Europes

Spatially challenged

The director of the European Space Agency explains how Europe is both behind, and ahead, in space

How do you say “apostasy” in Polish?

A magazine in Poland explores the increasingly common phenomenon of believers formally abandoning their Catholic faith

Ashes to ashes

How the discovery of 17 tombs from the Iron Age has sparked the curiosity of archaeologists in a small village of rural Navarre

A Christian book boom in Norway

A new wave of writing reflects rising interest in Christianity amid uncertainty and political contestation

Telegrams from the front

Since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian use of the Russian-invented Telegram has skyrocketed

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

Inside a Georgian call centre scam

An exposé of the $35 million scam operation that left a global trail of broken lives

Shein in Paris

A French investigation dissects the controversial alliance between Shein and BHV owner Frédéric Merlin

The yellow secret of Georgian chicken

How unregulated synthetic additives are used to artificially yellow chickens in Georgia

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