Lviv Municipal Motor Transport Enterprise No. 1 has announced a tender for compulsory insurance of civil liability of car owners (vehicle type D2) (332 units). As reported in the system of electronic procurement Prozorro, the reason for this decision was the lack of tender offers.
As reported, the tender was announced on March 11, the expected bidding price is UAH 15.059 million. The deadline for submitting applications for participation is March 19. The winner of a similar tender a year earlier was IC Krajina.
Lviv Motor Transport Company No. 1, tender for MTPL insurance
Following the agreements between President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire Alassane Ouattara, Deputy Head of the Office of the Head of State Ihor Brusilo held an online meeting with Minister of Economy and Development of Cote d’Ivoire Niale Kaba.
The key topic of discussion was activation of mutually beneficial cooperation in promising sectors of economy: agricultural industry, trade, infrastructure projects and professional training of Ivorian students in Ukrainian higher educational institutions. Côte d’Ivoire expressed readiness for partnership, in particular due to the beginning of direct dialog between the sectoral ministries.
Special attention is paid to the expansion of the legal framework of bilateral relations in trade and economic sphere. This will ensure favorable interaction in many sectors.
In addition, Brusilo and Kaba agreed on practical steps aimed at the implementation of the agreements reached.
The meeting was also attended by: Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Taras Kachka, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Oksana Osmachko, Director General of the Directorate for Foreign Policy and International Military-Technical Cooperation of the Office of the President Ruslan Kurochenko and representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Dynamics of changes in discount rate of NBU – from 2013 to 2024
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Italy and Spain have made it clear that they are not ready to support the European Union’s proposal to allocate around EUR 40 billion in military aid to Ukraine this year, with each country contributing according to the size of its economy, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Following a meeting on Monday of foreign ministers from the 27 EU member states in Brussels, Kallas said her proposal had “broad political support” and discussions were now moving to the details.
Diplomats said the proposal has some support from northern and eastern European countries. But some southern European capitals were more reticent, reflecting a division between those geographically closer to Russia, which have given more aid to Ukraine, and those farther away, which have given less, as a percentage of their economies.
According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy think tank, Estonia, Denmark and Lithuania lead Europe in this area, allocating more than 2 percent of their GDP to aid Kiev between January 2022 and December 2024. At the same time, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Cyprus are among those who have allocated the least, committing less than 0.5% of their GDP.
Speaking ahead of the meeting, ministers from Italy and Spain – the EU’s third and fourth largest economies – said it was too early to take a final position on the proposal.
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said the proposal would need to be discussed in detail in light of upcoming events. “We are waiting for a phone call between Trump and Putin to see if there will be any steps forward to achieve a ceasefire,” he said, adding that Italy must also find money to increase its own defense spending. “There are many expenses that need to be addressed,” he added.
Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said: “We will see how the debate goes, but there is no decision on this issue yet.”
Albares said Spain had already pledged 1 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine this year. He said Madrid did not have to “wait for the High Representative (Callas – IF-U) to make any proposal” to show that Kiev could count on his support.
China’s BYD Co. plans to choose a country to build a third European plant within seven to eight months, the company’s special adviser for Europe said Tuesday.
“We are not ruling out any options and are now considering any country,” Alfredo Altavilla said, speaking at an auto show in Milan.
“The site selection process for the third plant has already started and we expect to finalize it within seven to eight months,” he added.
BYD is set to start production at an assembly plant in Hungary in October, while the company’s plant in Turkey is due to start operations in March 2026. The combined production capacity of these two plants will be up to 500,000 cars per year.
Earlier, there were media reports that BYD was considering Germany for a new assembly facility, in part because the country spoke out against the imposition of duties on Chinese car imports last year.
Altavilla denied these speculations, calling them devoid of logic. At the same time, he emphasized that a decision has not yet been made.
He noted that the company is guided by several criteria, including the competitiveness of conditions for battery and car production. At the same time, Altavilla added that it is hard to imagine BYD building a plant in a country that treats Chinese cars poorly.
