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Love, bees and brain surgery
This week we're celebrating those moments when Europeans are actually nice to each other. Rafael Loss, data wizard at the European Council on Foreign…
6 years ago
Recipes for rebellion
Communist Bulgaria was home to a furtive cooking craze on a massive scale: women swapping recipes on scraps of paper, with strangers on trams, even a…
6 years ago
Why the Black Lives Matter protests are different in Europe
Protests over the death of George Floyd have been spreading on this side of the Atlantic, from Britain to Hungary. This week we're talking about what…
6 years ago
The Great Pull of China
You can blame Dominic for the pun. This week, as tensions between the United States and China reach fever-pitch, we're asking: does Europe need to pi…
6 years, 1 month ago
Guide to a Non-Existent Country
The Italian journalist and travel writer Giovanni Vale is used to writing tourist guidebooks, but usually they're for countries that still exist. We …
6 years, 1 month ago
Wikipedia’s Missing Women
Less than a fifth of the biographies on Wikipedia are those of women; Rebecca O'Neill is part of a movement to fix that. We talk to her about her que…
6 years, 1 month ago
What is Russia doing at the bottom of the sea?
Last July, a group of fishermen near the coast of Norway were surprised to see a submarine burst out of the water in front of them. A terrible disast…
6 years, 1 month ago
Quarantainment
This week we've got a cultural bonanza for you. We're talking about Poland's Netflix tax and the new drive-in cinema in Vilnius, as well as all the T…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Other C-Words
This week we bring you: coal, chess, and the circular economy. We speak to Esther Goodwin-Brown of Circle Economy about the economic model that's get…
6 years, 2 months ago
Normal and Boring
The superstar illustrator Christoph Niemann is on a mission to better understand Europe. 'In Praise of a Normal, Boring Country', the latest installm…
6 years, 2 months ago