The fertility rate stood at 1.38 live births per woman, well below the “replacement level” of 2.1. Read more at straitstimes.com.

In 2023, 3.67 million babies were born in the EU, a 5.4% decrease from the 3.88 million in 2022. This is the largest annual decline recorded since 1961.Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union,

The number of babies born in the EU was down 5.4 percent to 3.67 million in 2023, the largest drop in decades, official data showed Friday, underscoring the bloc's demographic issues.

In 2024, women held one-third (33.4%) of the seats in national parliaments across the EU, marking a 5.6 percentage points (pp) increase compared with 2014, according to figures released by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union,

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen hosted steel sector executives on Tuesday for a debate on how to ensure the industry's future health as it faces high energy costs, decarbonisation and impending U.

The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States, Donald Trump has declared. Speaking during his first cabinet meeting, the US president said: “The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States, that’s the purpose of it. And they’ve done a good job of it. But now I’m president.”

Unemployment in Poland stood at 2.6 percent in January, marking the lowest rate in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency reported on Tuesday.

European Union countries are considering a scenario of a new mass arrival of Ukrainian refugees in the event of an escalation of the war and the cessation of

BAKU. March 7 (Interfax) - European Union countries imported 17.272 million tonnes of oil from Azerbaijan in 2024, down 14.9% compared to 2023. According to data from the European Union's statistical office (Eurostat), the value of oil supplied from Azerbaijan to EU countries during the reporting period amounted to 10.277 billion euros, down 17.1%.

In December last year, more than 4.3 million people were under temporary protection in European countries after fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

This makes Luxembourg the EU member state with the lowest rate of female managers, followed by Croatia (23.8%) and Czechia (27.4%). Sweden (43.7%), Latvia (42.9%) and Poland (42.3%) had the smallest gap between genders, while Cyprus (+10.5 percentage points), Malta (+8.3 pp) and Sweden (+6.5 pp) witnessed the biggest improvement over the decade.

Luxembourg’s rate of approximately 1.25 births per woman in 2023 is one of the lowest in the entire EU, according to data published on Friday by the bloc’s official statistics agency.