An exclusive analysis of over 100 million meteorological data points shows that every major city in Europe is warmer in the 21st century than it was in the 20th. Subarctic regions, Andalusia and southern Romania are most affected.
As EU member states rush to weaponize unmanned planes, those who monitor ‘collateral damage’ to civilian populations and abuses of international law brought about by extensive use of armed drones ask EU countries, as MEPs recently did, to set up a legal framework and to uphold human rights.
While the economic turnaround is undeniable, Portugal’s recovery still conceals some grey areas.
Once again, right-wing populism is making waves in a European election. This time, the Sweden Democrats upset Swedish politics by expanding their share of the vote by about 5 percent, to the detriment of the centre-left and centre-right. Immigration was this election’s central theme, as it has been in numerous voting cycles across the continent. It is yet another episode of the festival of artful dodging that has become Europe’s immigration debate, say two Cambridge researchers.
Contrary to what has been figured by most of the foreign media on the eve of the 9 September general election, with the far-right Sweden Democrats presented as the new kingmakers, the power to form a government lies in the parties at the centre.
What do the most recurrent terms in the EU Commission president's annual speech at the European Parliament say about the present and future of the Union?
On 10 August, more than 100,000 citizens rallied in Bucharest to protest against the rampant corruption that cripples the Social-Democrats-led government and makes thousands of educated young people flee the country in search for better opportunities.
Every year, almost 100,000 Europeans seek asylum in EU countries, and the number of applications continues to grow. Yet this is a phenomenon which remains at the margins of the debate on asylum – and that on EU enlargement
On August 20th, Greece stepped out from under the supervision of the Troika, whose intervention will go down in history as a model of what not to do when you really want to help a nation recover, as data show.
On 20 August, Greece officially exited the three-year EU bailout plan it accepted when it was on the verge of bankruptcy and close to be pushed out of the eurozone. While it marks the end of eight years of financial crisis and austerity, the exit from international aid doesn't mean a quick recovery.
