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Streaming revenue reaches $176 billion in milestone year Online video services strengthened their dominance in 2025, with research firm Omdia reporting that global streaming subscriptions climbed sharply while pay-TV subscriptions continued to ...

Greek households experienced a quiet but significant erosion of wealth between 2021 and 2025 as inflation significantly outpaced the returns on traditional bank savings, according to a new report from Freedom24. While ...

The European Union saw 3 million unemployed people secure jobs during the first quarter of 2026, marking a significant period of transition within the continental labour market. This figure represents 22.9 per cent ...

European governments must strengthen the systems behind labour migration if they are to help employers cope with chronic staff shortages, Krum Garkov, former member of the Bulgarian Prime Minister’s ...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched a new passenger safety campaign warning travellers that taking cabin baggage during an aircraft evacuation can put lives at risk.  The campaign, ...

European Central Bank (ECB) policymakers raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday, citing mounting inflation pressures linked to the war in the Middle East and warning that the conflict ...

Visa has announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to facilitate secure payments within the rapidly evolving landscape of agentic commerce. The announcement was made during the Visa Payments Forum in ...

International Maritime Organisation (IMO) secretary-general Arsenio Dominguez has warned that there is “No commercial or operational consideration” that can justify exposing seafarers to serious danger, amid concerns over vessels continuing ...

European Union households consumed 9.54 million terajoules of energy throughout 2024, according to Eurostat, marking a marginal decline of 0.2 per cent from the 9.57 million terajoules recorded in 2023. The latest data highlights that ...

The Greek state secured €3 billion on Wednesday as high investor demand met the reopening of an existing 10-year bond maturing in June 2036. Total bids for the bond reached €36 billion during ...

The Red Sea has returned to the centre of global shipping concerns, as renewed Houthi threats and the escalation between Israel and Iran raise fresh fears over supply chains, energy ...

EU enterprises engaged in international goods trade remain heavily skewed towards import activity, with only a minority operating as balanced two-way traders, according to Eurostat. According to the latest data, 21.3 ...

Wind turbine production across the European Union has shown renewed growth after years of volatility, with output reaching its highest level in a decade in 2024, according to Eurostat. The statistics ...

Eurobank has projected that its total financing in Crete between 2023 and 2028 will exceed €1.3bn, underlining what it describes as a long-term commitment to supporting the island’s development trajectory and ...

Global airlines are heading into a tougher 2026, with industry profits expected to halve as war-related disruption in the Middle East and a sharp rise in fuel prices weigh heavily on ...

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week announced the merger of three state-owned Islamic banks, unveiling a restructuring plan aimed at expanding the role of participation banking within the country’...

IATA director general Willie Walsh has warned that global airlines are facing another difficult year, as higher fuel prices, geopolitical instability and aircraft supply chain failures are expected to cut ...

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has called on its 176 member states and the global shipping industry to strengthen efforts to protect the marine environment, as World Oceans Day was marked ...

Employment in the European Union’s green economy has grown by an average of 6 per cent per year since 2014, reaching 5.8 million full-time equivalents by 2023, according to Eurostat. The analysis of ...

From Europe to Japan and Switzerland, huge bond issues by Big Tech companies are proving that smaller markets, often overshadowed by the US, can punch above ​their weight in the $40 ...

Seasonally adjusted services production increased by 0.2 per cent in the euro area and by 0.4 per cent in the European Union during March 2026, according to Eurostat. This modest upturn follows a ...

The increased use of stablecoins could reinforce the dollar’s global dominance, undermine some nations’ ability to set monetary policy and even diminish ​the role of the euro, according to ...

Global investment in data centres is expected to approach $1.6 trillion by 2030, while leading technology companies are forecast to spend more than $600 billion on AI infrastructure capital expenditure in 2026 alone, according ...

Shipments of small-sized automotive AMOLED displays measuring under 5 inches are forecast to reach 1.5 million units by 2030, representing a growth of 541 per cent compared to 2025, according to research firm Omdia. As ...