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Thanks! Both, really. I built it because I kept seeing the same claims repeated — "Europeans are overtaxed for nothing", "Europe has no more free speech", etc. — and I wanted to check them against actual data. Turns out the data overwhelmingly supports Europe on most quality-of-life, safety, and democratic metrics.

The insight I'm trying to share: Europe is significantly stronger than the narrative suggests, especially the narrative that's been dominant in US-centric tech/media circles. Most people I talk to — including Europeans — are surprised by the numbers. I figured if the data is that compelling, it should be easy to access and hard to dismiss.

And who is making the "data" ? Who is funding it ? The EU lol.

You need to be able to read between the lines to see that the EU is free falling, research your own data dont be spoon feed this fake crap that EU is putting out

The sources are listed on every chart. The life expectancy data comes from the World Bank (headquartered in Washington, D.C., majority-funded by the US). GDP figures are from the IMF (also DC-based). Democracy scores come from the Economist Intelligence Unit (a British organization). Press freedom is from Reporters Without Borders (Paris-based NGO, independently funded). CO2 data is from the Global Carbon Project. Gun violence stats are taken directly from the Gun Violence Archive, a US nonprofit. Healthcare spending comparisons are from the OECD (funded by its 38 member countries, including the US, Japan, Australia — not an EU institution). The live electricity data comes from ENTSO-E, the grid operators' transparency platform — it's raw generation data, not opinion.

These are not "EU data." If anything, most of the sources are American or international. You're welcome to check any of them — every metric on the site links to its source. That's the whole point.

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