One in six infections are now resistant to antibiotics.

This presents a growing threat to public health.

Women in the EU earn, on average, 12% less per hour than men.

So, when a man earns 100 euro, a woman earns 88 euro. This is the difference in average gross hourly pay. The EU aims to close this gap with its pay transparency rules.

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The EU accounts for almost 80% of Hungary's exports and imports. Leaving the EU single market would mean a severe economic crisis and probably a regime change.
Even if Orban wanted to leave the EU, he cannot.

Personally, I'd argue the opposite, which is why Orbán is not leaving. Hungary is vastly more dependent on the single market than the UK, borders only EU countries and a UK style exit would cripple it. Once A50 were triggered, imagine the rest of the EU pressuring him on a no deal exit...

Last night the 🇫🇷 National Asembly voted in favour of a (non-binding) resolution to support of Ukraine and seize frozen Russian assets, by 288 votes in favour to 54 against

Le Pen’s RN abstained

Mélenchon’s LFI voted against

Remember Maximilian Krah, the lead candidate of the AfD 2024 European election who screwed up their campaign by scandals surrounding Chinese spies and trivialising the SS?

Well, he ran again, this time for the Bundestag, and won in a constiuency in Saxony with 44.2%:

Someone needs to explain ecological fallacy to journalists covering the German election:

Centre-left down, Radical Right up DOES NOT mean voters switched from centre-left to radical right!

Look at the voter flows: SPD and Green vote fragmented, and AfD mainly won votes from CDU and non-voters

Fascinating piece by Alex Clark in The Guardian about the European population crisis. Without immigration, Europe is literally dying out!
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The most important outcome of the Paris meeting is the announcement that the European Commission will soon provide a plan on how to redirect unused COVID recovery funds for strengthening European defence capabilities.

First signs of expectation management for today's emergency summit in Paris - here being framed by @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu as "beginning of a process" implying that today is not going to be a summit of major decisions.

Probably the most telling poll about German fatalism ahead of its election - which party do you trust best to solve Germany's problems:

52% - no party

Compare and contrast EU and (reported) UK response to Trump tariffs on steel and aluminium:

Big part of the problem of German politics at the moment - per this analysis of the manifestos, the overlap of parties is:

CDU-SPD: 42%
CDU-Greens: 37%
SPD-Greens-FDP (old ctraffic light coalition): 32%

...

CDU-AfD: 61%

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Watching both EU and UK politics, today you can really see the 'deregulation Zeitgeist' - both Rachel Reeves Growth speech and the EU Commission Competitiveness Compass pin all the major hope of growth and competitiveness on slashing red tape and reducing regulations.