Europe, un continent bouleversé

Europa. Kontinent im Umbruch

Europe At A Crossroads

Europa, un continente en transición

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L'Europa in transizione: i nuovi cittadini

The humanitarian catastrophe triggered by the war in Ukraine and the complex reception structures for refugees created in record time show how contradictory Europe is when it comes to refugees. Some are welcomed with open arms, others are rejected. But foreign workers play a crucial role in the European economy, even if Europe seems to do its best to keep the majority of economic migrants out.

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The New Europeans

Why are some refugees somehow more deserving than others?

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Driven to produce ever more and less expensively, European breeders and farmers are exhausted. Despite the terrible effects of intensive agriculture on the environment and health, the European Union continues to give subsidies to large farms. Contributing indirectly to global warming and deforestation, our meat consumption has increased by 60% in sixty years. How can we sustainably feed more than 500 million Europeans? From north to south of the continent, different avenues are being explored: organic or urban agriculture, crops assisted by artificial intelligence, synthetic meat... Are we on the verge of a new green revolution?

The Green Revolution

Organic or urban agriculture, crops assisted by AI, synthetic meat... what is the future of food?

Our dependence on fossil fuels has never been more painfully obvious than now, as prices soar in the wake of the war in Ukraine. But the issue is more than economic and geopolitical. We're living in a climate emergency, and decarbonisation of the continent is urgent. The European Union's Green Deal aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Can it be done?

Energy For All

The European Union's Green Deal aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Can it be done?

While Europe has developed gigantic infrastructures to keep up with the flow of goods and people, the continent must now deal with saturated urban roads, underserved regions, and soaring petrol prices. As the demand for transport increases, so does its carbon footprint. It's one of the leading sources of CO2 emissions. How can we make Europe's transport sector accessible and green?

The Transport Revolution

As the demand for transport increases, so does its carbon footprint. Can we make Europe's transport accessible and green?

Europe seems to be lagging behind its American and Chinese rivals when it comes to the digital economy. Fake news, insecure employment and data theft have all proliferated under American digital hegemony where just a few private companies dominate the digital world. However, some European countries such as Sweden and Estonia are paving the way for European digital sovereignty.

Digital Transformation

Europe seems to be lagging behind its rivals when it comes to the digital economy. Can the continent reach digital sovereignty?

Europe at a Crossroads

The climate crisis and the loss of biodiversity dramatically highlights how badly we need to change our relationship with nature. We take you to the melting glaciers in the Alps, the plastic-polluted coasts of Greece, the blue butterflies in the meadows of England, and to the primary forests of Romania. Here, Europeans are looking for ways to find a new balance with nature.

Conservation Across A Continent

Europeans are looking for ways to find a new balance with nature

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Born in 1888 in Charente, Jean Monnet did not go to university. A cognac merchant, he trained on the job in the City of London. During World War Two, he managed to convince Churchill to merge France and Britain to defeat the Nazis; though the Vichy government refused. When the war ended, his brilliant brain immediately got to work on how to rebuild the continent. He honed the "Monnet method": the art of finding a solution that benefits everyone, with compromises on all sides.

The  cognac merchant who became the architect of modern day Europe

Jean Monnet, The Discrete Father of Europe

On September 19, 1946, at the University of Zurich, Winston Churchill delivered one of his most famous speeches. He advocated for a United States of Europe and for forgiveness between France and Germany. He warned that the horrors of the past could still be repeated without fundamental change. 

Let Europe Arise! - Winston Churchill

Who came up with the term United States of Europe? The answer might surprise you...

Great Speeches that Made History

We will be able to upgrade our brains with a microchip, blurring the boundaries between man and machine in a way that we've never seen before. But what will happen to us when our computers become smarter than we are? Helen Fares is on a mission to test the limits of the human brain.

Homo Digitalis

Helen Fares is on a mission to test the limits of the human brain

The Upgraded Brain

Does living in a digitised world divert sexual pleasure away from other people and towards the screen? A recent study confirms the trend in both Japan and Europe. Since the advent of the smartphone, the amount of sex couples have has decreased. At the same time, sex robots are now a reality. Helen Fares meets one of these lovers of the future.

Does living in a digitised world divert sexual pleasures away from other people and towards the screen?

The Digital Orgasm

The pole vault is a discipline is based on the transformation of kinetic energy into elastic energy and then into gravitational energy. Athletes must play with energy, optimise it, transform it, and conserve it.

Pole Vaulting: Overcoming Gravity

Athletes must play with energy, optimise it, transform it, and conserve it

The Strongest of Them All

Will human relationships become obsolete in the future, to be replaced by artificial intelligence and virtual reality? Today, researchers can simulate the presence of a loved one. In this episode, Helen Fares finds herself faced with the hologram of her best friend Josy, and explores the nature of friendship in the digital age.

Will human relationships become obsolete in the future, to be replaced by artificial intelligence and virtual reality?

The Perfect Friend

Eternal life: an impossible dream or our reality in just a few decades? And would you even be willing to modify your DNA to live longer? Is the body is only a computer and DNA the source code? Quite possibly...

Is the body is only a computer and DNA the source code?

Eternal Youth

According to futurist Ian Pearson, the holidays of the future will be virtual. The first wave of immigration into the virtual world has already taken place: you can dance, chat or play board games. Some people have even got married via VR. The possibilities are endless to escape real life, or enrich it.

The possibilities are endless to escape real life, or enrich it

Virtual Fun

Each technical revolution has taken us one step closer to simplifying our daily lives. Now, the old fear is back: machines will take our jobs. But will these robots be able to make us more efficient and happier at work?

Now, the old fear is back: machines will take our jobs

Digital Happiness at Work

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Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish perform at Hellfest 2022.

Nightwish

Hellfest 2022

In Europe, the last primary forests are found almost exclusively in the mountains in the east or south-east of the continent. These virgin forests have never been exploited or cut down, and have remained as they have always been. Few studies have been done on this forests, which are presumably havens of biodiversity. We go on a research trip to the Dinaric Alps in Albania.

The Green Lungs of Europe

We go on a research trip to the Dinaric Alps in Albania

Geo Reportage

Just a few weeks before the release of their new album, The Sick and the Dying… and the Dead! Thrash metal stars Megadeth perform at Hellfest 2022.

Megadeth

Dutch band Epica returns to Hellfest to present Omega, a new album showing off their inimitable symphonic heavy metal sound.

Epica

According to the latest calculations by the OECD, South Korean women could live to be over 92 years old on average in 2070, and men over 89. That would be a world record. What's the secret?

South Korea: An Obsession With Health

South Koreans are on track to be the longest-lived people in the world

ARTE Reportage

Anglo-French guitarist Laura Cox presents the Scorpions, probably the most successful German rock band ever, headlining at Hellfest 2022. For more than five decades the German five-piece has been producing international hits and have sold more than 100 million records.

Scorpions

Anglo-French guitarist Laura Cox presents the Scorpions, probably the most successful German rock band ever, headlining at Hellfest 2022. 

The philanthropic foundation set up by US billionaire Bill Gates quietly co-finances experiments with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in several African countries. In the age of philanthropic capitalism, billionaires "save the world" and make money in the process. But who is helped the most, ordinary Africans or the food industry?

 In the age of philanthropic capitalism, billionaires "save the world" and make money in the process. An investigation into GM experiments in Africa.

Africa, GMOs and Bill Gates

Why does the European Union allow deadly pesticides banned at home to be exported to developing countries? Brazil, especially, uses large quantities of harmful pesticides imported from Europe with terrible effects on the population’s health.

Why does the European Union allow deadly pesticides banned at home to be exported to developing countries? 

Pesticides: European Hypocrisy

Drockick Murphys are perhaps the most Irish of American bands. The Bostonians baptize their new album Turn Up That Dial at Hellfest 2022.

Dropkick Murphys

Punk rock fans note: The Offspring have released a new album: The Californians perform tracks from their latest work at Hellfest, Let the Bad Times Roll.

The Offspring

Brazilian cult band Sepultura is back at Hellfest! They unleash their intense thrash metal in front of a white-hot audience.

Sepultura

The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad sits between Lithuania and Poland. Once German East Prussia, it is now home to 1 million Russian citizens. What is life like in this small territory now practically cut off from its EU neighbours since the war in Ukraine began?

Kaliningrad: Putin's Enclave

The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad sits between Lithuania and Poland and is now practically cut off from its EU neighbours since the war in Ukraine began.

JInjer are Ukraine’s official ambassadors of metal. Led by the voice and charisma of singer Tatiana Shmayluk, they are bringing their special blend of progressive groove metal to the world.

Jinjer

Hellfest invites a heavyweight of crossover and thrash metal: Los Angeles natives Suicidal Tendencies make the main stage tremble!

Suicidal Tendencies

The trio led by Matthew Bellamy is one of the most explosive and creative forces in rock music over the past two decades. There is no one else quite like Muse. Be impressed by their committed performance at Berlin’s Tempelhof Sounds Festival.

Tempelhof Sounds 2022

 There is no one else quite like Muse. Be impressed by their committed performance at Berlin’s Tempelhof Sounds Festival.

Muse

Yazidi women box in a gym in the heart of a refugee camp in northern Iraq. To recover their sense of dignity and self-confidence, they train in self-defense. They are survivors of horrific abuse, having been kidnapped and used as sex slaves under IS rule.

Iraq: Return to Sinjar

Yazidi women box in a gym in the heart of a refugee camp to recover their sense of dignity and self-confidence.

On the French Caribbean island of Martinique , large-scale use of insecticides caused serious damage. But the earth is being revitalised by several initiatives inspired by age-old agricultural practices. 

A Documentary by Florence Lazar

Revitalising the Earth

Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent. The rapid decline affects all food chains: fish and birds can no longer find enough to eat and are becoming fewer and fewer. Studies show that neonicotinoids used in pesticides aren't just destroying the insect popualtion, but also affect human health.

Since the 1990s, total insect biomass has declined by 75 percent

How Chemical Giants Destroyed our Ecosystem

With their latest album Soul on Fire, The Last Internationale brings a rebellious spirit to the main stage of Hellfest 2022.

The Last Internationale

Known for their incandescent, fiery performances, Swedish black metal band Watain perform their pyrotechnics at Hellfest 2022.

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