The EU’s most competitive regions are still overwhelmingly located in western and northern Europe, according to the 2022 EU Regional Competitiveness Index.

Highly sensitive testing methods applied by the JRC reveal that 46% of honey imported in the EU may be adulterated. The suspicion of fraud results from an EU coordinated action.

Scientists of the Commission had developed methods for companies to help them assess and show the greenness of their products.

Demand for materials that drive the twin transition will take off. Europe does not have to be dependent on individual countries.

A novel soil health dashboard estimates the extent of unhealthy soils in the EU, as well as the degradation processes behind them.

Lack of precipitation impacts water availability for agricultural, energy and human use.

The estimated impact is higher for countries with lower current share of formal childcare and/or lower women’s labour participation.

Within one year of the war, millions Ukrainians fled their homes. By the end of January 2023, between 25% and 30% of the entire Ukrainian population was displaced within and outside Ukraine.

Tracing COVID-19 in clinical swabs and wastewater: our methods and reference materials.

A new assessment shows that while resource efficiency is improving, there’s a growing pressure on ecosystems from forestry and agriculture.

The European Commission published a database presenting the integrated pest management methods currently available, accompanied by a study assessing their effectiveness.

COVID-19 caused disruptions in the economic, education and health care sectors, for example. In this article, we focus on the challenges posed to the oncology community.

We talk with Laure-Alix Clerbaux, the lead scientist of a project which involved 80 scientist and 50 organisations with one goal: managing the tsunami of COVID-19 information.

A JRC report analyses the most spread narratives, their consequences, factors predicting how likely people are to believe or share them, and the most efficient ways to counter them.

An EU report published today analyses the massive fish kill in the Oder River in July and August 2022, one of the largest ecological disasters in Europe in recent memory.

The results of a special Eurobarometer 529 survey on fairness, inequality and inter-generational mobility have been released.

A paper co-developed by the JRC and published in Nature compares the costs and benefits of flood risk reduction measures in Europe

The Commission’s European Cancer Inequalities Registry is helping policy makers and researchers to address cancer inequalities and disparities.

A modelling exercise for a 1.5°C global warming scenario shows the share of fossil fuels in global energy trade drops by 80% in 2050 compared to today.