On September 8, a meeting of the Ukrainian part of the Ukrainian-Polish Intergovernmental Commission on Economic Cooperation was held under the chairmanship of Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine. The parties discussed the main prospective directions of Ukrainian-Polish cooperation within the framework of the preparation…
Lithuania’s economic growth will slow down in the near future, but the country will avoid a recession, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte has said. “Considering what I see, what is being projected by those who have already published forecasts, we don’t see a negative territory so far,” she said. “However, the pace of economic growth will…
Grigeo Klaipeda, a Klaipeda-based cardboard producer that is part of the Grigeo Group, has halted production due to soaring energy prices. Gintautas Pangonis, the group’s president, says production at Grigeo Klaipeda has been suspended for a week, possibly two. He attributed the decision to suspend production for around two weeks to high electricity costs. (BNN/Business…
More than 14,600 Polish companies were written off the official registry in August, up by 6.9% MoM, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported. However, as many as 32,434 new companies were registered in August and the number was 4.5% higher compared to July, GUS said. There were about 619,400 companies with suspended operations as of…
Inflation will remain at a high level in the coming months but it should soon start declining owing to a drop in the annualised growth of energy prices, Adam Glapinski, governor of the National Bank of Poland (NBP), has said. Glapinski made the statement at a press conference on September 8, which followed the central…
The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine predicts a slowdown in GDP growth in 2022 to 33.2%, confirmed by the trends observed in the second quarter and August. On September 8, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine published data noting the GDP decline in the second quarter amounted to 37.2% (compared to the second quarter of…
Foreign direct investments in Georgia totaled $351.8 million in the second quarter of 2022, up by 9.1% YoY, the National Statistics Office of Georgia reported in its latest figures on September 8. Geostat said an increase in equity, reinvestment of earnings and debt instruments had been the main reason for the growth in FDI, with…