United Airports of Georgia has started a GEL 8-million (about $2.8 million) renovation that will add a new runway at the Kutaisi international airport. In the two-week work, the new three-kilometre runway will be added to ensure the airport’s ability to receive larger aircraft and “make operations more flexible”, the organisation’s head of infrastructure development…
The European Union should remodel its energy price regulation framework for small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in the face of the continuing energy crisis, Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has said. Morawiecki made the statement at a press conference on October 11 following a government decision to cap electricity prices for certain consumers. “We…
Amid rising inflation, the economies of Lithuania and other countries in the world may grow slower than earlier thought, according to the latest assessment by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF expects Lithuania’s GDP to grow by 1.8% this year and by 1.1% in 2023. While the forecast for 2022 remains unchanged from the…
From October 11, Ukraine suspended electricity exports in order to stabilize its energy system, the Ministry of Energy said this in a statement posted on its Facebook page. “The October 10 missile attacks, which affected the thermal power generation and electrical substations, force Ukraine to suspend electricity exports from October 11 in order to stabilize…
In Ternopil region, sugar beet harvesting has been slowed down due to unfavorable weather conditions. But agrarians are actively delivering the harvested sugar beets to sugar factories. More than 200,000 tons of raw materials have been received for sugar production since the beginning of the season, and there are enough raw materials for the factories…
The Georgian government on October 10 held a meeting led by prime minister Irakli Garibashvili to discuss a range of topics, including approval of the 2022-2028 strategy for the development of the capital market of Georgia and the related action plan. The government administration said the strategy would contribute to the “uniformity of the country’s…
Lithuania has received 138,200 doses of an Omicron-adapted coronavirus vaccine, the Health Ministry reports. The vaccine targeting the BA.4 and BA.5 coronavirus sub-variants will be used for the first or second booster shots, with producers expected to deliver more than half a million adapted vaccine doses in October. The second booster shot of the vaccine…