Wine and cheese are popular when enjoying a sunny terrace. France, with its famous grape varieties Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Chardonnay and Syrah, is the country with the largest wine production in 2015. Spain was the second largest producer. Note that the numbers of Italy were not available. France was also the largest cheese producer, however the latest data contains the cheese production from 2014. Several different cheese categories belong to the denomination "cheese". They differ mainly from their moisture content. The data presented below relate to all cheese. Discover all countries'

The export-to-import ratio is the value of export of goods and services divided by the imports of goods and services. Values higher than one indicate a positive trade balance whereas values smaller than one indicate a negative trade balance (source: Eurostat website). This ratio is known for 30 countries for the period 2002 to 2013. Norway is the country with the highest ratio, followed by Austria and Germany. In the early 2000s, Norway had a much higher ratio, but since 2009 the ratio has been increasing for most of the other countries. Therefore the difference between Norway and for example

There are many cities to visit all over Europe. What better way is there to explore these cities by bike. Transportation by bike helps protecting the environment, when otherwise a car or another motorized vehicle would be used. Riding a bike also improves personal health. Lastly, bike rentals promote asset sharing. There are several cities among Europe sharing the location of rental bikes as Open Data. If you plan a city trip to for example Cologne, Dublin, Malaga or Santander, you can find a lot of information online about where to get yourself a bike to visit the city! Take a look at the

It might not come as a surprise that there are less data sets found for smaller European countries, as they might simply have less data to share. A correlation we had presented in an earlier Featured Data. Nonetheless, smaller countries, are given the opportunity to show a bigger relative growth compared to larger countries with already large amounts of data referenced. This Featured Data examines the change in amount of datasets over the last three months for which the numbers can be found in the table below: This can be explained by the fact that smaller countries show a significantly larger

Specific regions in countries produce specific goods. Goods which are transported to other regions or countries. How much of these goods are transported via rail? And which country could benefit from transporting more via rail? Germany is the top country in rail transport among the EU28+ countries (European Union member states plus Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland). Poland and France are following, be it at an appropriate distance of Germany. The trends of amount of goods transported via rail during the last 10 years are visualised. Note that most of the data from 2015 is not yet

On Friday 10 June 2016 the European Championship kicked off in France with the match of the organising country against Romania. In one month time 24 teams will compete to become the champion and gain the cup. But when it comes to Open Data in the field of football, which European country can already be crowned the champion in that topic? The datasets available contain information about football on various topics. For example about the facilities of football in a certain region or city, the spending of safety authority on licences and information on players, crew etc. in a country. Will this

Since the release of the first official version of the European Data Portal (EDP) in February 2016, the number of catalogues harvested by the EDP and the number of datasets harvested by the national portals, has increased. The datasets are categorised into 13 domains. Some national portals use a different categorisation requiring the mapping to be continuously improved and updated. Currently, approximately 70% of the datasets harvested are mapped to the 13 domains of the EDP. As the number of datasets on EDP is increasing since end February, it is interesting to know which of these data

Travelling is a great way to relax and explore parts of the world. With the summer approaching, people are planning trips to numerous interesting places all over the globe. One of the most popular destinations of trips like these is London, both for short and long term visits. But how long are those tourists actually staying? And where do they come from? Because of the Open Data published by London on its tourists we can answer these questions. The majority of international stay for less than a week when visiting London. From the graph it can also be seen that over the years, the number of

The popularity of drones has recently taken a flight among citizens. It has become a hobby for many to fly them and discover the beautiful images from above. However, this development also creates concerns in a number of fields. As the air is an open space, drones can go everywhere and see whatever they want. Some governments are therefore working on legislation to specify where you are allowed to fly your drone and where not. For example, during the UEFA European Football Championship in France, the French government turned the stadiums and training locations into no-fly zones. The Dutch

The European Data Portal harvests the metadata of Public Sector Information available on portals, both national and regional/local, throughout Europe. Currently there are 71 catalogues harvested, which provide a total amount of more than 640,000 data sets. When looking at the download statistics, since the launch of the portal on 15 November 2015 the most downloaded data is from the national Open Data Portal in the UK. However, this portal is closely followed by the data portal of the European Union where all the data from the EU institutions is centralised. Data sets from portals in Poland