Eurostat

In the first quarter of 2026, the EU’s imports of petroleum oil remained stable compared with the monthly average in 2025. ⛽🌍

🔸Petroleum oils: value of imports rose slightly (+0.8%), volume recorded a minor decrease (-0.6%).
🔸Liquefied gas: imports decreased by 8.0% in value but increased by 2.9% in volume.
🔸Natural gas in gaseous state: drops both in value (-12.7%) and volume (-4.0%).

During this period, the main suppliers of petroleum oil to the EU were the 🇺🇸 United States with 17.8% of trade in value.

🔹 The majority of liquefied natural gas was also imported from the 🇺🇸 United States (57.4%).

🔹 🇳🇴 Norway was the main supplier of natural gas in its gaseous state (54.4%).

Learn more about this data ➡️ https://link.europa.eu/XrWXJm

In 2024, 9.8 million tonnes of mineral fertilisers (nitrogen and phosphorus) were used in agricultural production across the EU. 🛢️🚜

🔹This represented a 6.0% increase compared with the quantity used in 2023 (9.2 million tonnes), though it remained 15.8% below the relative peak in 2017.

Read more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/3NFB84

Between 2015 and 2025, construction prices for new residential buildings (excluding residences for communities) increased by 48.2% across the EU. 🏡🏠

Prices rose the most quickly during the past decade in:

🇧🇬Bulgaria (+166.1%)
🇭🇺Hungary (+155.4%)
🇷🇴Romania (+130.7%)

Slowest rises in:

🇮🇹Italy (+17.0%)
🇬🇷Greece (+17.3%)
🇫🇮Finland (+22.1%)

Read more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/b7Fyp7

Today is Slovenia’s Statehood Day. 🇸🇮

Čestitke ob dnevu državnosti, Slovenija!

See the country's infographic here.

In 2025, actual individual consumption (AIC) per capita expressed in purchasing power standard (PPS) varied from 73% to 145% of the EU average across the EU.

Highest in:

🇱🇺Luxembourg (45% above the EU average)
🇩🇪Germany (20%)
🇳🇱Netherlands (19%)

Lowest in:

🇭🇺Hungary and 🇱🇻Latvia (27% below the EU average)
🇪🇪Estonia (26%)

Read now 👉 https://link.europa.eu/kk4bDD

𝐎𝐧𝐞-𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐔 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 📝🗃

In 2025, women held 33.6% of the seats in national parliaments across the EU, marking a 5.4 percentage points (pp) increase compared with 2015.

Highest shares in:

🇫🇮Finland (46.0%)
🇸🇪Sweden (44.8%)
🇩🇰Denmark (44.7%)

Lowest in:

🇨🇾Cyprus (14.3%)
🇭🇺Hungary (15.6%)
🇷🇴Romania (22.0%)

🔹Compared with 2015, all EU countries recorded increases in the share of female representatives, except 🇩🇪Germany (-3.5 pp).

Read more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/9xwr6k