Joint initiatives in mechanical engineering and light industry fields will help to increase the volume of bilateral trade between Uzbekistan and Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine reports, commenting on the measures taken to increase bilateral trade between Uzbekistan and Ukraine. According to the ministry, a meeting was held in February in Kyiv at…
Minister of Health and Labor Tanel Kiik (Center) proposed an additional targeted tax during the March 18 cabinet meeting, which would be used to finance the budget of the Estonian Health Insurance Fund. Kiik said that mainly financing healthcare from the social taxes of working people was unsustainable, as the number of people who worked…
Turkish cafe Taksim – Bir Tuugandar closed down in Bishkek. Owner of the cafe, Ali Iflazoglu, posted about it in social networks. According to him, he opened the food outlet 14 years ago. “Perhaps, this is the last video I shoot in Kyrgyzstan. I appeal to the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At a…
In February, actual unemployment rate comprised 9.1%, up by 0.3% MoM. Unemployment rate registered by the State Employment Agency (SEA) accounted for 8.2%, up by 0.2%. Unemployment rate increase may be observed when comparing the data to the February of the previous year – of 1.5% in actual unemployment rate and 1.9% in registered unemployment…
The presence of German business can significantly grow in Ukraine if current reforms continue, Marco Wanderwitz, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Co-Head of the German-Ukrainian High-Level Group on Economic Cooperation, has stated. “Ukraine is one of Germany’s most important economic partners in the region, and Ukraine has made…
Last year there were 19.5 thousand vacant jobs in Latvia. When compared to 2019, their numbers have declined by 9.6 thousand or by 33%, according to data from the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. In the private sector there were 11.7 thousand vacant jobs and 7.8 thousand in the public sector. Compared to the previous…
The government has approved a bill providing a EUR 641-million supplementary budget aimed at combating the ongoing effects of the coronavirus pandemic, with a focus on the health-care sector, education and local government. The budget is the second of its kind issued in response to the pandemic; last April the previous administration issued an even…