Is the European Union doomed?

On the Network this week Chris Burns and his guests look at what is at stake in Spain’s general election later this month. Can the ruling Partido

On the Network this week Chris Burns looks at the hopes for the Paris summit on climate change. Experts are warning that unless there is joint

Europe’s “powerfrau”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has wielded her country’s power to tackle a devastating financial crisis, a refugee crisis and

Turkey’s snap elections come at a critical moment. President Erdogan aims to avoid the hung parliament from the June vote, but polls show no clear

The most hotly debated 21st century weapons – drones – have been an important means of fighting an adversary at no risk to the virtual pilots. But

The coming Portuguese general election raises themes of austerity, reform and growth that Europe has become all too familiar with in recent years

Even before the current crisis migration was a complex and divisive issue for the European Union. The surge in recent months of vast numbers of

Twenty years after the Marc Dutroux child abductions and murders, are police and civic groups working closely enough, across EU countries, to keep children safe?

The threat of Greece leaving the EU, or a “Grexit,” has deeply shaken Europe. While officials prepared for a worse case scenario, eurosceptic

Despite the 1995 Dayton Accords, which formally ended three-and-a-half years of war in the Balkans, tensions remain as the region again faces the

Can Europe mend the gap between men and women when it comes to pay, pensions and leadership positions?

EU youth employment policies have so far failed to significantly bring down youth jobless rates often double the national average. How to make the

Turkey’s elections on June 7th will be a key test of the country’s democracy and its bid to join the EU. A crackdown on dissent has worried Brussels

A spying scandal has confronted Chancellor Angela Merkel with one of the most difficult challenges of her leadership. Claims that the country’s

What would the British and EU citizens wake up to if the UK voted to exit the EU? How would that impact trade, prices, politics, jobs and daily life

The EU and Cuba have accelerated talks to normalise relations. The US is also ending decades of estrangement as Cuba’s Communist regime allows

Four years after the violent overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi Libya is once again in the grip of a bloody power struggle. With rival administrations

Following the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov “The Network’ asks just who or what is behind the killing in the Kremlin’s shadow and

European, Ukrainian and Russian leaders reach another peace agreement. But will it end up being yet another scrap of paper?

The Network focuses on programmes to deradicalise potential jihadists and asks how effective they can be and if they are adopting the right approach and targeting the right people