Uncovering Europe One man's lone bid to save Ukrainians from Russia's military might Watching the war in Ukraine unfold from his home in Tel Aviv, Bernard Moerdler decided to help civilians in danger by creating a Ukraine-wide air raid warning system. 25/04/2022
Uncovering Europe 'Like a prison sentence': France's left hesitates over whether to vote Kingmakers on France's left face a difficult choice on Sunday: voting for Macron -- widely disliked on this wing of French politics -- or abstaining and letting Marine Le Pen into power. 22/04/2022
Uncovering Europe From Pushkin to Gagarin, Ukraine removes Russia one symbol at a time A statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was removed in April. Now other parts of Ukraine are questioning why Soviet-era monuments remain. 21/04/2022
Uncovering Europe 'Politicians don't help us': The young French people who're abstaining From disliking the candidates to a lack of trust in France's system, four young people explain their decision not to go to the polls. 20/04/2022
Uncovering Europe What exactly is Marine Le Pen's stance on Russia and Vladimir Putin? The far-right challenger for the French presidency has openly expressed her admiration for the Russian leader in the past, and has consistently defended Moscow's foreign policy. 18/04/2022
Uncovering Europe 'I focused on survival': Mariupol escapee speaks of her month in hell Alina Beskrovna, a 31-year-old finance expert and Mariupol native, survived the first month of the siege in the city, managing to unexpectedly save herself, her mother, and their three cats in late March. 15/04/2022
state of the union Europe's week: EU prepares for French election runoff The EU digested this week the consequences of the first round of the French elections. 15/04/2022
Uncovering Europe Europe’s army of Elves fights real-world Russian disinformation Self-organised and nonfunded, groups of volunteers from the Baltics to Central Europe took on the task of combatting the Kremlin propaganda machine. Now, the war in Ukraine has them doubling their efforts. 13/04/2022
Uncovering Europe Macron-Le Pen face-off: Five reasons why it'll be different this time Emmanuel Macron will find it much harder to win over an angry, divided France than in 2017, and the prospect of Marine Le Pen becoming president is a real possibility. 12/04/2022
Smart Regions Under one roof: the project providing integrated health care An initiative has been set up in Brussels to provide medical care and other public services all under one roof. Smart Regions went to find out more. 11/04/2022
Uncovering Europe France election: Who's who in the race to unseat Macron? Your guide to some of the leading candidates to be France's next president. 11/04/2022
state of the union Europe's week: Fresh sanctions human trafficking & Hungary latest woes The EU will now target imports of Russian coal in a bid to weaken Moscow's war machine. 08/04/2022
Uncovering Europe 'Europe still not fully aware of tragedy and suffering in Ukraine' “Nobody could ever expect, believe or anticipate something like this. These are horror stories — what is going on in Mariupol, what is going on in Chernihiv, in Kharkiv. It’s unimaginable.” 07/04/2022
Uncovering Europe Orban has last laugh as Hungary's 'joke' party accused over election The Two-Tailed Dog Party has trolled and teased its way through Hungary’s political system since it was founded as a movement in 2006. But is the joke running thin? 06/04/2022
Uncovering Europe How the Czech Republic's Vietnamese community is rallying for refugees More than 5,000 Vietnamese nationals have also left Ukraine for neighboring countries. In the Czech Republic, they have been welcomed. 06/04/2022
Uncovering Europe A slow burn: Ukraine war sees Sweden warm to NATO membership As political and public support for joining NATO continues to grow, Sweden's Social Democrat government looks set to change its foundational resistance to membership of the military alliance. 04/04/2022
state of the union Europe's week: Peace talks offer some hope and EU-China summit flops The videoconference between Brussels and Beijing was the first of its kind since June 2020. 01/04/2022
Uncovering Europe Peter Marki-Zay: Is this the man who can beat Viktor Orban? "In some ways, Péter Márki-Zay can be compared to Donald Trump: a non-party player who says new and surprising things, who comes out of nowhere and goes against the conventional political logic.” 01/04/2022
Uncovering Europe Slovakia has been a haven for refugees from Ukraine. But for how long? There are fears that mismanagement of the country's refugee population could lead to a backlash. 01/04/2022
Uncovering Europe Going home to war: Why are more Ukrainian refugees now turning back? More than 3.9 million Ukrainians have fled since Russia's invasion. But at the Poland-Ukraine border town of Przemyśl, more are now heading back than leaving. 30/03/2022