Own apartment or parental home? The reality of young people’s housing in Europe
Housing affordability is becoming one of the biggest challenges for young people around the world. However, in some countries it is more difficult than in others. Unaffordable housing and rental prices are increasing the age of independence. What options do young people have if they want to leave their parents?
Authenticity Essence: Choosing Our Own Rhythm in a World of Expectations
A reflection of authenticity, courage, and the choice to follow our own rhythm in a world that often asks us to conform.
What Does the Data Reveal about Our Travel?
Travel is one of the greatest privileges of our generation. In the past, people did not have the opportunity to move freely within Europe for work, study or leisure. Crossing borders was much more difficult administratively, politically and economically. However, nowadays we make the most of travel, as statistics show.
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of loneliness
No longer a private feeling but a public condition, it seeps into politics, reshaping trust and belonging.If democracy once thrived on community, today it must learn again how to make people meet, not just connect.
Banksy and the shadows of censorship
Banksy’s mural outside the Royal Courts of Justice, showing a judge about to strike a protester, was erased within hours. Its removal became part of the artwork itself - a performance of censorship that spoke louder than the image. By silencing the wall, London’s justice system exposed its reflex to control dissent and frame activists as the “dangerous Other.”
Does China see Germany as a gateway to Europe? Easing the rare earth metals dispute
The warming of trade relations between Germany and China could reshuffle the balance of power in Europe. Beijing is increasingly focusing on Berlin, hoping to influence the policies of the entire EU through its largest economy.
Europe’s green impulse: how the EU drives global climate investment
The EU is taking the lead in the global fight against the climate crisis, investing billions of euros both in developing countries and in its own transformation. How is the European Union mobilizing private capital and international financial mechanisms to tackle the most urgent challenge of our time?
Chinese pressure on a British university? Police investigate interference in academic freedom
British counterterrorism police are investigating a case that may reveal previously unknown details about Chinese influence on European universities. At stake are academic freedom, human rights, and the fate of the persecuted Muslim minority in China.
What it takes to dance with the past?
A youth council’s plan for a DJ party beneath the historic Gorgopotamos bridge has sparked heated debate in Greece. Critics denounce it as a desecration of a site tied to wartime executions and resistance, while organizers defend it as a way to showcase and promote the monument.
