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August 7, 2019
More than three years since the signing of the Paris Climate Agreement, most of the EU member states are on board for the newly set 2050 carbon neutral target.
July 30, 2019
Unemployment peaked at 27.5%, more than 400,000 people emigrated in a single year, and the debt to GDP ratio reached 180%. The 2008 financial crisis hit Greece harder than every other European country, and the past 10 years have been a political and economic headache in the southern European country.
July 29, 2019
Media pluralism in Europe is under threat. Far from exhibiting a rich diversity of opinions, content, ownership and structures, Europe’s media sector faces considerable and rising risks to its market competition, editorial independence and social inclusiveness.
July 25, 2019
Published by EPICENTER on July 25, 2019
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A motorist in the average European state spends 29 hours a year stuck in traffic.
July 18, 2019
The 2008 crisis exposed the grave flaws of the EU’s Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Most economists were not able to predict such economic turmoil, but many did raise red flags on the construction of the EMU.
July 16, 2019
There has been a great deal of cheering over the recent free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur (the South American trade bloc of Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay, with Venezuela suspended).
July 11, 2019
The European Commission has recently begun the process of rekindling the EU’s relationship with Central Asia, located at the crossroads between the Middle East, Western Asia, and Russia.
July 11, 2019
A tale of corruption, political scandals, and even murder: the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has turned agriculture in Europe into an environmentally unsustainable, economically infeasible, and administratively unmanageable nightmare.
July 8, 2019
In the recent European elections, authoritarian populist parties, gained a great number of seats (almost 24% of the total) in the European Parliament (EP).
