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%).
Economics
Eurostat: 9% of EU population unable to keep home warm in 2022
The highest shares of people unable to keep their home adequately warm were registered in Bulgaria (22.5%), Cyprus (19.2%), Greece (18.7%), Lithuania and Portugal (both 17.5%), Spain (17.1%) and Romania (15.2%). Read HERE
Geopolitics
Al Jazeera – UK announces partial suspension of arms exports to Israel
Suspending just 30 out of 350 arms licences to Israel is pretty pathetic, but at least it sets a precedent that even Israel’s closest allies can be pressured into loosening their ties to the genocidal […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Fiscal policy paralysis and ECB credibility in tatters
Last week, the EU finance ministers (the ‘Eurogroup’) met (June 13, 2019) in Luxembourg as part of their regular schedule. There was a lot of talk in the lead-up to the meeting whether Emmanual Macron’s […]
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