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Last year, almost 32 bn litres of beer containing alcohol were produced in the EU, according to Eurostat’s latest production statistics released last month. Poland produced 3.8 bn litres of beer containing alcohol making it the second largest beer producer in Europe with 12 percent of total EU production.more

The development is backed by a Hollywood consortium which has previously made Zoolander and La La Land. It will be just 20 miles east of Leavesden - home to Harry Potter - with £120m of land already purchased.more

The hike in gas and electricity costs will affect 15 million households in the UK.more

Finland's new law on compulsory education entered into force on Sunday. The law extends compulsory education to the year each student turns 18, up from the previous minimum of 16.more

In June, retirement insurance at ZUS was paid by 818,000 foreigners, and health insurance by as much as 863,000. Both numbers are record-breaking and mean that among all the insured foreigners constitute over 5% of the group in Poland - the Polish daily "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna" reports.more

‘Many thousands’ face losing their jobs as the Government’s furlough scheme is wound down again from today.One in five firms plan to make staff redundant as financial support ebbs away, according to the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC).more

Virgin Media O2 has announced plans to upgrade more than 14 million homes and businesses to full fibre broadband over the next seven years.more

Rocket flights and satellite launches can now launch from the UK, after new space industry regulations came into force.more

One in seven shops in Britain are vacant with fashion retail premises in shopping centres the hardest hit of all by repeated lockdowns, the British Retail Consortium said today.more

It may be the only place in the UK where people shell out £6 for a pint without batting an eyelid.more

In Poland the financial expectations of the desired specialists are now up to 50 percent higher than last year and more and more often exceed the upper limit of the salary range for a given position - the Polish daily "Rzeczpospolita" reports.more

Spain has a shortage of hands to work in construction, despite the country's youth unemployment being the highest in the EU at 37%. - reports the daily "ABC".more

China’s state-owned nuclear energy company could be blocked from all future power projects in the UK, with ministers understood to be investigating ways to prevent its involvement.more

Taxpayers will bear the costs of Covid "for decades" - and an inquiry will not come soon enough to learn lessons from the pandemic, MPs have said.more

Investments in digital technologies and sustainable development can create 5.7 million jobs in Europe by 2030, including in the production of industrial equipment, automotive - according to the Accenture report prepared in cooperation with BusinessEurope.more

About 60,000 employees are missing in the construction industry. This may result in significant delays in the implementation of the investment - the Polish daily "Puls Biznesu" reports.more

By reducing gas supplies to Europe, Russia is orchestrating an energy crisis to force the EU to approve the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on its own, monopolistic terms, and at the same time wants to upset its legal order, assesses the British Daily Telegraph.more

The opening of the economy should lead to the return of the pre-pandemic employment level at the turn of the year, wrote PKO BP's comment on today's GUS data.more

The price of everyday treats should increase in England as part of a plan to boost the nation’s health and save the NHS, a landmark new report says.more

Three-quarters of Poles are afraid that the introduction of the euro in Poland would increase prices, but more than half support this idea, "Gazeta Wyborcza" reports, citing the Eurobarometer survey.more

The number of job vacancies in the UK surpassed pre-Covid-19 levels for the first time, the National Statistics Office (ONS) reported. It also added that unemployment fell slightly again, with the rate of 4.8% in the second quarter.more

The UK inflation rate hit 2.5% in the year to June, the highest for nearly three years, as the unlocking of the UK economy continued.more

UK retail sales grew the most strongly in over a quarter of a century in the second quarter of this year. This is the result of the opening of all stores after lockdown, increased consumer optimism, good weather and the European football championship.more

n exclusive poll for i shows that firms feel the Government had not done enough to support them through Brexit.more

Most Brits got wealthier during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research shows, boosted by increased savings and surging house prices. more