Europe

Sidetracked: Exile in Hollywood

Translator reviews an established Japanese translator’s debut novel and Boris Dralyuks’s translation of Alexander Voloshin’s mock epic poem....

Spatially challenged

The director of the European Space Agency explains how Europe is both behind, and ahead, in space A few months ago, the German foreign minister gave a talk in Berlin....

How do you say “apostasy” in Polish?

A magazine in Poland explores the increasingly common phenomenon of believers formally abandoning their Catholic faith While some media outlets in Western Europe talk of a “quiet revival” of the Christian faith,...

Ashes to ashes

Read how the discovery of 17 tombs from the Iron Age has sparked the curiosity of archaeologists in a small village of rural Navarre We are used to thinking of...

A Christian book boom in Norway

A new wave of writing reflects rising interest in Christianity amid uncertainty and political contestation In a reported feature for the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen, journalist Mylena Kifle explores a sharp rise...

Telegrams from the front

Since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian use of the Russian-invented Telegram has skyrocketed. And the app is no longer just a messaging service but an apparently trusted news...

Young Slovaks abroad navigate opportunity and belonging

How work, language and identity shape life abroad for young Slovaks In a reported feature for the Slovak publication Kapital, journalist Dorota Suranová examines the lives of young Slovaks who have...

Global giants are tearing up Greece’s remaining wild mountains

A $1 billion Amazon-backed wind farm is tearing through Northern Greece’s untouched Vermio mountains, part of a wider industry assault that could affect nearly a third of the country’s remaining...

Protein, pork and power

How food culture is being weaponised by the far right, from raw-egg masculinity to nationalist school meal policies in Sweden In Sweden’s anti-racist publication Expo, journalist Jenny Damberg traces how food...

Norway is running out of gas (stations)

With the rise of electric vehicles, Norwegians are ever less dependent on petrol stations. The country’s main newspaper takes a trip down memory highway. There was a time when Norway’s...

Inside a Georgian call centre scam

An exposé of the $35 million scam operation that left a global trail of broken lives In this EU Journalism award-winning investigation, journalists exposed a sophisticated fraudulent call centre operation nestled in the...

Shein in Paris

A French investigation dissects the controversial alliance between Shein and BHV owner Frédéric Merlin In Mediapart, journalist Mathias Thépot reports on the explosive arrival of the Chinese ultra-fast-fashion giant Shein inside Paris’s...

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