The latest assessment from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development suggests that Bulgaria will maintain solid economic momentum this year, with GDP expected to rise by around 3%. According to the OECD’s new Global Economic Prospects report, growth will moderate in the following years, easing to 2.6% in 2026 and to 2.4% in 2027.…
Lithuania’s Competition Council has given Estonia’s Ekspress Grupp, the owner of the Delfi news portal, an additional month to sell the lrytas.lt news website, extending the deadline to January 7, 2025. Ekspress Grupp had asked regulators to push back the original December 7 deadline to meet the obligations imposed in connection with its acquisition of…
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko, and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ukraine, Masashi Nakagome, have signed an agreement (in the form of an exchange of notes) between the Governments of Ukraine and Japan on the provision of a grant to the Government of Ukraine for the implementation of…
As the festive season begins, Estonian public media journalists have visited Christmas markets in Riga and Tallinn to compare offerings and prices, writes ERR News. The Tallinn Christmas market opened on November 28 and would operate until December 28. Experience shows that demand drops sharply after Christmas, and therefore, like last year, the market will…
On December 2, Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine Oleksii Sobolev met with members of the Ukraine Facility Audit Board. This was already the third meeting with the Ministry of Economy that serves as the National Coordinator for establishing the monitoring system for the implementation of Ukraine Plan. During the meeting, the Audit…
In November, businesses cautiously assessed their performance due to losses from intense shelling of critical infrastructure, power outages, rising costs, and a lack of logistical capabilities and personnel. This was reported by the press service of the National Bank. The business activity expectations index was 49.4, which is lower than the October figure (50.3) but…
In the third quarter of this year, the average gross monthly wage in Latvia was 1,835 euros, and compared to the third quarter of 2024, the average monthly pay increased by 132 euros or by 7.8%. According to data from the Central Statistical Bureau (CSP), the pay per hour worked before taxes rose to EUR…