Europe

Government:
EUROPA – European Union website, the official EU website: europa.eu

Population: 743.1 million (2015)
De facto capital of the European Union: Brussels, Belgium
Internet country code: .eu

NEMO

The Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) was founded in 1992 as an independent network of national museum organisations representing the museum community of the member states of the Council of Europe. Together, NEMO’s members speak for over 30.000 museums across Europe.
› ne-mo.org

European Innovation Scoreboard

Sweden is once more the EU innovation leader, followed by Denmark, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands. The fastest growing innovators are Latvia, Malta, Lithuania, the Netherlands and the UK.

The European Innovation Scoreboard – previously Innovation Union Scoreboard – provides a comparative analysis of innovation performance in EU Member States, other European countries, and regional neighbours. It assesses relative strengths and weaknesses of national innovation systems and helps countries identify areas they need to address.
› research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/statistics/performance-indicators/european-innovation-scoreboard_en

EU aid gap puts sustainable development at risk – CONCORD AidWatch Report 2016

Brussels, 26/10/2016 – The European Union has again failed to meet its commitment to spend 0.7% of Gross National Income on Development Aid by 2015. The CONCORD Aidwatch report 2016 published today, entitled ‘This is not enough’, reveals that only five countries met their 2015 targets: Denmark, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden and United Kingdom. This means there is a ‘debt’ of €36.9billion in 2015 between what the EU has promised to developing countries and what it has delivered.
› concordeurope.org/aidwatch-report-2016/