Questions tagged [europe]
For questions about claims based in Europe, or limited to Europe.
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Were more than 1100 industrial firms wiped out under the directions of Veselin Vukotić?
This documentary by Boris Malagurski claims that than 1100 industrial firms were wiped out from January 1989 to September 1990 under the lead of the US-supported Yugoslavian minister of privatisation ...
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Is it illegal to pee in the sea in Portugal and certain parts of Spain?
I first came across this claim in a map that was circulating online, originating from The World in Maps account on Instagram:
Naturally, I did some research of my own and found that it's Vigo, Spain (...
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Do the European regulations on AI have a clause saying that they do not apply to military use?
Geoffrey Hinton says in the podcast Godfather of AI: I Tried to Warn Them, But We’ve Already Lost Control! Geoffrey Hinton that:
In particular the European regulations have a clause in them that say ...
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Does the UK EU Horizon programme contribute to the European Defence Fund?
On the 7th of September 2023, the Sunak Conservative government announced joining the EU Horizon programme with a bespoke deal.
At the same time, the European Commission also confirmed this with a ...
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Is the USA's military the only force that can defend against attacks involving cruise missiles & drones?
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In the now infamous leaked group text chat, the USA National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, claimed:
Whether we pull the plug or not today European navies do not have the capability to ...
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Did Tunisia's president return €150 million paid by the EU as part of a “cash for migration control” deal?
According to The Telegraph, (alleged) EU papers leaked by Hungary show that:
Kais Saied, [Tunisia's] authoritarian president, has returned €150 million paid by the EU as part of a “cash for migration ...
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Did Hamas dig up EU-funded water pipes and turn them into rockets?
A recurring narrative/allegation in debates about the current Hamas/Israel conflict is that Hamas has dug up EU steel pipes and turned them into Qassam rockets. The main sources for this appear to be ...
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Are people of African descent subject to more harassment in Finland than other EU countries?
Helsinki times (Largest newspaper in the country) writes:
PEOPLE of African descent consider Finland as one of the most racist countries in the European Union, suggests a 13-member state study by the ...
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Do EU sanctions prevent Russian visitors from bringing their smartphones/toothpaste with them into the EU?
This morning a Russian media company RBC reported that (vaguely translated from Russian) "EU prohibited Russians to enter the EU with personal cars, smartphones and shampoo". A similar story ...
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Was there a pattern of women in Middle Ages Europe poisoning their husbands to keep them close?
There's a claim doing the rounds on social media, that women in the Middle Ages would poison their husbands, and then administer an antidote on their arrival home. The implication is that this would &...
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Did a yacht owned by a Polish company with Ukrainian owners travel from Rostock to Christiansø on September 6-7, 2022?
A number of mainstream German newspapers claimed on March 7 that a likely Ukrainian commando travelling on false passports boarded a yacht registered to a Polish company (but ultimately owned by ...
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Did the EU prohibit the transport of Russian fertilizer to non-EU countries, so that only the EU could purchase it?
Reportedly Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia
accused EU officials of “selfishness, cynicism and hypocrisy” for prohibiting European carriers from transporting Russian ...
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Has there been a 1101% increase in excess deaths among children aged 0-14 across Europe in 2022?
According to the blogger Peter Sweden:
If we take a look at the excess deaths among children aged 0-14 across Europe, there has been a HORRIFYING 1101% increase in excess deaths so far this year ...
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Did Konrad Adenauer claim that Europe and Asia encounter at the Elbe?
According to James Hawes1,
Konrad Adenauer, its first postwar chancellor and founding father, made Westbindung (“binding to the West”) the heart of West German politics. Adenauer came from the deeply ...
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Would a meltdown/explosion at Zaporizhia mean the "evacuation" of Europe?
According to the Guardian, Zelenskiy said (on the fighting at Zaporizhia nuclear plant):
��If there will be an explosion, it will be the end to all of us: the
end of Europe, the evacuation of Europe,”
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