59% of Poles are planning to spend no more than PLN 100 (EUR 21) on Christmas gifts for a single person this year, a survey has found. 47% of people declared the PLN 50-100 price range and 12% are planning to spend even less than PLN 50, according to a survey by UCE Research and…
The Ukrainian women who have fled to Lithuania are not waiting for social payments or assistance from the state. While some go to work, others take matters into their hands and start businesses from scratch. Natalia Nesterenko and Yekaterina Semenyuk were running a dairy business in Kyiv before the start of the full-scale Russian invasion.…
Poland’s core inflation, which excludes the prices of food and energy, measured 11.4% YoY in November, up from 11% in October, the National Bank of Poland (NBP) said. Inflation excluding fixed prices amounted to 18.1% YoY in November, down from 18.7% in the previous month. Inflation excluding the most volatile items measured 15% in November,…
Ukrainians who fled Russia’s war would be issued only digital temporary residence permits in Lithuania from next year, the Migration Department said on December 16. Such residence permits will be issued to both new arrivals and those already in the country. “The digitisation of this process will save a lot of time for Ukrainian refugees,…
The European Union on December 15 agreed on the ninth package of sanctions against Russia. However, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis called the agreement “a missed opportunity”. “The 9th sanctions package was a missed opportunity. Sad that we had to spend so much time discussing derogations, not stronger sanctions. Together with Poland we have managed…
The government has offered small and medium-sized businesses a number of support programs to help restore losses caused by the war. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Tetyana Berezhna during a speech at the Interregional Business Forum in Ivano-Frankivsk. “Ukrainian business has shown great resilience during the war and the Government…
The leadership of the European Union Funds Audit Department (AFCOS, OLAF Contact Point in Latvia) of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Latvia conducted a training for the staff of the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine (ESBU). The topic of the training was “Institutional and legal framework for the protection of EU finances”.…