Swedish retail group ICA Gruppen announced on March 5 that it was selling its Rimi stores in the Baltic States to the Danish retail giant Salling Group. Denmark’s Salling Group is set to acquire Rimi stores for EUR 1.3 billion, taking ownership of 314 stores located in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. As part of the…
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is considering financing energy and infrastructure programs in Ukraine previously managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This was stated by the head of JICA’s Ukraine office Hideki Matsunaga at the 5th Ukrainian-Japanese Forum organized by the New Europe Center. Matsunaga noted that USAID and JICA had…
In 2024, the budget received UAH 9.9 billion in revenues from the privatization of state-owned property. Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal announced this at a press conference on March 4. “In 2024, Ukraine achieved record results in privatization in 10 years. The total amount of proceeds for last year amounted to UAH 9.9 billion.…
Sofoklis, a Lithuanian publishing house, said on March 4 it was removing a book by US Vice President JD Vance from sale and urged people to read books by Ukrainian authors instead. The move came after the US paused military aid to Ukraine. “Following the US presidential administration’s decision to suspend aid to Ukraine, Sofoklis…
The state has paid UAH 56 million to employers under the compensation programme for the employment of 2,500 internally displaced persons since the beginning of 2025. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Economy Tetiana Berezhna. “Since the beginning of this year, 1,500 employers have received compensation from the Government for the employment of 2,500…
Since the beginning of 2025, businesses have received 3,727 soft loans under the Affordable Loans at 5-7-9% programme totalling UAH 11.7 billion. Since the launch of the programme in February 2020, businesses have taken 107,400 loans worth UAH 371.8 billion. Last week, Ukrainian entrepreneurs received 933 soft loans worth UAH 2.3 billion. “Thanks to the…
In the last quarter of 2024, the number of Bulgarian citizens traveling both domestically and internationally decreased by 7.2% compared to the same period in 2023, with 1.1 million people making tourist trips, according to data from the National Statistical Institute (NSI). The majority of travelers, 74.4%, chose to stay within Bulgaria, while 20.5% traveled…