European Central Bank (ECB) ­president Christine Lagarde did not mince her words about the wider economic conditions even as she gave Europe’s borrowers another rate cut yesterday.

The European Central Bank is cutting its key interest rate, a step to boost an economy that's struggling to grow as consumers burned by inflation warily eye price tags and businesses try to chart a course amid political turmoil in leading economies France and Germany.

Greeks are the second least satisfied population across the European Union for 2023, according to new data released in a Eurostat survey.

But who says you have to wait until then to discover someplace new? Not us, and certainly not Riviera Travel. In fact, the cruise operator has just crunched the numbers (provided by Eurostat for 2023) to find out which destinations in Europe have the fewest tourists.

CEOs earn 110 times more than the average worker in Europe. Euronews Business takes a closer look at how much CEOs earn, comparing their pay to average annual salaries across the EU. View on euronews

November 2024 recorded 22,000 fewer excess deaths in the EU than in November 2023. Malta, Romania, and Slovakia recorded negative excess mortality rates. #EuropeInMotion

Poland registered only 18,500 births in November 2024, newspaper Puls Biznesu reported. The previous low was in June 2024, when 19,000 births were recorded. The paper wrote that these figures were "the lowest monthly rate since at least the Second World War."

European markets continued to set intra-day records again on Thursday as investors waited for a rate decision from the European Central Bank amid an earnings and data dump.

Figures of the Statistical Office of European Union (Eurostat) says that Iran’s export of non-oil products to EU member states in first 11 months of 2024 has registered a five percent growth compared to same period last year.

Europe’s economy stagnated late last year as its former growth engine, Germany, finished a second straight year of shrinking output

The ECB's deposit rate was cut to 2.75% from 3%, the lowest in nearly two years. It was the fifth cut by the ECB in its last six meetings, and came after the Federal Reserve on Wednesday stood pat on rates and signaled it was in no hurry to deliver further cuts.