On September 12-18, the Customs Service collected over 686.5 million lei to the state budget (about 34.3 million euros), up by 3.5% from the target. According to the Customs Service, private people brought goods with the customs value exceeding the non-taxable limit, and payments worth over 17.1 million lei were collected, which represented 2.5% of…
As the European Union looks for solutions to urgently cut record-high electricity prices for consumers, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte says untying gas and electricity prices is key. “The main problem is that the gas price that’s been made for Europe by a man who wants to bring Europe to its knees directly determines the…
Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita met representatives of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group. The discussions focused on projects underway and new perspectives of developing the cooperation between Moldova and IFC, the government’s communication and protocol department reported. The parries referred, in particular, to the results of the study of…
Polish medium-sized companies (SMEs) are facing an additional burden from a minimum wage hike, seen at PLN 18.16 billion (EUR 3.84 billion) next year, according to the rationale to a government regulation. Poland’s minimum wage will rise by 15.9% in January 2023, but total growth will ultimately reach 19.6% after the second increase in July.…
Poland’s Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) rose to 14.8% YoY in August, against a 14.2% growth in the previous month, Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office, reported. Month on month, prices increased by 0.8%, Eurostat data showed. HICP is calculated according to uniform Eurostat methodology. According to Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), prices of…
Representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnychuk, revealed some indicators of the draft state budget for 2023, which was registered by the government in the parliament. “When developing the draft law “On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2023″, a moderately conservative scenario of the macroeconomic forecast was used to…
Average monthly nominal earnings in Georgia increased by GEL 213.3 (about $75) in the second quarter of 2022 compared to the same period of the previous year, marking a 16.1% increase, to GEL 1.541 (about $544), the national statistics office of Georgia said on September 15. The highest monthly earnings were observed in the following…