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To compensate for the effects of inflation, the Bundestag decided yesterday to introduce tax breaks that will cover 48 million of 84 million German citizens. Will be increased, among others child allowance. In addition, the housing benefit reform is expected to ease the burden on low-income households.more

National Grid expects there to be “sufficient generation” to avoid rolling power cuts this winter, with Britain’s supplies boosted by the return of a crucial electricity link to France that was hit by fire.more

Christmas adverts have started on TV - and as ever, many conjure up sentimentality, nostalgia and joy. But as the cost of living soars, some retailers have opted for a more muted approach to their campaigns this year.more

Eight out of 10 Belgian companies are securing additional budget to offer job candidates higher salaries than their own employees, according to research from Acerta. Nearly half of the companies also offer potential employees additional benefits, such as company cars.more

More than 70,000 workers at 150 British universities - university lecturers and support staff - will go on a three-day strike at the end of November, demanding pay increases and improved working conditions, the UCU union representing them announced yesterday.more

The famous singer admits that there was a time when he benefited from school meals. Today, he wrote an open letter to Britain's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, asking him to expand the free school meals program for students from poor families. The letter was published just before the government presents its budget plan for next year.more

Primark will not increase prices any more than already planned before next autumn despite soaring costs, its owner has said. more

Property owners in the UK should receive £ 300 a month to deal with soaring mortgage installments, Liberal Democrats said, calling on the government to prepare an appropriate bailout package.more

According to the Household Energy Price Index (HEPI) report, electricity and gas bills in the capitals of European Union countries have almost doubled compared to the previous year.more

A record 14.7 percent UK food prices rose in October compared to the same month in 2021, and 27% of households are not doing well financially, Kantar, a market research company, reported today.more

Many schools in England are considering cutting teachers or teaching hours to save money, says the head teachers' union, NAHT.more

This group of customers are those that Ulster Bank views as having “low reliance on these accounts or may have accounts elsewhere”. more

British business minister Grant Shapps has suggested that, as part of the budget report, the government may tax the extraordinary profits of oil and gas companies, which has been demanded by the opposition Labor Party for several months.more

According to the GfK Purchasing Power Europe 2022 survey, Poland dropped one position to the 29th position in the survey measuring the purchasing power of 42 European countries. The average purchasing power in Poland amounted to over 9,200 euro, while the average for Europe is over 16.3 thousand euro.more

The cost of maintaining the Amadea - a US seized yacht linked to a Russian oligarch - is nearly $10 million a year. Part of this cost is borne by U.S. taxpayers, and Amadea is just one of the costly seized Russian assets, Bloomberg writes today.more

A quarter of UK adults have less than £100 set aside in savings, a survey suggests, leaving them vulnerable to rising and unexpected bills. more

For the first time ever, British nurses will hold a nationwide wage strike, it was reported today. The nurses' organization is demanding wage increases of 5 percentage points above inflation.more

Food banks (Tafel) in Germany have never before supplied so many people. "Since the beginning of the year, we have seen a 50 percent increase in the number of customers," - relayed the head of Tafel Deutschland Jochen Bruehl to the Rheinische Post daily yesterday. This means that some 2 million people are benefiting.more

Dublin will submit a motion that Ireland's Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe will become Eurogroup president for a second term, even though he will no longer be head of ministry when his mandate in the Eurogroup ends in January, the Irish government said yesterday.more

Poverty campaigners have warned of a “prolonged period of pain” after the Bank of England said Britain is facing the longest recession since records began, stretching deep into 2024. more

I warn refugees who want to come to Ireland now that our country may not be able to provide them with decent conditions," Irish Ambassador to Kiev Therese Healy told the Ukrainian Truth website eurointegration.com in an article published yesterday.more

68 percent of Poles are concerned about the stability of their earnings, while 23 percent are afraid of losing their jobs, according to a survey by ARC Rynek i Opinia on the current economic situation released Thursday.more

Households will be offered discounts on their electricity bills if they cut peak-time use on a handful of days over the winter, as part of National Grid's efforts to avoid blackouts. more

An increasing number of Dutch companies are paying their employees one-time bonuses to cushion the effects of high inflation, the NOS portal reports. The amounts range from €150 to €2,000.more

According to data from the Ministry of Finance, in the first half of this year the number of initiated tax audits was more than 16% higher than in the corresponding period of the previous year.more