Polish oil group Orlen, which owns Lithuania’s Mazeikiai-based oil refinery Orlen Lietuva, plans to use only oil supplied by Saudi Arabia, Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys has said. “Orlen is renouncing Russian oil and plans to produce products only from Saudi Aramco’s Saudi Arabian oil,” said Kreivys. Up until now, most of Orlen Lietuva’s refined oil…
Ukraine managed to attract about $4 billion from international partners over the past month. “We are talking about figures close to $4 billion,” Deputy Head of the President’s Office Rostyslav Shurma said during the nationwide telethon, when asked how much money Ukraine managed to raise over the past month. At the same time, he noted…
Since the beginning of the war, international partners have provided more than $2 billion and EUR 1 billion in assistance to Ukraine. As the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko said in his address, the amount includes the assistance from the IMF ($1.4 billion), macro-financial assistance from the European Union (the budget has already…
On March 24, Vilnius City Council decided to provide a one-off payment of 252 euros for people fleeing the war in Ukraine. The one-off payment will be available to people who have fled Ukraine as a result of the Russian aggression and settled in Vilnius. They will be able to receive the allowance before they…
The Cabinet of Ministers ruled to extend the right to annual material assistance for the spouses and parents of the participants who died while fulfilling the duty in the combat actions for the defense of Moldova’s territorial integrity and independence, participants who died while fulfilling their duty in Afghanistan and the participants in the relief…
The income of 21.7% of Latvian households has decreased in the last twelve months and for 18.5% households income has increased. Negative and positive changes with income of Latvian households were observed more clearly in cities these past twelve months – 20.2% of city-based households mentioned their income has increased (14.3% in the countryside), 23.2%…
Over 32,500 households received 1,000 lei each as one-off aid offered by the European Union. A total of 40,000 households will get it in response to the energy crisis. Distribution of support to vulnerable groups is done through the non-governmental organization People in Need Moldova and with the involvement of the Government of the Republic…