Culture and leisure
Suspicious sports results? Mafia might have fixed them
Wednesday 18 November 2020 |
Laszlo Arato | EUrologus
Organised crime groups make an estimated €120 million of profit a year from betting-related match-fixing in sports events. Not only football matches are fixed, but tennis results are also manipulated more and more. And sports mafia are no longer only corrupting players, but clubs too.
Saving culture from the pandemic
Monday 26 April 2021 |
Alexander Damiano Ricci | VoxEurop
Eurostat data from 2019 show that in Europe, on average, 32 percent of workers employed in the Cultural and Creative Industry were self-employed. In some countries this percentage reaches almost 50%. The EU is pumping money into the CCI, but that won't be enough for a sector that structurally hinges on precarious working relationships.
A cultural pandemic: How Covid-19 hit Europe’s creative sector
Monday 26 April 2021 |
Alexander Damiano Ricci | VoxEurop
Due to COVID-19, the economic losses of the European Cultural and Creative Industry (CCI) businesses will add up to billions of Euros. The EU stepped in with a top-up of its flagship Creative Europe programme. But pumping more money into the system won’t do. In many EU countries, the crisis has highlighted structural inequalities within the sector. And workers have started to mobilise.
More and more school trips to the Balkans
Tuesday 14 April 2020 |
Marco Abram | OBC Transeuropa
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.
No parties, concerts or gatherings. We look at how the pandemic is affecting Spotify
Wednesday 15 April 2020 |
Katarzyna Korzeniowska Stanisław Dudzik
| BiQdata
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.
The Balkans as a tourism destination
Monday 28 August 2017 |
Lorenzo Ferrari | OBC Transeuropa
The substantial and steady growth of the Balkans as a destination for vacations and travel is one of the most significant trends in European tourism
Who else is watching Romanian films?
Tuesday 17 April 2018 |
Giorgio Comai | OBC Transeuropa
Romanian New Wave keeps receiving international accolades at film festivals across Europe, yet it attracts relatively little public in its home country. A data-driven analysis
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.
Who would win the Eurovision song contest if Google was to decide?
Saturday 05 May 2018 |
VoxEurop What countries would make the final and “who would cry victory” if Google searches reflect each country’s voting patterns were used to award points in the Eurovision Song Contest?
Free travel through Europe: the countries with the most young people competing for Interrail tickets
Tuesday 15 January 2019 |
Pia Seitler Marcel Pauly
| Der Spiegel
An Interrail ticket makes it possible to cross the whole of Europe by train, visiting up to 30 countries and staying at each stop for as long as you like. This summer, around 14,500 young Europeans will have the opportunity to do just that – free of charge.
