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Preventing food waste, promoting Circular Economy: Commission adopts common methodology to measure food waste across the EU

The FINANCIAL -- Each year around 20% of food produced in the EU is lost or wasted, causing unacceptable social, environmental and economic harm. EU is committed to solving this problem and putting its food system onto a sustainable path. To be able to take effective action, we need more data on food waste than we currently ...

labour costs Lowest in Bulgaria and Romania, highest in Denmark, Luxembourg and Belgium

THE FINANCIAL -- In 2018, average hourly labour costs in the whole economy (excluding agriculture and public administration) were estimated to be €27.4 in the European Union (EU) and €30.6 in ...

Do you eat fruit and vegetables daily?

The FINANCIAL -- In 2017, around 1 in 4 people (27 %) ate fruit at least twice a day, according to a survey of the European Union (EU) population. A further 37 % of the EU population ate fruit once ...

Dedicated support for small and medium-sized enterprises

The FINANCIAL -- European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has launched new support initiatives dedicated to applicants from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs will now be able to access ...

Digitalisation has reached German SMEs, but they are not investing much in it so far

The FINANCIAL -- There are 3.76 million SMEs in Germany, and the share of those that concluded digitalisation projects successfully in the past three years (2015-2017) is ...

EU Commission welcomes provisional agreement on strengthening EU consumer protection rules

The FINANCIAL -- The European Parliament and the Council have reached a provisional agreement on stronger and better enforced consumer protection rules European Commission ...

Euro area unemployment at 7.8%

The FINANCIAL -- The euro area (EA19) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 7.8% in February 2019, stable compared withJanuary 2019 and down from 8.5% in February 2018. This remains the lowest ...

Volume of retail trade unchanged in euro area. Up by 0.3% in EU28

The FINANCIAL -- In March 2019 compared with February 2019, the seasonally adjusted volume of retail trade remained unchanged in the euro area (EA19), and increased by 0.3% in the EU28, according to ...

Self-employed persons

The FINANCIAL -- 32.6 million persons aged 15 to 74 in the European Union (EU) were self-employed in 2018. They accounted for 14% of total ...

Tuna: 10 % of EU catches of marine fish in 2017

The FINANCIAL -- A live weight of almost 435 000 tonnes of tuna (including bonitos and billfishes) was caught by the European Union (EU) Member States in 2017 in the seven fishing regions covered by ...

Euro area unemployment at 7.7% . EU28 at 6.4%

The FINANCIAL -- The euro area (EA19) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 7.7% in March 2019, down from 7.8% in February 2019 and from 8.5% in March 2018. This is the lowest rate recorded in ...

How safe are you at work?

The FINANCIAL -- In the European Union (EU) in 2016 there were 3 182 fatal accidents at the work place. This represents a standardised incidence rate of 2.2 fatal accidents per 100,000 workers, which ...

“Humanitarian and human rights’ situation in conflict-affected regions of Georgia had worsened, SG. Council of Europe

The FINANCIAL -- According to according to the report, presented by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland “humanitarian and human rights’ situation in ...

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Preventing food waste, promoting Circular Economy: Commission adopts common methodology to measure food waste across the EU

labour costs Lowest in Bulgaria and Romania, highest in Denmark, Luxembourg and Belgium

Do you eat fruit and vegetables daily?

Dedicated support for small and medium-sized enterprises

Digitalisation has reached German SMEs, but they are not investing much in it so far

EU Commission welcomes provisional agreement on strengthening EU consumer protection rules

Euro area unemployment at 7.8%

Volume of retail trade unchanged in euro area. Up by 0.3% in EU28

Self-employed persons

Tuna: 10 % of EU catches of marine fish in 2017

Euro area unemployment at 7.7% . EU28 at 6.4%

How safe are you at work?

“Humanitarian and human rights’ situation in conflict-affected regions of Georgia had worsened, SG. Council of Europe

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