The Spanish government is reported to be planning to impose a 100% tax on non-residents, from outside the EU, buying homes in the country.

Businesses are crawling on climate action according to international consultants EY.

Recent data from the Netherlands Statistical Office (CBS, 2024) indicates that the Netherlands continues to be a top destination for highly skilled migrants.

At last, the EU has standardised charging ports for mobile phones and other portable electronic devices with all new devices sold in the EU now required to support USB-C charging.

The EU’s Gender Balance on Corporate Boards Directive, intended to create a more balanced gender representation on the boards of listed companies across all EU Member States, is set to come into force on 30 June, 2026.

Forum for Expatriate Management has once again honoured the Mobility industry in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) at the EMEA Expatriate Management & Mobility Awards (EMMAs), presented in London on 30 October.

The UK’s Office of the Traffic Commissioner has advised that from the end of January 2025, as part of a modernisation process, all alterations to transport managers on an operator’s licence must use the digital process already available within the Vehicle Operator Licensing (VOL) system.

From 1 January, 2025, a kilometre-based toll system replaces the Eurovignette in Denmark. The new CO2-differentiated toll is estimated to reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 0.3m tons in 2025 and approximately 0.4m tons in 2030.

The UK government has issued its Clean Power Action Plan entitled ‘A New Era of Clean Electricity’. The plan highlights the opportunity to use warehouse roofs for solar power generation.

A new white paper from the United Kingdom Warehousing Association (UKWA) CEO, Clare Bottle, offers fresh insights into future innovations and likely trends ahead for the warehousing sector, highlighting the potential changes in store that warehousing businesses should be preparing for right now.

International movers move people overseas every day. But recently, De Haan in the Netherlands took on a different kind of move across the water.

Fuel card company UTA Edenred has added 37 Beroil service stations to its acceptance network in northern Spain.

The UK’s Environment Agency are now requiring used electrical items, exported in shipping containers, to be PAT (Portable Appliance Testing) & Functionality tested by a qualified tester.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has agreed to extend the time to opt into the Truck Cartel claim to 28 February, 2025 following a request by the Road Haulage Association (RHA).

Restore in the UK has integrated two key business units, Records Management and Digital, to create Restore Information Management.

Peel Ports Group is investing £30million into the development of a new RoRo (Roll-on, Roll-off) berth at the Port of Sheerness in the UK, to meet growing demand.

George Naumann, 63, from Swiss Moving Services in Switzerland is retiring from the moving industry, handing over his company to Adrian Hinton.

The Mover Magazine reported in July that John Mason International Movers in the UK had been awarded the King’s Award for Enterprise 2024. On 11 November, in Liverpool, the King’s representatives presented the award itself to the company.

Ports of Stockholm has been granted support from the Swedish Institute within the framework of the Ukraine Cooperation Programme to cooperate with Ukrainian ports.

DONATH Moving & Relocation in Germany has moved from Koenigstein (Taunus) to Steinbach (Taunus).