Category: 3. Europe

Happy Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, or whatever holiday you’re celebrating with loved ones this week!

While your time will likely be sparse with presents to wrap, food to prepare and relatives to placate, there’s also a strange limbo that follows, allowing you to disappear into a vortex of…

It was billed as the scandal that threatened to shake the core of European democracy.

Explosive allegations, a spectacular police operation and allegations of big money used by three non-EU countries to influence the European Parliament’s decisions.

At the centre of the storm was then-MEP…

On a cold morning in Chimbay, a small town in northwestern Uzbekistan’s Karakalpakstan region, an elderly craftsman bends over a half-finished wooden frame. His hands move slowly but with certainty: Shaping, bending, adjusting. He is building a yurt the same way his father once did, and his…

Industries across the world are reassessing the foundations of the materials they rely on. From consumer goods and textiles to transport and packaging, long-established supply chains are being reshaped by efforts to lower emissions, reduce dependency on fossil feedstocks, and prepare for…

“Kontakthof”, one of the emblematic works of Pina Bausch, the German choreographer who had a decisive influence on the form and content of contemporary dance, is now on at the Greece’s National Theatre, in collaboration with the Pina Bausch Foundation.

37 years after its first performance in…