Arms trade (SIPRI)
According to the latest update to SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, France leads EU countries when it comes to arms trade.
Copyright reform: the forthcoming EU directive we’ll all be worrying about in a few years time
On June 20, the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parliament will vote on a proposed directive for Copyright reform. Sounds obscure? It is actually a hotly debated topic: the new directive may well shape how the internet will look like in a few years, among other things changing how linking and uploading of contents works.
International Trade in Natural Resources and Sustainability
Resourcetrade.earth provides data about international trade in natural resources and the sustainability implications of such trade.
Cinema admissions in Europe (LUMIERE)
The LUMIERE database provides a systematic compilation of available data on admissions to films released in European cinemas since 1996.
Turkey: the map of violence against women
An interview with Ceyda Ulukaya, journalist and the creator of the first map of femicides in Turkey – an original and appreciated data journalism project.
Women still work more and enjoy less free time
Despite active gender equality policies, in every European country men have more daily leisure time than women, while women spend more time on domestic, unpaid work.
Eastern Europe is fast filling huge gap in minimum wages
The debate on the need to establish a minimum salary at an EU level is facing up to the differences member states have on the issue
Western Europeans more seduced than their Eastern neighbours by Volkswagen diesel “fix”
Volkswagen Group is much more successful in convincing Dieselgate-affected consumers to have the illegal defeat device removed from their car in Western Europe than in Eastern Europe.
Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics (SPACE)
The most comprehensive set of data about imprisonment and community sanctions in Europe
The risk of poverty in Romania and Bulgaria is falling
Over the last decade, Bulgaria and Romania are experiencing a very significant decrease in the risk of poverty and social exclusion. The situation is improving above all in provincial towns.
