The poultry plant “Hajiqabul Qushchuluq” located in the Hajiqabul district will start exporting eggs to Qatar next week, head of the plant’s export department Akif Aliyev declared. He said that 36,000 eggs would be exported in 1,000 packages. “In the future, we plan to increase these volumes, and the negotiations are underway regarding this,” he…
DetailsSolarGaps has become the first start-up in Ukraine to receive a EUR 1-million grant in equity free funding under the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Phase 2. SolarGaps became the first Ukrainian start-up, which received SME Instrument Horizon 2020 Phase 2 grant since the interview stage in Brussels was introduced. The start-up secured EUR 1 million…
DetailsIn 2018, the proceeds from the tourism industry into the state budget of Ukraine increased by 250%, to UAH 4.2 billion. “The local authorities have significantly increased spending on tourism development owing to the decentralization reform. Kyiv had only UAH 300,000 in 2014, and today it has more than UAH 12 million; Odesa had 0,…
DetailsRegistered unemployment in Estonia remained unchanged YoY in March. The total figure for registered unemployed was 33,3976 at the end of March, the same as the end of March 2018, and a 0.1% drop on the previous month. The figure constitutes 5.1% of the workforce aged 16 to retirement age, the Unemployment Insurance Fund (Tootukassa)…
DetailsAlthough sunlight in Latvia is an underappreciated source of energy, there has been an increase of interest towards use of solar energy among Latvian households. This is proven by the fact that in the last three years the number of households that produce their own electricity has doubled, according to data compiled by energy company…
Details“It is planned to build 10 ski resorts in Almaty to boost mountain skiing tourism,” deputy head of the Almaty city tourism department Kalibek Akylbekov said. “Mountain skiing tourism development will embrace three clusters in Almaty and Almaty region until 2025. Last year the Austrian company developed the Almaty and Almaty region alpine tourism cluster.…
DetailsThe Finance Ministry aims to reduce the national debt to 50.5% of GDP by the end of 2019, and to 41.4% of GDP within the next three years, according to Finance Minister Oksana Markarova. “In the updated medium term state debt management strategy for three years, which Finance Ministry presented at the previous meeting of…
DetailsInvestments from 32 countries were attracted in the economy of Volyn region in 2018, the press service of the Volyn Regional State Administration reported. “32 countries invested in the economy of Volyn region in 2018. The main ones were Poland, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Slovakia and Cyprus, with direct investments totaling 92.1% of the overall amount,”…
DetailsPlacing floating solar panels in dams of hydroelectric plants Lithuanian Business Support Agency sees potential in the innovation and has granted 235,000 euros for the project at the Kruonis hydroelectric plant. The first stage of the project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2021. State-owned enterprise Lietuvos Energijos Gamyba will be developing…
DetailsGeorgia will start producing electric cars that will appear on local as well as EU markets starting in 2020, announced the Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze. One of the world’s largest electric car manufacturers, the Changan Corporation, will construct a production factory in the western Georgian city of Kutaisi. “Production capacity of the plant…
DetailsAccording to the information released by Statistics Estonia on April 9, Estonian exports of goods increased by 4% and imports by 5% YoY in February, with exports being boosted by wood, articles of wood and prefabricated wood buildings. In February, exports from Estonia amounted to EUR 1.16 billion and imports to EUR 1.26 billion at…
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