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Digitalization

Netzwerkkabel hängen am 14.02.2013 in Jülich (Nordrhein-Westfalen) im Forschungszentrum an der Rückseite des Supercomputers Juqueen. Europas schnellster Rechner, Juqueen, geht offiziell an den Start. Mit einer maximalen Rechenleistung von 5,9 Petaflops kann der Supercomputer sechs Billiarden Rechenoperationen pro Sekunde durchführen. Foto: Oliver Berg/dpa +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++
Netzwerkkabel hängen am 14.02.2013 in J […]
An employee types on a computer keyboard at the headquarters of Internet security giant Kaspersky in Moscow., on October 17, 2016. Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP
An employee types on a computer keyboard […]
A connected continent

Eurozone

ILLUSTRATION - Griechische Euro-Münzen stehen am 07.01.2015 in Köln (Nordrhein-Westfalen) auf einer EU-Fahne. Die Bundesregierung entwickelt einem Medienbericht zufolge konkrete Strategien für einen möglichen Austritt Griechenlands aus der Eurozone. Foto: Oliver Berg/dpa +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++
ILLUSTRATION - Griechische Euro-Münzen […]
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The clocks of an installation ("Time field") by the artist Klaus Rinke in Duesseldorf, Germany, 24 March 2017. In the night on Sunday, the clocks will be set forward to summer time - from 2:00 to 3:00am. Photo: Federico Gambarini/dpa
The clocks of an installation ("Time fie […]
Many states, one currency

Brexit

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May leaves Downing Street in London 15.03.2017 (Britain). Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/dpa/archive
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May lea […]
View through a car window wet with rain on a British flag: Photo: Wolfgang Kumm/dpa/archive
View through a car window wet with rain […]
British lawmakers will vote on the Brexit deal in early December. Photo: Ben Stansall / AFP
British lawmakers will vote on the Brexi […]
Britain’s divorce from the EU

Elections

Winning European People's Party (EPP) leadership candidate, Manfred Weber, celebrates with his supporters after the result of the ballot in Helsinki, Finland, on November 8, 2018. Photo: Markku Ulander / Lehtikuva / AFP
Winning European People's Party (EPP) le […]
ARCHIVE - 03.05.2018, Belgium, Brussels: Manfred Weber (CSU), leader of the Group of the European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament, comes to a working breakfast before a Cabinet meeting in the Bavarian representation. According to German Commissioner Oettinger, Weber would be a good candidate for the European elections in May 2019. Photo: Sven Hoppe / dpa +++ dpa-Bildfunk +++
ARCHIVE - 03.05.2018, Belgium, Brussels: […]
The populist challenge

Migrants

Zia-ul Haq's 4 kids huddled around a burner used as a heater trying to warm themselves in one of the rooms in his small 3-room mud-hut where he lives with a family of 10, including himself, in a small camp in the outskirts of Kabul city on 20 December 2016. He had to flee Kunduz's Chahardara district due to continued fighting where his family was stuck in his house for 13 days. Around 580,000 people have been displaced due to conflict related violence in 2016 alone, surprising the Afghan government and international community alike. Internally Displaced Person (IDP). Photo: Mohammad Jawad/dpa/archive
Zia-ul Haq's 4 kids huddled around a bur […]
Russian flag behind a fence during the Opening Ceremony in Fisht Olympic Stadium at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, Sochi, Russia, 07 March 2014. Foto: Jan Woitas/dpa/archive
Russian flag behind a fence during the O […]
A new home in Europe?

Europe's youth

Schüler der Edith-Stein-Schule präsentieren am 06.09.2017 in Erfurt (Thüringen) die selbstgestalteten Wahlplakate für die U18-Bundestagswahl. Foto: Martin Schutt/dpa
Schüler der Edith-Stein-Schule präsent […]
A female student reads a book about the ERASMUS programme in Berlin. Photo: Jens Kalaene/dpa/archive
A female student reads a book about the […]
Worker in the Vatican in Rome. Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa/archive
Worker in the Vatican in Rome. Photo: Mi […]
People queue at the French Pole Emploi employment agency stand at an employment fair in Lille, northern France, on May 28, 2015. Photo: Philippe Huguen / AFP
People queue at the French Pole Emploi e […]
Endless opportunities or no future?

EU enlargement

ARCHIV - Zwei Männer feiern am 01.01.2007 vor einer EU-Fahne den EU-Beitritt Rumäniens in Bukarest. EPA/ROBERT GHEMENT (zu dpa Berichterstattung vor dem EU-Gipfel) +++(c) dpa - Bildfunk+++
ARCHIV - Zwei Männer feiern am 01.01.2 […]
Macedonian PM Zoran Zaev (C) waves a Macedonian flag during a 'Yes' rally ahead of a referendum on whether to change the country's name to 'The Republic of North Macedonia' in Skopje on September 16, 2018. Photo: Robert Atanasovski / AFP
Macedonian PM Zoran Zaev (C) waves a Mac […]
Migrants from the Middle East and North Africa eat lunch on a square in front of Sarajevo's railway station, on June 19, 2018. Photo: Elvis Barukcic / AFP
Migrants from the Middle East and North […]
The Union is growing

Defence and security

25.04.2018, Brandenburg, Schönefeld: Das zweistrahliges Mehrzweckkampfflugzeug Dassault Rafale aus Frankreich ist bei der Raumfahrtausstellung (ILA) ausgestellt. Bis Sonntag präsentierten 1100 Aussteller aus 41 Ländern ihre Neuheiten von Flugzeugen über Drohnen und Flugtaxis bis hin zu Raketentechnik. (zu dpa "Ein Kampfjet für Europa - Berlin und Paris gehen in Rüstungsoffensive" am 26.04.2018)
25.04.2018, Brandenburg, Schönefeld: Da […]
French soldiers on patrol during a 2012 NATO mission to Wardak province in Afghanistan. Photo: Jeff Pachoud / AFP
French soldiers on patrol during a 2012 […]
04 November 2018, France (France), Straßburg: French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte pass the republican guard at a concert for peace in Europe in Strasbourg Cathedral. The occasion is the end of the First World War and the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France 100 years ago. Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa
04 November 2018, France (France), Straà […]
A continent's preparations for a world of challenges

Food and agriculture

A student from Mount Saint Mary's College holds a plastic bag of glass eels caught in the Quassaick Creek in Newburgh, New York on May 1, 2013 as part of a project by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to monitor eel populations. Photo: Stan Honda / AFP
A student from Mount Saint Mary's Colleg […]
Various fresh and sliced cheeses are lying on a plate in Semlow (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), Germany. Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa/archive
Various fresh and sliced cheeses are lyi […]
Feeding a continent

Europe's Workforce

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Photo: dpa
Photo: Christian Charisius/dpa
Photo: Christian Charisius/dpa
A man works. Photo: Lukas Schulze/dpa/archive/illustration
A man works. Photo: Lukas Schulze/dpa/ar […]
ARCHIVE - 07.08.2014, Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart: A construction worker works on a construction site on a cement tank. (to dpa: "Construction boom: Baden-Württemberg must trash waste in other countries" from 30.01.2018) Photo: Sebastian Kahnert / dpa +++ (c) dpa - Bildfunk +++
ARCHIVE - 07.08.2014, Baden-Württemberg […]
Tensions between the poor and the rich

Climate change

07 March 2018, Switzerland, Geneva: A filler plug for a diesel tank is on display right next to a AdBlue filler plug (L) on an Audi SUV SQ7 TDI car model during the 2nd Press Day at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show. Photo: Uli Deck/dpa/archive
07 March 2018, Switzerland, Geneva: A fi […]
Mächtige Wasserdampfschwaden steigen aus den Kühltürmen eines Braunkohlekraftwerkes, unweit von Peitz (Brandenburg). Foto: Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/Archiv
Mächtige Wasserdampfschwaden steigen au […]
Tackling global warming