Financial Times Article Rating

EU payment rules shake-up will prompt price rises, retailers warn

Oct 01, 2023 View Original Article
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    -4% Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "But the anticipated change comes as inflation trims consumer spending across the EU and businesses adapt to comply with new sustainability and due diligence regulations introduced by Brussels.
56% : "The proposals, which still have to be negotiated with the European parliament and member states, are part of a broader package of support measures for small and medium businesses announced by Paolo Gentiloni, EU economy commissioner, and Thierry Breton, commissioner for the internal market, earlier this month.
52% : It puts the cost somewhere else in the value chain," said Nick Lakin, head of corporate affairs at Kingfisher, which generates more than half its sales in the EU.
49% : Home improvement stores already source at least half of their goods from China, said Alisdair Gray, head of EU affairs at European DIY retail association EDRA.
37% : Late payments disproportionately hit small businesses, with a quarter of all bankruptcies for EU companies caused by invoices not being paid on time, according to the commission.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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