More than 150,000 passengers went through Tallinn Airport in July, a coronavirus pandemic record, but it was still half of the traffic before the virus took over international travel last year. People heading for flights in Tallinn recently can see a livelier airport. The airport’s commercial manager Eero Pargmae said they did well in July.…
The construction of barriers and monitoring equipment on the Lithuanian border with Belarus will cost around half a billion euros, according to Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite. “We are convinced that a complex solution including the construction of a physical fence, border surveillance using modern technology and stepped-up border control in cooperation with EU allied forces…
Ukraine is not considering the option of purchasing Russian natural gas and is not holding talks on this issue, Naftogaz CEO Yuriy Vitrenko has said. “We are not considering such an option at all, and we are not holding any talks about it. That’s where we have such a very clear position. In principle, we…
The average salary in Ukraine has hit a record high of UAH 14,300, but the government is trying to reach the European level of salaries in the country, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said. He announced this at a joint meeting of the presidium of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities under the President…
Due to events in the past two months, trade with Afghanistan and the transit of goods through this country have significantly decreased. The head of the Customs Service of Tajikistan, Khurshed Karimzoda, announced at a press conference. “While in January-February, up to 50 vehicles crossed the border every day, now there are 2-3 vehicles, sometimes…
In June, the unemployment level in Latvia was 8%, higher than the average in the European Union, according to data published by Eurostat. Unemployment among EU member states was higher in Greece and Spain (15.1% in both), Italy (9.7%), Sweden (9.2%) and Finland (8.1%). Unemployment in Lithuania was 6.4% in June and 6.7% in Estonia.…
The estimated real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate in June equaled 18.7% YoY and 12.7% in January-June , the preliminary data of the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) showed. The following industries of the economy posted growth in June compared to the same period of the previous year: manufacturing, financial and insurance activities,…