At today’s meeting the Governing Council of the European Central Bank decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain unchanged at

Provisional estimates show that when comparing November 2008 to the corresponding month the previous year, the industrial producer price index of the sampled enterprises increased by 15.5 per cent

In 2007 the outlay on Social Protection took up more than 32.6 per cent of total general government expenditure, followed by the outlay on General Public Services (15.0%) and on Economic Affairs (14.0%).