More Bulgarians are rushing to purchase property, fearing that housing prices will rise further after the country joins the Eurozone. According to a Bulgaria ON AIR interview with credit consultant Tihomir Toshev, citizens face increasing difficulties in buying homes, particularly in larger cities, where the rise in property prices has outpaced income growth. This trend…
Mild winters prevent bears from hibernating for long. Large numbers of beehives and silage bales have yet to be ravaged this year, but many beekeepers have given up on reporting bear damage due to the bureaucratic hassle involved in getting compensated. Estonia’s brown bears have woken up from hibernation. They’ve already been spotted on trail…
On March 26, Minister of Finance of Ukraine Sergii Marchenko met in Kyiv with Chair of the Ukraine Facility Audit Board Marek Belka, Deputy Chair Gijs De Vries and board member Gunnar Walzholz. The meeting was also attended by First Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine Denys Uliutin. The European Commission established the Audit Board…
In January-February, a total of UAH 336.6 billion was directed from Ukraine’s state budget general fund to finance the security and defense sector. The relevant statement was made by the Finance Ministry on Telegram. “In January-February, the expenditures from the state budget general fund on the security and defense sector came to UAH 336.6 billion,…
An escalating global trade war could wipe out nearly all of Slovakia’s expected economic growth next year and lead to the loss of 20,000 jobs, the country’s central bank warned. New import tariffs introduced by the United States, and retaliatory measures by its trading partners, would push the Slovak economy into a period of pronounced…
The Steering Committee for the development of the new Customs Code of Ukraine has approved the timeline for the preparation and adoption of the document. “We plan to complete the drafting of the new Customs Code of Ukraine based on the EU Customs Code by the end of April and expect its final approval by…
Serhii Tkachuk, Head of the State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection, paid a working visit to Warsaw as part of the delegation led by Vitalii Koval, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food. During the meeting of the Ukrainian delegation with Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Republic of Poland…