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The FINANCIAL -- Euro area annual inflation was 1.5% in November 2017, up from 1.4% in October.

The FINANCIAL -- Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) is a measure of material welfare of households. Across the Member States in 2016, AIC per capita expressed in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS) varied from 53% of the European Union (EU) average in Bulgaria to

The FINANCIAL -- GfK forecasts a total purchasing power of €1,893.8 bil. for Germany in 2018. This is a nominal per-capita increase of 2.8 percent or €633 over the revised forecasted values from last year. In 2018, Germans will consequently have an

The FINANCIAL -- Twenty-five European Union member states have taken the formal decision to establish a new defense and security cooperation network.

The FINANCIAL -- Since 2010, social protection expenditure in the European Union (EU) has increased slightly, from 28.6% of GDP in 2010 to 29.0% in 2015, according to data from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

The FINANCIAL -- Seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 0.6% in both the euro area (EA19) and the EU28 during the third quarter of 2017, compared with the previous quarter, according to an estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European

The FINANCIAL -- The overall tax-to-GDP ratio, meaning the sum of taxes and net social contributions as a percentage of GDP, stood at 40.0% in the European Union (EU) in 2016, an increase compared with 2015 (39.7%). In the euro area, tax

The FINANCIAL -- NATO and the European Union have decided to further boost their cooperation during a meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers in Brussels.

The FINANCIAL -- With Christmas around the corner, European retailers are getting ready for Europe’s biggest spenders.

The FINANCIAL -- The European Union's enlargement commissioner has urged Bosnia-Herzegovina to implement concrete reforms if it wants to join the bloc, warning that the window to becoming a member could close.