FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – After a year and a half of recession, Europe’s battered economy could finally be showing signs of life.
It’s not the kind of recovery that calls for a big celebration. Any upswing will be a slow and arduous climb – up a slope strewn with high unemployment and scarce credit for businesses.
But signs of improvement are there. On Thursday, a German index of business confidence rose for the third month in a row. Meanwhile, surveys of purchasing managers in the euro area indicate manufacturing activity edged back into growth territory in July for the first time in 18 months.
And there are other indications that Europe has bottomed out.
Germany’s central bank, the Bundesbank, says the country’s economy – Europe’s biggest – expanded “strongly” in the April-June period. Automaker Daimler AG says it expects to see the continent’s sagging car market start to recover toward the end of the year. In the No. 2 euro economy, France’s Insee index of consumer confidence ticked up in July to 82 from 79 the month before. –The Philippine Star
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
“Safety and health at work every day!”
Invoke Article 33 of the ILO constitution
against the military junta in Myanmar to carry out the 2021 ILO Commission of Inquiry recommendations against serious violations of Forced Labour and Freedom of Association protocols.
Accept National Unity Government
(NUG) of Myanmar.
Reject Military!
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Monthly Observances:
March – Women’s Role in History Month
April – Month of Planet Earth
Weekly Observances:
Last Week of March: Protection and Gender Fair Treatment of the Girl Child Week
Last Week of April – World Immunization Week
Daily Observances:
Mar 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transallantic Slave Trade
Mar 27– Earth Hour
Apr 21 – Civil Service Day
Apr 22 – World Earth Day
Apr 28 – World Day for Safety and Health at Work
