Category: 3. Europe

Theme
Competitiveness of the EU and the US.

Summary
In recent decades the EU seems to have been lagging behind the US both economically and technologically. Identifying the key elements that underlie the differences in competitiveness has…

Published on 25/10/2024 – 9:20 GMT+2•Updated
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Adults in the EU leave their parents’ home at the age of 26 on average, according to Eurostat data.

However,…

In this 2024 “super election year,” a common concern across Europe and the United States has been the growing popularity and electoral successes of far-right movements and narratives. Though right-wing parties exhibit clear distinctions…

Muslims across Europe are grappling with a “worrying surge” of racism that is being fuelled in part by “dehumanising anti-Muslim rhetoric”, the EU’s leading rights agency has said, as it published a survey in which nearly half of the…

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