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Brexit red tape on British businesses has caused goods trade between the UK and EU to slump and the problem is getting worse, a study has warned. Many smaller UK producers have given up exporting small amounts to the EU after facing more rules and regulations, a report by Aston University Business School has found.more

Plans to pedestrianise part of London's Oxford Street have been announced by the capital's mayor. Sadiq Khan said "urgent action" is needed to regenerate the famous high street, which was has been affected by a shift to online shopping and the Covid-19 pandemic. more

Homelessness and the housing crisis are having a “devastating impact” on Londoners and “wreaking havoc” on boroughs’ finances, councils have warned.more

The popularity of Polish fruit abroad is growing. Last year we were their seventh largest supplier in Europe, reported the ‘Puls Biznesu’ yesterday.more

UK national debt is on course to treble over the next half a century due to several pressures, according to the government’s official forecaster. Those pressures include an ageing population, climate change, and rising geopolitical tensions, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said in a report.more

Pharmacies, pubs and banks made up half of the closures on Britain's High Streets in the first six months of this year, data suggests. A total of 6,945 stores have closed so far in 2024, which is the equivalent of 38 shops per day.more

The European Commission believes that the Baltic Sea will become the second largest location for wind farm energy production in the EU. ‘The region has a large potential, estimated at more than 90 GW of capacity,’ announced Lukasz Kolinski, acting director for green transition at the EC, at a conference in Brussels.more

The majority of households are worried about the rising cost of shopping despite slowing price rises, according to industry data. Kantar Worldpanel - which tracks supermarket till prices, sales and market share - said its measure of grocery inflation slowed to 1.7% in August.more

Almost 10 million UK pensioners will lose their entitlement to state-funded winter heating subsidies. Keir Starmer's Labour government yesterday pushed through a drastic reduction in the number of people entitled to this benefit.more

Tuesday's daily "Le Figaro" describes Poland as a well-functioning democracy and a developing economy. It also emphasizes that Poland has become an EU bridgehead in the fight against the expansionism of Putin's Russia, and the Weimar Triangle - a main axis in the EU.more

Birmingham City Council owns an artwork collection valued at almost half a billion pounds, a BBC investigation has discovered. But none will be sold off to help tackle the financial challenges at the council which declared it was effectively bankrupt last year.more

LSE report suggests chancellor should downgrade projects such as Lower Thames Crossing in favour of services, writes "The Guardian".more

Employers announced that they would lay off 130,000 people from April to December. Meanwhile, it turns out that they plan to hire over half a million new employees - reports "Rzeczpospolita".more

The number of offers of flats for rent shrank by nearly 8 per cent in July compared to June, according to the Otodom report. As indicated, this year's July result is the lowest this year and almost identical to that of July last year. Average prices rose by more than 2 per cent year-on-year.more

UK house prices dipped in August, marking the first fall in four months, even as the annual rate of growth in the cost of a property remains at a high of more than 18 months.more

Thanks to foreign workers, our economy has grown faster in recent years. Their influx should further increase the rate of GDP growth, writes ”Rzeczpospolita” in today's issue.more

Last year, more than 220,000 new units were completed in Poland, and our country ranked third in terms of the residential construction intensity index, according to a Deloitte report published yesterday.more

The shrinkage of human resources in Poland could have disastrous consequences for social security systems and economic development; this could be prevented by, among other things, a well-considered migration policy, according to a report published on Wednesday by Employers of Poland.more

Some of the UK's government-funded development aid to poor countries actually goes to regions with a higher GDP per capita than large areas of the UK, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank pointed out in a report published yesterday.more

An ambitious plan to build a massive solar farm in remote northern Australia to transmit energy by a submarine cable to Singapore is a step closer after the Australian government granted environmental approvals for the $19 billion project on Wednesday.more

The total number of licensed pubs, bars, restaurant, clubs and hotels in the UK has risen quarter on quarter for the first time in two years in a new sign of a revival for the embattled hospitality sector.more

Domestic energy prices are expected to rise in the run-up to winter, according to consultancy Cornwall Insight. The forecaster, which is widely regarded for its accurate predictions, said a household using a typical amount of gas and electricity would pay £1,714 a year from October.more

Britain’s economy has extended the recovery from recession after growth of 0.6% in the three months to June, handing a boost to the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, in the run-up to the autumn budget. Britain’s annual inflation rate rose to 2.2% last month – its first increase since December last year – and is expected to remain above its 2% target for the rest of the year.more

More cows could be kept indoors for the whole of their productive lives, animal welfare campaigners have warned, after the BBC found a rise in “megafarms”.more

A number of high street retailers are continuing to close stores throughout August. Due to shifting consumer behaviour and the Covid-19 outbreak, store closures have increased in recent years.more