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.
What kind of democracy is there without streets?
Streets are the lungs of democracy-in Italy, a recent law turn peaceful blockades into crimes, while protests grow louder against the Gaza genocide. Governments invoke “urgency” to silence dissent instead of listening to it. Yet people keep stepping outside.
Fighting Fake news: lessons from the Nazi propaganda machine
In the battle against fake news, history offers a chilling example. Under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, mass communication was weaponized to spread misinformation, control public opinion, and suppress dissent.
EU Parliament blocks cuts proposed by right-wing governments to youth and research funding
The European Parliament voted on Ursula von der Leyen's new European Commission. The vote also approve the 2025 EU budget, to which the right-wing governments that are members of the EU Council had proposed cuts of €1.52 billion. Democratic MEP Nicola Zingaretti told Fanpage.it: "We have averted the cuts, but we are only at the beginning. This is just a taste of the kind of political battle we will have to wage in the coming years."
Moscow signals retaliation should the US restart nuclear tests
The Kremlin has responded to Donald Trump’s decision to restart American nuclear tests — and is threatening to do the same. Is the world on the brink of a new nuclear arms race?
De-labeling the “Gen Z” protests
The label ‘Gen Z protests’ may be an attractive brand, but it reduces diverse, politically charged mobilizations into a pseudo-demographic narrative. By framing youth uprisings as generational outbursts, media and elites depoliticize them, sidelining the structural inequalities and institutional failures that actually fuel the anger.
