Lithuania is likely to receive another 70 million euros from the European Commission to deal with the migrant crisis, Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite has said. The EU’s executive body said in late 2021 that 200 million euros would be earmarked for beefing up border protection in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland over the coming years, but…
The sum of infrastructure damages has already reached $104 billion. At least 45 million square meters of housing, 656 hospitals, more than 1,200 educational institutions, nearly 25,000 kilometers of roads, 300 bridges and 12 airports have been destroyed or damaged as a result of Russian strikes. Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal said this via…
As many as 240,000 Ukrainians have found employment under a simplified procedure introduced to help them find work, the Polish family and social policy minister said on June 20. Under a special law, Ukrainian citizens who arrived in Poland after February 24, when Russia invaded their country, can take up employment without the need to…
The industrial producer price index rose by 33.7% YoY in May. Leading analyst at Statistics Estonia Germo Valgenberg said: “In manufacturing as a whole, prices increased by 24%, whereas in the manufacture of food products, prices rose by 21.2%.” Valgenberg explained that this May’s index was primarily affected by price increases in the production of…
Last week, Latvia banned Russian and Belarusian nationals and firms from holding stakes or managing companies key to national security. Lithuania has already similar controls in place, according to an MP. “We already have what Latvians have done, as companies that do not meet the Euro-Atlantic security criteria simply cannot participate in transactions, let alone…
Inflation in Poland will probably reach its peak either in the third or fourth quarter of 2022 and then will start to fall, a deputy finance minister has said. Piotr Patkowski also said the predicted peak for inflation would occur “if the current geopolitical situation does not change”. “It seems that this moment is not…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs negotiates the re-opening of McDonald’s restaurants in Ukraine. As Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba posted on Facebook, with the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, McDonald’s, like many other companies, suspended the operation of restaurants in Ukraine for security reasons. But the MFA believes that now there are conditions to resume…