Polish GDP growth will slow to around 1.0-1.5% in the fourth quarter of 2022, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE), a government think-tank, said on November 15 in reaction to the latest figures from the Central Statistical Office (GUS). Poland is currently battling an inflation rate that hit 17.9% last month, while having to contend with…
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) will provide almost 80,000 euros in one-time payments to Ukrainian refugees in Lithuania. “Citizens of Ukraine or third-country nationals who have fled Ukraine after February 24 can receive this cash-based assistance,” IOM Lithuania has said in a press release. “Special attention is given to unemployed single-parent families with one…
Increases in food prices in Poland will be the biggest in Q4 and will slow in subsequent quarters to single-digit growth expected in Q4 2023, the National Bank of Poland (NBP) has forecast in its November inflation report. The NBP published the report on November 14 and projected that food price growth would stand at…
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will in the coming weeks send nuclear safety and security missions to three operating nuclear power plants in Ukraine as well as to the country’s Chornobyl site, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has said in a statement published on the website of the agency. “Since the beginning of…
As of November 10, Ukrainian farmers harvested more than 7 million tons of sugar beets. According to the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, sugar beets were harvested from the area of 149,000 ha (83%). 7.3 million tons of sweet roots were harvested with the average yield of 489 ton/ha. (Ukrsugar/Business…
Georgia’s domestic production of drones will launch next year following the testing of the first unmanned aerial vehicle produced by the newly established joint Georgian-Polish company, defence minister Juansher Burchuladze said on November 14. Burchuladze noted the Delta-WB production had received the advance payment for the task, with the test models to leave the conveyor…
Poland’s GDP is expected to rise to 4.6% in 2022, according to projections from Poland’s central bank released on November 14. The bank also put GDP at 0.7% in 2023 before rising to 2% in 2024 and 3.1% in 2025. The central bank also predicts that Consumer Price Index inflation will run at 14.5% in…