On September 22, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the signing of two additional agreements between Ukraine and the European Commission within the framework of technical cooperation programs. Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka was authorized to sign the aforesaid documents on behalf of the Government of Ukraine. The first…
Deputy Ministers of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine, Taras Vysotskyi and Iryna Ovcharenko, met with program leaders from the EU Delegation in Ukraine to discuss further cooperation in the agricultural sector. Taras Vysotskyi expressed gratitude for the support of Ukraine’s agricultural sector in its European integration process. He highlighted that EU projects such as…
Estonia’s central bank, which forecast 1.5% growth this spring, now expects 0.6% for 2025, but has raised its 2026 outlook from 2.6% to 3.2%. According to the central bank, next year’s economic growth is expected to stem from additional borrowing directed into the economy by the government. The economy’s own growth conditions are forecast to…
Kaspar Oja, an economist at the Bank of Estonia (Eesti Pank), said government sector spending had increased in Estonia as well as in other European countries over the past five years. In Estonia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, the growth has been sharper, partly because of higher defense spending. In Estonia, government sector expenditures have…
Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginiene has reiterated her belief that a four-day workweek is part of the future of work, but experts say there is still a long way to go. LRT Brussels correspondent Milda Vilikanskyte noted that the idea of a four-day workweek gained support during the Covid-19 pandemic, when remote work blurred the…
Facing labor shortages, Estonia may soon let companies hire skilled foreign workers in certain sectors outside the country’s strict annual immigration quotas. Under the planned changes to the Aliens Act, sectors facing labor shortages – currently manufacturing, transportation, and warehousing – could more easily hire skilled foreign workers, who must be paid at least 80%…
According to an informational report submitted to the government by the Ministry of Finance titled “On Priority Measures to Be Included in the State Budget Law for 2026, 2027 and 2028”, an additional 565.5 million euros is planned for the government’s set priorities in the 2026 state budget – security, support for families with children,…