Rights and equality
Women on the boards of directors (Eige)
Wednesday 12 June 2019 |
OBC Transeuropa The European Institute for Gender Equality (Eige) collects and harmonises data on managers and board members at the European level.
Hungarian prisons are the most overcrowded in Europe
Wednesday 10 July 2019 |
Laszlo Arato | EUrologus
Lithuania is the EU country with the highest rate of inmates in relation to the population, but prison overcrowding is the highest in Hungary.
Where does Europe stand on LGBTI rights?
Saturday 15 June 2019 |
Kashyap Raibagi | VoxEurop
Thirty-three countries out of 49 in Europe have not legalised same-sex marriage. Most Central and Eastern Europeans oppose same-sex marriage whereas most Western Europeans favour it.
European reporters more and more obstructed in their work
Tuesday 30 April 2019 |
Emanuela Babiroglio | VoxEurop
Reporters Without Borders’ 2019 Index shows that journalists’ working conditions in Europe are declining year after year, and that the death of four reporters in two and a half years should sound as a warning signal for those who care about democracy and freedom of the press.
The gender gap at EU elections
Tuesday 19 March 2019 |
Nikolaj Nielsen | EUobserver
Women across Europe don't tend to vote as much in European elections, compared with men. That fact poses questions on the growing gender gap in both politics and representation in the European Parliament.
Women in Power
Friday 08 March 2019 |
Milena Hassenkamp Marcel Pauly
| Spiegel Online
Sweden does it without a law, France does it with one. The proportion of women in European parliaments and cabinets is determined by a number of different factors. A comparison.
Europe still digitally divided
Friday 29 September 2017 |
VoxEurop Europeans are more and more connected to internet, but there still are huge gaps between regions and countries
Citizens' rights: where EU and UK differ
in depth
Thursday 31 August 2017 |
Eszter Zalan | EUobserver
The rights of EU citizens living in the UK and those of the UK nationals living in EU countries is a key issue of the Brexit negotiations
Sweatshops on wheels
Tuesday 16 October 2018 |
OBC Transeuropa To observe the working conditions of truck drivers in Europe makes it possible to notice some crucial limits of the current state of European integration.
Parenting in Europe: who’s staying at home with the kids?
in depth
Thursday 08 November 2018 |
Laura Filios | OBC Transeuropa
Too many fathers delegating childcare to their partner; mothers staying too long outside the workforce; an uneven range of rights and guarantees: how and why parental leave is changing in Europe.
