The Union of Harju County Municipalities has submitted an appeal to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications requesting the latter to instruct the parties responsible for the establishment of Rail Baltica to take into consideration the need for a bypass railway in the overlapping corridors of Rail Baltic and the Tallinn ring railway. In…
DetailsAbout $55 million will be spent on construction of Tyup-Kegen road in Kyrgyzstan, Renata Esembaeva, Acting Director of the World Bank Investment Projects Implementation Group, reported at a session of Onuguu-Progress faction. According to her, 50% of the amount is a grant, and the second half is a loan. “There is a project for the…
DetailsThe opportunity for Czech companies can represent the fields that are in priority to be developed by Azerbaijan’s government, to diversify the economy and support the development of the non-oil sector, Marta Novakova, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic reported. “These are mainly agriculture, chemical and manufacturing industry, engineering, services (especially transport,…
DetailsIn 2018, Ukrainian winemakers exported their products to the tune of over $38 million, up by 20% YoY. “We exported wine and other products of winemaking to the tune of over $38 million, although we still remain the net importers of these products (imports totaled $113.5 million in 2018),” Deputy Agrarian Policy and Food Minister…
DetailsFor the first time in its history, the National Bank of Ukraine has won a transparency award of the prestigious international Central Banking Awards. “The National Bank of Ukraine considerably increased its transparency in the past year, and in the preceding three years, despite exceptionally difficult circumstances,” reads the statement on the website of the…
DetailsThe recent bout of cold weather and snow across Estonia has been accompanied by near-record levels of electricity consumption. At 10.00 am EET on January 22, five-minute average electricity consumption was recorded at 1,549 megawatts. Estonian electricity consumption was very close to the record high of all time that day, when the five-minute average consumption…
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