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The UK's economy shrank by 20.4% in April - the largest monthly contraction on record - as the country spent its first full month in lockdown.more

The United Kingdom agreed with the European Union to intensify in July the schedule of negotiations on future trade relations after the end of the transition period after Brexit - the British government said yesterday.more

Exactly 100 days since its first case of coronavirus was confirmed, New York City, which weathered extensive hardship as an epicenter of the worldwide outbreak, is set to take the first tentative steps toward reopening its doors on Monday.more

Sunday trading laws could be suspended for a year under Government plans to stimulate the economy amid the coronavirus crisis.more

With a strong industrial base and cheap labor, Central and Eastern Europe can greatly benefit from moving factories to the Old Continent, "Le Monde," says the journal, reminding the Warsaw-Paris conflict over labor costs.more

Andrew Bailey held a conference call on Tuesday with Britain’s biggest lenders in which he emphasised that they needed to step up their plans for Britain failing to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU before a deadline at the end of 2020, Sky News reported.more

Germany’s unemployment rate jumped to 6.3% from 5.8% the previous month in seasonally adjusted terms, the figures from the Labour Office showed.more

Cafes and restaurants in France, closed for months due to the coronavirus pandemic, are opening again yesterday. Accepting customers is, however, allowed only on terraces and gardens, which resulted in their expansion in the public space of cities.more

The majority of Britons want the economy to be "significantly" different after the pandemic passes, according to a poll for Sky News.more

In the fourth quarter of 2019, 3.8 billion zlotys went to Poland due to the work abroad - we read in the NBP information on the balance of payments for the fourth quarter of 2019. It was added that the most money came from Germany and Great Britain.more

The Canadian government's plans for 2020 assumed the arrival of 370,000 immigrants. Immigrants support Canadian economic development and will be needed for reconstruction after Covid-19. The economy is already losing because of fewer new arrivals.more

After a pandemic coronavirus break of ten weeks, today at noon gastronomy and cultural establishments were re-opened in the Netherlands. Only 30 people can use each of them at a time.more

An application has been submitted to build a new nuclear power station capable of powering six million homes. EDF Energy has put in plans for the Sizewell C plant on the Suffolk coast, first proposed more than a decade ago.more

The UK produced only 197 cars this April, fall of almost 100% since April last year, in the latest sign that coronavirus has ravaged various manufacturing industries. UK's motor trade association, The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said on Friday: "British car production falls -99.7% in April with 197 units made as coronavirus pandemic closes factories."more

The UK's coronavirus furlough scheme will finish at the end of October, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed. At the No 10 briefing, Mr Sunak also set out how employers will have to start sharing the cost of the scheme.more

The go-ahead has been given to the UK’s biggest solar farm, stretching 900 acres on the north Kent coast.more

In the agreed EU 750 billion reconstruction fund, there are still some outstanding issues, and the fact that it is linked to the future budget means that negotiations will be unprecedented - says the British Financial Times. The newspaper adds that Italy could apply for almost EUR 82 billion, Spain for 77 billion, France for 39 billion and Poland - 38 billion.more

Nissan has confirmed it will not close its Sunderland manufacturing plant, instead shutting a factory in Barcelona as the Japanese carmaker seeks to cut £2.3bn in costs worldwide. The decision puts 2,800 jobs at risk in Spain but removed a short-term threat to most of the 6,700 jobs at Britain’s biggest car plant in Sunderland. more

The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday a plan to borrow on the market and then disburse to EU countries 750 billion euros in grants and loans to help them recover from their coronavirus slump, giving an immediate boost to the euro.more

Companies could soon be banned from putting any more employees on furlough, with Rishi Sunak expected to make an announcement later this week.more

The most serious effect of the coronavirus epidemic will be business failures, according to the second edition of the COVID-19 Barometer survey commissioned by EFL. The smallest companies are most concerned about falls.more

The latest data indicate a smaller drop in economic activity than in other countries in the first quarter of 2020. However, the second quarter, as well as the whole year, the UK will end in a big minus - assessed Mateusz Urban from the Society of Polish Economists.more

Poland is facing a deep crisis, one of the most severe since the beginning of economic transformation - warned an expert from the University of Warsaw, dr hab. Ryszard Szarfenberg. The scientist pointed out that the coronavirus crisis would deepen the scale of poverty in the labor market in Poland on an unprecedented scale.more

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is in talks with the government to secure a loan of more than £1bn, following a drop in sales during the coronavirus pandemic.more

"Covid Fee" - such an allowance of EUR 2-4 is added to bills in Italy in some shops and service outlets. These cases were revealed by a consumer rights organization that says you have to end such a "Wild West".more