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In the UK, there is a debate on introducing a maximum price cap on basic food products. This is supposed to be a response to the fact that although inflation has started to slow down, food prices are still rising at a record pace.more

Supermarkets have not been using high rates of inflation as a cover for making higher profits, the boss of Sainsbury's has told the BBC.more

Recycling plastic can make it more toxic and should not be considered a solution to the pollution crisis, Greenpeace has warned before the latest round of negotiations for an international plastics treaty.more

British business is looking for a new "safe haven" to stay in the single and rich EU market and avoid significant bureaucratic burdens. According to the data of the German group Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI), Germany is of particular interest to the British.more

The US President assured reporters yesterday that there would be no US bankruptcy and that negotiations with the Republicans on raising the debt limit were productive. At the same time, he acknowledged that the two sides have significantly different visions of the budget.more

Households will be more than £400 a year better off on average from July after the cap on energy bills was slashed following steep falls in wholesale gas and electricity prices.more

China's semiconductor industry fears that Japan's chip export embargo, due to come into force in July, could also affect the production of older generations of chips used in, for example, cars or washing machines, writes the Financial Times.more

The UK's annual inflation rate in April was 8.7 per cent, marking the first time it has fallen below 10 per cent since August last year. - reported the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) today. However, food prices are still rising very rapidly.more

The unthinkable is becoming a possibility. The US Congress may fail to raise the debt limit and lead to the technical bankruptcy of the United States. If this happens, every economy will be affected, stock markets will collapse and global markets will panic, warns the Economist.more

With the cost of living crisis still rumbling on, many people are thinking twice about whether they can afford to go on holiday this year. more

Drinkers will get cheaper wine and greater variety under plans to scrap retained European Union laws affecting the British wine industry, the Government has said.more

Despite nearly three million unemployed people in Spain, more than a third of companies are struggling to find workers. Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs complain of a shortage of labour; in the hotel and construction industry this deficit is more than 50 per cent. - according to the latest Business Activity Survey presented by the Bank of Spain.more

Soaring inflation has taken an average of £5,455 from UK households in the past two years, with the UK losing £153bn to rising prices overall. more

According to the Ministry of Development and Technology, in the first quarter of this year 59.7 thousand were entered into the CEIDG register (Central Register and Information on Economic Activity). applications for termination of sole proprietorship. This is 5.6% less than in the corresponding period of 2022, when there were 63.2 thousand such cases.more

Queen Elizabeth II's funeral and related events cost the government an estimated £162m, the Treasury has said. The state funeral, held on 19 September 2022, followed a period of national mourning.more

Let's face it, we are all getting pretty fed up with this cost of living crisis. It's severely impacting many people's quality of life, with many living pay cheque to pay cheque. It's gone on long enough now that a whopping two in three workers have admitted they are open to moving to a new city after evaluating the cost of where they live and work.more

Strategically located in the middle of the North Atlantic, the Faroe Islands continue to cooperate with Russia in fishing and become independent of Denmark. At the same time, the government, after pressure from Copenhagen, is preparing an analysis of the consequences of a possible termination of the Russian agreement. The islanders are sharply divided on the issue.more

E.On Next, Good Energy and Octopus Energy have paid £8 million over compensation failures after lengthy delays in producing final bills to more than 100,000 customers when they switched suppliers, regulator Ofgem said.more

The Bank of England's top economist has said he is sorry for using "inflammatory" language to suggest people must accept they are poorer.more

The number of adults struggling to pay their bills and debts has soared to nearly 11 million, new figures show.more

As the cost of living crisis continues, more much-needed financial help for those on low incomes is incoming. With energy bills, council tax and water bills all having risen lately - plus the cost of phones and broadband going up - most households are feeling the squeeze.more

The £2 cap on bus fares in England has been extended again until the end of October, the government has announced.more

The value of trade between Poland and Ireland amounted to EUR 6 billion in 2022 and we want this value to grow, said Irish Minister of State Dara Calleary. He added that Irish companies can offer solutions e.g. in the field of online business, modern construction or agriculture.more

For the first time in history, over 17 million people worked in the Polish economy, noted Andrzej Kubisiak, Deputy Director of the Polish Economic Institute, referring to Eurostat data. He added that since the pandemic, the Polish labor market has seen clearly better dynamics than the EU as a whole.more

Consumer pessimism is on the rise, as up to 91 percent of Poles are looking for cheaper places to shop, according to the "EY Future Consumer Index 2023" survey. 31 percent rate their situation compared to 3-4 months ago as worse, an increase of 20 percentage points from the previous survey.more