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How do our neighbours in Europe view the pressing social issues of our time? What issues are they concerned with? Five partners, five languages and one joint project: The European Collection. As part of this project, ARTE, ARD, ZDF, France Télévisions and SRG SSR offer a joint selection of documentaries, reports and web formats on current issues in European politics and society.

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Climate change is often viewed as a far-off phenomenon but the effects are already being felt around the world by millions of people. A global overview of the regions on the frontline of the climate catastrophe.

Mapping the World

 A global overview of the regions on the frontline of the climate catastrophe.

Climate Change Is Happening Now

Since 2018, the Vosges forest has been dealing with drought and heat waves due to climate change. Forest fires are going to increase in frequency and intensity, and firefighters are getting ready.

ARTE Reportage

The Vosges forest is in for more frequent and intense wild fires because of climate change, and the region is bracing itself

France: The Vosges Forest Under Threat

Textiles have been central to trade and industry since time immemorial, notably with the famous Silk road trading route from China to Europe. In our current era of globalisation textiles continue to be big business but this success comes at a social and environmental cost.

Textiles: A Global Industry

Svalbard lies halfway between Norway and the North Pole and has more polar bears than human inhabitants. This starkly beautiful land is on the frontline of climate change with dramatic and visible changes over the last decade.

Svalbard lies halfway between Norway and the North Pole and has more polar bears than human inhabitants. This starkly beautiful land is on the frontline of climate change with dramatic and visible changes over the last decade making it the fastest warming place on earth.

Svalbard: Fastest Warming Place on Earth

Climate protection, sustainability, taking responsibility: the younger generation is calling for a shift in mindset - and concrete action.

There is no planet B!

As infection rates reduce across the continent and more people get vaccinated, homeless and migrants remain amongst the most vulnerable in the pandemic.

Europe: Homeless in Covid Times

Since the beginning of the pandemic, scientists from the Pasteur Institute in Lille in northern France have been researching a treatment for Covid-19. Since day one, our team has been following their work.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, scientists from the Pasteur Institute in Lille have been researching a treatment for Covid-19. Since day one, our team has been following their work.

Hope for an Anti-COVID Drug

Humans are social animals and we need physical contact. We cultivate the language of touch from birth and it is essential for the development of our body and minds. How do different types of touch, and the absence of touch, affect us?

Humans are social animals and we need physical contact. How do different types of touch, and the absence of touch, affect us?

The Power of Touch

“14 February was the day that I didn’t die.” In 2015 Daniel was involved in a serious traffic accident. He survived, but his injuries meant that his brain could no longer create long-term memories. A moving portrait of a thirty-something who had to rebuild a life without memory.

 A moving portrait of a thirty-something who, after a traffic accident, had to rebuild a life without memory.

Living without Memory

With a high mortality rate, a chronically underfunded health service, and doctors leaving to work in other European countries, Romania is in danger of being overwhelmed by Covid-19.

Romania: Health Service on the Brink

Sweden's approach to the pandemic provoked global respect and skepticism by turns. No lockdown, no curfew, no mandatory mask-wearing. But overtime Sweden imposed more restrictive measures, and the economic cost of the virus started to bite.

Sweden's approach to the pandemic provoked global respect and skepticism by turns...

Covid: Sweden Suffers

A look at the Institut Pasteur in Lille, at the forefront of research for a Covid-19 vaccine, where a special research group of the best scientific minds is working day and night to find the solution.

France: Looking for a Covid-19 Vaccine

Public health faces global challenges: a race against time?

The European patient

Women are twenty-seven times more likely than men to be harassed on social media. This shocking finding, published by the European Women's Lobby in 2017, suggests that cyber-violence against women is not a series of isolated acts, but a systemic scourge. Sociological studies have shown that it is mostly committed by men who, contrary to popular belief, belong to more privileged socio-economic groups. Feeling protected by the virtual nature of their actions, the perpetrators are organised and sometimes carry out "digital raids", or harassment in packs, with terrible consequences, both personal and professional, for their victims.
 
This documentary focuses on women’s testimony from all walks of life who have been victim of online abuse and examines the harm this phenomenon does to them and to democratic debate.

Online Abuse Against Women

This documentary focuses on women’s testimony from all walks of life who have been victim of online abuse and examines the harm this phenomenon does to them and to democratic debate.

#FatUglySlut

UK fishermen were sold a dream: vote for Brexit and take back control of their waters, as well as the chance to free their industry of European bureaucracy. But the dream turned sour and job cuts loom.

UK fishermen were sold a dream, and now it's time to wake up

Scotland: Brexit Takes Toll on Fishing

Kosovars living in the diaspora across Europe are coming back to participate in the elections. Many hope for a new beginning by voting in the Vetëvendosje party that promises to fight corruption and create jobs.

Re:Hope in Kosovo

Let's be honest: How are we doing - especially for young people - in terms of equal opportunities in our society?

The Long March to Social Justice

Hard hit by the coronavirus epidemic, Belgium is burying its dead. In Brussels, the only multi-confessional cemetery of Evere is overwhelmed by the influx of deceased Muslims. Families had wanted to take their loved ones 'back home' to be buried. But Covid has made that impossible. Volunteers are trying to help out to make the burials in Belgium feel more Islamic.

Families had wanted to take their loved ones 'back home' to be buried. But Covid has made that impossible

Belgium: Volunteer Gravediggers

Together instead of against each other: how can we as a society overcome exclusion and create real participation?

The many faces of diversity

In 2020 around 20,000 people arrived on the Canary Islands on small boats from the west coast of Africa, ten times more than in 2019. 

Canary Islands Under Migrant Pressure

In Greece, the coastguard has taken to pushing back potential asylum seekers towards Turkish waters. That's despite the fact that once in Europe, these people have a right to apply for asylum and to have that application processed. But while this tactic is against EU human rights law, the Greek government have a promise to keep to its electorate: reducing the flow of migrants.

In Greece, the coastguard has taken to pushing back asylum seekers into Turkish waters, in violation of EU law

Greece: Illegal Pushbacks of Asylum Seekers

A century ago the Treaty of Trianon formally ended World War I between the Kingdom of Hungary and the allied powers. Hungary lost two-thirds of its territory at Trianon which is still a contentious subject in Hungarian politics and society.

Hungary's Trauma

Anti-European sentiment is rising in Italy as some Italians feel that Brussels has not done enough to help with the coronavirus pandemic. Matteo Brandi talks of an Italexit whereas others support Italy’s place in the European Union.

Re: Anti-European Feeling in Italy

Germany in the 21st century is unthinkable without Angela Merkel, leading the country for the last 16 years. Ms Merkel grew up in the GDR before beginning her political career in the united Germany. A look at the Germany she leads as she approaches the end of her political career.

A look at the Germany of Angela Merket as she approaches the end of her political career after 16 years as chancellor.

Germany: Angela Merkeland?

In August 2020 1,500 individuals attempted to cross the straits of Dover, all looking to start a new life in Britain. Paying extortionate prices to people traffickers or going it alone in tiny dinghies, it’s a dangerous game to cross the cold waters of the world’s busiest shipping lane.

In August 2020 1,500 individuals attempted to cross the straits of Dover all looking to start a new life in Britain. Paying extortionate prices to people traffickers or going it alone in tiny dinghies, it’s a dangerous game to cross the cold waters of the world’s busiest shipping lane.

Calais: Migrants Crossing the Channel

A rough wind is blowing through our democratic institutions. What can politics do to counter the growing challenges?

What Now for Democracy?

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

Darío Aguirre is from Ecuador, living in Germany with his wife. When the city of Hamburg unexpectedly invited him to become a German citizen, Darío revisits his rocky path to building a life for himself in Europe and wonders about who he has become. This film is about arriving and living abroad in a time when xenophobia is suddenly acceptable again in Germany, and society is struggling to find the right way to integrate new citizens.

 What it's like to live in Germany as a foreigner when xenophobia is suddenly socially acceptable again

How I Became German

Nicola Bramigk, founder of the Smart Traveling travel platform, is embarking on her first trip since lockdown. From South Tyrol to Puglia, she meets up with old friends, and talks to hoteliers and restaurateurs about what tourism will look like as the world slowly gets back to normal - whatever that means - after the pandemic.

What will visiting Italy feel like after the pandemic?

Re: Italian Tourism, After the Pandemic

Our lifestyles and habits as Europeans are as colourful and diverse as the continent itself.