Energy, finance & banking and transport & logistics…
Riga to be the centre of the Baltic Sea Region on June 3rd and 4th as it will host two major regional events gathering the Heads of Governments and business leaders of the Region.
We are pleased to invite media representatives to attend the Baltic Sea Region Business Forum, [...]

The International Monetary Fund mission to Estonia, May, 2008
Comments by the Minister of Finance and Governor of Eesti Pank to the conclusions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to Estonia;
Ivari Padar, Minister of Finance of the Republic of Estonia
Introduction;
I would like to thank the IMF delegation for useful discussions and interesting analyses.
Estonia has always [...]

Women Executives and Mobile Penetration – Lithuania 2nd on Earth
Lithuania is No. 2 in the world according to the number of women executives as well as the extent of mobile connection penetration in the country. Also, Lithuania is No. 3 with its level of corporate taxation and No. 4 according to the national GDP growth [...]

In the first four months of 2008 Riga (Latvia) International Airport remains the leader in the Baltic
In the first four months of 2008 Riga Airport serviced 993 524 passengers, which was 78% more than in the same period handled by Tallinn Airport (Estonia) (558 912 passengers) and 69% more than in the first four months [...]

Additional scholarships for science students
Building engineering, elektrotechnology/electrical engineering and machine building are among the ten key-study-fields for the future of Polish economy.
The rest of the key-study-fields-list, elaborated by the Minister of Higher Education Ms Barbara Kudrycka, includes: environmental engineering, power engineering, mechanics and machine building, automatics and robotics, mathematics, biomedical engineering, and Mechanical and Electronics [...]

First quarter witnessed a decrease in domestic demand
Andres Saarniit, Adviser of the Monetary Policy Department of Eesti Pank
According to the flash estimate of the Statistics Estonia the gross domestic product grew by 0.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2008. A rapid moderation in the growth rate was characteristic to all the fields [...]

The Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) of April increased by 0.55%
The Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) of April increased by 0.55%, above the result of March (0.48%). Considering the year, the IPCA recorded 2.08%, a result above the value of the same period of 2007, when it had reached 1.51%.  In the last [...]

Industrial employment changed by 0.1% in March
SALARIED EMPLOYED PERSONS
In March, industrial employment changed by 0.1% in relation to the immediately previous month, in the seasonally adjusted series. In comparison with the same month in the pervious year, the number of employed persons has increased for twenty-one consecutive months reaching 2.9% compared to March 2007. [...]

In April 2008 as compared with March prices of consumer goods and services grew by 1.2 per cent!
Statistics Lithuania informs that in April 2008 as compared with March prices of consumer goods and services grew by 1.2 per cent.
In April 2008, the most decisive impact on the total change in consumer prices was made by [...]

Poland should be ready to adopt the euro in 2012!
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said  Poland should be ready to adopt the euro in 2012.
“By 2012 we want our economy and our public finances to be in a state that will allow us to enter the eurozone,” Tusk said in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana, quoted [...]