Mostly true: “More than 80% of COVID19 vaccines have been given in higher-income countries compared with just 0,3% in lower-income countries”

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy AP University College, BE June 27, 2021

On May 8th 2021 Melissa Fleming, who works at the UN as Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, tweeted about a great inequality between the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations. She claimed that high income countries have received more than 80% of the vaccinations in comparison to low income countries who obtained only 0.3%. The claim turns out…

Mostly true: “Belgium is one of the European countries contributing most to tropical deforestation”

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy AP University College, BE June 25, 2021

On Wednesday 14 April, an article (pay wall, Dutch) appeared on the website of Flemish newspaper De Morgen on a WWF report (Dutch) on tropical deforestation. It states that Belgium is one of the largest deforesters in Europe, per capita. The claim turns out to be mostly true. Belgium is indeed one of the European…

Mostly true: Unauthorized refugees in need of protection are receiving rejections in the EU

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy University of Zagreb, HR June 23, 2021

The refugee policies within EU states are struggling with transparency and consistency. According to a Deutsche Welle article, Catherine Woolard (director of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles) said that asylum decision-making in Europe even resembles a lottery game, meaning that people often end up being rejected even though they need protection. By researching…

Mostly true: “Without immigration, economic growth risks being undermined”

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy AP University College, BE June 18, 2021

“The corona crisis has reduced migration flows worldwide. That has implications for prosperity. In rich countries, economic growth without immigration risks being undermined.” This claim from the German statistical bureau Destatis, published in Belgian newspaper De Standaard from 10 February 2021, turns out to be mostly true. Immigration is a global phenomenon with Europe as…

Mostly true: UK is halfway to carbon neutrality goal

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy Artevelde University of Applied Sciences, BE June 11, 2021

At the Climate Summit organised by the United States in April, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated that the United Kingdom is “halfway to net-zero”. It is correct that the UK is halfway on their net-zero policy. However, the claim is only mostly true, as research shows the scenario is not as optimistic as the…

Mostly true: “Wind is the most important source of energy“

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy Jade Hochschule, University of Applied Sciences, Wilhelmshaven, DE June 7, 2021

On 5thMarch 2021, Tagesschau.de reported on the energy supply in Germany and stated wind as the most important source of electricity. They claim that in 2020 for the first time more electric power had been generated with wind energy than with coal and that renewable energy achieves a record high. The claim turns out to…

Mostly true: The US and China have been “leading in investment into AI”

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy Artevelde University of Applied Sciences, BE June 4, 2021

“The US and China have been the ones that have been innovators, and leading in investment into AI”, EU law professor Anu Bradford said. In April, she made the statement in an article discussing the European Union’s approach to artificial intelligence in the newspaper Financial Times. Research shows her claim is mostly true. In April,…

Mostly true: “Poverty remains a major problem in Romania and the value of work in Romania is more than 3 times lower than the EU average”

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy Babes-Bolyai University, RO June 2, 2021

Mostly true: “Poverty remains a major problem in Romania and the value of work in Romania is more than 3 times lower than the EU average” On the 1st of May 2021, which is symbolically deemed Labour Day, Raluca Turcan, the Romanian Minister of Work and Social Protection, took to Facebook in order to convey…

Mostly true: Europe is too slow with the roll-out of 5G

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy Artevelde University of Applied Sciences, BE June 2, 2021

Last month, Börje Ekhom claimed that “Europe is too slow with the roll-out of 5G” in an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde. The CEO of the Swedish networking and telecommunications company Ericsson expects that Europe will need two years to reach the current level of China. Research shows Europe is slower in rolling…

Mostly true: “8 out of 10 migrants who came to Europe in 2020 were men”

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, BE May 28, 2021

Nicolas Bay, vice-president of the European Identity and Democracy Group, claimed during the plenary session of 19 January that more than eight out of ten migrants to are adult men. This claim is based on an official Frontex press release and turns out to be true. “Though it’s not the whole picture,” says Ciara Bottomley,…

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