Tax collection in Latvia continued to improve in August, securing 8% more to the state budget when compared to the same month of 2019, according to the report from Fiscal Discipline Council (FDP). The council stresses that collection of compulsory state social insurance contributions has improved. “This means the previous outlook, about the lowest point…
The value of trade turnover between Kazakhstan and Switzerland amounted to $902.2 million over the first five months of 2020, compared to $1.1 billion during the same period of 2019, the Statistics Committee reported. The share of Switzerland in the total value of Kazakhstan’s trade turnover stood at less than 2.6% during the reporting period…
Compared to July 2019, manufacturing production output rose by 1.8% in July 2020. Production output increase was also in mining and quarrying (of 11.5%), but in electricity and gas supply there was a drop of 14.1%). Total industrial production output increased by 0.1%. Compared to the corresponding month of the previous year, production output rise…
Minister of Finance Martin Helme (EKRE) said at a government press conference that Estonia had a deficit budget this year and would likely have one in several years to come. An extension of wage support for the tourism industry is not on the cards. Helme added that if the wish were to balance the state…
Russia’s ongoing aggression in Eastern Ukraine remains one of the key threats to national security, so the level of funding for the security and defense sector for the next year cannot be reduced, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov has said this during a meeting on the defense…
44 major investment projects that are to create 13 thousand jobs are under implementation in Karaganda region. 1,700 SME projects have already gained the support. According to the region’s governor Zhenis Kassymbek, a plan is said to be mapped out to implement the President’s Address, containing strategies for each point of the Address. The governor…
Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan discussed the resumption of regular meetings of representatives of public and private structures of the two countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. This was said during a videoconference between Minister of foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan Chingiz Aidarbekov. The parties also actively cooperate…