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The next steps for Next Generation EU

Whats happens under the Recovery and Resilience Facility?

Among migrants intending to seek asylum along the Western Balkan Route, only few lodge an application

In Bosnia & Herzegovina, the gap between intention and actual asylum applications has by far been the widest in 2020.

Five Take-aways from the German Corona presidency

A majority of Brits now think that it was wrong to leave the EU

But the country remains deeply divided on how future relations should look like.

More than half of all EU Member States are operating border procedures

14 EU countries (plus Switzerland) have a border procedure in place, but they so so to different extents

Crisis management in the Banking Union

Standard playbook requires private sector to bear losses of bank failures first.

Poland and Hungary are blocking the MFF and RI, while data shows them to be the biggest net recipients from the EU budget in the past.

102 years after the end of WWI France and Germany are more closely connected than ever

The number of Franco-German town twinnings stands out in European comparison.

As U.S. election hangs in balance, Europeans appear to question the performance of American democracy

52% of Europeans believe it is ineffective - with at least one notable exception.

Level of trust of EU member states in Trump's ability to handle international affairs is low

Ahead of the US election, the level of trust in Trump's ability to handle international affairs is generally low in EU member states but slightly higher in Centre/Eastern Europe than in Western Europe

The member states need to work hard on mobilising public and private resources for research and development

Gross domestic spending on R&D as a % of GDP

EU green house gas emission (in CO2 equivalent), base year 1990

EU needs to substantially step up its efforts to achieve the 2030 climate targets