Chart of the week

The total number of sea arrivals from Turkey to Greece declined substantially since 2016

Apart from 2018 & 2019, the majority of arrivals were Syrians

Across Europe, women bear the greater burden of unpaid care responsibilities

France and Germany: top trade partners

EU estimated to lose 36 - 70 billion euro to corporate profit shifting every year

Next steps for the EU's strategic compass

The next steps will be crucial to determine the scope and width of the strategic compass

Willingness to take COVID-19 vaccines increases across Europe

Especially since actual vaccinations started in December, skepticism declines.

EU welcomes U.S. return to the Paris Agreement

As the second largest global carbon emitter, the U.S. returns to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

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