Europe

We do fact checks and explain news from Europe and the UK's links with it, so you can understand the big stories.

10 February 2017

Economy, Business & Finance

How much would a hard Brexit cost?

It's not unorthodox to say that trading with the EU under terms set by the WTO would be bad from an economic perspective, but putting an exact cost on it is tricky. Read

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3 February 2017

Europe

Are we all getting 14 weeks holiday?

A graph in the Brexit white paper got the number of weeks UK law gives workers in annual holiday and EU law gives workers in paid maternity leave round the wrong way. It’s now been corrected. Read

Fact checks
13 January 2017

Europe

UK wealth: how much is owned by the 1%?

Even though it’s tricky to estimate what people own, especially the very rich, the claim that 1% of the UK population own 50% of its wealth isn’t supported by the estimates we’ve seen. Read

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