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Carlos San Juan, 78, a Spanish retiree poses outside a bank in Madrid, Spain Tuesday Feb. 8, 2022.

How Spain's older generation are becoming the new high achievers

Spain has the sixth highest life expectancy in the world, after Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Switzerland and Singapore, according to figures from the World Population Review published this year.

28/06/2022

Leinster player Nick McCarthy in training

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Proud to play: Europe's elite gay athletes make coming out normal

With some recent high-profile cases of professional players coming out, could there now be a sea change in attitudes and acceptance for professional gay sportsmen?

24/06/2022

A woman takes a selfie on an embankment of the Pregolya River in Kaliningrad

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Inside Kaliningrad, Russia's exclave at the centre of EU sanctions row

The exclave used to be part of Germany called Köningsburg but was ceded to the Soviets after World War II.

23/06/2022

A woman sleeps under an umbrella on a breakwater in front of the Mediterranean Sea in Barcelona, Spain, 16 June 2022.

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How Spain should adapt to earlier and more frequent heatwaves

As the country melts in its earliest heatwave in over 40 years, analysts say Spain must adapt to a new reality of earlier heatwaves with longer droughts.

22/06/2022

Serra de Rubio wind farm's wind turbines are pictured in Castellfollit del Boix on December 2, 2019

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Why Spain's renewable energy boom is so controversial

Protesters have called it the "industrialisation of the countryside".

21/06/2022

A campaign poster reading "Emmanuel Macron with you" is displayed during a local meeting for the upcoming parliamentary elections, in Lyon, central France, June 7, 2022.

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Five factors at play as Macron struggles for parliamentary majority

Sunday's second round of voting for the French National Assembly could see the re-elected President Macron lose much of his power if his alliance fails to gain an absolute majority.

17/06/2022

FILE: Finnish troops during training exercise

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Could Finland break with Sweden on NATO membership?

Despite Finland's president and prime minister calling for a lock-step approach to joining NATO for Finland and Sweden, some people want to see Finland proceed on their own.

16/06/2022

People carry a giant Ukrainian flag to protest against the Russian invasion of Ukraine during a celebration of Lithuania's independence in Vilnius, Lithuania, Friday, March 11

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Why Lithuania is polarised over Russia's war in Ukraine

"It is either white or black and you have to take one side," one expert told Euronews, referring to how the Ukraine war is dividing society in Lithuania.

14/06/2022

Participants deploy a giant rainbow flag during the 9th gay pride event in the Czech capital Prague on August 10, 2019

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Is the Czech Republic about to legalise same-sex marriage?

Legalising same-sex marriage has broad support among Czechs. But will politicians put a spanner in the works?

13/06/2022

Iryna spent three months in a Kharkiv metro station, sheltering from Russian bombs

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After weeks in Kharkiv's metro, locals emerge to a devastated city

As Russian bombs rained down, locals fled in their slippers to shelter in Kharkiv's metro. Here they speak about three months underground and reemerging to find a devastated city.

10/06/2022

Anti-authoritarian forces have organised their own international units within the Territorial Defence Force of Ukraine.

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Meet the anarchists and anti-fascists fighting Russia in Ukraine

The anti-authoritarian platoon says it is "fighting for Ukrainian society", not the government in Kyiv.

09/06/2022

Women, fleeing from Ukraine, stand on a platform at the train station in Przemysl, Poland, Thursday, March 3, 2022

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Why is Poland's housing market under unprecedented pressure?

The influx of refugees wanting temporary accommodation and a rise in interest rates have sparked fears of housing shortages.

07/06/2022

Midsummer's Day has been cited as an example of when Swedes share food

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Swedish hospitality thrown into the spotlight after tweet goes viral

Matters escalated very quickly!

06/06/2022

FILE- In this Friday, March 9, 2018, file picture demonstrators light the torches of their smartphones during an anti-government rally in Bratislava, Slovakia.

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Slovakia makes slow progress in tackling corruption

Since 2020 the Slovakian authorities have brought dozens of high-ranking officials to justice, including the former attorney general, and ex-chiefs of police and tax administration but analysts say there's still a long way to go.

02/06/2022

Demonstrators protest outside Hillsborough Castle, ahead of a visit by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, Monday, May, 16, 2022.

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Five UK arguments for changing the Northern Ireland Protocol

The UK government intends to introduce a law to override the Northern Ireland Protocol, part of the Brexit divorce deal painstakingly struck with the EU.

31/05/2022

Smoke rises from the Turow coal-fired power plant on the Czech-Polish border

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Why the Czech Republic's green measures lag behind neighbours

The environmental situation in the Czech Republic is the fifth worst in Europe despite the amount of GDP spent on trying to rectify it, a newly-published report has said.

30/05/2022

A monument that was unveiled to mark the 67th anniversary of the assassination of the WWII Deputy Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich in Prague, Czech Republic.

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Marking Operation Anthropoid’s place in Czech history, 80 years on

The assassination of one of the most senior Nazis is today firmly part of the Czech national consciousness.

27/05/2022

The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, is interviewed, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Washington

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Will Scotland's longest-serving leader deliver an independence vote?

Nicola Sturgeon passes her predecessors this week to become Scotland's longest serving first minister - and plans to hold a new independence referendum in 2023.

26/05/2022

Ukrainian refugee Svetlana and her son Yaroslav on their balcony in Aguilafuente, central Spain.

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Ukrainian refugees bring new life to Spain's rural villages

Small abandoned villages in Spain’s depopulated regions have become home to mothers and children fleeing the war in Ukraine.

25/05/2022

Euronews correspondent Valérie Gauriat travelled to the outskirts of Kyiv, where Russian solders allegedly committed war crimes against unarmed civilians.

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Echoes of war crimes: tales of horrors on the outskirts of Kyiv

Euronews correspondent Valérie Gauriat travelled to Bucha and other suburbs, the scene of a massacre by retreating Russian soldiers.

24/05/2022

Does Germany's popular €9-a-month rail pass mask a bigger problem?

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How Spain's older generation are becoming the new high achievers

Proud to play: Europe's elite gay athletes make coming out normal

Inside Kaliningrad, Russia's exclave at the centre of EU sanctions row

How Spain should adapt to earlier and more frequent heatwaves

Why Spain's renewable energy boom is so controversial

Five factors at play as Macron struggles for parliamentary majority

Could Finland break with Sweden on NATO membership?

Why Lithuania is polarised over Russia's war in Ukraine

Is the Czech Republic about to legalise same-sex marriage?

After weeks in Kharkiv's metro, locals emerge to a devastated city

Meet the anarchists and anti-fascists fighting Russia in Ukraine

Why is Poland's housing market under unprecedented pressure?

Swedish hospitality thrown into the spotlight after tweet goes viral

Slovakia makes slow progress in tackling corruption

Five UK arguments for changing the Northern Ireland Protocol

Why the Czech Republic's green measures lag behind neighbours

Marking Operation Anthropoid’s place in Czech history, 80 years on

Will Scotland's longest-serving leader deliver an independence vote?

Ukrainian refugees bring new life to Spain's rural villages

Echoes of war crimes: tales of horrors on the outskirts of Kyiv