Imagine an issue that combines Britain’s legendary love of animals, Brexit, politics, religion and a dash of far-right populism – and you have the gruesome but inflammatory question of how to slaughter farm animals. Killed after being stunned, or a...
‘The UK is due to leave the European Union’ says a bilingual advisory brochure that has been available in public buildings across the Republic of Ireland for some time. The document offers advice to business on ‘Getting Brexit Ready’: ‘Review...
This week marked 10 years since ETA, Spain’s most infamous terror group, carried out its last fatal attack. At a small ceremony in the Mallorcan town of Palmanova, politicians gathered with members of Spain’s Civil Guard to remember the two...
When the Scots originally voted to remain in the United Kingdom (UK) in September 2014, they did so with the implicit understanding that they would also be remaining in the European Union (EU) as part of the UK. One of...
After weeks of negotiations, on 3rd July 2019, leaders of the 28 member states of the European Union reached a consensus on the future leaders of the bloc. The long and tumultuous negotiation process showed once again how checks and...
Housed in an abandoned mine, the Gruve 3, there is the Arctic World Archive. The innovative project created by the Norwegian company PIQL aims to preserve “all the memory of the world”. PIQL has created a film with a secret polymer formula made to last 500 years, but thanks to the conditions of the arctic, the aim is that it can stay preserved for a millennium. Data, including films, writings, paintings, photographs and everything else that humans have produced, and which represents our collective historical memory and identity are transferred onto the film. Among those which transferred data into the world archive Fpolaare the ESA, the Vatican Library, the Alinari Archives and the Cineteca di Bologna.
Ever since Angela Merkel became Germany’s chancellor, she has been synonymous with the country’s success and its stability. With her announcement to not seek re-election, she has opened up Germany for a political paradigm shift – for better or worse....
It has just turned 60 years old; Turkey’s one-sided love affair with the EU started on 31 July 1959, when it applied for association with the EEC (European Economic Community) founded in 1958. Turkish fascination with Europe began more than...
On Wednesday 24th July, Boris Johnson officially became the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was immediately faced with the difficult task of forming a government. Who was he going to keep? Who was going to leave? Political...
After the collapse of the Austrian coalition government following a scandal in May (dubbed ‘Ibiza-gate’), things looked remarkably positive for the country’s left-wing. Now that campaigning is underway, however, the outlook is less rosy: the leader of the Social Democratic...