The Spanish home improvement chain Bricor is gradually disappearing from view.
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The Spanish home improvement chain Bricor is gradually disappearing from view.
The French home improvement chain Bricorama is closing 13 stores because no franchisees could be found for them.
The German Hornbach group has started financial year 2020/21 with a significant increase in sales and profit. In its quarterly report, the company once again confirmed the figures already reported on 10 June.
Volume 19 No. 1 (2020) of the Quarterly Report on the Euro Area examines growth-friendly revenue-neutral tax shift, public debt sustainability, the sovereign-bank nexus, and the institutional determinants of the natural rate of unemployment.
An 24 June, the Commission proposed an EU budget of €166.7 billion for 2021, to be complemented by €211 billion in grants and approximately €133 billion in loans under the “Next Generation EU” programme.
The British DIY retail group Kingfisher wants to increasingly test new store concepts in future.
World trade fell sharply in the first half of the year, as the COVID-19 pandemic upended the global economy.
The EU’s seasonally adjusted trade (imports + exports) with China fell from €46.5 billion in January 2020 to €43.1 billion in February 2020.
On 11 June, the Commission released the results of its 2020 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), which monitors Europe’s overall digital performance and tracks the progress of EU countries with respect to their digital competitiveness.
On 11 June, the Commission presented a set of recommendations to Schengen Member States and Schengen Associated States to lift internal border controls by 15 June and to prolong the temporary restriction on non-essential travel into the EU until 30 June.
