Last summer, Belgium adopted a pioneering European law on femicide, which aims to make up for lost time in collecting data on gender-based violence. However, feminist associations fear that it will not be enough to effectively curb the problem.
With its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, the European Green Deal is crucial to the EU's green transition policy. But how should we gauge the progress made in implementing the pact’s various objectives? Economists from the Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques have developed a tool that allows everyone to monitor the real-life progress being made towards the Green Deal’s medium-term targets.
The second part of EDJNet's investigation on femicides once again highlights the lack of data that would enable useful comparisons at the European level. The case of France provides a good example of such shortcomings.
Despite the clear risk factors, the state is failing to provide the protection to female victims of domestic violence that might prevent femicides. Why? We set out to understand, using statistics on gender-based violence from Romania's justice ministry, the national police inspectorate and their local counterparts.
The European Union's recent regulation, finalised in late March, promises more effective control for patients over their health data. At the same time, it seeks to ensure adequate access for doctors and scientists in the digital age, where big data is essential for effective research.
Investigating gender-based violence and femicide, we have found that one third of all murdered women are killed by their partners - among other worrying data. Also, due to an inaccurate way of counting victims of domestic violence, many victims may be uncounted.
French economist Gabriel Zucman, interviewed by Alter éco, explains why and how the super-rich should be taxed more and better.
Despite being (very) rich, conscientious millionaires and billionaires are calling for much higher wealth taxes to combat the rising inequality they see as a threat to democracy.
While European companies, trade unions, NGOs, politicians and economists would like to see increased taxation of the extremely rich, governments are more reluctant.
For those who defend the very wealthy, raising their taxes is unjustified and would hurt society as a whole. Little could be further from the truth.
