Mykola Solskyi, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, held an online working meeting with Mark Steven Spencer, Minister of State at the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. During the meeting, the parties discussed the urgent problems of the Ukrainian agricultural sector and financial support for Ukrainian farmers. Mykola Solskyi emphasized…
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will assign a $16-million loan, backed by the European Union and Sweden, to Georgia’s Credo Bank to support local micro, small and medium-sized companies and women-led firms in the country. The financial package involves a credit line of $10 million for MSMEs, with $4 million assigned from EBRD’s…
As much as 67.1% of the exports and 50.1% of the imports made by the companies from the Transnistrian region have European Union member states as destination and origin respectively. According to the Reintegration Policies Bureau, in 2022, the export from the region to EU countries accounted for 67.1%, up by 10.2% YoY. At the…
Almost 900,000 Ukrainian refugees have found legal work in Poland under simplified employment regulations, the family and social policy minister has said. Marlena Malag told a conference on Polish support for Ukraine at the Prime Minister’s Office on February 6 that help for Ukrainians fleeing the war was a joint effort by the national government,…
A project backed by Switzerland and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a contest for the selection of three micro-regions beneficiaries of foreign support. The full file on participation will be sent by electronic means not later than February 23. The Resilient and Inclusive Markets in Moldova (PRIM) project supports local communities, so…
Inflation in Poland will fall below 10% within six months, the head of the state-run Polish Development Fund (PFR) has said. In December 2022, Poland’s inflation reached 16.6% YoY, the country’s statistical office reported. Inflation for the whole past year hit 14.4%, the highest level since 1997. Speaking at a regional conference in Warsaw on…
About $25 million will be invested this year in the livestock sector in Moldova, to increase the resilience of milk production farms, to improve the conditions of animal maintenance, as well as to equip the farms with specialized equipment and software. This will be a part of the total amount of $55 million, offered by…