Category: 9. Business
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Germany employed only 16% of the Ukrainian refugees it planned to achieve in seven months.
German Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil launched the Jobturbo program in the fall of 2023 to integrate migrants who can obtain asylum in the country into the German labor market as quickly as possible. At that time, the government planned to employ about 400,000 people, including 200,000… Continue Reading
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Angel One Fund invests from $50,000 to $300,000 in six Ukrainian startups.
The angel venture fund Angel One has invested in six Ukrainian defense-tech and dual-use tech startups within the framework of syndicated agreements over the last six months. The average investment check ranged from $50,000 to $300,000. The fund cannot invest directly in defense tech startups… Continue Reading
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The EU will not finance a $50B loan to Ukraine, so who will provide the funds, and what are the risks?
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni explained that EU countries are not planning to participate directly in the $50B loan that the G7 plans to provide to Ukraine through the proceeds from frozen Russian assets According to her, the loan will be provided by the US, Canada, Britain, and Japan,… Continue Reading
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The war will end where it began: Ukraine creates conditions for F-16 strikes on Crimea.
Western experts believe that if Ukraine wins the Russian war, it will happen in the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula. The Hague Center for Strategic Studies says that Ukraine is “preparing the ground” for future airstrikes following the arrival of F-16 fighter jets. Defense forces… Continue Reading
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Ukraine seeks to hold a second peace summit before the US elections, and Russia will receive an action plan to end of the war.
The second Ukrainian Peace Summit can be held before the presidential elections in the US, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, Ignazio Cassis. Although the specific terms were not announced, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that the preparation should take… Continue Reading
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Peace summit updates: Switzerland will brief Russia and China; two countries have withdrawn their signatures from the joint communiqué.
Switzerland will discuss the results of the summit with Russia, China, and other countries that were not among the more than 100 countries and international organizations in attendance, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland, Ignazio Cassis. He noted that Switzerland has an active… Continue Reading
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Ukraine has not agreed with its creditors on Eurobond restructuring terms.
Ukraine and a special committee of creditors, representing the owners of almost 20% of Ukraine’s Eurobonds, negotiated between June 3 and 14 and exchanged restructuring proposals. However, according to an announcement by Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance on the London Stock Exchange, they were… Continue Reading
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Ukraine took fourth place in the world’s ranking of arms importers; Europeans are also arming themselves against the background of war.
During the period from 2019-2023, Ukraine became the largest arms importer in Europe and ranked fourth in the world, according to information from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Ukraine’s global share in the import of major types of weapons in 2019−2023 was… Continue Reading
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The number of stores in Ukraine increased in the beginning of the year; retail follows internal migrants.
As Retail & Development Advisor stated, the number of stores operating in Ukraine in January-March 2024 exceeded 18,000, which is 4% more than in the first quarter of 2023. “The return of our partners, international brands, should be noted separately. In the shopping center where they resumed… Continue Reading
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The EBRD will increase financing to restore Ukraine’s energy system and prepare for winter.
EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso said that the bank allocated €300M this month to help state energy companies repair facilities damaged by Russian shelling and build new decentralized energy facilities. “This is a kind of beginning, a starting point, it could be higher. We are studying how… Continue Reading