The Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) in the eurozone countries fell by 1.3 percentage points over the month and amounted to 97.6 points in August, the press service of the European Commission reported. This is the lowest level of ESI in the last 19 months, notes Bloomberg.
Among the largest EU economies, the ESI fell especially sharply in the Netherlands (minus 4.3 p.p.), Germany (minus 2.5 p.p.), France and Poland (minus 1.8 p.p.) and Italy (minus 1.2 p.p.). Spain stood out with moderate growth — plus 0.8 p.p.
The fall was most pronounced in industry, where the index fell from 3.4 to 1.2 points, and in services, where it fell from 10.4 to 8.7 points.
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Due to the melting of the glaciers of Greenland, the sea level will rise by 27 centimeters. This can no longer be avoided, even if humanity stops all carbon emissions right now. While this is an inevitable rise in sea levels, it could happen in a century or even two. By controlling carbon emissions, people can minimize damage
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The American network of pizzerias Papa John’s will stop working in Belarus, on September 1, its outlets in Minsk will work for the last day, the Belarusian representative office of the network reported on social networks.
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In the II quarter of 2022, the Indian economy grew by 13.5% in annual terms, in the first quarter the growth was 4.1%, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing published statistics.
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Since September, the Russian government has introduced a temporary ban on the export of waste and scrap of precious metals or compounds of precious metals used to extract them, as well as waste and scrap of electrical and electronic products used to extract precious metals.
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In the first half of 2022, Latvia’s GDP grew by 4.7% year-on-year and amounted to 17.7 billion euros, the country’s Central Statistical Office reported.
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on the state of human rights in Xinjiang, accusing the Beijing authorities of discriminating against Uyghurs, while China called this report a farce
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The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has agreed with private aerospace company SpaceX to add five regular missions to transport crews to the International Space Station (ISS) on Crew Dragon ships to the contract, the company said.
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Following a two-day meeting, the EU Foreign Ministers agreed to suspend the simplified visa regime with Russia. At the same time, border countries were allowed to take unilateral measures to reduce the flow of Russians to Europe.
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When calculating the cost of car repairs under OSAGO from September 11, the cost of analogue spare parts will be taken into account if the original part is not on the market, the Bank of Russia reports.
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The Board of Directors of Gazprom recommended the payment of interim dividends for the first half of 2022 in the amount of RUB 51.03.
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The Thai authorities have increased the period of visa-free stay in the country for tourists from 30 to 45 days, according to a message on the website of the National Tourism Authority under the Ministry of Tourism and Sports. Russia is not on the list of countries for which Thailand has extended the visa-free regime
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The US District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued an arrest warrant for a Boeing 737-7EM aircraft worth $45 million, which, according to the American side, belongs to Lukoil.
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In Russia, the law on the total accounting of advertising came into force. Customers, agencies and Internet sites must now transfer to Roskomnadzor information about all advertising posted on the Web through special intermediaries — advertising data operators
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In Russia, from September 1, the Unified Information System (EIS) «Electronic Voucher» began to work, in which tour operators were required to enter data on hotel reservations and payment for services.
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On September 1, simplified rules for the technical inspection of cars begin to operate. Now they do not check the first aid kit, fire extinguisher, oil leaks from the engine, do not control the operation of the windshield washer, the condition of the brake pipes and the noise level of the muffler.
The coming into force government decree was prepared by the Ministry of Transport to simplify the maintenance procedure and reduce the burden on business. The next stage of the technical inspection reform will be the transfer of control over maintenance operators to the Federal Accreditation Service and the approval of new technical inspection tariffs in the regions.
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On September 1, Order No. 808 of the Ministry of Education comes into force, containing new «exemplary» driving training programs — on the basis of this order, driving schools develop and approve their own programs. The main innovation is the redistribution of teaching hours in favor of training in urban environments.
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The German company Infineon has stopped deliveries to Russia of chips that were used for biometric passports. The company confirmed this information to DW
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Thousands of computers in 11 countries around the world were infected with the Nitrokod malware, which used them to covertly mine the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. It was distributed freely through popular software libraries such as Softpedia and Uptodown. And links to it were given out by search engines when trying to find and download the desktop version of the Google Translate service.
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Kazakhstan has decided to lift restrictions on the export of grain and flour and establish a quota for the export of cattle and small cattle, the country’s prime minister’s website said on Thursday.
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The administration of US President Joe Biden has ordered developers of chips known as graphics processing units (GPUs), Nvidia and AMD to stop exporting certain products to China and Russia, US media reported.
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VTB Bank decided to continue its operations in the Kazakhstan market, Madina Abylkasymova, chairman of the Kazakhstan Agency for Regulation and Development of the Financial Market, told journalists.
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In August 2022, loading on the Russian Railways network decreased by 5%, to 103.6 million tons, the company said.
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French Pernod Ricard SA, one of the world’s largest producers of alcoholic beverages, increased its revenue in fiscal year 2022, ended June 30, by 21%, to 10.7 billion euros against 8.8 billion euros a year earlier and 9.18 billion euros in pre-Covid 2019 year.
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President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko presented the «first Belarusian computer» during an open lesson on Thursday at the Palace of the Republic in Minsk.
“Having felt it, you would not say that it was created in Belarus. This indicates that we have a huge potential,” Lukashenka stressed.
The President specified that the laptop, which he demonstrated to the audience, was created at the Belarusian plant Gorizont.
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Due to rising gas prices and inflation exceeding 10%, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced a reduction in VAT on this type of fuel from 21% to 5% from October until the end of the year, European media reported on Thursday.
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The UN has published a report on violations of the rights of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the Chinese province of Xinjiang. It mentions, for example, «forced treatment and adverse conditions of detention» but does not mention genocide.
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