- Parliament approved Mr. Yekhanurov as Prime Minister.
- The real GDP growth slowed to 2.8% yoy for the first eight months of 2005.
- Receiving UAH 8.1 bn in privatisation revenues in 2006 seems doubtful.
- Parliament approved the ‘Law On Automobile Roads’, which defines the rules for establishing toll roads.
- Ukraine completed bilateral negotiations on access to markets of goods and services with Iceland and Peru in the framework of the WTO accession.
- The central fiscal deficit for 2006 is projected to be 1.9% of GDP.
- In August the NBU refinanced the Ukrainian commercial banks with UAH 4.3 bn to insure their liquidity.
- The NBU approved regulations concerning the liberalisation of the foreign exchange market.
MEMU SUPPLEMENT: "New Government - new hopes?"
