For questions about claims based in Europe, or limited to Europe.
Questions tagged [europe]
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Is Hungary's border fence with Serbia (almost) entirely electrified?
The BBC (March, 2019) says Hungary's border fence with Serbia consists of "170 km of electrified barbed wire" (at 0:30-0:35 in the video). 170km is basically the whole length of the border between these countries, and the BBC phrasing strongly…
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Does the UK provide 50% of EU's waters? And does this imply anything about fishing rights?
Leading Brexiteer Owen Paterson wrote in an article in the Telegraph about fisheries:
At present, the UK provides 50 per cent of the EU’s waters but receives only a 25 per cent share of the Total Allowable Catch.
Is this assessment correct in both…
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Do one in three workers in Romania work for minimum wage?
I've read on a website that I don't know much about that (in 2017)
Romania is a country viewed as an economic miracle in the European Union.
Its unemployment hovers around five per cent, its growth rate is an EU best of over five per cent, and its…
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Was a "large number" of new COVID-19 clusters in the United States seeded by travellers from Europe?
It has been reported in relation to the recent US travel ban on the EU's 26-country Schengen area that
The President justified the ban by saying the EU had failed to take the same precautions as the U.S. in banning travel from China in order to…
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Is the UK's trade with the EU artifically inflated by having to ship its exports via Europe?
I was talking to a pro-Brexit UK woman who made some... interesting claims about UK-EU trade that I hadn't heard before and couldn't immediately counter.
She claimed the UK's apparently very large portion of exports to Europe (she said 60% of UK…
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Are five million Muslims marching on to Europe?
This article claims that five million Muslims are attempting to move to European countries.
Apparently the numbers that they’ve been selling to their unsuspecting populations are wrong by at least four million. The latest invasion reflects a truer…
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Was the UK the third poorest member of the EU despite being the second biggest net contributor in 1979?
This video on YouTube of Margaret Thatcher at the EU Dublin Council on the 29th of November 1979 seems to suggest that the UK was the second biggest net contributor to the EU and also the third poorest member of the EU:
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Is Russia spreading fake news about some countries' management of COVID-19?
According to a Financial Times article, an EU report warns about the diffusion of fake news by Russian media, in an attempt to discredit involved governments and aggravate the ongoing crisis.
Can this be confirmed factually or is it just a…
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Did Germany and France offer help to Italy in the Covid-19 crisis?
An opinion piece published yesterday by DW says:
The first thing that fell by the wayside, as always in times of crisis, was solidarity. It was Italy, the first country hit by the Corona crisis — and hit hardest of all — that had the bitter of…
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Are bars in Italy using pasta as straws?
It’s being reported in a lot of places that bars in Italy are using pasta as straws: 1 ,2, 3, 4. They all cite the same source of a Reddit post here, with a picture of one of these pasta straws in use. There is also a number of mentions to…
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Was there a spike in hate crimes after the Brexit referendum?
Was there a spike in hate crimes after the Brexit referendum?
Example claim: 'Horrible spike' in hate crime linked to Brexit vote, Met police say
A “horrible spike” in hate crime after Britain’s vote to leave the
European Union was at least…
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Is US ahead or behind of EU in terms of broadband Internet access?
Today New America Foundation has published a report "The Cost of Connectivity 2013:
A comparison of high-speed Internet prices in 24 cities around the world"
It has been covered by media, mostly in a tone that US is lagging behind and lacking…
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Does George Soros support plans for immigrants flows into Europe?
The idea that Geoge Soros and his Open Society Foundation is promoting the flows of immigrants into Europe is often cited as one of the main reasons why these flows exist and are not stopping anytime soon.
In this article, for instance, Hungary’s …
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Did Britain borrow $120 billion in 1945?
This copy-paste has being doing the rounds of local newspaper letters pages and dodgy hard-core pro-Brexit Facebook pages, etc:
JEAN Claude Juncker should be forced to walk past every white gravestone in Normandy and the rest of Europe to say a…
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Are one in five children in Europe victims of sexual violence?
I was recently asked to sign a petition for a campaign against sexual violence against children.
The petition claimed that one in five children are victims of some form of sexual violence in Europe. The Council of Europe website has the following…
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