Floods are becoming increasingly common all over Europe, causing significant damages that require massive expenses to be fixed. The Italian region of Emilia-Romagna has become an epicenter of devastation and traumas, as floods don't just leave marks on buildings, but also on citizens, who often end up feeling discouraged and abandoned by the local administration.
After analysing the NRRP green transition targets in 11 southern and eastern European countries, we found that country-by-country analyses are needed to compensate for information gaps at the European level.
Non-voters are older, poor and less educated: this is the profile that emerges from an analysis of socio-economic data from Italian municipalities with abstention levels over 60 percent in 2019 and 2022.
Last summer, Belgium adopted a pioneering European law on femicide, which aims to make up for lost time in collecting data on gender-based violence. However, feminist associations fear that it will not be enough to effectively curb the problem.
The second part of EDJNet's investigation on femicides once again highlights the lack of data that would enable useful comparisons at the European level. The case of France provides a good example of such shortcomings.
French economist Gabriel Zucman, interviewed by Alter éco, explains why and how the super-rich should be taxed more and better.
Despite being (very) rich, conscientious millionaires and billionaires are calling for much higher wealth taxes to combat the rising inequality they see as a threat to democracy.
While European companies, trade unions, NGOs, politicians and economists would like to see increased taxation of the extremely rich, governments are more reluctant.
In Europe, the very wealthy are taxed less than other taxpayers. Implementing a European wealth tax would remedy this tax injustice.
To name things is to write their history. It also gives them an existence. An interview with historian Christelle Taraud, on the difference between "feminicide" and "fémicide": the history of a word that is born in Brussels in the 1970s, bears witness to the murders of women in 1980s Mexico, and returns with #MeToo.
