You mean the one from Syria and largely ISIS related? You may as well ask if your statistics include illegal immigration from mexico. The answer is much the same: If they immigrated legally, yes, and sometimes even if not... yes?
Statistics don't lie. They can be misrepresented, but averages are seldom misrepresentation.
I can only repeat myself. Statistics don't lie. You are focused on outliers rather than the average which gives a broader picture.
I could point to parts of South America that would have the worst of America looking like slumville, if outliers is all we use. But that's silly.
What I wrote is NOT about outliers! You can twist and turn what I say however long you want to "prove" your're right, it won't make it true.
EU is funded and sustained by corrupt politics that exploits lives. This is not like the problem you have with Mexico (at least you have more ways to control it) or like anything within Africa for that matter. It's internal to EU and the laws make it real. People just look away or they don't care because "it's just Spain, not the EU". Or when similar things happen in Italy, "it's just Italy, not the EU"...... So, whenever it's convenient, whenever a country like Poland or Italy or Spain, etc. do something horrible and EU doesn't do anything, it's considered not EU problem??? You must be joking.
Look at what other people are writing as well about the normal taxes. And that doesn't even include Value-added tax of on average 20%. That is just on top of the whole corruption that exploits people and mismanagement here.
You would never want to live in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Cyprus, or Hungary as a US citizen and that's half of EU's countries. You still didn't show any of the statistics you claim to have seen. Somebody else posted statistics, but they were just of individual countries, that has absolutely nothing to say about EU as a whole. Statistics also almost always just look at "Western European" countries and they don't even look at those poorer countries, if they even get those statistics from them, or if they are even truthful in the first place. And of course EU wants to make it look as good as possible.
It's also very easy to obscure the inequality we have here, by only looking at each country individually. Show me a statistic that doesn't do that. Don't misrepresent statistics. I used to work with statistics and it's very easy to stumble into conclusions that are completely opposite to truth. EU is a clusterf**k of very poor and very rich countries, and there are totally failed countries in the middle of Europe like Serbia that EU doesn't even want to include because they are so poor. And EU can't even control their own countries. It's like having no control or real oversight over the cities in your country. It's more like 30 different neighbors fighting and bickering all the time but then just giving up, than a real country. EU is not even close to something I would call a union...
I can tell you from my experience in EU that the poorest people are much poorer than in the US, while the richest might not be as rich as the 1% in the US, but that's just 1%. As the large majority, I think we have way more inequality here in EU overall than US has. But even with your 1%, we have way poorer people in the EU than US has. But when it's convenient, we just look away or we don't compare Germany or UK to Bulgaria, Latvia or Portugal. You could argue that in each individual country the inequality is better than US (though you still wouldn't want to live in half of them), but on a whole it's a totally different story. There are also reasons why in the EU they don't compare say, Sweden to Greece in inequality because they are totally different states with their own politics for the most part. But also because it probably looks much better in the statistics. That's why I hate it when people say EU and treat it like a single country. Show me your statistics before this goes on even longer.
EDIT:
This paper proves my point completely, when you actually compare the countries to each other, EU has much higher inequality.
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Is Europe more unequal than the United States?
[...]
Our first result is that spatial inequalities have always been much smaller in the US than in Europe, at least since the mid-twentieth century. Figure 24 plots the ratio of the average income of the population-weighed top 10% countries or states to the population-weighed poorest 50% countries or states of Europe and the US respectively. This indicator is a simple measure of spatial inequality: it compares the average income of the “core” territories to that of the poorest states or countries gathering half of the total population. In Europe, inequalities between countries have decreased slightly from 1950 to the beginning of the 1980s and have remained broadly stable since then: in 2017, the national income of top 10% European countries was 2.8 times higher than that of the bottom 50%. Spatial heterogeneity has never reached such levels in the US, where the top 10% to bottom 50% ratio has decreased from 2.5 at the beginning of the 1930s to 1.5 in 2017.
These differences are apparent when comparing individual countries and states in recent years. The poorest European countries had national incomes per adult lower than the continental average by more than 50%, both in 1980 and in 2017 (figure A.4). There was no such equivalent in the US, neither today nor thirty years ago. In 1980, poorest US states were characterized by standards of living lower than the national average by no more than 25%, and this figure did not exceed 40% in 2017 (table A.7). Similarly, the wealthiest countries of Europe have steadily remained richer than the average European by about 75%, compared to only 25% in the US. There were, both in 1980 and 2017, small US states who were significantly richer than the rest of the country: in 1980, residents of Alaska and Washington D.C. earned more than 300% of US national income. Beyond these exceptions, however, a vast majority of states have always had standards of living located between 70% and 120% of the national average.
There are at least two potential explanations for these differences. [...] " And so on.
Here, they actually compare the individual countries and they show income in the EU is 2.8 times higher than the bottom 50%. In the US it's only 1.5 times higher today. And that the poorest in Europe are significantly poorer than in the US... You are being lied to or are trying your best to deliberately fool yourself and others.
Source:
https://wid.world/document/bcg2019-full-paper/#page=48&zoom=100,96,869 (Quote from page 50)
