ECB officials are increasingly confident in the Eurozone economy with two policymakers saying this week that inflation risks in the euro‑area are “balanced” and growth has been stronger than previously expected.
The EU economy began 2025 on a somewhat stronger footing than anticipated, and is projected to keep growing at a modest rate this year, according to the EU’s spring economic forecast.
The European Commission has informed social media platform TikTok of its preliminary view that it is not fulfilling its obligations under the EU’s Digital Services Act to publish an advertisement repository.
The EU economy’s greenhouse gas emissions were 897 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq) in the fourth quarter of 2024, Eurostat estimates, a 2.2% increase compared with the same quarter of 2023 (878 million tonnes of CO2-eq).
The European Parliament’s committee on international trade has approved a 50 per cent increase in tariffs on certain Russian and Belarusian agricultural goods to further reduce EU dependency.
EU finance ministers have reached a significant agreement on a new approach to Value Added Tax (VAT) focusing on e-commerce imports and the taxation of distance sales of imported goods.
The EU Commission has presented a major package of measures targeting the administrative burden, controls, implementation, crisis response and investment needs of the farming sector.
