The European Commission has paved the way for EUR 3.85 billion to be invested in helping five of Poland’s coal-mining regions deal with the challenges of becoming carbon-neutral. Speaking in the southern city of Chorzow, which lies in the heartlands of Poland’s mining industry, Frans Timmermans, the EU’s climate policy chief, has said that the…
Kaufland Group continues to expand its store network in the Republic of Moldova and has opened its eighth store in the country. Located on 7 Kyiv Street in Chisinau, the new store will generate over 100 new jobs. In keeping with Kaufland’s international strategy, the company announced an investment in renewable energy and started equipping…
Works on eliminating the consequences of Russian missile attacks are underway in Kyiv region. NEC Ukrenergo power grid operator has introduced additional emergency shutdowns. Therefore, schedules of hourly power outages are currently not in effect in the region. Oleksiy Kuleba, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, wrote this on Telegram. According to him, power…
Ukraine is directly cooperating with the United States, as well as other countries, to introduce new effective sanctions against Russia after its missile attacks on Ukrainian cities. The relevant statement was made by Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Oksana Markarova. “Certainly, we are providing all the information, working together with partners to ensure…
The EU’s embargo on most Russian oil imports, announced six months ago, came into force on December 5. Depending on the specific commodity code, part of the sanctions took effect on December 5, with the rest to be enforced on February 5, 2023. Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG) says it does not yet have information…
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on December 5 said this year’s fruit harvest was expected to hit about 45,000 tons of citrus, adding the Government would subsidise collection of non-standard tangerines. Last week, the regional Government of Adjara also announced state authorities would co-finance collection of a kilogram of industrial tangerines with GEL 0.15 ($0.055), with…
As part of Vilnius’ continuing military assistance to Kyiv, two more PzH2000 howitzers have been repaired in Lithuania and handed over to the Ukraine Armed Forces to be deployed on the battlefield, Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas has said. “Two PzH2000 howitzers repaired in Lithuania have been shipped to Ukraine,” Anusauskas posted on Facebook on December…