Europe

The invisible borderland

Fifty years after a treaty to draw the border between Italy and Yugoslavia, a local newspaper investigates Translator was recently in northeastern Italy in the town of Gorizia – fifty...

When memory is resistance: a daughter remembers Columbia’s violent history

Natalie Munevar’s story of her father’s enforced disappearance exposes the enduring wounds of Colombia’s political violence. Through memory, she demands justice and confronts the silence imposed by fear and impunity...

Parsing justice: Linguistic violence in the courtroom

In the courtroom, language is never neutral. It can elucidate the truth or shroud it in shadow, protect the innocent or silence the vulnerable. From the arcane tangle of legal...

Obsessed with the mess

Searching Belgium’s secondhand shops for forgotten treasures...

Belfast: The politics of bilingual signs in Northern Ireland’s capital

Amid the sleek glass of Belfast’s new transit terminal, a small sign offering an Irish welcome has sparked outrage. In a fiercely divided city, bilingualism remains a bitter sectarian battleground....

Dublin: The quiet revival of Irish on the streets of the city

After years abroad, a Dubliner returns to find Irish quietly reawakening on the city’s streets. Amidst bilingual signs and ancient symbols, the language is now suddenly unavoidable....

How three young dutchmen cornered the nitrous oxide market

Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is an illegal drug in the Netherlands. Yet Dutch streets are inundated with empty canisters, often labelled “FastGas”. Where do the canisters come from, and...

Kadyrov’s battle for Russia’s 500-Ruble note

As Russia redesigns its currency, Chechnya’s Ramzan Kadyrov wages a symbolic war for visibility When the independent Russian outlet Radio Svoboda published journalist Artem Radygin’s report on the Russian Central Bank’s search...

Faith in the feed

A Dutch report on how Gen Z is finding God through the algorithm As church pews across the Netherlands grow emptier, faith is quietly migrating online. A growing number of...

Denmark’s fractured family

Why the myth of unity between Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands conceals a deep and uneasy divide In Eftertryk, Dánial Magnusson Haraldsen unravels the contradictions at the heart of what...

Between silence and belonging

The struggle of Kosovo’s Ashkali community to name themselves in a country that rarely asks who they are In “Šta smo mi, deda?”, Bajram Ilazi traces the quiet, complex search...

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