When Theresa May announced her intention to call a general election back in April, the Conservative lead over Labour in the polls was around 21%. As you can see in the graph above, this lead has been shrinking over time. It will be very interesting to see what happens in this election next month.

A couple of days ago Eurostat published a report describing the annual inflation rate in the EU area and some other non-EU European countries. As you can see in the map above, the Baltic countries had the highest inflation rates (Estonia: 3.6%, Lithuania: 3.5%, and Latvia: 3.3%), while Romania (0.6%), Ireland (0.7%), and Slovakia (0.8%) had the lowest ones.

Beautiful sky at the Basel airport.

Today the French are voting in their presidential election, and the possibility of having a far-right president, who has campaigned against Europe and NATO, brings dark clouds to the European horizon. I'm hoping the French people will reject those proposals. Allez les Bleus!

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