🇪🇺 Luxembourg and Ireland reject centralised EU financial supervision.
Luxembourg and Ireland are pushing back against Franco-German efforts to centralise EU financial market supervision by June, warning that the proposed reform would add "complexity, bureaucracy and costs" rather than strengthen the single market.
The most popular names of children born in European cities:
🇬🇧 London - Mohammed
🇬🇧 Manchester - Mohammed
🇩🇪 Berlin - Mohammed
🇧🇪 Brussels - Mohammed
🇳🇱 The Hague - Mohammed
🇳🇱 Amsterdam - Mohammed
🇳🇴 Oslo - Mohammed
🇵🇱 Warsaw - Jan
🇮🇹 Italy overtakes Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest exporter.
Italy has overtaken Japan to become the fourth-largest exporter in the world, ranking behind only China, the United States and Germany.
Best countries for women:
1. Sweden 🇸🇪
2. Denmark 🇩🇰
3. Norway 🇳🇴
4. Finland 🇫🇮
5. Netherlands 🇳🇱
6. Canada 🇨🇦
7. Switzerland 🇨🇭
8. New Zealand 🇳🇿
9. Australia 🇦🇺
10. Germany 🇩🇪
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12. Austria 🇦🇹
14. Ireland 🇮🇪
15. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
16. UK 🇬🇧
17. France 🇫🇷
18. Spain 🇪🇸
19. Italy 🇮🇹
20. USA 🇺🇸
22. Japan 🇯🇵
24. Greece 🇬🇷
27. South Korea 🇰🇷
28. Czechia 🇨🇿
29. China 🇨🇳
31. Hungary 🇭🇺
35. Argentina 🇦🇷
38. Slovenia 🇸🇮
40. Brazil 🇧🇷
44. Russia 🇷🇺
47. Chile 🇨🇱
49. Mexico 🇲🇽
50. Thailand 🇹🇭
51. South Africa 🇿🇦
53. Oman 🇴🇲
56. Turkey 🇹🇷
60. Egypt 🇪🇬
61. Serbia 🇷🇸
65. Indonesia 🇮🇩
66. Israel 🇮🇱
70. Colombia 🇨🇴
72. Kenya 🇰🇪
73. Belarus 🇧🇾
75. El Salvador 🇸🇻
76. India 🇮🇳
80. Algeria 🇩🇿
79. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
85. Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
86. Bangladesh 🇧🇩
89. Iran 🇮🇷
Note: the 2024 Best Countries for Women rankings are drawn from the global survey responses of nearly 9,000 women and highlight countries according to respondents’ perceptions about a country’s gender equality and income equality, whether the country is progressive and safe, and whether the country cares about human rights.
According to U.S. News and World Report
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🚶♂️ The world’s most walkable cities
Average time to reach daily essentials (schools, shops, healthcare):
1.🇮🇹 Milan — 6 min
2.🇩🇰 Copenhagen — 6 min
3.🇮🇹 Turin — 7 min
4.🇮🇪 Dublin — 7 min
5.🇫🇷 Lyon — 7 min
6.🇩🇪 Munich — 7 min
7.🇫🇷 Paris — 8 min
8.🇫🇷 Marseille — 8 min
9.🇮🇹 Genoa — 8 min
10.🇬🇧 Edinburgh — 8 min
11.🇩🇪 Berlin — 8 min
12.🇦🇹 Vienna — 8 min
13.🇷🇺 St. Petersburg — 8 min
14.🇪🇸 Bilbao — 8 min
15.🇫🇷 Bordeaux — 8 min
16.🇧🇾 Minsk — 8 min
17.🇩🇪 Stuttgart — 9 min
18.🇫🇷 Lille — 9 min
19.🇪🇸 Barcelona — 9 min
20.🇳🇴 Oslo — 9 min
📌 45 of the top 50 most walkable cities are in Europe.
The “15-minute city” isn’t a theory — it’s already reality.
Source: The Economist
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👫 Both men and women prefer younger partners, study finds. Even though women tend to say they prefer older men they scored younger men as more desirable, research shows.
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)