FAQ on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
Find answers to questions about novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease COVID-19
No parties, concerts or gatherings. We look at how the pandemic is affecting Spotify
Not everyone is traveling to work these days, many are working from home. We have more time to watch things, to listen and read. Music services should be doing well out of this, but the data suggests just the opposite.
More and more school trips to the Balkans
Are the histories of the former Yugoslavia and Albania finally entering Europe’s space of memory? A constantly increasing number of Italian school trips to the region gives us reason to hope so.
COVID-19 crisis. Luca Jahier, President of the EESC: «The EU has to go the last mile, now»
The Coronavirus crisis is the first of its kind for the European Union. However, it is far from being the first existential crisis in the history of the Union.
Eurobonds can wait, for the time being
EU heads of state and government failed to agree on a united response to the economic crisis triggered by COVID-19. Yet after the measures taken by the European Central Bank, there is no longer urgency to enact a measure like eurobonds.
Focus: COVID-19
We inaugurate a new format for EDJNet's newsletter: once a month, we send out a special newsletter with a thematic focus, while the standard newsletter comes out every two weeks. Here's the March focus.
Glocal climate change: methodology
EDJNet has done a data-driven analysis of rising temperatures in Italy between the 1960s and the 2010s, municipality by municipality. This note highlights the sources, the method and the techniques that were used
How to find the population-weighted centre of local administrative units
Centroids are sometimes quite far from the actual centre of a town or municipality. A presentation of another strategy to detect its coordinates, based on the European population grid.
COVID-19: dealing with gaps in the data
Since the data available on the coronavirus pandemic is patchy and incomplete, it needs to be approached with caution and an awareness of what it can – and cannot – tell us about the deadly virus.
Coronavirus: 5 decisions the EU should make right now
Calls have been coming from all sides for the EU to intervene in the COVID-19 crisis in the name of European solidarity. Although the Union has little room for manoeuvre in the public-health sphere, it can use the powerful lever of economic and monetary policy to counter the coming economic downturn.
