Kosovoʼs trade deficit decreased by 5.5% year-on-year to EUR 267 million (USD 317 million) in October, as exports increased more than imports, the countryʼs statistical office said.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will meet with his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki in Budapest on Thursday, the PMʼs press chief confirmed on Wednesday, according to a report by state news wire MTI.

Polandʼs retail sales fell 2.3% year-on-year in October, after a 4.6% growth in the same month last year, figures from the Warsaw-based Central Statistical Office (GUS) show.

Lithuaniaʼs industrial production rose a working-day adjusted 1.6% year-on-year in October, figures from Statistics Lithuania (LS) showed on Monday. 

The U.K. government has written to 365,000 U.K. nationals living in Europe (including 1,085 letters to nationals in Hungary) with advice on the actions they need to take to prepare for the end of the Brexit transition period on December 31, the British Embassy in Budapest tells the Budapest Business Journal.

The Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) sold a combined HUF 45 billion of securities at auction on Wednesday, HUF 10 bln more than planned, according to a report by Hungarian news agency MTI.

Total foreign remittances to Serbia decreased by 15.5% year-on-year to EUR 2.494 billion (USD 2.963 billion) in the first nine months of 2020, central bank data shows.

The Office of Education has introduced a national career guidance survey this year, which they now want to conduct annually for eighth-graders, writes hrportal.hu.

The Economic Defense Operative Corps, the body coordinating Hungaryʼs response to economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis, approved a package of measures that will make managing financial matters easier, cheaper and faster at a meeting on Tuesday, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said, according to a report by state news wire MTI.

Call traffic increased by about a sixth and Internet traffic by a third in the first half of 2020 due to the coronavirus epidemic, while the number of SMS messages fell by a quarter compared to the end of 2019, according to the latest mobile market report of the National Mobile and Communications Authority (NMHH), writes origo.hu. 

Latviaʼs producer prices declined at a softer pace in October, figures from the Riga-based Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) showed on Monday. 

In the first half of 2020, Hungary had the joint-lowest natural gas prices and second-lowest electricity prices in the entire European Union, according to data by statistical agency Eurostat.

Restaurants, cinemas, theaters, and gyms will remain closed until December 27, amid an ongoing second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in Poland, the countryʼs Prime Minister announced, according to a report by Polish Radio. 

The Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) sold HUF 15 billion of discount three-month T-bills at auction on Tuesday, in line with the original offer, according to a report by state news wire MTI.

Three chambers of commerce and a business club jointly signed a declaration in support of the Initiative of Conscious Business Culture by Bridge Budapest, according to a press release sent to the Budapest Business Journal.

The board of listed building materials manufacturer Masterplast will decide on a bond issue up to HUF 6 billion in the framework of the Bond Funding for Growth Scheme (BGS) of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) at a meeting on December 14, the meeting agenda posted on the website of the Budapest Stock Exchange shows, according to a report by state news wire MTI.

Bosniaʼs trade deficit decreased by 20% year-on-year to BAM 5.3 billion (USD 3.2 billion) in the ten months through October, the countryʼs statistical office said last week.

Kreinbacherʼs Brut Classic 2016 Magnum has won a gold medal at this yearʼs Champagne and Sparkling Wine World Championships (CSWWC), the Hungarian vintner told state news wire MTI.

Polandʼs industrial production grew 1.0% annually in October, figures from the Warsaw-based Central Statistical Office (GUS) showed. 

According to a recent, representative study, the coronavirus epidemic has led to an increase in the demand for mobile communications requiring data traffic among people over the age of 60, according to the National Media and Communications Authority (NMHH), writes novekedes.hu.