Water polo, combat sports, and men tended to dominate. But the data on the Paris Olympics also indicates some curious cases, from the Romanian female rowing team to Turkey's female athletes, as well as stories of migration.
At least 25 athletes representing European countries at the Paris Olympics have been granted citizenship through expedited processes based on sporting merit.
National paediatric associations in six of eight European countries do not disclose their financial ties with the private sector.
Italy convinced the world that it was the king of liquid gold by selling Spanish oil, but now Spain has appropriated 'Made in Italy'.
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.
Although abstention from European elections remained essentially stable in the European Union as a whole compared to 2019, in Greece, it increased by 17.3 percentage points from the previous European elections, reaching 58.61% —meaning that for the first time in our country, abstainers outnumbered participants.
Pod črto have analysed the systemic reasons why almost one in two Europeans chooses not to vote.
At the end of the 2019-2024 parliamentary term, the average MEP is a white male aged 54. Only three are under 30.
At least 381,000 people in the European Union have no official nationality, depriving them of fundamental rights.
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.
