Data news
France: The pandemic has exposed a dysfunctional prison system
Monday 13 December 2021 |
Margot Hemmerich | Alternatives Economiques
While the poor state of French prisons led many to fear a serious health crisis in the wake of Covid-19, the worst of those fears have not materialised. However, the drastic lockdown measures have done nothing to benefit the mental health of detainees. Nor have they led to any serious reevaluation of the system itself.
ENISA: The cornerstone of the EU’s cybersecurity strategy
Monday 13 December 2021 |
Álvaro Merino | El Orden Mundial
The Cybersecurity Agency has been tasked with building a common defence, without any faults, against cyberattacks in the EU. While it seemed like an uphill struggle at first, restructure after restructure has built it into an organisation at the forefront of fighting Brussels’ war on cybercriminals.
How Europe’s prisons have fared in the Covid-19 pandemic
Monday 06 December 2021 |
Kira Schacht | Deutsche Welle (DW)
Prisons make fertile breeding grounds for viruses, yet administrations have revealed little about Covid-19 cases, deaths and vaccinations in Europe’s prisons. Data from 32 countries show the pandemic’s impact on prisons.
Brussel’s plan to protect the EU from cyberattacks
Thursday 02 December 2021 |
Álvaro Merino | El Orden Mundial
The Covid-19 crisis has turned us into a digital society. Large parts of our day-to-day lives now take place in the digital sphere and this has made Member States much more vulnerable to cyberattacks. To neutralise them, the European Commission launched its new Cybersecurity Strategy in December 2020.
The postcode lottery of publicly-funded assisted reproduction in Spain
Monday 29 November 2021 |
María Álvarez Del Vayo Eva Belmonte
Ángela Bernardo
Carmen Torrecillas
Olalla Tuñas
Miguel Ángel Gavilanes
| Civio
Many autonomous communities are not providing the bare minimum of provision in Spain’s health service and are using stripped back services, age limits and imposing fees in order to avoid providing the service.
The EU faces off with Big Tech: GDPR’s enforcement enters its final phase
Monday 15 November 2021 |
Álvaro Merino | El Orden Mundial
Member states have imposed eight hundred and eighty sanctions since the law was introduced in May 2018, but the war against the tech giants has just begun. If the EU wants to win it, it will need to commit to it with greater investment and cooperation from all its members.
Spain, Czechia, Denmark and Belgium are the meccas of reproductive tourism
Wednesday 10 November 2021 |
Ángela Bernardo Eva Belmonte
María Álvarez Del Vayo
Carmen Torrecillas
| Civio
Barriers in many European countries push thousands of people abroad to access assisted reproductive technology techniques. In some cases, they take out huge loans to pay for the treatments.
Integration of migrants in European rural areas also means development
Monday 08 November 2021 |
Gianluca De Feo | OBC Transeuropa
The MATILDE research project recently published its first report, in which it aims to offer an alternative view of migration in Europe’s rural and mountain areas.
More than half of European countries prohibit access to assisted reproduction for lesbians and almost a third do so for single women
Tuesday 02 November 2021 |
Eva Belmonte María Álvarez Del Vayo
Ángela Bernardo
Carmen Torrecillas
Antonio Hernández
| Civio
The situation is much more difficult for trans and intersex people. In addition to the legal barriers, they face economic stumbling blocks: most public health systems cover only part of the costs or have very long wait lists or narrow access criteria.
More trains, fewer emissions
Wednesday 27 October 2021 |
Lorenzo Ferrari Gianluca De Feo
| OBC Transeuropa
Currently, trains offer a reasonable alternative to around half of the most popular short-haul flights in Europe. Additional improvements and incentives could bring further reductions in CO2 emissions from transport.
