Following a successful 39-year career at UBS (and its predecessor firm PaineWebber), Tom Naratil has decided to step down from his current roles as Co-President Global Wealth Management and President UBS Americas effective October 3, 2022. Tom has served as a member of the UBS Group Executive Board for the past 11 years after holding … More Changes to the UBS Group Executive Board
In July 2022, the OECD combined the statistical press releases Monthly Unemployment Rates News Release and Quarterly Employment Situation News Release (latest releases here) into a unique Labour Market Situation News Release. Both releases relied on the OECD Short-Term Labour Statistics dataset. The new release will have a quarterly frequency and will be published … More Unemployment rate in the OECD stabilises at 5 % in May 2022
Increasing prices and inflation have been taking up a lot of airtime everywhere in the EU and the rest of the world lately. To bring some clarity to this theme and understand what is happening in the EU, the fourth episode of the Eurostat podcast series Stats in a Wrap focuses on inflation. The … More Inflation in a wrap: all you need to know
In 2021, the number of housing transactions, when compared with 2020, increased in the majority of EU Member States for which data are available. This increase comes after a drop in nearly all countries in 2020 compared to 2019. Data on the number of housing transactions are available for 16 EU countries. The largest increases … More EU House sales increase in 2021 after 2020 slump
Today, Maria Blassar has been appointed as the new Head of the European Commission’s Representation in Helsinki. In this function, she will act as the official representative of the European Commission in Finland under the political authority of President Ursula von der Leyen. She will take office on September 1, 2022. Maria Blassar, a … More The European Commission appoints a new Head of Representation in Finland
On July 12, 2022. the EU is investing over EUR 1.8 billion in 17 large-scale innovative clean-tech projects with a third round of awards under the Innovation Fund. Grants will be disbursed from the Fund to help bring breakthrough technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and … More Innovation Fund: EU invests EUR 1.8 billion in clean tech projects