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There were 9.4 million beehives on EU farms in 2023, according to Eurostat, with the number of beehives increasing by 1.3 million (+16%), from 8.1 million in 2020.

14.7 per cent of employees in the EU were low-wage earners in 2022, as opposed to 16.2% in 2018, in a set of figures released Thursday by Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency.