The voter abstention “bomb”, over time, across Europe
A cross-border data journalism feature, led by Divergente with the assistance of twelve other journalistic organizations—members of the European Data Journalism Network (EDJNet)—studied voter abstention from all types of elections across Europe over the last 50 years. It examined voter turnout in relation to 16 socio-economic indicators, analyzing a total of 697 elections in the 27 Member States from 1974 to 2023.
The messy data sources behind the “Mapping diversity” project
The methodology followed regarding the sources, the data collection and the data processing as part of the EDJNet's "Mapping Diversity" project.
Mapping the honoured individuals in the streets of Europe
EDJNet looked at 145,933 streets named after individuals in 30 major European cities located in 17 different countries. Only 9% of these are named after a woman.
Prisons remained unprotected during the 4th wave of the pandemic
Measures to limit the transmission of coronavirus in Greek prisons did not work, resulting in a 1.4 times higher spread compared to the general population.