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Germany occupies leading position in Well-Being Ranking

October 28, 2019 by Eric Wehner Leave a Comment

Warsaw:  Germany is one of the world’s top countries in terms of well-being of its population. Among 143 countries, Germany currently ranks twelfth, according to a study conducted by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). “Germany is above the EU average in all areas,” said Matthias Tauber, head of BCG Germany.

The Consulting Group examined how states performed in the economic, investment and sustainability dimensions. With 40 indicators, they examined areas such as employment and income, health, education and infrastructure or the environment and gender equality. Germany achieved high scores in almost all cases and, with a total score of 81.5 points, came very close to the maximum score of 100.

Norway is at the top of the ranking with 87.7 points, followed by Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden. The Scandinavian countries shone with equal rights and good education. Germany achieved particularly high values in economic stability, health and equality. The Boston Consulting Group praised the good development of income and employment in Germany. While economic power has risen in recent years, unemployment has fallen to close to full employment. In terms of income, however, countries such as Switzerland and the USA performed better. In the environmental category, Germany caught up strongly.

The development in Germany was negative in terms of infrastructure, such as roads, railways and broadband expansion. In terms of education, Germany lost two places. The poor development in the education sector is reflected in the shortage of skilled workers.

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More than 70,000 children displaced in Syria

October 21, 2019 by Eric Wehner Leave a Comment

Warsaw: Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces has begun to withdraw from the northern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by the YPG, have announced that they have already left the fought-over border town of Ras al-Ain. “We no longer have any fighters in the city,” wrote an SDF spokesman on Twitter. The Turkish Ministry of Defence announced that it is following the withdrawal of the YPG. There are “no obstacles”.

The UK-based Syrian Human Rights Observatory reported that some 500 SDF fighters had completely withdrawn from the city. The dead and wounded had previously been brought out of the town.  Turkey had given the Kurds until Tuesday to withdraw from the border area.

According to humanitarian aid workers, the situation in the border area is catastrophic. “Last week was very critical for hundreds of thousands of Syrians,” a spokesman for the Norwegian Refugee Council told reporters. They are living in fear and insecurity without knowing where the next bomb will explode. According to the United Nations, more than 165,000 people have been displaced by the fighting, including 70,000 children.

It is believed that more and more of them will flee to neighboring Iraq and other areas that are not prepared to receive displaced families. The situation in the Syrian camps is “extremely worrying”. Even before the Turkish invasion, 100,000 displaced persons had lived in the camps in the region. This only worked with the support of humanitarian aid workers – who have now fled from the Turkish military themselves.

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Cocaine trade rising in Europe

June 6, 2019 by Eric Wehner Leave a Comment

Warsaw: The EU’s new drug report reveals shocking findings. According to the report the amount of cocaine in the European Union has risen to a new record level. There are now even sales centers delivering cocaine. Saarbrücken and Erfurt in Germany are the top two places where cocaine is selling through these centers in Europe.
According to the report 96 million adults between the age of 15 and 64 have tried illegal drugs at least once in their lives in Europe. Cannabis is the most popular drug, consuming about five times more than any other drug. These are just two of the findings of the latest EU drug report published in Brussels on Thursday.
Cocaine, in particular, is currently experiencing a boom in Europe. 104 tonnes of the drug were seized in 2017, about twice as much as in the previous year – and illegal use has reached record levels.

The importance of heroin, which has dominated the European drug market for a long time, declined, with fewer and fewer people injecting opioids. At the same time, long-term users are ageing and the average age of people who died from overdoses has risen.

Nevertheless, the number of deaths associated with drug use has remained stable overall. In 2017, 9461 people died of drugs in the EU, Norway and Turkey, a figure similar to the previous year. More than three-quarters of drug deaths are related to opioids such as heroin.

The challenges we face in the field of drugs are increasing,” says Alexis Goosdeel, Director of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA), which releases the report every year. Not only herbal drugs such as cocaine are on the rise, but there is also a growing market for synthetic drugs in Europe. More and more drugs are also being produced in Europe.

In order to find out how many people consume which drugs, the EMCDDA uses sophisticated methods. For example, wastewater in cities is analyzed to determine drug residues. Online surveys and information from drug testing centers and hospitals were also included in the report

However, cannabis remains the most widespread illegal drug. 27% of all adults in the EU have tried cannabis at least once in their lives. Of young Europeans aged between 15-34, 14% have used the drug in the last 12 months, with men twice as many as women. In France, in particular, the use of drugs by young people is high

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