Category: 3. Europe

Women in the EU earn on average 12% less per hour than men, according to Eurostat. To address this persistent gender pay gap, the EU is introducing new rules on…

Japan’s parliament is expected to elect ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister, a historic first that comes one day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal…

Rick Steves

Rick Steves

Rick Steves

As a member of the EU-US delegation, Finnish MEP Maria Guzenina (S&D) has closely followed how Donald Trump has shifted his negotiation tactics with the pharma industry. After initially trying to cut drug prices through executive orders, the US…

Friedrich Merz hat seine erneuerte Strategie gegen die AfD vorgelegt. Die untermauert er mit starken Worten, sie hat aber schwache Perspektiven. Im Podcast blickt Gordon Repinski auf das Szenario einer ostdeutschen Landtagswahl 2026, in der die CDU zwischen Linken und AfD steht…

But setting different ages might prove difficult to implement, for example, if teens are traveling between countries.

3. What’s the right age?

There’s a hot debate on what the right minimum age should be, with 15 or 16 being the main contenders.

Denmark, France and Greece are in…

Young farmers struggle to find available and affordable land to start working. One hectare of arable land in the EU costs almost €12,000. That price rises to over €90,000 on average in Meedendorp’s native Netherlands, up from €56,000 a decade ago. 

“When you start, the banks ask…

In preparation for the meeting, EU ambassadors informally agreed draft European Council conclusions seen by POLITICO that call on the Commission to put forward a proposal that is “underpinned by appropriate European solidarity and risk-sharing.”

This text is “the political go-ahead” for…