Quadro europeo di valutazione dell’innovazione 2019

Il quadro europeo di valutazione dell’innovazione e il quadro di valutazione dell’innovazione regionale 2019 pubblicato il 17 Giugno dalla Commissione mostrano che i risultati dell’UE in materia di innovazione sono migliorati per quattro anni consecutivi. Per la prima volta in assoluto, l’Europa supera gli Stati Uniti in fatto di innovazione.

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Financial Stability Report

As shown in the Financial Stability Report June 2019 published on June 5th by the National Bank of Romania, the financial stability has remained adequate since the release of the previous Report, yet the associated risks are on the rise, amid global economic and financial developments marked by heightened uncertainty, alongside the resurgence on the domestic front of the risk of an uncertain and unpredictable legislative framework in the financial and banking sector.

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Minimum wages in 2019

According to the Eurofound’s annual review of minimum wages in the EU, there have been wage increases for minimum and low-wage earners in most EU Member States, with rises in statutory minimum wages in almost all countries since January 2018; including significant increases in Lithuania, Spain, Greece and low-wage newer Member States. While these increases are welcomed as good news for minimum wage workers, Eurofound’s research shows workers may not automatically feel the positive impacts of these changes in terms of income and reductions in wage inequality. This is because these increases can be offset by changes in taxation; that there are many groups of workers that do not avail of minimum rates; and, although women are proportionately more likely to work in minimum wage jobs, increasing the minimum wage may not mean closing the gender pay gap.

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