Europe & Russia

Across the world, a median of 78% say representative democracy is a good way to govern their country. Yet, pro-democracy views coexist with openness to nondemocratic forms of governance.

Today, more than 80 countries either have an official religion or favor one or more religious groups over others.

In all, more than half a million asylum seekers from Syria during the 2015-16 migration surge had received permission to stay in Europe as of Dec. 31, 2016.

About half of those who applied for asylum in Europe during the refugee surge of 2015 and 2016 were still waiting to learn their fate as of the end of last year.

Public debt has increased sharply in many countries in recent years, particularly during and after the Great Recession.

An overwhelming 86% of Germans believe their economy is doing well, up from 75% last year. Germans are also happy with their political establishment.

Some 1.3 million first-time asylum applications alone were filed in EU countries, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 and an additional 1.2 million were filed in 2016

Während sich Protestanten auf den 500. Jahrestag der Reformation vorbereiten, zeigen neue Umfragen des Pew Research Center, dass sich die theologischen Unterschiede, die das westliche Christentum im 16. Jahrhundert gespalten haben, sowohl in Westeuropa als auch in den Vereinigten Staaten auf ein Maß verringert haben, das Christen in vergangenen Jahrhunderten möglicherweise schockiert hätte. In ganz […]