1 | In the top 13 largest banks in the world, the first European bank BNP Paribas ranks 3rd while the first american bank J.P. Morgan Chase ranks 8th | https://www.thetealmango.com/featured/targest-banks-in-the-world/ | 2021 | 0 | 1 |
2 | The most profitable company in the world in 2013 is Apple, an american company, not european | CNN Money | 2013 | 1 | 0 |
3 | General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker from world including the European Union | Internet | 2013 | 1 | 0 |
4 | Airport with the highest passenger traffic in the world (world's busiest airport), in the period 2001 to 2013 is United States Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, located in the U.S. not the EU. | Airports Council International (ACI) | 2013 | 1 | 0 |
5 | World's busiest airport by cargo traffic - in the period 2002-2009 was Memphis International Airport, after 2010, fell to second place but still above EU airports. | Airports Council International (ACI) | 2013 | 1 | 0 |
6 | The most powerful supercomputer in the U.S. - Titan (Cray) - 27113 petaflops. The most powerful supercomputer in the EU - JUQUEEN (IBM Germany) - 5872 petaflops. See the big difference of F.L.O.P.S. and the fact that IBM is an American company! | Internet | 2013 | 1 | 0 |
7 | The United States is registered 13 deaths in 37 cases of cancer, and the European Union is registered 13 deaths in 30 cases of cancer | Romania Libera newspaper - online edition | 2013 | 1 | 0 |
8 | In air transportation, for every 1000 passengers, 14 bags went missing in the EU, compared with about five in the US | European Comission, http://ec.europa.eu/news/transport/090731_en.htm | 2013 | 1 | 0 |
9 | United States has demonstrated technological superiority: NSA was able to spy calls German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European officials for at least 10 years without European espionage services to realize that. | Internet, Mass Media | 2013 | 1 | 0 |
10 | The largest hypermarket chain in the world is WalMart American company based in Bentonville, Arkansas USA. The second is the retail company Carrefour, the European Union, based in Levallois-Perret, France. | Internet | 2011 | 1 | 0 |
11 | The largest particle accelerator is in the European Union not the U.S. | Internet | 2010 | 0 | 1 |
12 | The largest software companies are Microsoft and Oracle USA, European SAP III ranking | Forbes Global 2000 | 2010 | 1 | 0 |
13 | The largest software company Oracle - an american company - sued SAP - the largest software company in the European Union, and won, the reason being that European programmers from TomorrowNow, a SAP division, made thousands of copies of protected software copyright obtained through illegal access to electronic materials available on the websites of Oracle customer support. | Internet, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-23/sap-must-pay-oracle-1-3-billion-over-unit-s-downloads.html | 2010 | 1 | 0 |
14 | In august 2008 and december 2009 september the Louise Weiss building ceiling, one of the headquarters of the EU parliament in Strasbourg, collapsed (2 times). In the U.S., it never collapsed ceiling of the Capitol - the seat where Congress operates. Note that the European Parliament building did not have 10 years since it was built, so it was relatively new. | Internet, Mass Media | 2010 | 1 | 0 |
15 | In 2007 the European Parliament building in Strasbourg found an alarming amount of asbestos. In 2002 the current water plant found bacteria that cause legionellosis. Such problems is dangerous to health, specific to poor countries. In the U.S. Capitol, where Congress carries out its work, there were no such incidents. | Internet, EU Observer | 2010 | 1 | 0 |
16 | The United States made the transition to fully digital television and HD before EU countries - which some countries still use analogue television | Internet | 2008 | 1 | 0 |
17 | With the increase in world oil prices, the European Union states were most affected; protest movements have emerged in all EU countries. Do the same thing happened in the U.S.. National oil reserves of the United States is large enough so that were no protest movement. | TV Romania 1 | 2002 | 1 | 0 |
18 | The importance of the U.S. President is higher than the EU president. U.S. President get involved in global issues to the world, the European Union president involve much in Union problems | Mass Media, Television | 2002 | 1 | 0 |
19 | Number of presidential assassinations is higher in the U.S. than in the EU | Contemporary history | 2002 | 0 | 1 |
20 | Most web servers and most free and paid Internet services are in the U.S. not the EU. | Romania Libera newspaper, Radio Free Europe | 2002 | 1 | 0 |
21 | Electronic commerce is more developed in the U.S. than in the European Union | Radio Romania Actualitati, Radio Free Europe | 2002 | 1 | 0 |
22 | The first national reservation in the world - Yellowstone - USA | TV Romania 1 | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
23 | In Yellowstone, the fire had positive effects on nature. In the European Union, the fire damaging effects on vegetation. Fire in Yellowstone park of XIX century, experts say, has had positive effects on vegetation in the area. So something is not happened in Europe | TV Romania 1, documentary in hungarian language | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
24 | In the U.S. was founded the first city in the world where over 30% of the energy is solar (Sacramento). Nowhere in the European Union there is a city to be fed at a rate greater than 30% by solar energy, which apparently is the energy of future,when liquid fuels will disappear | TV Romania 1 | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
25 | In the European Union there are the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, so the european peoples still need reconstruction and development. In the United States doesn't exist the American Bank for Reconstruction and Development. | Mass media | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
26 | In the U.S. invented the Internet with the advent of the ARPANET nodes interconnected in April 1969: three universities and a research institute, all American not European. The solution to connect several computer systems occurs at Stanford University, U.S. | Internet | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
27 | Most Nobel Prizes has achieved in the U.S., not the EU. | Romania Libera, Internet | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
28 | Television music channel MTV (America) (1981) was created before the MTV Europe (1987) | Internet | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
29 | In the top 100 most influential IT companies in the world, most U.S. companies are not EU | PC Magazine Romania | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
30 | The websites of U.S. universities have .edu extension, but the EU university websites have extension It is normal for an educational institution to have .edu | ICANN | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
31 | Number of U.S. astronauts launched into space is greater than the number of cosmonauts launched by the EU | Television | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
32 | Company V-SYNC (Japan) which produces electronic tape fiber optic system POD MUSIC has announced that by 2005 will be marketed 50000 also tape in Europe, 20000 in Korea and 70000 in the U.S.. So 70000>50000. | Romania Libera newspaper | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
33 | Leadership in education and scientific research is holds b U.S., which allocate the highest percentage of GDP of all countries, including the European Union | Romania Libera newspaper | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
34 | U.S. Statue of Liberty was built by France, so the European Union. | Internet | 2001 | 0 | 1 |
35 | UN Headquarters - intergovernmental organization which includes most countries in the world - is located in New York U.S. not in European Union. | Internet | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
36 | NATO Headquarters - intergovernmental military alliance that includes, among others, EU countries and the USA is headquartered in Brussels the European Union and not in the United States. | Internet | 2001 | 0 | 1 |
37 | Number of skyscrapers in the U.S. is higher than in the European Union | skyscraperpage.com | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
38 | The largest megalopolis in the European Union - Blue Banana (Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Birmingham-London-Brussels-Antwerp-Amsterdam-Rotterdam-The Hague-Luxembourg-Rhine-Ruhr-Frankfurt am Main-Munich-Stuttgart-Strasbourg-Basel-Zürich-Turin-Milan) (110 million inhabitants) is greater than the largest megalopolis in the U.S. (Great Lakes (54 million inhabitants in 2000 59 million in 2012) - which includes the cities of Canada, or North East Megalopolis - 49.6 million inhabitants) | Internet, OECD | 2001 | 0 | 1 |
39 | For the first time ever a country president addressed to the people directly through the Internet, and this happened in the U.S., not in EU | TV Romania 1 | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
40 | The first country in the world that was passed from the industrial revolution era to informational era is U.S. (Bill Clinton's statement to CNN, 2000) | CNN | 2001 | 1 | 0 |
41 | The tallest building , which is inhabited up to the top floor is located in Chicago, USA, and not in the European Union | skyscraperpage.com | 2000 | 1 | 0 |
42 | Independent radio station Free Europe is funded by the U.S. Congress and the CIA and not by the EU. At least even editorial boards for the languages of Eastern Europe, from 1950 to 1990 should be financed by the European Union. | Radio Free Europe | 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| Score for general topics of comparisons | | | 36 | 6 |