Tag "EU"
The goverment shares more EU-grants than ever
Date: 2020-05-08 10:46:39
A tremendous amoun of EU grant decisions have been made as since mid-April, and the payment of grants has visibly picked up since the outbreak of the coronavirus crisis in...
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Retail sales in the euro area and the EU fell in March
Date: 2020-05-07 11:10:20
Retail sales in the euro area and the European Union fell by a record level in March, compared to the previous month, according to a report by Eurostat, the EU’s...
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EU Sets Out Support For Struggling Farmers
Date: 2020-04-23 08:30:23
The European Commission has proposed measures to support farmers hit by the coronavirus restrictions, including aid to store surplus dairy and meat products. Under the proposals, the Commission will grant aid...
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Employment in the European Union rose to a historic high last year
Date: 2020-04-21 11:03:47
Employment in the European Union reached a historic high, with seventeen of the twenty-seven Member States reaching their national 2020 target last year – according to data released by the...
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European Commission: new rules on mutual recognition of goods have entered into force
Date: 2020-04-21 11:02:00
New rules on the mutual recognition of goods legally marketed in another EU country have come into force, making it faster, simpler and easier for companies, especially small and medium-sized...
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Europol: Counterfeit products pose a threat to public health
Date: 2020-04-17 11:10:59
Counterfeit products sold on the World Wide Web for health purposes during the coronavirus epidemic pose a threat to society as a whole, according to a report by Europol, the...
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Euro area inflation fell to a five-month low in March
Date: 2020-04-17 11:09:45
Inflation in the euro area fell to a five-month low in March, according to a report by Eurostat, the European Union’s statistical office. In March, according to Eurostat’s final data,...
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Exemption from customs duties and import duties on products imported to combat the epidemic
Date: 2020-04-03 11:10:02
According to the decision of the European Commission, published on 3 April, importers imported goods into the European Union from a third country to fight the COVID-19 epidemic do not...
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Farmers in the EU can continue to receive agricultural supports as advances
Date: 2020-03-26 11:10:42
A number of Hungarian proposals have been put forward at a videoconference of the ministers of agriculture to allow advance payments of agricultural subsidies – Feldman Zsolt, Minister of State...
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European tourism is losing 1 billion euros a month as a result of the epidemic
Date: 2020-03-10 10:30:11
As the fear of the coronavirus spreads around the world, European tourism is losing more and more – origo wrote. According to an EU official, the industry is already losing...
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Consumer confidence in the euro area and in the EU improved in February
Date: 2020-02-27 11:02:03
Consumer confidence in the euro area and in the European Union improved in February, according to final figures released by the European Commission on Thursday. The euro area, which comprises...
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The Eastern European and Baltic countries insist on retaining resources for the Common Agricultural Policy
Date: 2020-02-24 11:31:53
The agriculture ministers of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states said in a joint statement in Warsaw on Monday that maintaining the level of resources available for the Common Agricultural...
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Consumer confidence in Europe has improved
Date: 2020-02-21 11:04:40
Consumer confidence in the euro area and the European Union improved markedly in February, according to a preliminary flash estimate released by the European Commission on Thursday. In the euro...
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The EU Council adopts new VAT rules for e-commerce and small businesses
Date: 2020-02-18 11:05:14
The Economic and Financial Affairs Council of the European Union (ECOFIN) has adopted new rules to facilitate the detection of VAT fraud in cross-border e-commerce and simplified the VAT rules...
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AM: 2021will be a transitional period for EU agricultural support
Date: 2020-02-14 11:40:57
There will be a transition period next year for EU agricultural subsidies, while the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will be governed by the regulation for the 2014-2020 period for...
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EU forecasts: the European economy will show stable but subdued growth over the next two years
Date: 2020-02-13 11:11:48
According to the European Commission’s (EC) winter economic forecast, the European economy is on a path of steady but moderate growth over the next two years, with job creation and...
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The agricultural ministry is developing a strategic plan for the use of the CAP
Date: 2020-02-11 11:30:14
The Ministry of Agriculture has begun to develop a strategic plan for the support system for the period 2021-2027, which will include the framework, directions and justifications for the utilization...
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European Commission: EU excise duty on tobacco products has not contributed to reducing consumption
Date: 2020-02-11 11:03:06
The EU minimum excise duty on tobacco products did not contribute to discouraging consumption, although the current rules work well for the predictability and stability of Member States’ budget revenues,...
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The EU offers duty-free trade to Britain
Date: 2020-02-03 11:01:32
The EU offers London an agreement on trade free of duty and quotas. This could be the central pillar of the partnership between the Union and Britain, privatbankar.hu quoted EU’s...
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The economic sentiment in the euro area and the EU improved in January
Date: 2020-01-30 11:05:39
The euro area economic sentiment rose to a five-month high in January and a seven-month high in the European Union, according to a report released by the European Commission’s Directorate-General...
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EU support for agriculture should also be provided during the transitional period
Date: 2020-01-27 11:50:50
Farmers should continue to receive their subsidies after the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) expires at the end of this year – Nagy István Minister of Agriculture head of the...
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The European Court of Auditors is an effective but not flawed EU SME program
Date: 2020-01-23 11:02:47
The EU SME support program is effective and innovative progrma but has problems – the European Court of Auditors’ Special Report on the Instrument to support small and medium-sized enterprises...
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Survey in the Hospitality Industry about Disposable Plastic Tools
Date: 2020-01-22 10:58:14
Deadline for partial ban on single use plastics is approaching: Companies have one year to find a solution to replace their multiple disposable plastic devices – mfor.hu wrote. Last year,...
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The EU Trade Commissioner said that trade relations between Washington and the European Union could be resumed
Date: 2020-01-21 11:02:36
Trade relations between Washington and the European Union can be restarted – Phil Hogan, European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner said in Washington, to reporters. Phil Hogan said at a press...
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There is a growing demand for homemade pálinka
Date: 2020-01-20 11:25:46
Initiatives to produce certain quantities of concentrated beverages exempt from tax could be on the agenda again in the relevant forums of the European Union – Tállai András, Minister of...
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Expert: the employment of the 20-64 age group surpasses the EU target
Date: 2020-01-14 11:20:42
In Hungary, the average employment rate for the 20-64 age group is 75.5 percent, above the 75 percent target set by the European Union for 2020 – Csath Magdolna economist...
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Less than half of EU passengers are familiar with EU passenger rights
Date: 2020-01-13 10:12:12
Less than half of EU passengers, 43 percent, know that the European Union (EU) regulates passengers’ rights, according to a European Commission survey released on Monday. According to the survey,...
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Consumer prices in OECD countries have accelerated
Date: 2020-01-10 11:03:28
In OECD member countries, the annual growth rate of consumer prices accelerated to 1.8 percent in November, from the 1.6 percent of October, the lowest rate since November 2016. In...
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Negotiations on the new Common Agricultural Policy will continue in Brussels next year
Date: 2019-12-18 11:30:23
At the Agriculture and Fisheries Council on Monday, EU agriculture ministers agreed that further negotiations on the details of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) were needed and that an...
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