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Climate concern is higher in northern EU member states

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EU

There is a striking difference in public concern about climate change between the EU’s north, and its east and south

EU population is becoming more urban

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EU

Trend for people to move to towns and cities is gaining momentum now in Central-Eastern Europe

Public health is low priority in Central Europe

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CENTRAL EUROPE

East European OECD countries underperform on life expectancy, premature death and health risks; health spending is lower

A world of walls may also see a rise in interventions

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INT

Grandiose barrier-building plans are a new global fashion; the reality is more complicated

Belt and Road paves way for China’s new global role

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CHINA

The One Belt One Road (OBOR) summit in Beijing this month has focused the world’s attention on China’s ‘grand strategy’

Wages in EU's East will not catch up with West soon

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EASTERN EUROPE

EU11 labour costs have climbed in the past decade but at current rates will not reach the EU28 average until the 2040s

Problems of obesity will spread in the EU’s east

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EU

EU member states in the east are failing to tackle the growing problem of populations defined as overweight

Cutting trade ties may prove harder for Russia than EU

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EU/RUSSIA

Russia’s exports to the EU have not ceased falling since the Ukraine invasion, whereas the drop in imports soon stopped

Population change will have an uneven impact in Europe

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EUROPE

Ageing population dynamics will pose different social, economic and political challenges for European governments

Fall in Central-East European voting may bottom out

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EUROPE

Post-communist disillusion with politics probably explains lower election turnouts than Western Europe