ARTE Europe Weekly is a digital-only weekly news magazine presented in four languages – French, German, English and Spanish – by native-speaker journalists. And to ensure it can reach a wider European audience, ARTE Europe Weekly also comes with subtitles in Italian, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian and, in the near future, Romanian.
ARTE Europe Weekly aims to provide viewers with the context they need to understand current affairs from a European perspective. Every Friday, a new edition is available on arte.tv and on ARTE’s YouTube channels. In addition, thanks to a partnership with El País (Spain), Le Soir (Belgium), Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland), Internazionale (Italy), IR (Latvia), Kathimerini (Greece), Telex (Hungary) and BIRN (in progress), the magazine is also available on the digital platforms of these seven leading European media outlets, in their respective languages.
This means that ARTE’s European news programmes will be available throughout Europe in 10 languages.
A multilingual European news format
ARTE Europe Weekly explores pan-European news stories that resonate beyond national borders. The programme unpacks the events that have been dominating the European and international headlines, zooming in on these key stories – such as the war in Ukraine, agriculture in Europe or health issues – analysing them in depth and in a way that reflects the diversity of European viewpoints.
Since 2024, a customised version of ARTE Europe Weekly has also been available for social media. Using the same graphics as the magazine, it presents the key issues in a concise format that can be easily understood in less than 2 minutes.
The presenting team
ARTE Europe Weekly presenters: (top row, left to right) Minerva Burroni, Anne-Charlotte Waryn, Robert Handrack, Catherine Bennet; (bottom row, left to right) Anne-Lyse Thomine, Jad Salfiti, Anja Maiwald, Beatriz Rios © ARTE/Frédéric Maigrot
In English: Catherine Bennet and Jad Salfiti
In German: Anja Maiwald and Robert Handrack
In French: Anne-Charlotte Waryn and Anne-Lyse Thomine
In Spanish: Minerva Burroni and Beatriz Rios
Background and financing
Thanks to support from the European Union, ARTE has been gradually expanding its multilingual European programming since 2015. ARTE Europe Weekly is part of ARTE’s European news offering, supported by co-funding from the European Union as part of Multimedia Actions “European Media Hubs”. The project (EMOVE), coordinated by ARTE, aims to ensure European citizens are better informed, thanks to pluralistic, independent reporting of European issues in 10 languages. The project is divided into 2 strands:
- A European news strand that includes the production and distribution of ARTE Europe Weekly, as well as explanatory formats and social media formats, in consortium with eight European media outlets.
- A strand of 30-minute reports entitled “European Stories”, exploring Europe in all its diversity through original, real-life stories, building up a catalogue of programmes available throughout Europe.