Re: Comté - A Controversial French Cheese

With geopolitical tensions and the war in Ukraine, European countries are looking to bolster their military forces. But are young people willing to take up arms?

In the Netherlands, donating a kidney to a stranger means receiving a vital healthy kidney quicker for families in need.

Whilst other European rail companies are gradually phasing out this mode of transport, ČD Night, a small Czech company, is trying to expand its network of sleeper carriages.

A typical Hungarian family makes sense of the change of government in Budapest. Will things improve?

Originating in Japanese manga culture from the 1980s, Cosplay has gone global in the decades since

A new generation of men are doing their share of the chores and looking after the children.

Every year, around 5,000 French students go abroad to study medicine. More than half of them choose Romania.  

In Europe’s driest country, water consumption is rising while water levels are decreasing. What can be done?

Europe is facing a tsunami of cocaine with the illegal drug being smuggled in via the Atlantic coasts of Spain and Portugal. 

Ordinary civilians are now preparing for war by volunteering for the Latvian National Guard in large numbers.

In the hills above Madrid, Europe’s largest wildlife hospital takes in more than 10,000 animals every year.

A highly charged debate is ongoing in Latvia on the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, aimed at preventing violence against women.

Volunteer doctors from the Greek mainland visit remote Aegean islands to provide vital healthcare.

Since 1967 the German NGO Friedensdorf International has been bringing sick or injured children from around the world for treatment in Germany.

A new generation of young people from urban areas is taking on the difficult job of producing food for the nation.

A huge amount of lithium lies underneath the Jadar valley in Serbia. A multinational wants to mine it but locals are against the  idea.

Belgian microbreweries are facing a crisis with rising prices and changing consumer habits. Can they survive?

The Ambedkar high school, run by headmaster Tibor Derdak, helps Roma children who would otherwise drop out of school

Many French people cross the border to Belgium to end their lives in dignity, where assisted dying is possible.

Once a month the European Parliament moves from Brussels to Strasbourg for four days, a practice which many are against.

A church on wheels, moved several kilometres: this was the spectacular highlight of the relocation of the Swedish city of Kiruna.

A new generation of young people from urban areas is taking on the difficult job of producing food for the nation.

Two Polish investigators explore an old tunnel in Wroclaw. Will they find hidden Nazi treasure?

Today, the few remaining Greeks of Turkey try to keep their cultural traditions alive.

Photographer Alex Iacob explores Romania’s lost derelict breweries, abandoned cinemas and closed up spa towns.

Belgian microbreweries are facing a crisis with rising prices and changing consumer habits. Can they survive?

On Croatia’s remotest island, the country’s last lighthouse keepers man the lighthouse since 1875.

Venice’s resident population is sinking as 30 million tourists visit every year. Can the last Venetians be saved?

France’s favourite cheese, Comté, is accused of contributing to river pollution in the Jura region.

In the 1990s, hundreds of thousands of women in Peru, often poor, indigenous and illiterate, were sterilised against their will.

With their adopted daughter and foster twins, Jana and Hartmut want to leave Germany for a new life in Greece.

Whilst other European rail companies are gradually phasing out this mode of transport, ČD Night, a small Czech company, is trying to expand its network of sleeper carriages.

Despite social pressure, many couples in France are opting not to have children.

Spanish parents want their children to have an adolescence without devices, judged better for their mental health and online safety.

Our reporters filmed an exclusive report from the border area occupied by the Israeli army.

 In the democratic-leaning city of Philadelphia, the birthplace of the nation, local people are firmly against Donald Trump’s whitewashing of American history.

A meticulously researched investigation showing how sexual predators operate on the Meta social network. 

In Chile water is disappearing, and not just because of drought: Google’s data centres are using huge amounts of water.

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.

From Antiquity to today’s social media, this documentary looks at the history male domination. Why are we still in a machocracy?

A journey of discovery through Japan’s northernmost main island passing fields of flowers and smoking volcanoes.

Brussels has confirmed its desire to explore an “associate membership” status for Ottawa.

How can we have more fulfilling sex? Ronja von Rönne meets couples and singles who have reinvented their sexuality.

A leading figure in the British alternative music scene performs in Paris as part of her “Body High’ tour.

Two virtuoso piano concertos from Franz Liszt on period instruments with Bertrand Chamayou as soloist.

A series of sabotage attacks in the EU all point back to Russia. Now the EU has to decide how to respond.

In the 1990s, hundreds of thousands of women in Peru, often poor, indigenous and illiterate, were sterilised against their will.

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