Czech tops Europe in divorces

The Czech Republic is in second place behind Lithuania on a Europe-wide table of divorce rates. The findings come from a new survey by the EU statistics office, Eurostat. The figures reveal that divorce rates are up across most of Europe. In the Czech case, there is some positive news – divorce rates are down from a peak in 2004 when 3.3 marriages per thousand ended in divorce. Conversely, the findings also suggest a trend of an increasing desire to marry by Czechs, bucking a trend across Europe of fewer marriages. Meanwhile, Malta, Ireland, Italy and Spain have the lowest divorce rates.