This is Europe
A series that takes a pan-European lens to explain the challenges that transcend borders and confront our continent
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Wood pellets are sold as a clean alternative to coal. But is the subsidised bioenergy boom accelerating the climate crisis?
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Past medical scandals involving big pharma and public officials have made many suspicious of vaccines
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As Brexit’s tangible effects kick in, we look at the impact the EU’s most far-reaching project has had on British society
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Citizens are finally getting the urban patios and parks promised when the cramped medieval city was extended in the 1900s
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A study of 31 countries shows other rightwing populists have not been ‘exposed’ by Covid-19 in the way the US president was, say political scientists Cas Mudde and Jakub Wondreys
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From non-polluting transport to sustainable industries, urban areas are perfect for testing radical new ideas, says Ada Colau, mayor of Barcelona
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Spanish archipelago has received 20,000 migrants and refugees this year, 8,000 in the last month
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Towns, cities and regions around France are turning to assemblies of unelected citizens to guide them on everything from climate to coronavirus
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BLM protests and fresh historical evidence are raising questions over the legacy of the founder of modern Switzerland, Alfred Escher
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The 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials puts the fantasy of resistance to tyrannical Brussels into proper perspective, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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In the UK, 60% of respondents have a favourable view, the highest on record
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For EU leaders to seek solutions abroad to end prejudice against millions of their own citizens is insulting and meaningless
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Covid-19 has already put 3 million young Europeans out of work. The scars for these under-25s could take a decade to heal
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Mass demonstrations have exposed underlying anger at political and religious interference in people’s everyday lives
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The president must demonstrate that the secular state – with a subtle dose of multiculturalism – works for them, says the academic and author Catherine Fieschi
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People across the continent are embracing a range of pursuits in an effort to stay healthy and in good spirits
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Kaczyński’s populist move aims to keep the Catholic church on side, but mass protests suggest he’s gone too far, say historians Karolina Wigura and Jarosław Kuisz
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Messina to Maastricht: the modest European towns that marked the road to Brexit