Prices of consumer goods and services (Consumer Price Index, CPI) increased by 10.1% YoY, but remained flat MoM in August, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported. GUS confirmed its figures reported earlier in a flash CPI estimate. In July, the prices of consumer goods and services increased by 10.8% YoY, but declined by 0.2% MoM.…
Average annual inflation of around 8% is expected until the end of the year and decrease in the following year as well. This was stated in Plovdiv by the Minister of Economy and Industry Bogdan Bogdanov, specifying that he was waiting for the data submitted to the ministry. “Until the end of the year, let’s…
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yuliia Svyrydenko and European Commission’s Director-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations Gert Jan Koopman discussed progress in the preparation of the Ukraine Plan under the EU’s Ukraine Facility programme. The parties agreed on the further schedule of meetings, the list of documents required for approval…
The National Employment Agency (ANOFM) has offered more than 10,600 vacant jobs to citizens. According to the institution, 22% of the jobs are for people with higher and post-secondary education and 78% – for people with secondary vocational education and unqualified workers. At the same time, 87% of all vacant jobs are from the urban…
Philip Morris International (PMI) will spend over PLN 1 billion (EUR 214 million) on a new production plant for heated tobacco sticks to be located in Krakow, southern Poland, the firm’s CEO has announced. Michal Mierzejewski, president of PMI for north-east Europe, told a news conference on September 12 that since 1996 PMI had invested…
Last week, Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine Olga Zykova met with IFC’s Country Manager for Ukraine and Moldova Lisa Kaestner. The parties discussed the mechanisms for attracting private investments in Ukraine’s recovery as well as the priority areas of cooperation. Olga Zykova thanked IFC for the joint work on the implementation of initiatives to…
The Ukrainian Economy Ministry expects Ukraine’s gross domestic product to grow to 4% this year, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko has said at the YES 2023 Yalta European Strategy Forum. “We predict that the inflation rate will continue to slow in the coming years. All institutions are revising their GDP growth…