In the first five months of 2023, receipts to the National Public Budget administered by the State Fiscal Service amounted to 25.23 billion lei (about 1.2 billion euros), up by 16.4% YoY. Thus, 11.2 billion lei were collected to the state budget in five months of 2023, up by 14.1%. About 2.7 billion lei were…
Polish retail sales went down by 2% YoY in April after a 5.1% decrease in March, Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, reported on June 6. Month on month, retail sales went up by 1.4%, the agency also said. Eurostat annual growth figures are work-day adjusted, while the monthly growth figures are also seasonally adjusted. Eurostat…
Since the start of the Affordable Loans at 5-7-9% State Programme, business entities have received 62,963 loans from authorised banks totalling UAH 202.86 billion, of which 41,762 from public sector banks totalling UAH 88.31 billion (as of Jnue 5). Over the past week, 365 concessional loans totalling UAH 1.4 billion were issued under the programme,…
At a Government meeting on June 2, it was decided to add another industrial park, Western Industrial, to the Register of Industrial Parks. This brings the total number of industrial sites on the register to 64. The 21.7-hectare Western Industrial park is located in Bushtyno, Tyachiv district, Zakarpattia region. “The operation of industrial parks stimulates…
The raise in the monthly child benefit to PLN 800 (EUR 177) from PLN 500 (EUR 111) will cost the Polish government more than PLN 24 billion (EUR 5.3 billion) in the first year, a legislation impact assessment indicates. According to the assessment, “the cost of the implementation of the changes will increase the expenditure…
Ukraine has received $19.79 billion in financial aid from international partners this year, the press service of the Ministry of Finance reports. In particular, as of June 1, Ukraine received assistance from the United States ($6 billion), the EU ($8.12 billion), the IMF ($2.7 billion), Canada ($1.76 billion) and the World Bank ($547 million). Since…
Restoration of Ukraine, humanitarian demining, investment in the national economy and cooperation in the field of digital and modern technologies. These and other topics were discussed during a video meeting between Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, and Franz Fayot, Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs and Minister…