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I spent the weekend fleeing wildfires in France. This is what it felt like to be evacuated from my home
Soraya Fettih

I spent the weekend fleeing wildfires in France. This is what it felt like to be evacuated from my home

Soraya Fettih was forced to flee her home near Bordeaux because of the wildfires. She writes of the anger she feels as people lose their homes as the temperatures get hotter while fossil fuel companies make huge profits

Want a reason to be cheerful? Across Europe there are people trying to do the same thing as Big Issue
John Bird

Want a reason to be cheerful? Across Europe there are people trying to do the same thing as Big Issue

The European Social Services Awards highlights the work being done across the continent to destroy poverty

UK wants to model its asylum system on Denmark’s. This is why it’s a bad idea
Victoria Canning

UK wants to model its asylum system on Denmark’s. This is why it’s a bad idea

Victoria Canning, who has spent more than 10 years researching refugee rights in Denmark and the UK, writes about the lessons that can be learned from Denmark’s system

Digital ID cards: Why control and surveillance are not the answer to Britain’s immigration problem
Andreea Dumitrache

Digital ID cards: Why control and surveillance are not the answer to Britain’s immigration problem

‘People are sick and traumatised’: How Germany’s wealth inequality led to far-right surge, explained
Germany

‘People are sick and traumatised’: How Germany’s wealth inequality led to far-right surge, explained

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Homelessness on the rise in Finland for first time in over a decade: ‘It’s unacceptable’
Homelessness

Homelessness on the rise in Finland for first time in over a decade: ‘It’s unacceptable’

‘Your hands are bloody’: What Serbia’s major anti-corruption protests mean for the country’s future
Protest

‘Your hands are bloody’: What Serbia’s major anti-corruption protests mean for the country’s future

Brits pay way more for housing, transport and alcohol than our European neighbours – here’s why
Cost of living

Brits pay way more for housing, transport and alcohol than our European neighbours – here’s why

Reflections on the Black Sea: A film festival from a rich and perilous region 
Film festival

Reflections on the Black Sea: A film festival from a rich and perilous region 

Goodbye Eastern Europe: Finding the remains of a lost world
History

Goodbye Eastern Europe: Finding the remains of a lost world

What are other countries doing about the cost of living crisis?
Cost of living crisis

What are other countries doing about the cost of living crisis?

Travelling in Europe by train? Here’s what you need to know
Sustainable travel

Travelling in Europe by train? Here’s what you need to know

Why Europe’s sleeper trains are waking up
Sustainable travel

Why Europe’s sleeper trains are waking up

How cities around the world are learning to cope with heatwaves
Heatwave

How cities around the world are learning to cope with heatwaves

What can we learn from Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin?
Finland

What can we learn from Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin?

Lord Frost is playing chicken with the EU over the NI Protocol. What happens next?
Patricia Devlin

Lord Frost is playing chicken with the EU over the NI Protocol. What happens next?