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Backsliding on abortion | Bianca’s story | Religion and medicine in Romania | Ultraconservatives and Austrian democracy | Croatian hospitals | Waiting periods in Germany | Criminalisation persists | Helena Dalli on equal protection | Macron and th...

Europeans howl about U.S. backsliding on abortion rights but they don't exactly have their own house in order. Take the case of Bianca. She's a Romanian. She was studying medicine in Germany. And she discovered she was pregnant in Korea. Bianca ev...

Sahar Aziz | Shada Islam | Brussels So White | Islamophobia phobia | Anti-Muslim Hatred | Impact of 9/11 | Collective guilt | Bloodlines in Europe | Colonial legacies | Whiteness over time

Emmanuel Macron | Guy Lagache | Engagement and appeasement | Putin and ice hockey | Ukraine and Nato | All is not lost | Putin's lies | WWI | Boris Johnson | Les Anglo-Saxons | Oil and gas | Marie-Antoinette

Rafia Zakaria | Shada Islam | Brussels So White | Embryonic EU antiracism | Let women wear what they want | Sneering Europe | Ukraine and the civilisational discourse | White saviours | Melinda French Gates

Far-right conferencing and Putin | CPAC in Budapest | NatCon in Brussels | Ultraconservative poster boy Viktor Orbán | LGBTQ+ bashing | Race | Be the victim | Tailor your theory | Common cause with Ukraine against Europe

Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine has threatened to be a public relations disaster for hard-right gatherings like CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference. Previous editions featured Putin supporters — and a CPAC meeting getting underway i...

Weapons and helmets | Army or militia | Lying to friends and family | War and sobriety | Trumpists and anti-vaxxers | Filtering Russian spies | Bags on heads in the basement | Praying with guns | Under fire in Kyiv | Drones and trenches

Georgian Legion | Kalashnikovs at the gym | Snoring soldiers | Coloured tape | Fighting for values | Field medic | "I think I'm ready" | "Ready for the worst" | Lviv vs Kyiv | Families underground | Bunkers

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