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<p>You’ve made a decision to become an Uber driver hoping to make some money and be your own boss. But with Uber's clever use of nudge theory, the reality isn’t quite what you hoped for.</p>

Uber

You’ve made a decision to become an Uber driver hoping to make some money and be your own boss. But with Uber's clever use of nudge theory, the reality isn’t quite what you hoped for.

Anas is a professional boxer. He lives in a neighbourhood riddled by drugs and petty crime, in the German city of Aachen. Boxing is not only his passion, it’s what he wants to make a living from. It’s a double-edged struggle, both athletically and financially. And then there’s his family, who he wants to make proud.

This programme by German channel ARD is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Marcel Nadim Aburakia’s portrait of a boxer from Aachen, Germany.

Hard Life – I box to make my family proud

Patrick looks back at the circumstances that caused the painful separation between him and his brothers 15 years ago, when he reported his parents to child protection services for abuse and neglect. Now the 23-year-old is doing everything he can to look after his brothers, a promise he made to his deceased mother. But as Patrick juggles these responsibilities, he must stay strong himself.  
This documentary series by France.tv Slash is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

The promise

Patrick recalls how he and his brothers were separated after he reported his parents to child protection 15 years ago.  

Brothers (1/3)

Patrick hosts his younger brother Jean-Marc, who is 22, in Paris for a weekend. Back in Alsace where Jean-Marc lives, he’s working hard to make his dream come true and find full-time work as an educator, just like his brother. A sensitive soul, he talks about the trust and love that Patrick gives him, something his foster family was never able to provide.

This documentary series by France.tv Slash is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Getting by

Patrick hosts his 22-year-old brother Jean-Marc, who now lives in Alsace, in Paris for a weekend.

Brothers (2/3)

Gabriel the “ghost” finally reaches out and joins his three brothers in their hometown, Strasbourg, where Patrick has rented a flat. To celebrate his 25th birthday, he has decided to call a reunion in the hope of creating new shared memories together. Emotions are high as they speak openly about their relationship to their mother and the flaws that burden each of them individually.
This documentary series by France.tv Slash is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

The reunion

To celebrate his birthday, Patrick rents a flat in Alsace and invites his brothers for an emotional reunion.

Brothers (3/3)

It’s not always easy to escape the setting we’re born into. It definitely wasn’t easy for Mikael, AKA Doctor Rafiq, who expresses the precarity of his situation through his lyrics. His dream is to one day become a successful rapper, rather than spend his time hanging in the park with his friends.
This programme by German channel ARD is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SSR SRG and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Portrait of a young rapper from Dortmund, Germany.

Hard Life – I dream of a career as a rapper

For many transgender people, the sex they were assigned at birth does not match their gender identity. This is the story of Andrea von Aesch, who was born a boy but always felt she was a girl. For her, what makes up a person’s identity is their soul, not their body.

This programme of the Swiss channel SRG SSR is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Trans people in Switzerland

Transgender people navigate the ups and downs of their gender identity in a world where being cisgender is still considered the norm.

The gender of the soul - Episode 1

For many transgender people, the sex they were assigned at birth does not match their gender identity. In Switzerland, if a man or woman decides to transition, many lose their job as a consequence, according to a survey carried out by the country’s Transgender Network (TGNS). Suicide rates among trans people are much higher than for the rest of the population as a whole.

This programme of the Swiss channel SRG SSR is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

The gender of the soul - Episode 2

Adelina Tërshani is a young activist fighting for the independence of women in Kosovo. Lendi Mustafa is a trans man who has struggled to be accepted by his community. They explain their struggles and ambitions. 

This programme by Swiss channel SRF is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SSR SRG and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

I am a human being!

In Kosovo, being a feminist or LBGT activist is tough. But Adelina and Lendi refuse to give up

Çohu - Stand up! (1/3)

Adelina Tërshani is a young activist fighting for the independence of women in Kosovo. Lendi Mustafa is a trans man who has struggled to be accepted by his community. They explain their struggles and ambitions.

This programme by Swiss channel SRF is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SSR SRG and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

We march, we do not celebrate!

Meet these two young activists fighting for equality and tolerance in Kosovo

Çohu - Stand up! (2/3)

Adelina, a young feminist activist based in Kosovo, has to deal with street harassment on a daily basis. She dresses carefully so as to minimise the attention she attracts. Lendi meanwhile, a trans man fighting for social acceptance in this conservative society, has decided to undergo a sex change. 

This programme by Swiss channel SRF is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SSR SRG and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Come outside!

Adelina, a young feminist activist based in Kosovo, has to deal with street harassment on a daily basis

Çohu - Stand up! (3/3)

Michele lives and studies in London. They've been dreaming of working in fashion since they were a child, and they are now a gender fluid model at an agency. Born a man, Michele feels they are a third sex. 

This programme of the Swiss channel RSI is part of the European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SSR SRG and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Born a man, Michele feels they are a third sex

I am a Mermaid

In London, soaring rents and property prices have boosted people's interest in houseboats. But as the demand for floating homes increases, mooring spaces are becoming scarcer. Barge owners are determined not to let this happen.

Affordable housing that floats?

In London, soaring rents and property prices have boosted people's interest in houseboats. But this new trend hasn't come without problems of its own... 

Re: A Houseboat in London

Théo Curin is a French Paralympic swimmer. In November 2021, he made a daring attempt, together with two able-bodied swimmers, to swim across the highest lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia.

Théo Curin is a Paralympic swimmer. In November 2021, the Frenchman made a daring attempt to swim across the highest lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, between Peru and Bolivia.

Re: Swimming through Adversity

Driving heavy goods vehicles is a male-dominated sector. But today more women are getting behind the wheel of HGVs like Poland’s Iwona Blecharczyk, who has also become a global influencer online.

Re: Female Truckers Take the Wheel

Are you spending hours of your day swiping left and right on Tinder? It’s normal as the app was created to be addictive by activating dopamine in your brain with every swipe drawing you in further.

Tinder

Are you spending hours of your day swiping left and right on Tinder? It’s normal as the app was created to be addictive by activating dopamine in your brain with every swipe drawing you in further…

Dopamine (1/8)

Facebook is addictive. Taking advantage of our basic human instinct to socialise, the social network harvests unimaginably large amounts of personal data while never quite fulfilling our thirst for social validation.

Facebook

Dopamine (2/8)

Is Instagram irresistible for you? The app was made that way to appeal to your basic need for social validation.

Instagram

Dopamine (4/8)

Are you wasting hours on Candy Crush when you really should be working? Appealing to our inner sense of order, the video game that millions play on their smartphones is built to draw you in with some clever sales techniques.

Candy Crush

Dopamine (3/8)

With sophisticated algorithms using deep learning, Youtube offers users irresistible video recommendations that become ever more sensationalist or even conspiratorial.

YouTube

Dopamine (5/8)

Snapchat is so much fun you can’t stop yourself from getting addicted. Using the universal concept of giving and receiving gifts to keep us interacting, the messaging app gnaws its way into our lives.

Snapchat

Dopamine (6/8)

Do you constantly check twitter on your smartphone for the latest tweets? Preying on our fear of missing out (fomo), Twitter has harnessed our natural anxiety to make…. a lot of money.

Twitter

Dopamine (8/8)

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At age 67, Arno's prolific career includes 35 albums and numerous tours. A sensitive portrait of the king of Belgian rock. His is a complex personality; unlike the Kardashians, he doesn't want to reveal all. 

At age 67, Arno's prolific career includes 35 albums and numerous tours

Arno: Dancing Inside My Head

Shining star, control freak, creative genius, and sex symbol. Prince was a diamond with many facets. Tape shows you why.

Tape: Prince

Ronja von Ronne explores different types of relationships and questions the nature of love and our search for it. Can love exist between two people, or between three? And what of our love for ourselves, or indeed the unconditional love we hold for our pets?

Love! But how?

Ronja von Ronne explores different types of relationships and questions the nature of love.

Streetphilosophy

In Kyiv's Closer Club, Ukrainians are trying to preserve a bit of normality in wartime. In the past, dance fans from across Europe made the pilgrimage to the Ukrainian capital's legendary techno nights. Every December, the Black Factory Night takes place, and this winter is no different. If there’s a blackout, they’re got generators at the ready.

Blackout

In Kyiv's Closer Club, Ukrainians are trying to preserve a bit of normality in wartime as the country experiences blackouts.

Tracks East

Meet Olivier Latry, the organist of the famous Notre-Dame in Paris: one of the most prestigious organist gigs in the world. Join him on an exciting musical and historical journey to the heart of the organ.

Meet Olivier Latry, the organist of the famous Notre-Dame in Paris

The Organ of Notre Dame

In Ukraine, long-distance love is the new normal. Indie pop icon Ingret Kostenko had a meteoric rise to fame until the Russian invasion forced her to flee to Germany. The man she loved was a soldier at the front and she went home regularly to see him. This separation is the inspiration for Ingret’s music.

Love in Wartime

Ukrainian Indie pop icon Ingret Kostenko is in a long-distance relationship with a soldier, the inspiration for her music.

A simple hut on the Côte d‘Azur shows all of Le Corbusier’s architectural genius.

Le Corbusier and his Cabin

Gymnastics

Conductors can gesticulate wildly when they conduct an orchestra. But have you ever wondered what exactly they are doing with their hands? And why do they use a baton?

Why Do Conductors Use Batons?

In 1973 choreographer and dancer Carolyn Carlson brought an breath of American fresh air into the Paris Opera. In true hippy style she brought barefoot dancing, improvisation and a relaxed attitude. Not everyone was ready for change.

Carolyn Carlson: The Day They Danced Barefoot at the Paris Opera

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France’s President Emmanuel Macron forced through an unpopular reform of the country’s pension system – and the French aren’t having it. We travel to Romania to find out about a possible law to ban gambling adverts, and look at how to protect Europeans from addictions.

France’s pension reform / Gambling / Photography

Protests erupt across France in response to the government’s pension reform bill, and we explore gambling across Europe.

ARTE Europe Weekly

Highly influential indie rockers from Boston, famous for such tracks as Debaser and Where is my mind perform in Paris as part of a European tour for their latest album Doggerel.

Legendary and highly influential indie rockers perform in Paris as part of their European tour.

Pixies - Live at the Paris Olympia

Behind his polite exterior lies a formidable leader with a ruthless character, ready to do anything to make China the world's leading power by the People’s Republic’s centenary in 2049. This well-documented portrait of the Chinese president gives an unprecedented insight into his politics and shows how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

A portrait of the Chinese president giving an unprecedented insight into his politics and showing how Xi Jinping's personal journey has shaped his choices as he steers China towards world domination.

The New World of Xi Jinping

The decisive moment in 1618 that triggered the Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants and changed the course of European history.

The decisive moment in 1618 that triggered the Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants. 

The Defenestration of Prague

At once seductive and dangerous, historical myth and male fantasy, the femme fatale represents both erotic promise and a death trap to the male observer. Conceived at the end of the 19th century in the works of Gustave Moreau, Franz von Stuck and Lovis Corinth, the femme fatale was completely reinvented in the 20th century by many female artists.

Seductive and dangerous, the figure of the femme fatale in art was completely reinvented in the 20th century.

The Femme Fatale in Art

Many governments and organisations are wary of their employers using the social media TikTok. Does the Chinese company really serve Xi Jinping’s regime?

TikTok: A Chinese Threat?

Mapping the World Essentials

Tensions between Moldova and Russia are escalating over the breakaway region of Transnistria, an investigation on how prepared Europe is for another summer of wildfires, and a report from the Dissident Club in Paris.

Tensions in Moldova / WildFires in Europe

Tensions between Moldova and Russia are escalating with street protests and controversy over Russian secret documents.

An exclusive investigation into the Russian paramilitary organisation Wagner, headed by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. 2,500 documents were leaked from Prigozhin’s servers by anti-Putin hackers, shedding light on this secretive group of mercenaries, a key element in the war in Ukraine.

Data Sources

An exclusive investigation into the Russian paramilitary organisation Wagner, headed by oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. 

The Prigozhin Papers

At first glance, it's an image of innocence. A motherly milkmaid pouring out the milk in a kitchen, preparing snacks from our childhoods. But there's actually far more to her than meets the eye.

The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer

A famous image that at first glance looks totally innocent, but is in actual fact full of innuendo

Look but Don't Touch

Lyubov, which means love in Russian, is 80 years old and lives alone on the shores of Lake Baikal. She bears witness to this wonder of nature and possesses and unbreakable bond with the world’s deepest lake in Siberia. Her life here is hard, especially in winter, but she would not live anywhere else.

On the shores of Lake Baikal, an old woman lives alone in a beautiful place that is dear to her heart.

The Old Woman and the Lake

Working her way out of poverty as a sex worker all while supporting her family in Romania. That’s Andrada’s goal. She speaks confidently and openly about her work in a red-light district in Germany’s Ruhr region.  
This programme by German channel ARD is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Portrait of a sex worker in the Ruhr region, Germany.  

Hard Life – I sell sex for money

In El Salvador, gangs have terrorised the country for decades. But when Nayib Bukele was elected president in 2019, becoming the youngest head of state in Latin America, he vowed to take back control from the gangs by installing a state of emergency.

El Salvador: The coolest dictator in the world?

When Nayib Bukele was elected president in 2019, he vowed to take back control from the gangs by installing a state of emergency.

ARTE Reportage

A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

Water

 A look at how we are getting better at managing and conserving water supplies in drier parts of our planet like southern Spain, Israel and the desert city of Las Vegas.

Good News From Our Planet

Trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Fred Hersh perform from their album, The Song Is You, at the Italian Piacenza jazz festival.

Piacenza Jazz Fest

Trumpeter Enrico Rava and pianist Fred Hersh perform from their album, The Song Is You, at the Italian azz festival.

Enrico Rava & Fred Hersch

Far from the metropolitan centre of Tel Aviv, Sderot show another side of Israel. One with high-levels of social deprivation and strong support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government’s controversial judicial reforms.

Sderot - The Other Israel

Far from the metropolitan centre of Tel Aviv, Sderot is a different Israel with strong support for Netanjahu and high levels of social deprivation.

The Greek government is under intense pressure to explain how February’s tragic train accident happened. The crash has sparked widespread anti-government protests. We take a broad view of the state of gender equality across Europe and find out about a pioneering law to help menopausal women in Spain.

Greece train crash / Gender equality / Photography

Massive protests engulf Greece after a deadly train crash, with the public pointing fingers at the government.

With all the religious wars, the 17th century was a tense time in Europe. And in art one theme caught everyone’s imagination: the Virgin Mary.

Assumption of the Virgin - Nicolas Poussin

Look But Don't Touch

The UK and the EU reach a new agreement on Northern Ireland, a focus on how bad fast fashion is for the environment, and the rise of literary influencers on Tiktok.

New Northern Ireland Agreement / Fast Fashion in Europe

The UK and the EU reach a new agreement on Northern Ireland and a focus on how bad fast fashion is for the environment, plus literary Tiktok,

Mustafa is 28 years old and grew up in the Ratingen-West district in Düsseldorf, his “hood”. It’s an area with high unemployment rates and is home to people from many different nationalities, both a melting pot and socially deprived. Mustafa now runs a kiosk in the middle of the district, on Berliner Platz. Between high-rises, friendships and poverty, we discover his life.
This programme by German channel ARD is part of The European Collection, a joint initiative of European public media (ARD, ARTE, France Télévisions, SRG SSR and ZDF), coordinated by ARTE.

Portrait of a kiosk owner in a socially deprived area of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Hard Life – I work in the middle of the ghetto

The new Windsor agreement between the EU and the UK is hoped to improve relations and solve the Northern Ireland issue.

The many faces of Europe - The European Collection

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The promise

Brothers (2/3)

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Brothers (3/3)

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