european union

It won't come as a surprise to anyone that immigrants from muslim countries in Africa tend to have more children than Europeans. If you ever wondered how big is that gap in each European country here are the numbers for 2024. Next to the fertility rate, you see the share of births for each...

Europe faces escalating security threats that demand greater self-reliance in defense. Building a European army is seen as crucial now due to uncertainties in US commitments under President Trump and ongoing Russian aggression. Russian Aggression Russia's continued war in Ukraine and hybrid...

Anger towards the US has probably never been so high in Europe at any time in history. Never would we have thought that the US government would stab us in the back, threaten to invade and annex European territory, start a trade war, try to dismantle NATO, etc. More shockingly recent polls show...

The Trump administration has increased its threats of invading and annexing Greenland. Right after attacking Venezuela and capturing president Madura, President Trump announced that they also needed Greenland. Anyone who has been following a bit the news knows that the attack on Venezuela is...

President Trump's tariffs are forcing a re-organization of world trade away from the United States. More and more countries are signing free trade agreements between each others. In 2 days the EU is due to sign a free trade agreement with Mercosur countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay...

On 23rd October hundreds of thousands of Hungarians filled the streets of Budapest in what became one of the largest opposition rallies in recent Hungarian history. The anti-Orbán rally was led by Péter Magyar, the 44-year-old leader of the opposition Tisza Party, who has emerged as Prime...

I have been following (and even supporting) the YouTube channel EU Made Simple for a while. It's the best channel I know about EU politics and economy. This video is particularly important. Don't forget to watch YouTube videos with an ad blocker or even better a browser with an inbuilt ad...

A significant new plan is under discussion in the United States that would impose a 500% tariff on any country that continues to buy Russian fossil fuels and other key commodities. This proposal is not directly from Donald Trump himself, but rather from a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators...

This is a great video on the possible future of European integration using a system with different levels of membership based on each country's needs. I heartily agree with the proposal.

This is I think a very good move from the EU to prevent the accumulation of various chargers and cables in drawers and to avoid a necessary electronic waste. USB-C becomes universal charging standard in the EU "By the end of 2024, the proliferation of chargers for small electronic devices will...

One of the main arguments for Brexit was that Britain would be able to negotiate its own trade deals with other countries on its own. Nearly 5 years after Brexit has come into effect the UK has only negotiated trade deals with Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and as this video explains none of...

This is what this video proposes and I like the idea. In fact I have been in favour of such a system since I was a university student. It's a great combination that satisfies both people who want a more federalized EU as well as the people who want to maintain local authority. The Swiss system...

Americans like to think that they live in the freest country in the world. While it is not even close to being the case, as I've explained here, there is one thing for which the US may be the freest country in the world and that is freedom of speech. I found this video that explains the...

Every year I see different companies making lists of the most powerful passports in the world. The most famous of them is probably the Henley Passport Index by Henley & Partners, which has been ranking countries according to the travel freedom allowed by those countries' ordinary passports for...

Air pollution is definitely not something desirable in our cities and vehicles are the main culprit in developed countries. This has been one of the arguments in favour of hybrid and electric vehicles. The other argument is that EV are better for the climate, although I have cast doubt about the...

Euronews: Supply chain disruptions: Are concerns about the EU's new deforestation regulation justified? "Agriculture accounts for 90% of the world's deforestation. Every two seconds, an area equivalent to the size of a football field is lost. Deforestation is a global issue primarily linked to...