Rising housing and rent prices in Europe are increasingly limiting people’s access to adequate housing and increasing the risk of homelessness, according to the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)’s annual report, Fundamental Rights Report: Challenges and Achievements in 2025.
According to the FRA, between 2015 and 2024, home prices in the EU rose by an average of 53%, while rents increased by nearly 17%. The agency notes that the housing crisis is becoming not only an economic issue but also a human rights issue, as the right to adequate housing is becoming increasingly inaccessible to vulnerable groups.
“Rising costs are affecting many people and families, as more and more people cannot afford housing and are at risk of becoming homeless,” said FRA Director Sirpa Rautio.
According to an estimate by the European Federation of National Organizations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA), cited by the FRA, there were nearly 1.3 million homeless people in the EU in 2025. The agency identifies young people, private-market renters, low-income families, migrants, refugees, and people already on the brink of social exclusion as particularly vulnerable.
The FRA notes that more than two-thirds of EU residents own their homes, yet among those with incomes below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold, fewer than half are homeowners. This exacerbates inequality: rising housing prices increase the wealth of property owners but worsen the situation for renters and those without access to mortgages.
The report covers all 27 EU countries, as well as three candidate countries or countries potentially linked to the European integration process—Serbia, Albania, and North Macedonia.
The housing crisis is becoming one of the key social challenges for Europe. Rising housing prices are already affecting not only the real estate market, but also demographics, labor mobility, social stability, and trust in public institutions.
The National Bank of Ukraine has issued a written warning to FC “Alfa-Invest Group” LLC for violating the procedures governing foreign exchange transactions, the regulator announced on its website.
According to the NBU’s statement, the violation consisted of failing to provide a retail customer with cash in foreign currency simultaneously with the issuance of a settlement document by the transaction registrar.
No fine was imposed on the company in the NBU’s statement; the measure in question is a written warning.
Alfa-Invest Group LLC operates in the non-bank financial services market.
France and Italy have opposed the European Union’s initiative to draft trade agreements exclusively in English in order to speed up the negotiation process, citing constitutional constraints and risks to the multilingual nature of EU institutions, the Financial Times reports.
According to the publication, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič proposed drafting the legal and technical “text” of a new trade agreement with Indonesia entirely in English, with the final text subsequently translated into all 24 official EU languages.
Typically, the process of finalizing trade agreements takes up to two years, as all changes must be agreed upon and implemented in all EU languages. The proposed approach, according to Šefčovič, should reduce the preparation time to one year.
He notes that delays in the process of concluding agreements lead to economic losses and postpone the benefits of trade agreements.
At the same time, France and Italy have expressed objections, citing constitutional provisions and the principle of multilingualism. A French official stated: “This is a matter of the French Constitution. France cannot be bound by or assume obligations under a text that is not drafted in French.”
However, according to sources, there is broad support among EU member states for the idea of accelerating agreement-conclusion procedures.
The European Commission notes that the use of English during the legal and technical drafting phase is standard practice in international negotiations and does not imply a refusal to translate the final documents.
According to Fixygen, the shareholders of JSC “Lviv Chemical Plant” will hold a general meeting remotely on July 6. According to disclosures in the SMIDA system dated June 5, 2026, the meeting will be held remotely.
Details of the agenda are not disclosed in the provided table.
Lviv Chemical Plant JSC is registered in Lviv. The company operates in the chemical industry and is one of the well-known industrial assets in the Lviv region.
In January–May 2026, Ukraine’s exports of metal products fell by 17.9% compared to the same period last year, to $351.285 million.
According to statistics from the State Customs Service, exports of metal products amounted to $78.032 million in May of this year.
The decline in metal product exports was more pronounced than the drop in export revenue from ferrous metals, which fell by 6.2% over the same period.
As reported, in 2025 Ukraine reduced exports of metal products by 3% compared to the previous year—to $916.151 million.
According to Fixygen, shareholders of Ternopolgaz, a private joint-stock company for gas supply and gasification, will hold an extraordinary general meeting remotely via a survey on July 3.
According to the company’s announcement, the agenda includes the termination of the powers of the chairman and members of the supervisory board, the election of a new supervisory board, as well as the approval of the terms of civil law contracts with its members and the amount of their remuneration.
The list of shareholders entitled to participate in the meeting is compiled as of June 30, 2026.
Voting will begin on June 23 at 11:00 a.m. and end on July 3 at 6:00 p.m. The ballot for voting on agenda items, excluding the election of the company’s governing bodies, must be posted on June 23, and the ballot for cumulative voting on June 29.
Ternopilgaz PJSC is registered in Kyiv. The company operates in the gas distribution sector and has historically been involved in the distribution of natural gas in the Ternopil region.
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