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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 6h
We are ending our future series with a question behind all the others: how optimistic are Europeans about what lies ahead? The chart shows the share of people who are very or fairly optimistic about their own future, their country, the EU and the world, sorted by optimism about the world.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Between January 2018 and December 2023, Europe lost approximately 9,000 km² of green land to construction. This is an area similar to the size of Cyprus.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Zaragoza, Benidorm and Estarreja have been named winners of the 2028 European Green Capital and Green Leaf Awards. Zaragoza, which has received a €600,000 prize, was praised for urban biodiversity, green areas and sustainable land use.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Our future series continues with a look ahead to 2100. What will the EU’s population look like? This visual shows 2025 in solid colour and 2100 in outlines. The shape changes completely.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
For many years, you have seen our maps and charts but never the people who make them. That changes in our first newsletter, where we finally introduce ourselves.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The EU uses enlargement as a geopolitical tool. By offering membership, it draws the countries on its borders closer and helps keep them stable. Nine countries are official candidates: Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Türkiye.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
„Hello?“, „Yes?“, „Speaking with …?“ If you have ever called outside of your own country, you may have noticed cultural differences in what you hear when someone picks up the phone.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In 2019, fewer than 2 in every 100 new cars sold in the EU were fully electric. In 2025 it was 17, and in the first eight months of 2026 almost 22. Cars with only a petrol or diesel engine fell from 86% of sales to 37% in six years.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How far do you get if you try to list the biggest cities of your country? And how much do you know about the situation in your neighbouring countries?
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Where Is Europe In The AI Race? Europe may not dominate artificial intelligence yet, but its AI companies are growing fast. The race is often framed as a contest between the US and China. Meanwhile, Europe is building an AI ecosystem of its own.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look around the room. Almost everything in it that came from outside Europe came by boat. The EU imported 1.1 billion tonnes of goods by sea last year. Ships carried 73.3% of everything that arrived from outside the EU, measured by weight. Planes only carried 0.3%.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are what we eat. Food plays a big part in every culture, and Europe's regional cuisines are no exception. To protect the traditions, recipes and local know-how behind key products, the EU created two schemes: Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) and Protected Geographical Indication (PGI).
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Are we excited or nervous about AI? The Ipsos AI Monitor 2026 tracks public attitudes, trust and expectations towards artificial intelligence across 32 countries, and the results reveal clear regional patterns.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Today is the International Day of Sign Languages, and this year's theme is "Declaring Deaf People's Human Rights".
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Six months after our last look at fuel prices across Europe, the gap between countries is still huge. On 14 September, petrol costs €2.56 per litre in Denmark, €2.43 in the Netherlands and €2.36 in Germany, while Malta sits at just €1.34.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Content warning: this post discusses suicide statistics. Around 49,000 people in the EU died by suicide in 2023, three quarters of them men. The two charts show the rate for each country: deaths per 100,000 men and per 100,000 women, adjusted for the age of each country's population.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In 2018, the EU introduced a revised Renewable Energy Directive to accelerate the expansion of renewable energy. One of its key targets is that permit granting should take no more than two years.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Europe produced 34.4 billion litres of beer in 2025. According to the latest Eurostat data, EU countries produced 34.4 billion litres of beer in 2025 — a 0.7% decline compared with 2024, but still 2.2% above 2020 levels.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Six in ten young Europeans did not check. In the EU, 40% of internet users aged 16 to 29 did something to test whether information they found online was true, while the rest read it and moved on.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Twenty years ago Finland led Europe in all three PISA subjects and Türkiye sat near the bottom in each. In 2025 they are 10 points apart in science and 7 in reading. Across 32 European systems and three subjects, 82 of 96 scores are lower than in 2006.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
For centuries, the map you grew up with was already skewed, and almost nobody questioned it.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today we're celebrating International Literacy Day, marked every year since 1967 to recognize literacy as the foundation for people to gain wider knowledge, skills, and values. To mark the occasion, we wondered… What are the book reading habits in Europe?
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Even a simple nod isn’t universal. In Bulgaria, the gesture most of Europe uses for “yes” actually means “no”, and vice versa.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Governments publish their budgets and almost nobody reads them. Here is what every hundred euros of European public spending actually buys.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Much to its own shock, the region of Brittany recently found out that the number of people with Breton skills has halved between 2018 and 2024.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Europe's youngest billionaire is 21. Germany's Johannes von Baumbach inherited his fortune through his family's stake in pharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim. Italy's youngest billionaire, Clemente Del Vecchio, is 22 and inherited part of his family's EssilorLuxottica fortune.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Free movement is the right most Europeans hold and fewest use. Four freedoms, one of them yours personally: the right to pack a bag and start again in twenty-six other countries with nobody's permission.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Iceland has voted against resuming EU membership negotiations, thirteen years after talks were broken off. 52.8 per cent rejected the proposal, against 47.2 per cent in favour, a gap of roughly 12,600 votes. Turnout hit 82.5 per cent, the highest since 2009.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When Europeans travel outside their home country, they usually end up in the same place. In 2024, 71% of EU residents stayed within their own country, but Italy and Spain were the top foreign destinations for those who did go abroad.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Pilgrimages have been known for centuries as journeys to a shrine or location of importance to a person’s beliefs. However, as time progressed, the motives behind people’s journeys have undergone significant shifts.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Number of hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants across the EU has fallen sharply over the past decade, according to Eurostat data. In 2024, Bulgaria had the highest ratio at 870 beds, more than four times that of Sweden, which recorded the lowest at just 187.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Europe keeps arguing about the retirement age, but the age only tells you when you're allowed to stop, not how long you get afterwards. So we projected it.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It's no secret that Europe's population density varies significantly from country to country. For example, the climatic conditions made it impossible for Scandinavia to become a major population hub.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Burgas is getting ready for Eurovision. Bulgaria will host the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 2027 and the stage will be set in Burgas, on the country's Black Sea coast.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
More women than men graduate from European universities, and they have for years. In 2024, 4.48 million people graduated from university in the EU.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
AI, social media, streaming platforms: Our online activity is powered by thousands of data centers all over Europe. The industry is growing, and with it, the amount of energy needed to keep data centers running.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
As summer heatwaves intensify, EU household energy consumption for cooling increased from 40.5 thousand terajoules (TJ) in 2018 to 80.4 thousand TJ in 2024, a rise of 99%.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Who are Europe’s biggest employers? This ranking looks at European companies with the largest workforces worldwide. While some companies like Accenture employ a lot of their staff on other continents, others, such as EDEKA or Schwarz Group, have the vast majority of their workforce in Europe.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Tomorrow evening the Moon's shadow sweeps across the North Atlantic and switches off the Sun over parts of Europe. It is the first total solar eclipse to reach the European mainland since 1999.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
August in Europe means one thing: almost everyone's on the move. Millions of Northern and Central Europeans flock south to the Mediterranean coast, while others head for the mountains or hop between major cities. It's easy to assume most Europeans spend their summer holidays abroad.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The IMDb Top 250 is usually read as a Hollywood list. Look at where the directors were born rather than where the money came from, and it turns out to be far less American than it appears. Based on the birthplace of every director in the Top 250, here is the picture:
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
As Europe faces multiple crises, dealing with everyday costs becomes a tough challenge for many people. One major and growing expenditure in this regard is housing. In real estate economics, a household's housing costs are considered overburdened once they exceed 40% of net disposable income.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Where are you going swimming this summer? More than 85% of Europe's bathing waters are now rated as having excellent water quality.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Europe's youngest generation has grown up online. Social media is where they get their news, share opinions and organise their lives. Last year, 89% of Europeans aged 16 to 29 used social media.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Europe's population grew by 7 percent between 1990 and 2023, but that headline figure hides sharp regional divides.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Europe is burning: Soaring wildfires in France, Spain, Portugal and Greece have claimed dozens of lives, caused destruction, and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Across Europe, diabetes affects almost one in ten adults, yet the burden is far from evenly shared. Countries across the Balkan region as well as Portugal and especially Türkiye show some of the highest prevalence rates in the continent.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Europe continues to show stark contrasts when it comes to investment in rail infrastructure. At the top of the ranking are Luxembourg (€622 per capita), Switzerland (€504), Austria (€359) and Sweden (€295), all investing several times more per citizen than the countries at the bottom of the list.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The ECB just revealed the ten shortlisted designs for the next series of euro banknotes, and now it's your turn to weigh in. The proposals draw on two themes, "European culture" and "Rivers and birds," picked from over 1,200 design contest applications.
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Europe Magazine @europemagazine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When it comes to alcoholic beverages, some countries are associated with a certain drink. Germany and the UK, for example, are known for their love of beer.
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