First permits issued for family reunification to a beneficiary of protection status 2016-2018
First-instance decisions 2015-2018, by outcome
Non-EU population 25-54 years by education level (2018)
Age distribution by citizenship – EU and non-EU
(Percentage of population, 2018)
Labour force – non-EU population
(% of non-EU population 15-64 years, 4th quarter 2018)
Non-EU population in the Member States
(Percentage share and in million persons, 2018)
First instance decisions on asylum
(2018)
Top 20 countries of origin
(in 1 000 applicants, 2018)
Asylum applicants in the EU
(in 1 000 applicants, 2018)
Asylum applicants in the EU
(per million inhabitants, 2018)
Migrants in the European Union* (in millions)
First residence permits per inhabitant in 2016
First residence permits by reason
First residence permits for occupational reasons in 2017
EU blue cards granted in 2017
EU blue card holders’ main countries of origin, 2017 (thousands)
Residence permits granted in the EU for family reasons
Employment rates in 2017, by citizenship group, education and gender
SIS alerts (in millions)
Detections of illegal crossings of EU external borders
Detections of illegal border crossings in the EU and migratory routes
Alerts and searches in SIS II
First-time asylum applications and irregular border crossings
Number of resettled refugees by resettlement country in 2017
Top 25 countries in the world ranked by the number of refugees and people in a refugee-like situation, excluding asylum-seekers, living in them in mid-2017
First instance decisions on asylum in the EU-28
Asylum applicants in the EU-28
Missing migrants along the Mediterranean migratory routes
Detections of illegal border crossing in the EU
Areas targeted by main migration funding programmes
Top 20 states of non-EU citizens returned to their country of origin, 2015-2016
Figure 2 – Hits related to persons found illegally staying in a Member State who had previously lodged an application in another Member State
Figure 1 – Hits related to applicants for international protection who have previously lodged an application in another Member State
Comparison of EU Blue Cards (BC) and first permits
Eurojust’s cases
New data subjects related to illegal stay and corresponding hits in Eurodac
VIS searches for law enforcement purposes
International tourist arrivals in the EU, including projections
Requests and notifications sent through ECRIS (thousands)
Member states implementing the Prüm Decisions on key types of data
Foreign terrorist fighters in the EIS
Data subjects in the EIS (in millions)
New data subjects related to asylum claims and corresponding hits in Eurodac
Data subjects in Eurodac (in millions)
VIS searches for asylum purposes and for visa verification in the territory
Applications for Schengen visa (in millions)
Searches in the SIS (in billions)
Alerts on persons in the SIS (in millions)
Illegal border crossings and first time asylum applications (in millions)
Illegally staying third-country nationals, return decisions and effective returns
SIS alerts on persons
Regional statistics (absolute numbers) for migrant children, 2015
Children on the Move Globally in 2015 (absolute numbers)
Asylum applications in the 28 EU Member States
EASO budget (€ million)
The Western Balkan route
Authorities involved in the asylum procedure
Foreign fighters (FF) and returnees by Member State, 2015
Top three main countries of origin for asylum applications in the EU 2011-2014
Migration routes towards Europe, main countries of origin and detention centres
The EU contribution to building refugee and host community resilience (29 January 2016)
The EU contribution to building refugee and host community resilience (14 January 2016)
Humanitarian response plans 2016 (US$bn)
Humanitarian response (2000-2016)
Graphics on Institutional affairs
-Voting age in the Member States
Age to stand as a candidate for the EP
Electoral thresholds for the 2024 European elections
Age to stand as a candidate for the EP
Voting age in the Member States
Size of political group
Proportion of Members in each political group
Size of political groups in the EP by Member State (as of 1 May 2023)
Age distribution of MEPs
Age of MEPs
Age of MEPs
Proportion of men and women in the EP
Women in the EP and EU national parliaments
Women MEPs by MS
Strengths of the political groups in each parliamentary term
National parties and political groups in the EP
Voting system and number of MEPs
Voting methods for citizens resident abroad
Minimum age of candidates
Electoral threshold
The work of the European Parliament
Parliamentary committees
Share of committee chairs by political group (May 2023)
Inter-parliamentary delegations
Legislative resolutions adopted in plenary
Ordinary legislative procedure / co-decision
Co-decision procedure
Number of trilogues per year and per committee
Number of legislative and own-initiative reports
President of the European Parliament
The Conference of Presidents (CoP)
The von der Leyen Commission’s six priorities: Legislative and non-legislative delivery to 31 August 2022
Career path of Heads of State or Government in the European council
Coalition governments in the European Council
Political affiliation of EU Heads of State
Presidents of the European Council
Political group affiliation of Heads of State or Government over time
Historical evolution of the European Council
Top 10 EU HoG by EUCO meetings
Top 10 HoG by days in EUCO
Evolution of the role of the European Council
Average length of EUCO membership for leaders
Members of the European Council
Political balance in the EUCO and in EP
Main topics discussed by the European Council
The European Council in the EU policy cycle
Gender of European Council members
Figure 2 – Overview of high-level office-holders since the 2009 European Parliament elections
Figure1 – Office holders, their European political party affiliation, Member State and date of (re-)election
The von der Leyen Commission’s six priorities: Legislative delivery to 31 August 2021
The Conference on the Future
The von der Leyen Commission’s six priorities: Legislative delivery to 31 March 2021
Share of women in national parliaments (both houses)
Share of women in the European Parliament
Gender equality index – Political power, change between 2005 and 2018
College of Commissioners by age and gender
College of Commissioners
The College of Commissioners in historical perspective
Total Commission staff
Commissioners and groups of Commissioners
Commissioners’ relationships with EP Committees
Commissioners, Directorates-General and staff
EU Budget
Gender distribution and size of each Directorate-General
Gender distribution of staff by age
Infringement procedures
Location of Commission staff
Nationality of Commission staff
Historical evolution of number of Commission staff
Number of staff by Directorate-General
Political make-up of the College of Commissioners
Proposals and legal acts adopted by the Commission
Figure 1 – The pros and cons of QMV in foreign and security policy
Total tweets per EU leader January 2019 to June 2020
Figure 2 – Total EU-related tweets by EU Heads of State or Government, January 2019 to June 2020
Figure 3 – EU tweets as a percentage of EU leaders’ total tweets
Figure 4 – Total number of EU issues addressed per EU Head of State or Government
Figure 5 – Frequency and weight of tweets on EU issues
Figure 6 – EU leaders’ Twitter activity on different clusters and individual EU issues
Figure 7 – Tweets concerning EU external relations per EU leader and sub-issue
Figure 8 – Number of tweets by EU Heads of State or Government by meeting format
Figure 9 – Twitter communication by EU leaders on meetings with other EU leaders
Figure 9 – Twitter communication by EU leaders on meetings with other EU leaders
Figure 11 – Actual vs potential bilateral meetings between EU leaders as reported on Twitter
Figure 13 – Bilateral meetings between EU leaders who were in office during the full 18-month period
Figure 12 – Extrapolated sum of bilateral meetings between EU leaders, as reported on Twitter
Figure 14 – Extrapolated data on EU leaders’ meetings and their reporting on them via Twitter
Figure 15 – Key Franco-German interactions as reported on Twitter by Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel
Figure 16 – Average EU leaders’ total and EU tweets January 2019-June 2020
Figure 17 – Average EU leaders’ tweets on external relations, January 2019-June 2020
Figure 18 – Average number of EU leaders’ tweets on the MFF, January 2019-June 2020
Figure 19 – Average number of EU leaders’ tweets on Brexit and Covid 19, January 2019-June 2020
Figure 20 – EU leaders’ tweets on EU representatives
and institutions, January 2019-June 2020
Figure 21 – Average tweets on institutional and cross-cutting issues, January 2019-June 2020
Figure 22 – Average number of tweets by EU leaders
who held the Council presidency, January 2019 June 2020
Overview of topics addressed by each head of state or government, January 2019
Participants in Future of Europe debates in the European Parliament, January 2019
Timeline and key milestones of European Council involvement
Participants in Future of Europe debates in the European Parliament, October 2018
Turnout in European Parliament elections, 1979-2014
Overview of topics addressed by each Head of State or Government
Reservations in CETA by annexe and country
Countries that use internet voting
UK imports from extra-EU partners for selected agricultural sectors and share of UK imports in total EU imports from non-EU countries for those agricultural sectors (2017)
UK trade with other EU Member States (in share of total trade with the EU, 2017)
Tariff rate quote (TRQ) per EU-27 share of in quota usage
Countries that use electronic voting
UK trade with EU-28 and with the rest of the world (2016)
Minimum age of candidates
steps to prepare for the special European Council (Article 50) meeting on 25 November
Electoral Threshold
Location of Commission staff
Gender distribution and size of each Directorate-General
Gender distribution of staff by age group
Commissioners, Directorates-General and staff
Nationality of Commission staff
Number of MEPs and voting system
Size of political groups in the EP by Member State (as of 8 July 2015)
Commissioners’ relationships with EP Committees
political affiliation of current EU Heads of State or Government
Size of political groups in the EP by Member State (as of 11 November 2015)
Repartition of UK total trade (2017)
Size of political groups in the EP by Member State (as of 10 June 2015)
Number and average length of co-decision procedures
Current membership of the European Council October 2018
Number of legislative and own-initiative reports
Age of MEPs by Member State
Role of the European Council
Gender and age of members of the European Council
Historical evolution of the European Council
Figure 4 – Citizenship tests in EU-28
Figure 3 – Dual citizenship in naturalisation in EU-28
Presidents of the European Council
Figure 6 – Migrant population in EU-28 (millions)
Figure 1 – Rules of jus soli citizenship in EU-28
Figure 5 – Major modes of involuntary loss of citizenship in EU-28
number of legislative resolutions adopted in plenary each year since 2004
Priority 8: Towards a New Policy on Migration
Figure 2 – Minimum period of residence required for naturalisation in EU-28 (years)
Annual cost of the EP per inhabitant
Parliamentary committees
Voting from abroad
EP Bureau
Expected election day
Number of legislative and own-initiative reports
Trends in turnout at national and EP elections
EP Conference of Presidents
National parties and political groups in the EP
Table 2 – Essential elements of EU negotiating position on the financial settlement
Priority 7: An Area of Justice and Fundamental Rights Based on Mutual Trust
TTIP reading rooms in EU Member States
Size of political groups by MS
EP Size and proportion of political groups
Strengths of Political groups
Proportion of men and women in the EP
Priority 3: A Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy
Timeline of main steps taken in the EU and UK post-referendum, 2016 and early 2017
Previous rounds of negotiations
Timeline
Expectations for more EU involvement – Differences between Member States
Women MEPs by Member State
Working with partners and citizens
Legislation on lobbying
Data source: The European Parliament (9th edition), Corbett, Jacobs, Neville, 2016.
Size of political groups in the European Parliament by Member State (as of 03 May 2017)
Evolution of registrations in the Transparency Register since its launch
National provisions
Number of trilogues per year and per committee
Breakdown of entities registered in the Transparency register
Gap between expectation and current EU involvement
Priority 6: A Reasonable and Balanced Free Trade Agreement with the USA
stage of the co-decision procedure at which the EP and Council reached agreement on individual legislative texts
The College of Commissioners in a historical perspective
Negotiations on a withdrawal agreement
Characteristics of the structures and institutions of science-advice systems
Stage of the co-decision procedure at which the EP and Council reached agreement
Priority 4: A Deeper and Fairer Internal Market with a Strengthened Industrial Base
Priority 10: A Union of Democratic Change
Total Commission staff
Table 1 – Summary of benefits rights for EU citizens in a host Member State under the current EU rules
