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When it comes to the daily consumption of vegetables across the European Union, there is a tremendous variation between member states. Ireland certainly likes its greens with 84 percent of the population reporting they ate vegetables daily. According to Eurostat, Belgium reported …

Plastic bans are a contentious issue. Most often, discussions about the use of plastic straws have drawn controversy, like in the case of U.S. state California, where a law requiring full-service restaurants to ask customers if they want to be …

A deluge of corruption-related news and scandals has recently rocked the world. The President of Guatemala has expelled a key United Nations anti-corruption body from the country. Romania’s anti-corruption chief has stepped down just as the country is taking over the Presidency of the …

From Winston Churchill in the 1940s to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in our era, peace and prosperity have always been put forward as the two main goals of European integration. The EU founding fathers saw the European project as …

Two new landmark agreements between the EU and Japan come into effect on February 1, 2019: the Economic Partnership Agreement and the Strategic Partnership Agreement. The economic agreement is the largest bilateral trade deal ever made by the EU in …

At the beginning of the 21st century, nearly 2 decades ago, country wide gaps in internet access were common and expansive in Europe. According to data from Eurostat, in 2002, only 20 percent of people in Spain had used the internet within …

The current impasse in the British parliament has increased the probability of ending up with one of two extreme outcomes: no Brexit or no deal. While significant attention has focused on understanding the potential impact of a hard Brexit on …

In recent years, the number of police officers across the European Union has been decreasing. In 2016, EU countries had a collective total of 1.62 million police officers, a 3.4 percent reduction since 2009. According to Eurostat, there were 318 police …

A new report from the UK Trade Policy Observatory and the University of Sussex has put hard numbers to the potential impact of a no deal Brexit on British jobs. In the country as a whole, it is estimated that almost 750,000 jobs will …

Uncertainty over what is happening with Brexit caused the pound to take another significant dive on December 10. It was the day before MPs were due to vote on the proposed Brexit deal agreed between the UK and the EU. …