RE: European Stories

Luton, England: Dr Adriana and her team care for seriously ill patients at home.

In the Lichtenberg district of Berlin a container park houses hundreds of people who cannot afford a home.

More and more Christians who have converted to Islam are settling in southern Spain.

It could be a groundbreaking cancer therapy: a personalised mRNA vaccination.

A class of high-school students in Dresden, Germany go without their smartphones for a week. Can they survive?

Minimalists want to cut down on worldly possessions. But does living with less things make them happier?

The Pomaks are a Muslim minority in Bulgaria who are very attached to their marriage customs.

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

In Poland, women are fighting against the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe.

On board the FS Meteor a team of German researchers spend five weeks at sea studying the unknown depths of the Atllantic Ocean.

Norway is the perfect environment for Atlantic salmon but intensively farmed fish is threatening wild salmon populations.

A new generation of tea growers are revitalising Georgia's plantations, abandoned after the fall of the USSR.

Over the last ten years, the number of young farmers has risen by 13% in Italy, more than anywhere else in Europe.

In eastern Poland, on the border with Belarus, the Bialowieza Forest is at the heart of an intense migratory and geopolitical crisis. 

The war in Ukraine has meant women taking on jobs in traditionally male-dominated sectors.

The Latvian authorities are taking a tougher stance with the country’s Russian-speaking minority since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

After the deadly and destructive megafires of October 2017, Portugal has developed a system of preventive firefighting which could inspire other European countries to follow suit.

11% of Irish travellers die by suicide and most die before the age of 65.

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.

8 years after the EU referendum, there seems to be a sea change in the UK. But does Britain really regret Brexit?