Where are the biggest banks?
Among the European countries with the largest banks are the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
Europeans retire before the legal age
After they retire, European seniors are not drawing their pensions straight away. They are even leaving employment before the legal retirement age.
Landscapes are increasingly manmade
Roads, houses, shopping malls: our way of life covers the land in cement. The phenomenon is exacerbating the world ecological crisis.
R&D: Europe’s knowledge economy in trouble
In March 2000, at a summit meeting in Lisbon, European Union countries agreed on an ambitious objective: to make the EU, by 2010, “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion”.
Europe, both populating and depopulating
Since 2008 Europe has seen major demographic changes. In particular due to migration: internal as a result of the economic crisis, external linked to geopolitical instability in Europe’s neighborhood.
Who is in debt in Europe?
Unsustainable debt is a problem. A debtor who is in too deep debt risks not being able to repay creditors. So where are the risks to be found in Europe?
Poverty: the great European divide
17% of Europeans are poor, i.e. 85 million inhabitants of the Old Continent.
How parties court voters online
Analysis: German parties differ greatly in how they advertise on Facebook. The conservative CDU targets individual regions, the left-wing SPD tailors its adverts by gender. The far-right AfD has a totally different approach.
The geography of EU dissatisfaction
A research team analyzed 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.
1.6 million farmers receive almost 85 percent of the EU’s agricultural subsidies
A large part of the EU's budget is devoted to supporting agriculture. Yet farmers receive a given amount per hectare – so large farms receive way more money than the small ones, to the extent that 25 percent of all EU farmers receive only 1.3 percent of the available funds.
