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Europe: A new corporate tax could raise €10 billion a year
June 12th, 2020
A new corporate tax could raise €10 billion a year to help fund stimulus plans while amounting to less than 0.2% of turnover of large companies that benefit from the European Union’s single market, the bloc’s executive said on ...
Euro area unemployment at 7.3%
June 5th, 2020
In April 2020, the second month after COVID-19 containment measures were implemented by most Member States, the euro area seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 7.3%, up from 7.1% in March 2020. The EU unemployment rate was 6.6% in April 2020, ...
EU defers e-commerce VAT package in light Of COVID-19
May 19th, 2020
The EU will postpone the entry into force of its VAT e-commerce package and will defer certain filing deadlines under the administrative cooperation directives due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Commission has proposed that the VAT e-commerce package ...
Unintended consequences of monetary inflation
May 15th, 2020
“In short, the Fed is committed to rescue businesses from the greatest economic catastrophe since the great depression and probably even greater than that, to fund the US Government’s rocketing budget deficits, fund the maintenance of domestic consumption ...
Coronavirus may drive change in precarious employment
May 12th, 2020
In 2019, 2.3% of employees in the European Union (EU) aged 20-64 had a precarious job, meaning that their work contract did not exceed three months’ duration. The share of precarious employment, as a percentage of total employment, has ...
Beyond the pandemic – What will the criminal landscape look like after Covid-19?
May 12th, 2020
New Europol report assesses the impact of the pandemic on serious and organised crime across three phases. Based on criminal information from investigations in the Member States, Europol is assessing the impact of the pandemic across three phases; current, ...
European Data Protection Board adopts further COVID-19 guidance
April 22nd, 2020
During its 23rd plenary session, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted guidelines on the processing of health data for research purposes in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak and guidelines on geolocation and other tracing tools in the ...
Business investment up to 25.8% in the euro area
April 9th, 2020
In the fourth quarter of 2019, before COVID-19 containment measures began to be widely introduced by Member States, the business investment rate was 25.8% in the euro area, compared with 23.7% in the previous quarter. The business profit share ...
Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection
April 7th, 2020
Europe’s data protection watchdog has called for a single coronavirus app to be used across the EU, instead of every country making its own. Several countries are developing tracking apps, but privacy advocates warn of the dangers they might ...
How criminals profit from the COVID-19 pandemic
March 31st, 2020
Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, has published a report about the latest developments of COVID-19 on the criminal landscape in the EU. In accordance with the Europol’s latest report: During this unprecedented crisis, governments across Europe are ...
