Recent EU news
Latest items of recent news relevant to the European Union as reported in our fortnightly newswire.
European Union: Over half of adults in the EU are overweight (2019)
According to the latest figures from Eurostat, in 2019, over half of adults in the EU were considered to be technically overweight (36% pre-obese and 17% obese) …
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European Union: Over 1 in 6 young adults not in employment or education (2020)
The latest results from the EU labour force survey show that, in 2020, over one in six (17 …
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European Union: Slovenia takes over EU presidency with focus on unfinished business
Slovenia has recently taken over the EU Presidency …
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European Union: EU Commission granted the UK Adequacy Status
The European Commission has now formally found that UK data protection laws are “essentially equivalent” to those maintained in the European Union …
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European Union: One third of migrants in the EU have a degree
In 2020, the share of native born people aged 25-54 across the EU with tertiary level education stood at 40 …
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European Union: Hourly labour costs (Q1 2021)
Hourly labour costs in the EU grew over the year to Q1 2021 by 1 …
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European Union: Enforced financial transparency
The era of enforced financial transparency will soon be upon multinational enterprises (MNEs) …
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European Union: Hourly earnings vary widely across occupations
According to the latest available figures (for 2018), the largest broad occupational gross hourly earnings difference in the European Union was to be found in Cyprus, where managers (€31 …
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European Union: Austria and Hungary reject Brussels’ plot for EU-wide wage
A number of governments and trade unions have reacted strongly to a proposal to introduce a common minimum wage across the European Union …
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European Union: Standard contractual clauses for international transfers
The European Commission has finally released its promised latest version of their Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) to facilitate the international transmission of personal data …
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European Union: Preparing for the final version of the new EU standard contractual clauses for international data transfers
Although a revamped “Privacy Shield” to enable transatlantic flows of personal data is still some time off, a new set of standard contractual clauses are due to be published by the European Commission very shortly …
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European Union: COVID-19 passport
Although the EU Council and Parliament have reached agreement that a digital passport will be up and running by the end of June, responsibility for its issue will lie with individual countries …
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European Union: How to deal with confidential information (ETUI)
The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) has just published a training manual for employee representatives, giving them ways to interpret and challenge an employer’s claims that certain corporate information is sensitive and subject to either commercial confidentiality or secrecy rules …
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European Union: Commission proposes new, ambitious business tax agenda
The European Commission appears to have finally thrown out its plans to introduce a common corporation tax rate across Europe, in spite of moves by the US Biden administration and the OECD to push for a universal global multinational penalty rate of up to 25% …
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European Union: Migrant integration – temporary employment (2020)
In 2020, more than one-fifth (20 …
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