Billa Slovakia fell into the red last year, becoming one of the first major retailers to report the adverse impact of the government’s consolidation measures on the country’s consumer sector. The supermarket chain announced a loss of nearly EUR 8 million for 2025, despite boosting revenues by 5% YoY, to EUR 923 million. The result…
In January-May, single contribution revenues for mandatory state social insurance amounted to 301.7 billion hryvnia. This is 44.4 billion hryvnia more than in the same period last year. In the first five months of 2025, the budget received 257.3 billion hryvnia of single contribution. Thus, this year’s figure increased by 17.3%. The single contribution is…
The Government is expanding the Affordable Medicines programme. An additional 51 international non-proprietary names (INNs) of medicines will be added to the updated list, which will take effect from July, Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko has announced. The newly included medicines cover the management of high blood pressure, treatment of heart failure and cardiac…
For the first time in the country’s history, Vilnius Airport has surpassed Riga Airport in monthly passenger numbers. “More passengers boarded and disembarked at Vilnius Airport than at Riga Airport in May. A milestone we hardly dared expect to reach three years ago,” Simonas Bartkus, chief executive of Lithuanian Airports, wrote on Facebook. Excluding transit…
The European Union is preparing to provide additional support to Armenia amid restrictions imposed on the import of Armenian products into Russia, EU Ambassador to Armenia Vassilis Maragos has said during a meeting with Armenian exporters. According to Maragos, important meetings and phone discussions were scheduled for June 4, after which specific additional support measures…
Over 63 thousand citizens have already used the new digital service for issuing a taxpayer card in electronic form. This was reported by the head of the State Tax Service Lesya Karnaukh. “The document, which thousands of citizens need every year, can be obtained in a few clicks. The service is gaining more and more…
Major scheduled repair work to eliminate road surface damage has been completed on state-important roads. Since the beginning of the year, almost 14 million sq. m of road surface has been repaired. Despite difficult weather conditions and security challenges, repairs continued in all regions of the country. Such a pace and volume of work was…