Free Trade Union Confederation of Latvia (LBAS) has sent a letter to the Saeima speaker and all factions in the parliament. In it, LBAS expresses its opinion on the rights of employers to lay off employees not vaccinated for Covid-19, as confirmed by LBAS. Because the Cabinet of Ministers decided on July 14 to approve…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects the Georgian economy to grow by 7.7% in 2021, “a significant upgrade from just a few months ago, which implies that output will exceed its 2019 level this year”, reads a concluding statement of the IMF staff at the end of an official visit in Georgia. The IMF statement…
The producer price index of industrial output rose by 9.4% YoY in June, state agency Statistics Estonia reported on July 20. The index rose by 2.6% between May and June. “Falling prices in mining and quarrying and in the manufacture of beverages had an opposite effect on the index,” Eveli Sokman, leading analyst at Statistics…
The effective use of labor potential and the return of migrant workers from abroad is a matter of national security and statehood, Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister, Economy Minister Oleksii Liubchenko has said at the opening of the All-Ukrainian Forum “Ukraine 30. Human Capital” in Kyiv. He said it was impossible to count the exact…
Turkey expects Ukrainian business to take more active steps to develop joint projects and the Government of Ukraine – to sign a bilateral free trade agreement. “There is a very important issue – signing the free trade agreement between Turkey and Ukraine,” Rusen Cetin, Chairman of the Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEIK) at the Turkey-Ukraine…
The share of renewable electricity in Estonia’s total electricity consumption was 28.9% in the second quarter of this year, up from 24.7% in the same three-month period in 2020, the country’s transmission system operator Elering said on July 19. In the second quarter, Estonian power plants produced 602 gigawatt-hours of renewable electricity, up by 23%.…
Georgia’s external trade turnover amounted to $6.2 billion in January-June, up by 20.7% YoY. The value of exports increased by 25.2% and totaled $1.88 billion, while imports increased by 18.9%, to $4.32 billion. The trade deficit of Georgia in January-June amounted to $2.44 million, or 39.3% of total trade turnover. In the reporting period Georgia’s…