Industry, trade and services
In March 2025, compared with February 2025, seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 2.6% in the euro area and by 1.9% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In February 2025, industrial production grew by 1.1% in both th...
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In February 2025, compared with January 2025, seasonally adjusted services production decreased by 0.1% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In January 2025, services production grew by 0.4% in the euro area an...
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In March 2025, compared with February 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume decreased by 0.1% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In February 2025, retail trade volume grew by 0.2% in the euro area...
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In March 2025, compared with February 2025, industrial producer prices decreased by 1.6% in both the euro area and the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In February 2025, industrial producer prices grew by 0.2% in the euro area and by 0....
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In February 2025, compared with January 2025, seasonally adjusted production in construction decreased by 0.5% in the euro area and by 0.4% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In January 2025, production in construction grew by 0.6%...
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In February 2025, compared with January 2025, seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 1.1% in the euro area and by 1.0% the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In January 2025, industrial production grew by 0.6% in the euro ...
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In January 2025, compared with December 2024, seasonally adjusted services production increased by 0.4% in the euro area and by 0.3% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In December 2024, services production fell by 0.2% in the euro ...
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In February 2025, compared with January 2025, the seasonally adjusted retail trade volume increased by 0.3% in the euro area and by 0.2% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In January 2025, retail trade volume remained stable in the...
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In February 2025, compared with January 2025, industrial producer prices increased by 0.2% in the euro area and by 0.3% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In January 2025, industrial producer prices grew by 0.7% in the euro area an...
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In January 2025, compared with December 2024, seasonally adjusted production in construction increased by 0.2% in the euro area and decreased by 0.2% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In December 2024, production in construction g...
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In January 2025, compared with December 2024, seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 0.8% in the euro area and by 0.3% the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In December 2024, industrial production fell by 0.4% in the euro...
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In the first quarter of 2025, the number of bankruptcy declarations of EU businesses decreased by 0.9% compared with the fourth quarter of 2024.
At the same time, business registrations also dropped by 5.1% compared with the fourth quarter of 2024.
This information comes from data on business...
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The second round of the micro data linking exercise between EuroGroups Register and structural business statistics highlights the economic significance of multinational enterprise (MNE) groups operating within national economies.
In 2022, independent enterprises accounted for an average of 95.2%...
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In 2023, 868 700 people in the EU were employed as authors, journalists or linguists. The number of people employed in these professions decreased by 2.5% compared with 2022.
In 2023, Germany employed the largest number of authors, journalists or linguists (237 600 people), followed by France (9...
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In 2023, 151 004 multinational enterprise groups were operating in the EU and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries, employing 49.0 million people. In the EU, multinational enterprise groups employed 29.3% of people working in the business economy including industry, construction a...
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In 2024, guests spent 854.1 million nights in short-term rental accommodation in the EU, booked via Airbnb, Booking, Expedia Group or TripAdvisor. This represents an 18.8% increase compared with 2023 (719.0 million nights), setting a new record high.
With the exception of April, each month in 20...
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In 2022, there were 2.03 million cultural enterprises in the EU, representing 6.3% of all businesses within the business economy (industry, construction and market services). These generated €199 billion in value added, which was 2.0% of the total value added in the business economy.
The highest...
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In December 2024, the total market production decreased by 0.2% in the EU and by 0.4% in the euro area compared with the previous month.
The total market production index (TMPI) is a composite indicator that combines 4 short-term business statistics indicators covering most of the market economy...
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2024 was the best tourism year on record for the EU, with the total number of nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments exceeding 3 billion. This reflects a 2.2% increase compared with 2023 (+65.4 million nights), following a final boost in the last quarter of the year.
Data show a ...
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In the fourth quarter of 2024, the number of bankruptcy declarations of EU businesses decreased by 0.7% compared with the third quarter of 2024.
At the same time, business registrations went up by 2.6% compared with the third quarter of 2024.
This information comes from data on business regis...
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In 2023, the total production of jewellery in the EU reached €4 363 million, marking a 1% increase from €4 321 million in 2022.
Italy was the leading producer, with a production value of €1 559 million in 2023, or 36% of the EU’s total. France followed with €1 444 million (33%), ahead of Germany...
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In 2022, EU market producer enterprises controlled by countries outside the EU generated a net turnover of €5 657 billion, equivalent to 14.7% of all net turnover generated by EU enterprises (€38 494 billion).
At the same time, enterprises outside the EU, controlled by an EU resident institutio...
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The annual building permits data are business cycle indicators providing information on the development of granted building permits in one year. Builders apply for building permits and local building administrations issue them normally before the beginning of the construction work. Therefore b...
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The objective of the building permit index is to show the future development of construction activity in terms of per square meter of useful floor. The current base year is 2021 (Index 2021 = 100). The index is presented in seasonally adjusted form. Growth rates with respect to the previous month...
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The production in construction shows the output and activity of the construction sector. It measures changes in the volume of output on a monthly basis. Construction includes building construction and civil engineering. The construction sector in total corresponds to the NACE Rev. 2 section F. Pr...
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