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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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Populists in the 2019 European elections: Much ado about nothing?
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Foreign policy: How the EU can improve its role in the Sahel
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EU R&D and armed drones: The hidden path leading Europe towards unmanned warfare
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European elections 2019: Bounty hunter
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27 Voices for Europe | Czech Republic: A deeply divided country goes to the polls
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Citizens abroad and the European elections: 17 million mobile EU citizens deserve a political voice
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27 Voices for Europe | Croatia: Will the Croats, marked by mistrust, give in to populist sirens?
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27 Voices for Europe | Romania: Voters will decide the fate of Romanian democracy
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27 Voices for Europe | France: It’s the future of the Union which is at stake
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Europe 2020 strategy: Europe set to achieve its education target for 2020
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Populists and the European elections: Looking at Europe’s anti-establishment parties
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27 Voices for Europe – Luxembourg: The Grand Duchy’s European solidarity has its limits
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27 Voices for Europe | Italy: Will the Lega and 5 Star alliance survive the European elections?
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27 Voices for Europe | Latvia: Getting the most from the few
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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. 
Immigration doesn’t appear to be the main worry of Europeans, and analysis suggests that the success of a new populist group is far from certain.
The European Union supports a number of security initiatives in the region, where rampant Islamist militants threaten stability and the population. But it could also play a true peace brokering role – if it had a proper strategy. 
The EU's reliance on the private sector to steer the development of defence technology is rooted in almost 15 years of drone research conducted as part of its leading R&D programmes. 
The upcoming European elections are being framed as a contest between pro-European political forces and anti-European populists. In fact, the reality is much more complicated. But if we accept this dichotomy, the Czech Republic can theoretically be used as an example of its existence. However, not in a way that supporters of further European integration, such as French president Emmanuel Macron, would probably wish. 
Those of us who reside in another member state live more ‘European’ lives than anyone. Yet we feel disenfranchised. 
In Croatia, not only the voter turnout will be an interesting indicator, but also the answer to one of this election's most burning issues: The Europe-wide surge of the nationalist right. 
In Romania, the electoral campaign for the European Parliament is beset by internal political issues. These issues are rather serious, to say the least, says senior journalist Mircea Vasilescu. 
As the 23-26 May European elections are looming, we have asked 27 journalists and columnists from as many EU countries to explain the main topic at stake in the electoral campaign. A series in collaboration with 27 media outlets from all over Europe. 
The European Union (EU) is close to achieving both of its targets in the education sector which are a part of the Europe 2020 strategy. 
In the run-up to the European elections, populists are gaining ground in many countries. But their slogans are not winning through everywhere. Where are they successful, and what makes them dangerous? 
Tiny Luxembourg is a big exception. While this year’s European elections are generally viewed as a fight against the threat posed by rising anti-European populism, in the Grand Duchy the subject of Europe does not unleash any controversies, says Christoph Bumb. 
As the 23-26 May European elections are looming, we have asked 27 journalists and columnists from as many EU countries to explain the main topic at stake in the electoral campaign. A series in collaboration with 27 media outlets from all over Europe. 
This year’s European elections could be of great importance, given the pressures and challenges within the EU, the United Kingdom’s possible exit, and other international tensions. With less than two million citizens, Latvia has only eight mandates in the European Parliament; how can it best stand for their interests and for solidarity and cooperation? A new article from our special series on the European elections. - 1 of 78
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