Juan Convers

Duw to the historic Christianity expansion and the colonial history of America, Africa, Asia and Oceania, Xmas 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. The overall unemployment was 8.8% and even if the highest rates are still observed in Greece (20.6% Aug. 2017) and Spain (16.7%), they have the 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 were they describe how around 30 million people suffer from diabetes in the European Union. It's surprising how France is the country with the highest population of persons suffering the disease.

Two weeks ago the horrible mass shooting in las Vegas Ocurred where 59 people were killed and 241 were injured, followed by prayers and minutes of silence, but nothing substantially changed in the US to regulate the Gun Violence. The firearms ownership of that country is insane compared with the rest of the nations of the world.

There are many reasons why people become violent around the plante. but in the United States in particular, this violence become deadly when the perpetrator can get so easily a fire weapon.

Today the weather in Berlin was completely bouncing between sunny and rainy, but this created a quite stunning sky that you can observe in this picture.

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