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Increase in online education in the EU in 2023
January 26th, 2024
In 2023, 30% of EU internet users aged 16 to 74 reported that they had done an online course or used online learning material in the three months prior to the survey. This is a 2 percentage point (pp) ...
Tourism: €572 billion gross value added in the EU. The countries with the highest shares of tourism
April 21st, 2023
In 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic heavily hit the tourism sector, the gross value added directly generated by tourism amounted to an estimated €572 billion, or 5% of the total gross value added in the EU ...
Rents and house prices in the EU have continued their steady increase
October 12th, 2022
Rents and house prices in the EU have continued their steady increase in the second quarter of 2022, going up by 1.7% and 9.9%, respectively, compared with the second quarter of 2021. This information comes from data on rents ...
Business registrations and bankruptcies in the EU
August 27th, 2021
This post presents data on the number of new business registrations and the number of bankruptcy declarations in the European Union (EU) and in the euro area (EA) until the second quarter of 2021. The data is based on ...
Euro area unemployment at 7.7%
August 4th, 2021
In June 2021, the euro area seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 7.7%, down from 8.0% in May 2021 and from 8.0% in June 2020. The EU unemployment rate was 7.1% in June 2021, down from 7.3% in May 2021 and ...
Banking faces seismic changes
July 13th, 2021
The role of commercial banks in the global economy is changing, with lending to governments and their agencies now more important than lending to goods and services industries. It is a trend which is due to continue. The ...
European stocks are expected to struggle for direction at the open on Tuesday
July 13th, 2021
European stocks are expected to struggle for direction at the open on Tuesday ahead of earnings reports from several big banks in the U.S. London’s FTSE is seen opening 5 points lower at 7,128, Germany’s DAX 1 point higher ...
Inflation, asset and consumer prices
June 25th, 2021
“The Fed finds itself between a rock and a hard place: either it keeps inflating or the whole confidence-based valuation of financial assets collapses. Either it raises interest rates or the dollar collapses.” There has been occasional speculation ...
Most emerging market currencies rose on Friday
June 25th, 2021
Most emerging market currencies rose on Friday, and were set for a strong finish to a week marked by several interest rate hikes across the space as well as waning fears over immediate policy tightening by the U.S. Federal ...
European stocks hovered below record highs on Wednesday
June 23rd, 2021
European stocks hovered below record highs on Wednesday as inflation worries overshadowed data showing a rise in June business activity, while shares in French luxury good makers tumbled on the back of a ratings downgrade from HSBC. The pan-European ...
