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In the first quarter of 2023, EU economy greenhouse gas emissions totalled 941 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 2.9% decrease compared with the same quarter of 2022 (969 million tonnes of CO2-eq). This decrease took place simultaneously with a 1.2% increase in the EU’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the first quarter of 2023, […]

In 2022, almost 3.7 million first residence permits were issued in the EU to non-EU citizens, a 26% increase (+753 445 permits) compared with 2021. The total value is the highest registered since 2009, topping even the pre-pandemic level observed in 2019 (3.0 million).  This information comes from data on first residence permits published by […]

In May 2023, the production of services (excluding financial and public services) in the EU went up by 1.3% compared with April 2023 and by 1.8% in the eurozone.  Compared with May 2022, services production increased by 3.6% in the EU and by 4.4% in the euro area.  This information comes from data on services […]

Eurostat estimates that in 2022, EU countries invested about €69 billion into assets essential to provide environmental protection (EP) services. These services included wastewater treatment plants, vehicles to transport waste, acquisitions of land to create a natural reserve, or cleaner equipment for producing with less polluting emissions.  The information comes from data on environmental protection […]

In May 2023, excess mortality in the EU stood at an estimated +2.9% (8,100 excess deaths) above the baseline (average number of deaths for the same period in 2016-2019). In the same month, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the COVID-19 public-health emergency.  Following exceptionally low mortality in February 2023 (-1.4%) with […]

In April 2023, 72,630 first-time asylum applicants (non-EU citizens) applied for international protection in EU countries. Compared with April 2022 (54,350), this represents a 34 % increase. There were also 5,310 subsequent applicants, a 5 % decrease compared with April 2022 (5,610).  This information comes from the monthly asylum data published by Eurostat. The article […]

In 2022, the domestic material consumption of the EU economy remained relatively stable at around 14.5 tonnes per person, indicating a very slight increase of 0.4% compared with 2021 (14.4 tonnes per person). Since 2000, the EU reduced its domestic consumption of material by 0.9 tonnes per person.  Non-metallic minerals accounted for more than half […]

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