Moldova will be exempted from the payment of the financial contributions to European Union’s programmes. At a meeting on December 27, the members of the parliament’s commission for foreign policy and European integration approved a notification on the starting of the negotiations and approval of the signing of an Agreement between Moldova’s government and the…
Since the launch of Livada Moldovei project in 2016, more than 530 economic agents have received loans under favorable conditions worth 92 million euros. In 2023 alone, credits of about 16.5 million euros were granted, which financed 109 initiatives of farmers of Moldova, the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA) reported. This year, the…
The Zaporizhzhia City Council approved the city budget for 2024, with UAH 200 million for the defense program, Anatoliy Kurtiev, acting mayor of Zaporizhzhia, announced on Facebook. “Next year’s budget is focused on wartime challenges. It provides UAH 200 million for the defense program (including UAH 50 million for drones for the military). About UAH…
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) handed out certificates of compliance to the economic units involved in dual technical vocational education and certificates to the members of the commissions for ascertaining conformity. The certificates were provided at a meeting of the committee for promotion of dual technical vocational education. CCI head Sergiu Harea said that…
After an extensive and meticulous investigation, Bulgaria’s Prosecutor’s Office announced the closure of the high-profile inquiry into the cryptocurrency firm Nexo. The decision, arrived at on December 22, stemmed from the absence of compelling evidence substantiating allegations of money laundering, tax infractions, or illicit financial services provision without proper authorization. The investigation, which spanned a…
The first EU pandemic recovery funds under Poland’s National Recovery Plan (KPO) could come to Poland late in the first quarter or early in the second quarter of 2024, the new funds minister said. The new Polish pro-EU government, which took office in mid-December, was determined to mend relations with Brussels, which had been strained…
The parliament voted for the state budget for 2024, aimed at backing the social, education and infrastructure’s development fields, in the second reading on December 22. The document provides for the increase in the childbirth allowance, growth of the salaries of teachers by 15% and doubling scholarships of the students from the faculties with pedagogical…