EU2

According to the Eurostat data base, the EU27 was divided into three groups: EU15, EU10 and EU2. The economic evolution of these economies is presented in Table 1.

The EU2 recruitment made it possible to improve the gender balance at management level.

The EQUATE Group, a global producer of petrochemicals, said today that it is taking an unplanned shutdown of its Ethylene Unit 2 (EU2) in Kuwait due to a technical issue.

For this reason NFU Cymru has published a factual document setting out UK farming's relationship with the EU1 and has commissioned and published a wide-ranging study looking at the implications of a UK exit from the EU2.

Between July 2011 and July 2012, the unemployment rate for males increased from 9.8% to 11.3% in the Eurozone and from 9.5% to 10.5% in the EU2. The female unemployment rate rose from 10.4% to 11.4% in the Eurozone and from 9.8% to 10.4% in the EU.

But the Commission put the accent on the overall positive impact of the Bulgarian and Romanian (EU2) workers in the recipient countries.

British Airways announced the purchase of 28.7 million shares of Iberia at an average price of EU2.34 ($3.69) per share, lifting its stake in its oneworld partner to 13.15%.

By leveraging the combined buying power of the two banks - HBOS has a total procurement spend of more than u1.7 billion (EU2.7bn) a year, covering everything from company cars to legal services and stationery - a large portion of these savings could be achieved in procurement.

In fiscal 2009, which ended on September 30, 2009, revenue totaled EU76.7 billion and net income EU2.5 billion.

Eurostat estimates that 23 130 million men and women in the EU2, of whom 15 808 million were in the Eurozone, were unemployed in March 2010.

For now, the EU15 states except Finland and Sweden restrict workers from Bulgaria and Romania (EU2) - although in some of the old' member states exceptions exist for certain jobs.