Nfu Slams Meat Control Charges

THE NATIONAL Farmers' Union (NFU) has expressed concern that increased meat control charges will have an adverse effect on the whole supply chain. The Food Standards Agency......

Eurozone Gdp Predicted To Rise

THE EUROPEAN Commission's spring economic forecast suggests that GDP in the Eurozone will fall by 4% in 2009, but will 'broadly stabilise' in 2010. Global growth is expected to......

The Unemployment Rate Was 71% For The Three Months...

It rose 0.8% over the previous quarter and 1.8% over the year. An extra quarter of a million unemployed in the first three months of the year brought the total to 2.22 million.......

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Business failure rate starts to drop THE RATE OF business failures is slowing down, although insolvencies in the first quarter were 3.3% ahead of the corresponding period in......

The International Road Transport Union (iru)...

a panEuropean six-point plan to rescue the sector follOwing the European Commission's analysis of the effects of the economic crisis on haulage. lliS IRU is coiling for: • A......