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When Thomas left Brussels for Ukraine to train as a foreign fighter, he joined up with the Georgian Legion, a paramilitary group that's fought for years to stop Russian aggression. In this episode Thomas and his unit arrive in Kyiv, as part of eff...

Into Ukraine | Leaving family | Boots and a Kalashnikov | Air raids and sleeplessness | The unit gets a nurse | Night patrol | Urban fortifications | Thermal imaging | Donated drones

White fear | Postponed migration promises | Macron's civilisational trope | Michel's clumsy counting | Vaccine ideology | A guinea pig for clean energy | Carbon shocks | Debt solutions | Europe vs China | Lethal aid | Wagner Group | Brexit and the...

Mehreen Khan and a cast of shibboleths | Gildeadites and Ephraimites | Europe is diverse | Europe has been too naïve | Europe is green | Europe isn’t protectionist | Europe is humane to migrants | Europe has defeated populism | Defining separatism

Ursula von der Leyen's locked phone | Mass deletion of European Commission emails | Freedom of information and the Cold War | Sweden and 1766 | Regulation 1049 | Emily O'Reilly | Věra Jourová | Heidi Hautala | Reijo Kemppinen

Victim-shaming Italy and Spain | Making NextGenEU permanent | Global Progressive Forum | Flirting with Five Star | Technology and democracy | Fighting homophobia in Italy | Giorgia Meloni | A Schengen-model for shared migration policy

Unidentified governing object | Mark Rutte | Renew Europe's gender problem | Janša's antisemitic trolling | Wild animals and gladiator fights | GOP and EUCO | Jan 6 and Art 7 | Populists vs progressives | Caricatures of Eastern Europe | The supine...

European climate diplomacy after Brexit | Allying with the vulnerable | Keeping 1.5 alive at Glasgow | The shape of the room at COP | France after the Paris Agreement | Financing for clean energy | G20 and UN | Boris Johnson's science

Climate radicalisation | Legitimacy crisis | Energy prices | Don't blame the green transition | Disquiet over Glasgow | Bombshell in Copenhagen | Alliances in Durban | Threat multiplier | Climate refugees and populism | Denmark migration conversation

Alexis Tsipras's tears | Meeting Merkel | When debt doctors disagree | Jeroen Dijsselbloem's mucky shoes | Thomas Weiser's neat ironing | Poul Thomsen and failed states | A top secret Plan B | Yanis Varoufakis has a plan too | When the banks shut ...

What a hunger strike feels like | A humanitarian outcry in Belgium | Lilana Keith of PICUM | Albert Kraler of Danube University Krems | Obstacles facing Afghan migrants | Pull and push effects | Sammy Mahdi | Spanish regularisations and Germany's ...

Shada Islam | Sarah Chander | Targets for white women | Missing data | A landmark survey | Colour-evasiveness | Cognitive diversity | Critical race theory | An antiracism coordinator for Europe | Neoliberal feminism | Racialization | Recruitment t...

Adam Bodnar | Captured courts | Competitive authoritarianism | State media harassment | Ursula von der Leyen | Laurent Pech | The return of a Soviet-style judiciary | The chilling effect | Natacha Kazatchkine | Dissidents today | New ways to prote...

Ursula von der Leyen and vaccine accountability | Mehreen Khan of the Financial Times | Hans Kundnani of Chatham House | Censuring the EC | The Pharmacist | Vaccine regionalism | German elections | Pandemic populism | Euro debtors | EU sovereignty...

Ursula von der Leyen appears secure in her job as president of the European Commission. That's despite a troubled vaccine rollout in which delayed deliveries can cost lives and livelihoods. But preserving the status quo in Brussels comes at a cost...

Manon Aubry | La France Insoumise | Rebranding the Left | Rosie the Riveter | People and planet | Trade and emissions | Yellow vests | Macron’s rightward plunge | Darmanin & Le Pen | Identity politics in France | 5G phones | Gobshite | Water polo

James Crisp of The Daily Telegraph | Boris Johnson's Brussels stories | Thierry Meeùs of Mini-Europe | Big on the small things | Dishonesty in Downing Street | Fuck business | The EC's good Brexit | Condom sizes | Kipper pillows | Ham sandwiches

Daniel Ziblatt | Christian Democrats | US Republicans | How Democracies Die | Thuringia | Viktor Orbán | Identifying authoritarians | Diversity and democracy | Gatekeepers | Macron's balancing act | Climate and Covid-19 | Trumpism's future

Conference on the Future of Europe | Warnings in the Capitol Riot | Alberto Alemanno | Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield | Intelligibility | Covid and the German presidency | Orbán's end game | Social media as an EU platform | Ursula and original sin

Giulia Laganà of the Open Society European Policy Institute | Avoiding appeasement | Borders and the far right | Slave labor conditions in Europe | Regularising migrants | Legal Pathways | Return sponsorships | Frontex | Detaining children | Helic...

Mehreen Khan of the Financial Times | End game in EU's battle with Hungary and Poland | Signs of illiberalism in France | Fidesz in a mess | Garvan Walshe of article7.eu | Whither the European People's Party | Unblocking the EU's nuclear option

Nathalie Tocci on strategic autonomy | Joe Biden's victory | French nukes | China Decoupling | EU majority voting | Mehreen Khan of the FT | Truth to Power | Be the Squirrel | Vaccine race | New Hanseatics | Charles Michel finds a mission | Thierr...

Emilia Roig | Colour-evasiveness in France | Post-racialism in Germany | The European Commission and identity politics | Proxies and disaggregated data | Intersectionality and neutrality laws | Roma rights | Katrin Langensiepen | Black Lives Matte...