On April 20, the Bulgarian National Bank conducted an auction for government securities from an issue maturing on January 28, 2031, with the Ministry of Finance placing bonds on the market worth 150 million euros. The securities were offered at a fixed annual interest rate of 2.75%, with coupon payments scheduled every six months and…
Slovakia emerged as a key focus in the widening extortion case involving German baby food producer HiPP, after authorities confirmed contaminated jars had been placed directly in a local supermarket. According to investigators, the extortion plot specifically targeted a Tesco store in Dunajska Streda, where two jars of baby food were allegedly tampered with and…
The Transport Administration plans to thoroughly reconstruct Estonia’s most accident-prone intersection, the Juri roundabout in Rae Parish, so that the Tallinn Ring Road runs straight through it. The Juri interchange is a unique interchange in Estonia, where traffic passes through a large roundabout with a diameter of 390 meters. The Tallinn ring road is interrupted…
During January-March, owners of luxury cars paid 82.9 million UAH of transport tax to the budget. Compared to the corresponding period last year, revenues increased by 25.5% (or +16.8 million UAH). The undisputed leader was Kyiv, which received almost a third of the tax paid – 24.4 million UAH. Dnipropetrovsk region received 8.3 million UAH,…
On April 20, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law-adopted by parliament on April 7 – regarding the implementation of European Union legislation and the integration of energy markets. This is stated in the bill’s card on the Verkhovna Rada website. As noted in the explanatory note to the draft law, its adoption will comprehensively…
A consortium led by the US company Hill International has been awarded a 1.6-billion zloty (EUR 373 million) deal to act as the general contract engineer for the construction of a major new airport near Warsaw in central Poland The deal was announced on April 17 by CPK, the state-owned firm overseeing the wider 132…
Lithuania plans to complete the multibillion-euro Rail Baltica project, including connecting Vilnius to the international line, until the end of 2033, according to a government-planning document. The target date is outlined in a special infrastructure development plan prepared by the Transport Ministry for the Kaunas-Vilnius section, estimated to cost about 2.5 billion euros. The plan…