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Health and pollution: Cleaner air is still killing too many
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Smart cities and 5G networks: Massive data circulation challenges privacy and individual liberties
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Turkish offensive in Syria: European vocal reaction
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Chinese ICT investments in Europe: Are Chinese tech companies bluffing their way into the EU?
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Tackling climate crisis: The case for negative emissions
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Social Housing: One in three Europeans spend too much on their rent
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Youth and cities: Generation Z’s favourites places to settle in Europe
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Thomas Piketty on capital and ideology: Ten infographics to understand inequality
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The ECB and the recession: Count Draghila
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Car pollution: Central and Eastern Europe coping badly with “Dieselgate”
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The Von der Leyen Commission: The new cabinet in figures
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Trans-Mediterranean cooperation: Is the EU failing Tunisia?
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Deforestation: Europe’s efforts are not sufficient
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Economy: Can Europe avoid the coming crisis?
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Boris Johnson and Brexit: Emergency plan
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Bathing waters quality: Most European beaches and lakes meet the highest standards but are still in danger
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Political polls: Parties with a clear stance on the EU gain ground
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Freedom of movement: How good are EU passports?
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Job market: What do workers want?
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Tampon tax: Half of EU countries still tax tampons as much as tobacco and alcohol
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Economic regulation: Avoiding a repeat performance of the financial crisis
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Presidency of the European Commission: The birth of Ursula
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European elections: Closing in on target for gender parity in the European Parliament
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EU top jobs: Out of the hat
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Family policies in the EU: Who is more family-friendly?
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European defence fund and arms sales: How the EU is gearing up to become a major arms vendor
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Facebook: Political advertising on Facebook in South-East Europe
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World Refugee Day: Sawing off
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European elections and social media: How much did the European institutions and parties pay for ads on Facebook?
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LGBTI rights: Where does Europe stand?
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Cas Mudde on the European elections: It’s the fragmentation, stupid!
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Social media and the European elections: Facebook has become political parties’ main advertiser
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Pensions: Europeans retire before time
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Leaving the EU: Majority of Europeans would rather remain
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Climate policy: High time for zero emissions
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European elections 2019: The Jigsaw
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Populist movements and the European elections: Looking at the geography of EU dissatisfaction
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European elections | Press digest: ‘The Europhobe and the Eurosceptic tide have been contained’
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27 Voices for Europe | European Union: A true European democracy begins with equal rights for all
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The ten key issues for the European elections | Defence: Marching forward, but on what orders?
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The ten key issues for the European elections | Immigration: Every man for himself, and borders for all
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The ten key issues for the European elections | Social Europe: Finally some progress
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The ten key issues for the European elections | Energy & climate change: Receding perspectives
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European elections: What’s going on with abstention in Europe?
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A reader’s op-ed on the European elections: Let’s vote for those who want to build Europe!
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The ten key issues for the European elections | Institutions: Heads of state still set the agenda
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European elections and foreign influence: Free vote
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The ten key issues for the European elections | Industrial policy: Back to reality
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The ten key issues for the European elections | Agriculture: An ever less common policy
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The ten key issues for the European elections | The Eurozone: Inadequate remedies
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The latest European Environment Agency report shows air is getting cleaner in Europe, but persistent pollution, especially in cities, still damages people’s health and the economy. 
The 5G networks that are being deployed all around Europe can provide urban citizens with sustainable living, reduced traffic and stringent security but the technology can also be a slippery slope towards mass surveillance 
Locked for years in digital alienation, the EU has set a new standard on data protection and privacy, wrestling back some control from Silicon Valley. But with the coming of age of AI-based applications, Chinese firms strive in turn for a piece of the colony. 
The debate surrounding climate change mitigation runs according to a simple principle: unwanted technologies are being ruled out. Nuclear energy has served its use, demonstration projects for carbon capture and storage are practically dead in the water, while energy from biomass is set to remain very limited. 
On October 1, the Housing Europe Observatory released its latest ‘The State of Housing in the EU’ report. As the housing crisis continues to hit people across Europe, concrete action by national and European public authorities remains weak. 
The Nestpick Generation Z City index ranks 110 cities across the world according to their performance along 22 variables deemed to be representative of generation Z’s needs. We filtered the data to see who is faring well in the European Union. 
Thomas Piketty’s new book, "Capital and Ideology", contains more than 160 graphs and about 10 tables which together tell a new story about inequality over the last two and a half centuries. A selection of that data follows. 
Only half of Volkswagen's problematic cars in our country have received a software update. 
EU Commission president-elect Ursula von der Leyen presented her 26-strong team on 10 September. Here's an overview of its composition. 
On September 15, Tunisia has held the first round of the second presidential election of its democratic history. What has the EU done to sustain the democratic transition? In the face of political commitments and economic resources flowing from Brussels to Tunis, progress is wanting. 
The Old continent does not make sufficient efforts against deforestation, a new report claims. 
Germany is heading into recession and the USA might follow; Italy’s political crisis is worsening; Brexit uncertainty is deeper than ever; the China-USA trade war rages on; between Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Hong Kong and North Korea, geopolitical tensions continue to pile up. The international outlook for this autumn does not seem rosy. Will Europe be able to act in response to the warning signs? That will largely depend on the German government’s willingness to (finally) let go of the dogmas imposed on the eurozone for the last decade. 
The latest European Environment Agency report confirms that bathing waters in Europe are of high quality, although pollution and climate change are threatening the results obtained over 50 years. 
European integration is becoming more and more a key issue in determining voters’ preferences. Parties affiliated with Renew Europe or Identity and Democracy are benefiting the most from this trend. 
How do you evaluate travel freedom around the world? Henley & Partners’ Passport Index is one of the most widely used measures for evaluating the strength of a nation’s passport and – consequently – citizens’ freedom of movement. Data from 2015 to 2019 highlights the UK’s freefall after Brexit. 
How do people in the job market evaluate professional opportunities? The latest Randstad Employer Brand Research survey highlights key trends and behaviours at the global level. We took a look at the data as it relates to EU member states. 
The Spanish government has announced its intention to reduce VAT on sanitary towels and tampons in the 2019 budget. Since 2007, European law allows a reduction to the so-called Tampon Tax, although countries such as Hungary, Switzerland and Denmark continue to apply a general rate on such products. 
As economists predict that another global recession is in the wings, have European and international leaders done their homework in the wake of the last global financial crisis? 
The European Union elected a record number of women MEPs in the latest European Parliament elections. However, men still hold almost 60 percent of seats. 
A report from UNICEF highlights the varying performance of EU Member States along with four policy proxies. 
The creation of a €13.6 billion scheme for the European Defence Fund can fundamentally challenge the nature of the European Union as a peace project. It may provide the arms before creating the army and even the political frame for it, and will contribute to a new arms race, suggests civil society. 
Data on political ads posted in the months leading up to the European elections highlights the differences between the political contexts in various member states. In Romania, it’s the national parties who spend the most, in Greece it’s individual candidates, and in Slovenia it’s the European Parliament. 
During last month’s European election campaign, the EU institutions and European political parties spent almost four million euro on paid Facebook posts. Data published by Facebook reveals how much was spent in each country, and who spent the most. 
33 countries out of 49 in Europe have not legalised same-sex marriage. An overview of the situation shows a clear East-West and North-South divide. 
The next five years the European Union will be more fragmented than ever. This is the key lesson of the 2019 European elections. However, contrary to the dominant narrative of the last decade or so, the old centrist blocs are not confronted with just a plethora of anti-system populist parties and groups. 
Data shows that in the recent election campaign political parties spent millions of euro on targeted advertising on Facebook. The platform has almost completely replaced meetings and personal contact between candidates and voters. 
After they retire, European seniors are not drawing their pensions straight away. They are even leaving employment before the legal retirement age. 
According to the latest pan-EU poll on citizens' feelings about the EU, no one seems to be willing to follow the British in their journey towards leaving the bloc. 
President Macron wants the EU to be climate neutral by 2050. Chancellor Merkel agrees, in theory, but the question is how to reach that goal. Can an EU guideline on net-zero carbon emissions finally spark action to reduce greenhouse gases? 
A research team analysed with extraordinary thoroughness who voted against deepening integration in the European Union and why. The results of more than 63,000 polling stations were examined by looking at the latest national election results and data. 
What are European dailies saying about the results of the European elections? On the day after the poll we have selected a few of them so as to offer an overview. 
If we want to turn the single market into a true democracy, we need a common constitution that grants equal rights to all European citizens. This should be the main task of the newly elected European parliament, says political scientist Ulrike Guérot. 
A European army? It won’t be happening overnight. When it comes to defence, however, the European Union is certainly starting to take things seriously. 
Besides the global trend of migration towards Europe, which has fallen since the peak of 2015-2016, logic would seem to suggest that a permanent sharing mechanism for asylum applicants should be established between EU countries. 
Social Europe certainly isn’t hitting full speed just yet, but it’s certainly back on its feet. 
Europe will never manage to muster the energy for collective action if it doesn’t also change its philosophy. 
In the 2014 European elections, only 42.5 percent of people eligible to vote participated. From the economy to migration, by way of defence and climate change, European questions are now central to the public debate. While this might lead to some first steps towards changing the trend, it probably won’t be enough to entice a majority of European citizens to go to the ballot box. 
The European elections of May 2019 are crucial to shape our action over the next 5 years. So let us vote, all of us! Let us choose builders who offer a constructive, far-reaching plan. 
When member states prefer to do nothing, nothing moves, especially when it come to issues of sovereignty requiring a unanimous vote. 
When it comes to actual industrial policy, things are still in their infancy, even if the Commission wants to reorient the next European budget (2021-2027) towards supporting research and innovation. 
If the Parliament follows the Commission’s recommendations, the CAP, or Common Agricultural Policy, could end up becoming anything but common. 
In 2010, certain flaws in the European common currency were brought to light by the financial crisis: the zone was monitoring neither the private debts nor external deficits which were accumulating in certain member states. Since then, the eurozone’s architecture has been modified to correct many of its flaws. - 1 of 79
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