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4 min. 296 The Cabinet of Ministers determined what the electricity tariffs would be for the households for the next two months and replaced the CEO of the country s largest state-owned company, Naftogaz of Ukraine, while the Verkhovna Rada appointed Herman Halushchenko Minister of Energy – these are the key economic news of the outgoing week. The last week of April was full of unexpected personnel reshuffles both in the government and in the country s largest state-owned company. The week s main event, without exaggeration, was a lightning-speed decision by the Cabinet to dismiss Andriy Kobolyev, CEO of Naftogaz of Ukraine. Kobolyev had been managing the company for more than seven years. ....
4 min. 387 The government decided to revisit the adaptive quarantine model, as well as set to index pensions by 11% in March; President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to continue a large-scale campaign on construction of roads and bridges; and the State Statistics Service announced a decline in industrial output in January – these are the main economic developments of the outgoing week. The last week of winter pleased Ukrainians with a long-awaited thaw. The first sunny days led the country out of hibernation, while Ukrainians put in the back shelves their warm clothes and take time to reflect about their future life in the context of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. ....
5 min. 568 The government has announced its intention to make Ukraine part of a new European Green Deal aimed at significantly improving the continent s environmental status. UNIAN understood how this strategic area of development will affect the economy and lives of ordinary Ukrainians. More than a year has passed since the European Commission announced a new European Green Deal aimed at making our continent climate-neutral in the next 30 years. Late last year, the Ukrainian government filed with the EU its position paper on our country s participation in the Deal. For Ukraine, as a large industrial state, this is a very ambitious goal, because for more than a century, the country has only been increasing its negative impact on the environment, turning part of once green and prosperous lands into landfills and industrial deserts. ....