Among Member States for which data are available, the largest monthly decreases in the total retail trade volume were registered in Slovenia (–10.5%), Hungary and Poland (both –2.0%) and Sweden (–1.6%). The highest increases were observed in Cyprus (+1.6%), Luxembourg (+0.8%) and Belgium (+0.7%).
Corruption
Politico: How Europe’s biggest media company infiltrated the EU
How Bertelsmann mixes business, philanthropy and Continental politics. Read here
EU politics
Prem Sikka: Shareholders have run the show for too long – it’s time for radical reform to company boards
What Prem Sikka writes is not only true for Britain, but for the rest of Europe as well. But beware:In Germany, where unions are well represented in boardrooms, union representatives often become as corrupt and […]
Economics
DeStatis – 2023: German Expenditure on social welfare radically reduced
Share of expenditure on social welfare below the pre-corona level (2019: 45.2 %) and the long-term average (1991-2023: 41.7 %) Share of expenditure on economic policy has more than doubled since 2019 to 21.9%; only […]
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