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Europe’s environmental taxes in decline, despite potentially crucial role

The European Green Deal acknowledges the crucial role of taxation in Europe’s sustainability transition. A new European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing, published today, shows that revenues from environmental taxes can support transition investments but future revenue streams from these taxes will erode as European Union (EU) environmental and climate policy objectives are achieved. The relative […]

Szijjártó Holds Talks With Moldovan Counterpart

The European Union cannot be stronger unless it strengthens its external ties, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said, and called for closer cooperation with Moldova under the EU’s Eastern Partnership programme. Speaking after talks with Moldovan counterpart Nicu Popescu in Budapest, Szijjártó told a joint press conference that their talks were given a special significance with […]

Szijjártó: Hungary Ready to Continue Cooperation With Germany

As it is quite normal that “friends may hold different views on certain issues”, Hungary is prepared to cooperate with Germany in the coming three decades, too, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s minister of foreign affairs and trade, has said, marking the 30th anniversary of the two countries’ friendship treaty, on Facebook.

EUAA and European Commission scientists unveil forecasting model for asylum-related migration, based on Big Data

On 27 January 2022, researchers working for the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA), the European Commission (Joint Research Centre) and University of Catania published a new methodology for forecasting asylum claims lodged in the EU, based on machine-learning and Big Data.

Euro area bank interest rate statistics: December 2021

​​​​​​Composite cost-of-borrowing indicator for new loans to corporations and for new loans to households for house purchase broadly unchanged at 1.36% and 1.31%, respectively Composite interest rate for new deposits with agreed maturity from corporations broadly unchanged at -0.31%, with interest rate for overnight deposits from corporations unchanged at -0.03% Composite interest rate for new deposits with agreed maturity from households broadly unchanged at 0.23%, with […]

Economic losses from weather and climate-related extremes in Europe reached around half a trillion euros over past 40 years

Extreme weather events like storms, heatwaves and flooding accounted for economic losses of around half a trillion euros over the past 40 years and led to between 85 000 and 145 000 human fatalities across Europe. Less than one-third of these losses were insured, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) analysis of economic losses […]