An investigation by newspaper Postimees reveals that Estonia’s economic growth is being built at the expense of third-country migrants who often face mistreatment at the hands of bosses and companies. The daily reported it had found over 1,000 online job adverts targeting workers in Ukraine from EUR 4 hourly-paid jobs in Estonia and advertising working…
Estonia’s industrial production in October was smaller by 3.9% than in October 2018, which represented one of the highest rates of decline among EU member states during this time frame. In October industrial production decreased by 2.2% in the euro area and by 1.7% in the EU28, figures made available by Eurostat showed. Among member…
The average wage in Ukraine in October made up over UAH 9,500, the Pension Fund of Ukraine reported. “The average wage rate for October was approved, from which insurance contributions were paid and which was taken into consideration for pension accounting in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “On Compulsory State Pension Insurance”,” the report…
At the beginning of December total tax debts in Latvia, including outstanding, halted and extended debts, were equal to EUR 869.367 million, down by 1.9% MoM, according to data collected by a debt-reclamation company, the moorcroft group. This includes EUR 467.007 million tax debt to the state base budget, down by 2.9%, EUR 273.209 million…
“Preliminary figures indicate that as of December 1 the international reserves – gold and foreign exchange reserves of the National Bank of Kazakhstan – made $28.7 billion,” Yerbolat Dossayev announced at a government meeting. He also stressed that Kazakhstan’s foreign reserves decreased in November by 2.9%, or by $842 million, as a result of the…
The Ukrainian government will allocate about UAH 480 million for the proper functioning of the new Customs Service and its infrastructure, Head of the State Customs Service Maksym Nefyodov stated at a press conference dedicated to the launch of the new Customs Service. “We are working within the current budget. About UAH 480 million is…
Imports and exports declined by more than 5% in October with the biggest fall coming from non-EU countries, new figures by Statistics Estonia showed. In October, compared to October 2018, the exports of goods decreased by 7% and imports by 6%. The biggest decline, by nearly a fifth, was recorded in trade with non-EU countries.…