Launched on 26 May as a unique and harmonised product developed by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the FIGARO database provides consistent access to figures from different national sources such as businesses, industries, trade and macro-economic accounts of all EU member states and their main trading partners. […]
Green light for a more accessible Globalisation Fund
The European Commission has proposed to mobilise EUR 345,000 for technical assistance for the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). This proposal has been endorsed by the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgets, which stressed that the fund should be used to support permanently redundant workers and the self-employed in the context of the global crisis caused […]