Environment
EUROPE
Spain’s Street Paradox: Clean Reputation, Dirty Reality
New data from Spanish cities shows rising complaints about dog waste in public spaces despite record sanitation spending, creating a gap between the country's self-image and daily reality.
BUSINESS
French Farmers: Trade Runs Through the Countryside, Not Brussels
Trade bureaucrats in Brussels ready their paperwork while French tractors idle on country roads, engines still warm from last winter's blockades.
Film
How New Zealand Changed the Film Industry?
New Zealand is more than natural beauty when it comes to film, involving renowned film talent established in 1993.
Popular
Anti-Bardella Performative Resistance Falls Short
Culinary protests splatter and legal verdicts land; Jordan Bardella rides economic fatigue to dismantle the cordon sanitaire shielding the French presidency.
Meloni in Manama: The Sakhir Declaration and Gulf Security
Missiles over Doha have turned the Sakhir Declaration from standard diplomacy into a survival blueprint, pushing the Gulf toward self-reliance and Europe ties.
The Rome-Moscow Connection: How Italy and Kyrgyzstan are Keeping Russian Trade Alive
While Europe builds a wall of sanctions against Russia, Italy has found a backdoor, shipping goods through the mountains to Kyrgyzstan.
EU-US Trade Talks: Price of Sovereignty on the Factory Floor
Brussels rejects trading digital sovereignty for tariff relief, leaving European steel workers to bear the heavy cost of a deepening transatlantic deadlock.
The Pope’s Turkey Visit: Eastern Mediterranean as Christianity’s Foundation
Pope Leo XIV's first papal journey to Turkey from 27-30 November 2025 placed the eastern Mediterranean once again at the centre of Catholic imagination, inviting Europe to reconsider how geography shaped its tradition.
