Poland wants to submit four further applications to the European Commission this year for payments of EU funds under the National Recovery Plan (KPO) of up to EUR 23 billion, the funds and regional policy minister Katarzyna Pelczynska has written on X. “After the first payment request, we want to submit four more applications this…
The plan for the priority return of agricultural land to economic use from the beginning of 2024 has been updated. From now on, according to the plan of priority inspection and if necessary, more than 512,000 hectares of agricultural land are due to be cleared and demined. This was reported by Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy…
In the first week of 2024, 465 entrepreneurs received loans under the Affordable Loans programme totalling UAH 2.2 billion. Since the launch of the programme in February 2020, 79,000 loans worth UAH 269 billion have been issued. In 2023, entrepreneurs took out the most loans to replenish working capital (UAH 47 billion) and anti-war loans…
Polish retail sales went down by 0.8% YoY in November 2023 after a 2.1% increase in October 2023, the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat reported on January 8. Month on month, retail sales went down by 0.1%, the agency also said. Eurostat annual growth figures are work-day adjusted, while the monthly growth figures are also seasonally…
Last year, more than 300,000 new individual entrepreneurs and more than 37,000 new companies were registered in Ukraine. This is reported by the Opendatabot. “304,048 new registrations of individual entrepreneurs were recorded in Ukraine as of December 29, 2023. The number of new businesses exceeded the figures for 2021 by 7%,” the statement said. The…
In 2023, inflation in Ukraine decreased from 26% to 5%, while the nation’s economy showed growth, the National Bank Governor, Andriy Pishnyi said. “At 2023 year-start, inflation was 26%, the outlook of economic growth was 0%, amid colossal uncertainty and a record key policy rate. We are completing the year with growth at 5% and…
Over the year and a half since the launch of the Government’s eRobota grant programme, the state has invested UAH 6.5 billion in small and medium-sized business development through grants. More than 11,000 Ukrainians have already received grants to start or expand their businesses. This was announced by Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister of…