Economy and business – Page 2

EU help Ukraine fight unfair competition

2019/05/03euukrainecoop

For the first time the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has adopted clear rules for calculating fines. It also simplified the procedure for obtaining permission for mergers and acquisitions of companies, increased the financial threshold, above which businesses should apply to the AMCU for permission. This allowed to investigate more economically and socially important cases. Experts from the German and Lithuanian competition authorities consulted the Antimonopoly Committee on improving its work and aligning Ukrainian competition law with EU standards under the EU Twinning project. Read more about the new rules for protecting economic competition here. Read more →

The EU provides SMEs with access to cheap loans

2019/04/05euukrainecoop

Olha has founded the company with two friends 14 years ago, having only $100 each in their pocket. At that time, the business idea seemed to be a risk. Now she is the director of the company, Ukrainian manufacturer of orthopedic and medical goods. Read more →

EU4Business finances business trips abroad

2019/04/05euukrainecoop

Chile is the world’s leading producer and exporter of blueberries. Ukrainian entrepreneurs, who are now confidently regaining their place in the EU market, visited Chile to adopt the best practices of a successful country. Read more →

EU provides grant to iDPs from Luhansk for making wooden products

2019/03/07euukrainecoop

The first thing that Yurii asked to bring him to Kyiv from the occupied Luhansk was an old woodworking machine.

– Everyone wondered why i need it, and besides in a one-room rented apartment, he recalls.

Yurii Ovsianko and his family moved to Kyiv in 2014: his eldest daughter was 3 years old at that time, and his wife Olha was pregnant with twins. Read more →

EU4Business provides Ukrainian SMEs with access to profitable loans

2019/03/07euukrainecoop

Focus, together with the Delegation of the European Union to Ukraine, is launching a special project on the opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises that exist in our country thanks to the European Union programmes. Read more →

How Carpathian toys and products conquer EU markets

2019/03/07euukrainecoop

Ukraine path to the European Union was long and thorny. By the way, for our country it is still not finished, but Ukrainians can already be proud of tangible changes. One of the most notable changes is the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. The controversy surrounding it have even led to EuroMaidan, the Revolution of Dignity and power shift in the country. As a result, after 10 years of discussion, Ukrainians were able to get closer to the European Union and open borders for themselves. ‘Halytskyi Korespondent’ shares the success stories of those who work with Europe and are oriented on it in business. Read more →

EU finances initiative on transparent school budgets

2019/02/082019/02/08euukrainecoop

One does not go to parent’s meetings at school without a wallet. That’s a simple truth of school life our parents knew by their own experience, and today, reminders about monthly contributions are disseminated via parent groups in Viber. According to data by the State Treasury Service, parents invested almost a billion hryvnias in Ukrainian schools in 2014-2016. Nobody knows how these moneys were spent, though, for detailed consolidated reports are nonexistent.

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