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...Police in Italy and several other European countries arrested 22 people and seized assets worth €600mn in connection with alleged fraud involving the EU’s post-pandemic recovery fund....
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...Some 275,000 posts were added in February, although January’s blockbuster figure of 353,000, which had led investors to dial down expectations of early interest rate cuts, was revised downwards to 229,000...
...The FT revealed that the UK would wave through animal products from the EU if ports were overwhelmed by new post-Brexit border checks....
...The EU is scaling back its post-Brexit ambitions to lure lucrative derivative trading business away from London and bolster its own financial markets....
...The sector grew after post-crisis rules drove some activities beyond the traditional banking sector while other areas outside the reach of regulators expanded, such as cryptocurrency....
...Hunt’s decision to stick with his existing post-election public spending plans of a 1 per cent rise in real terms, instead of cuts that had been floated, may be helpful to Starmer, but the chancellor’s appropriation...
...UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced new legislation to overturn the convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters prosecuted by the Post Office in the Horizon IT scandal....
...Need to know: UK and European economy The food industry warned of higher prices and shortages when new post-Brexit border measures come into effect on Wednesday....
...Some 216,000 posts were created in December, up from a revised 173,000 in November. Unemployment held steady at 3.7 per cent....
...A new post-Brexit assessment of trading conditions meanwhile has highlighted the mounting costs facing British businesses that export to the EU....
...To take just one example: employment, wages and other key metrics in the post-pandemic era are refusing to follow historic trends....
...Japan’s economy shrank more than expected in the third quarter, highlighting the fragility of its post-pandemic recovery and complicating the Bank of Japan’s efforts to gradually unwind its easing measures...
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