Germany Controls Europe

Since 2015 hundreds or thousands of migrants have arrived on Europe’s shores from sub-Saharan Africa, Syria and Afghanistan. Many have criticised the EU’s lack of response to the crisis. But an EU system controlling migration and asylum seekers is in place, and is working.  

Many European citizens and heads of state accuse the European Union of imposing too many directives and regulations, especially in social affairs. In reality it is national governments that hold most power in this domain.

Discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community is on the rise across Europe, despite stronger equal rights laws.

Despite its shift toward authoritarianism, Turkey is a strategic partner for the EU.

With growing incursions since the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU hopes to implement an anti-drone shield.

After years of moving towards a cashfree society, Europe is weighing up the risks.

As youth crime rises, some EU nations want to lower the age of criminal responsibility and jail minors.

Due to climate change, mosquitoes carrying tropical diseases are becoming prolific in Spain.

Marking the opening of the 60th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, RAYE invites a host of international pop stars to join her on stage for an evening of music.

Cologne, Autumn 1944: In the bombed-out city, a small group of young people put up armed resistance against the Nazi regime

Audio pornography leaves room for the imagination while arousing the listener with erotic stories

An odyssey through Iran in search of a lost father for one Tehrani teenager and her friends.

Does wealth make you happy? Or maybe true wealth is having nothing at all?

Why do massive inequalities exist despite a global economy that has produced the most wealth in human history?

Art and nature with adventurer Lise Wortley, photographer Max Fischer, The Walk Productions and artist and runner Vincent Dogna.

With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?

Some Paleolithic burials are exceptional. Dated around 25,000 BC, they are far more complex and decorative than we usually give the era credit for.

It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?