How much of the news here is about each issue today, and how it sounds, compared with the past 4 weeks. From 688 articles by the country’s own news sites today. How we read the news

Share of the coverage

1. War and security
   2.5% of the news · usually 2.8% · 17 articles
   • Huit gerbes de fleurs volées au monument de Stembert au lendemain des commémorations du 11 novembre : "C'est inexcusable" (lavenir.net)
   • Blue Dome : La défense antiaérienne de la Belgique se reconstruit à partir de Beauvechain (dhnet.be)

   Survey · Apr 2026 15% name “The conflict in the Middle East” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

   Survey · Apr 2026 9% name “Security and defence” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

   Survey · Apr 2026 6% name “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

2. AI
   1.7% of the news · usually 1.7% · 12 articles
   • "Ne pars pas, je vais être triste" : 30 ans après le Tamagotchi, les géants de l'IA jouent toujours plus avec nos sentiments (lalibre.be)
   • 'Nữ sinh Khoa học Công nghệ năm 2026': Theo đuổi AI để tìm dấu hiệu bệnh Alzheimer qua giọng nói (baomoi.com)
3. Jobs and work
   1.7% of the news · usually 1.5% · 12 articles
   • EU-Karriere: Deutsche Arbeitnehmer meiden Jobs in Brüssel (euronews.com)

   Survey · Apr 2026 11% name “Unemployment” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

4. Health
   1.5% of the news · usually 1.2% · 10 articles
   • La distillerie The Belgian Owl de Fexhe-Le-Haut-Clocher sur le point d'être reprise (dhnet.be)
   • Ecolo veut reconnaître les maladies liées aux pesticides comme maladies professionnelles (lalibre.be)

   Survey · Apr 2026 5% name “Health” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

5. Climate
   1.3% of the news · usually 1.0% · 9 articles
   • "La neutralité carbone, ce n'est pas la décroissance économique" (lalibre.be)
   • Pacific artists use photography and storytelling to challenge global leaders at COP31 (samoanews.com)

   Survey · 2023 58% Worried about climate change (Climate Change Opinion Survey (Meta, Yale), survey of Facebook users)

   Survey · Apr 2026 5% name “The environment and risks related to climate change” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

6. Immigration
   1.2% of the news · usually 0.5% · 2.4× usual · 8 articles
   • Loi sur les visites domiciliaires : trois député(e)s demandent des comptes à Yvan Verougstraete, "un sursaut est plus que jamais nécessaire" (dhnet.be)
   • La crise de l'accueil des demandeurs d'asile n'est pas résorbée en Belgique (lalibre.be)

   Survey · Apr 2026 16% name “Immigration” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

7. Cost of living
   1.0% of the news · usually 0.7% · 1.5× usual · 7 articles
   • Πληθωρισμός: Έρχεται καυτό 2027 με ώθηση από καύσιμα και ρεύμα – Καμπανάκι Βρυξελλών (newsit.gr)
   • Поляки купують багато нерухомості в Іспанії – як зростає попит (24tv.ua)

   Survey · Apr 2026 36% name “Rising prices / inflation / cost of living” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

   Survey · Apr 2026 16% name “The economic situation” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

   Survey · Apr 2026 8% name “Housing” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

8. Democracy and elections
   0.7% of the news · usually 2.1% · 5 articles
   • Drum prüfe, wer sich ewig bindet! (volksstimme.ch)
   • Novi ID. Polo ima sjajnu budućnost. Ima veliki interes kupaca i osvaja brojne nagrade (index.hr)

   Survey · Apr 2026 7% name “Threats to democracy (for example through information manipulation)” among the two most important issues facing the country (Standard Eurobarometer)

How the news sounds

• Tone−1.7positive minus negative words per 100usually −1.6The GDELT Project
• Anxiety1.0× usual3.3 words per 1,000usually 3.3The GDELT Project
• Fear1.0× usual1.1 words per 1,000usually 1.1The GDELT Project
• Anger1.0× usual5.9 words per 1,000usually 6.1The GDELT Project
• Sadness1.1× usual6.8 words per 1,000usually 6.2The GDELT Project
• Happiness1.0× usual5.4 words per 1,000usually 5.4The GDELT Project
• Financial uncertainty1.0× usual8.5 words per 1,000usually 8.6The GDELT Project

News coverage in more than 100 languages, machine-translated and counted with English word lists, from The GDELT Project.