Lithuania’s state-owned railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (LTG) risks falling under US sanctions as it continues to transport Belarusian fertilizers, Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte has warned. She was commenting on LTG’s statement that it had received an official confirmation from the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) that Washington’s sanctions against Belaruskali, one…
Georgian athletes have stated that Georgian sport will be left without funding if the parliament approves legislative restrictions on gambling in the country. They noted that increased taxes for the business would not allow it further sponsoring sport in Georgia and thus “will put many types of sports in a difficult situation and kill prospects…
In November, actual unemployment rate comprised 7.1%, up by 0.4% MoM. The unemployment rate for males increased by 0.3%, to 7.9% in November, while for females it rose by 0.6%, to 6.3%, according to data of the Labour Force Survey conducted by the Central Statistical Bureau (CSP). The unemployment rate registered with the State Employment…
German retailer Lidl has signed contracts with 800 new employees in Estonia, thus, according to the company, the teams of the retail chain’s first eight Estonian stores have been assembled. Training for new store employees will begin in stores in January, during which they will acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to perform everyday tasks,…
The Ukrainian Finance Ministry and the World Bank have signed an agreement on a EUR 300-million loan to continue the implementation of projects in the field of economic recovery, the ministry’s press service has said. “On December 20, Ukraine’s Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko and World Bank Regional Director for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine Arup Banerjee…
In 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with the State Food and Consumer Service opened or restored access to foreign markets for 81 groups of Ukrainian goods in 21 countries, as well as helped more than 200 Ukrainian companies start exporting goods or operating abroad, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said presenting the successes of…
Nominal Gross Domestic Product in Georgia equaled 15.99 billion GEL in the third quarter of 2021 and real GDP grew by 9.1%, while the GDP deflator (inflation measure) increased by 9.4% in the reporting period, preliminary data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat) showed. The highest real GDP growth was registered in the…