offices at the end of April, down from 902,100 at the end of the previous month, Marlena Malag also said. The final end-April…
Georgia’s Civil Aviation Agency on May 7 rejected as “unverified and baseless” a report by the opposition-minded Formula News outlet that claimed earlier during the day an aircraft owned by the sanctioned Russian oligarch Evgeny Giner had been allowed to be parked at the Tbilisi International Airport “for nearly a month now”. The Agency said…
Home-loans for real estate outside Tallinn and its environs have risen slightly in overall share, Swedbank reports. While the majority (nearly two-thirds, at 60%) of total home-loans issued by Swedbank for the purchase of property in Estonia are for real estate in Tallinn and Harju County, this is still slightly down on the 63% share…
Ukraine cannot export about 90 million tons of agricultural products due to the blockade of its ports by Russia, and this could lead to a global food crisis. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said this in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. “Ukraine has proved to be an extremely powerful producer and supplier of food to the…
In the four months of 2022, the Pension Fund of Ukraine (PFU) received UAH 171.9 billion, including UAH 113.7 billion of own revenues. The PFU received UAH 113.7 billion from the single social contribution and other payments in January-April. Another UAH 58.2 billion came from the state budget to finance pensions and one-time benefits in…
The National Food Safety Agency (ANSA) has withdrawn a consignment of apple and cherry juice from sale. According to ANSA, the food sector operator, Kaufland Ltd, initiated the procedure of withdrawal of the product, Vreau din Romania Suc de mere si visine 3L (Willing Apple and Cherry Juice from Romania 3L) from the trade network…
Operational data on the airport performance showed that this April, more than 419 thousand passengers used Riga Airport; in turn, in the first four months of the year the airport serviced over 1.1 million passengers. “The increase in the number of passengers in April is related to both new and renewed routes from Riga at…