Moldova: Road Fund Board discusses optimizing processes of road rehabilitation and construction

The stage of the fulfillment of the tasks of the Road Fund Board was considered at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita, the government’s communication and protocol department reported. The Infrastructure and Regional Development Ministry (MIDR) and the State Administration of Roads (ASD) presented the activity plan for 2021, as well as for…

Lithuania: leaders discuss sanctions on Kaliningrad transit

On June 27, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and the country’s leadership agreed on “key principles” for consultations with the European Commission on Kaliningrad transit sanctions. “There was unanimous agreement today on the key principles and provisions Lithuania should follow in order to clarify certain points to the European Commission,” presidential adviser Kestutis Budrys told reporters…

Lithuania: acute shortage of bus drivers looming

There is a shortage of around 1,000 bus and trolleybus drivers across Lithuania. With few new drivers entering the labour force, the problem is expected to get worse. “This is a shortage of public transport drivers everywhere – in all companies, in all regions, in all municipalities,” Gintaras Nakutis, head of the Passenger Transport Association,…

Lithuania: EU Commission to clarify implementation of Kaliningrad transit sanctions

The European Commission will clarify its explanation on the implementation of the EU-sanctioned goods’ transit restrictions between mainland Russia and its Kaliningrad region, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said on June 23. “I will meet with the European Commission president. I will see the draft and I do believe that clarification will be published soon,” Nauseda…

Poland: Ukraine’s merchant fleet to be rebuilt

Polish shipbuilding industry officials are willing to set up cooperation with counterparts in Ukraine to restore the latter’s merchant fleet. Tadeusz Kopowski, chief of the Crist shipbuilding company, spoke about this in the framework of the Ukrainian-Polish Entrepreneurship Forum in Warsaw. “Poland’s shipbuilding industry proposes to create permanent Polish-Ukrainian working groups, in which we would…