The Customs Service (SV) collected over 623.4 million lei (about 31.1 million euros) to the state budget on July 18-24, up by 8.5%from the budgetary task set for this time interval. According to SV, private people brought goods, the value of which in customs exceeded the non-taxable limit, with over 17.2 million lei collected, which…
Poland’s unemployment rate fell to 4.9% in June from 5.1% in May, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on July 25. The number of registered unemployed measured 818,000 in June against 850,200 in the previous month, GUS also said. Earlier, the Family and Social Policy Ministry estimated June’s unemployment at 4.9%. (The First News/Business World…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) sold $309.2 million and bought $223.22 million on the interbank foreign exchange market over the past week. Following foreign exchange interventions, between July 18 and July 24, the National Bank sold $309.2 million on the interbank foreign exchange market and bought $223.22 million. Since the start of 2022, the…
The Lithuanian government should put forward a new package of anti-inflationary measures in autumn, but only after assessing the effectiveness of the measures adopted last spring, says Gediminas Simkus, board chairman of the Central Bank of Lithuania. He also stressed the need to maintain fiscal discipline, to avoid adding more fuel to inflation and to…
Trade and economic relations between Georgia and China were discussed at a meeting of the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibasvhili and Zhou Qian, the newly appointed Ambassador of China to Georgia. The Government Administration said the PM had told the diplomat he hoped the “fruitful” cooperation between the two states would continue, as the parties…
Since the 1990s, Russian citizens have invested almost 300 million euros in Lithuania, with the largest share having gone into real estate. Liberal MP Raimundas Lopata has now proposed that Russian citizens be banned from investing in the country, while Lithuanian firms be barred from doing business in Russia. Lopata, a representative of the Liberal…
The Sejm, the lower house of parliament, on July 22 passed the government’s 2021 budget report and execution of the budget in a 228 to 216 vote with one abstention. According to the report, budget revenues for 2021 came to PLN 494.8 billion (EUR 103.6 billion) against a planned PLN 482.9 billion (EUR 101.1 billion),…