Category: 3. Europe

For over 20 years, the opioid crisis in North America has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, primarily due to over-prescribing by doctors and marketing by pharmaceutical companies of powerful…

If Britain were properly governed, Keir Giles would still be “institutionalized in the Ministry of Defence” as he tells me. But Britain is in a mess, and one sign of this is that he is out of public service and able to describe its…

Over the past few days, three European countries have raised the alert level for HPAI.

From October 16, the risk level has been raised to “moderate” across mainland France. According to the agriculture ministry, the change is justified by…

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European air traffic presents one of the continent’s largest obstacles to halting climate breakdown and achieving the climate goals subscribed to in international…

Host Vanda Felbab-Brown speaks with Dr. Alex Stevens, criminology professor at the University of Sheffield, about the emerging threat of synthetic opioids in Europe, particularly fentanyl and nitazenes. Stevens argues that the greater…

We analyze the country-level O₃ production relative to the imported O₃ over Europe. We begin with a detailed evaluation of the simulated O₃ over Europe. The source contribution results are introduced with an overview of the mean contributions…

How affordable is housing in Europe: key statistics

One way to measure whether housing costs are too high is to look at the housing price-to-income-ratio. If housing costs are above 40% of disposable income, it is a sign that households face…

Summary

• Europe’s global influence as a technology regulator is not matched in its overall digital power, where it lags far behind the US and China and is highly reliant on others.
• Building a grand strategy to…