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Climate action at the centre of crucial EU summit
Thursday 12 December 2019 |
Elena Sánchez Nicolás | EUobserver
Novelties are in the air for this week's European Council: Charles Michel will preside it for the first time, the gender balance will slightly improve, and it will probably be the last Council in which the UK takes part. Some novelties are expected also in terms of policy proposals.
Child births: only 13 out of 328 regions in Europe above replacement level
Wednesday 11 December 2019 |
Newsworthy To keep a country’s population stable from one generation to the next, at least two children should be born per woman. But how many European regions pass that threshold? In this report we look closer at the fertility rates across Europe region by region.
The carbon footprint of European ships
Monday 09 December 2019 |
Stefano Valentino | VoxEurop
MobileReporter
The first of its kind, a new study quantifies the volume of European shipping companies’ greenhouse gas emissions. Despite being among the most polluting companies, European fleets are under no obligation to reduce their emissions.
EU agency: 'Europe will not meet 2030 climate goals'
Friday 06 December 2019 |
Elena Sánchez Nicolás | EUobserver
The latest report by the European Environment Agency predicts that Europe will not achieve its 2030 climate and energy targets "without urgent action during the next 10 years".
Has the European Citizens’ Initiative been a democratic fiasco?
Thursday 05 December 2019 |
Alexander Damiano Ricci | VoxEurop
Eventually, European policy makers and MEPs greeted the start of the new European Commission’s term. The new president Ursula Von Der Leyen mentioned that the priority of the Commission team would be to revive Europe’s democracy. It might need to break with the past if it wants to do achieve this.
Equality, you know what I mean?
Wednesday 04 December 2019 |
Valentina Vivona | OBC Transeuropa
Over the last twenty years, European directives have facilitated the creation of equality bodies. The majority of these institutions are still not very familiar to European citizens, but there are some exceptions in south-eastern countries.
Robots will never completely replace people
Wednesday 04 December 2019 |
Barbara Erling Katarzyna Korzeniowska
| BiQdata
By 2030, as many as 20 million manufacturing jobs will be lost to robots, according to a report published by Oxford Economics, a global forecasting company. Some people have already started to fight back – in the footsteps of the 19th-century Luddites – deliberately sabotaging the robots they work with on a daily basis. They are afraid that these robots will take over their jobs.
One in ten Europeans lives on tourism
Tuesday 03 December 2019 |
Laszlo Arato | EUrologus
Tourism is growing fast worldwide, and faster Europe. In 2018 the sector expanded by more than 6%, and now accounts for 10% of the EU's total GDP. People in the industry are working to make tourism smarter and to relieve well-known destinations where locals are fed up with visitors. We look at the last four years of tourism in numbers.
The wave of unauthorized immigrants came and ended already three years ago
Tuesday 03 December 2019 |
Emanuela Barbiroglio | VoxEurop
Unauthorized immigrants living in European countries reached a peak in 2016 and have been decreasing since then.
Secret to a long life? More money for healthcare
Tuesday 03 December 2019 |
Laszlo Arato | EUrologus
In Western Europe and Scandinavia, people spend more on healthcare and live longer, while in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic States, less money is spent and life expectancy at birth is lower too. The EU average for healthcare spending is 9.9 percent of GDP. In Hungary it is 7.4 percent.
