Current account surplus at €333 billion (2.8% of euro area GDP) in four quarters to third quarter of 2021, up from €180 billion (1.6% of GDP) a year earlier Geographic counterparts: largest bilateral current account surpluses vis-à-vis United Kingdom (€175 billion) and Switzerland (€76 billion), largest deficit vis-à-vis China (€69 billion) International investment position showed net liabilities of €271 billion (2.3% of euro […]

According to preliminary figures collected by Frontex, the total number of illegal border-crossings in 2021 was just short of 200 000, the highest number since 2017.

Daily average borrowing turnover in the unsecured segment remained stable at €120 billion in the seventh maintenance period of 2021 Weighted average overnight rate on borrowing transactions in the unsecured segment remained stable at -0.56% for the wholesale sector and at -0.57% for the interbank sector Daily average borrowing turnover in the secured segment decreased from €409 billion […]

David Sassoli, president of the European Parliament (EP), died on Tuesday as a result of a serious illness, EP spokesman Roberto Cuillo said.

EMA has started evaluating an application for a conditional marketing authorisation for the oral antiviral medicine Paxlovid (PF-07321332 and ritonavir). The applicant is Pfizer Europe MA EEIG.

It is “unacceptable” that the government in Kiev is exploiting challenges in eastern Ukraine as an excuse for continually impairing the rights of national minorities, including ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said at an extraordinary meeting of NATO foreign ministers.

In the week ending 31 December 2021 the increase of EUR 41.4 billion in gold and gold receivables (asset item 1) reflected quarterly revaluation adjustments.

The opposition LMP party is calling on the government and MEPs to reject the European Commission’s draft taxonomy system in connection with the future use of natural gas and nuclear energy, Erzsébet Schmuck, the co-leader of the party, said on Wednesday.

Composite cost-of-borrowing indicator for new loans to corporations decreased by 4 basis points to 1.39%, driven by the interest rate effect, with indicator for new loans to households for house purchase broadly unchanged at 1.32% Composite interest rate for new deposits with agreed maturity from corporations broadly unchanged at -0.33%, with interest rate for overnight deposits from corporations unchanged at -0.03% Composite interest rate […]