This picture was taken in Łańcut, a Polish city in the southeast of the country. The Łańcut Castle in the picture was completed in 1641. The idea was to build a fortified residence to repel an attack from the Swedes.

A couple of weeks ago an article in Business Insider stated that Apple’s iOS was losing market share in Europe's four largest markets (Great Britain, France, Italy, and Spain) besides Japan. I haven't checked the mobile global market in a while, and checking the StatCounter stats today shows that Android is clearly dominant on a global scale. It's true Android has some issues, including well-known fragmentation, but I still prefer the flexibility of this OS over the iOS one.

Due to the expansion of Christianity and the colonial history of America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, Christmas is a public holiday in the majority of countries around the world. So, if you are celebrating Christmas today, I wish you a merry one!

At the end of last month Eurostats published a report with the updated unemployment rate figures across the Euro Area. Overall unemployment was 8.8%. Although the highest rates are still observed in Greece (20.6% Aug. 2017) and Spain (16.7%), they have decreased compared to the previous year.

The lowest rates, on the other hand, were observed in October 2017: Czechia (2.7%), Malta (3.5%), and Germany (3.6%).

Eurostat has an interesting page where they describe how around 30 million people suffer from diabetes in the European Union. It's surprising that France is the country with the highest population of persons suffering the disease.

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