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Steady access to safe, drinkable water is still a privilege, and Europe is struggling with ever-worsening droughts. The new episode of the Standard Time talk show discusses chemical hazards, eco guerrillas, and why we can never have enough pelicans.

To a young Slovak dissident, the Helsinki Accords seemed at the time merely to cement the status quo. He was proven wrong. Fifty years later, however, it is clear that the power of the treaty was confined to its historical moment.

Trump marks the end of the separation in US foreign policy between security unilateralism and economic globalism. For the US today, tariffs serve the same purpose as bombs. This drives a wedge between the Trump regime and its international far-right allies – with one exception: Russia.

Four NGOs in Kharkiv explain what the suspension of USAID funding means for their work. They include a media organization countering Russian propaganda, a centre providing veterans with legal advice, and volunteer groups refurbishing war-damaged buildings.

On the border between Poland and Belarus, the Forest has become the subject of a humanitarian crisis. An artist’s report, based on meetings with activists and refugees, charts this contested space. Poetry honours those lost in transit.

The protests over the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu are the biggest display of anti-government feeling in Turkey since Gezi Park. Again, people are challenging the culture of public silence; and again, they are being punished for doing so.

Europe produces 5 tons of waste per capita each year and exports a significant portion of it for other countries to handle. Can we reduce, reuse, and recycle our way out of this? New talk show episode premiers today.

Controversies over the legacies of dictatorship and civil war have polarized the Spanish debate for over two decades. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of Franco’s death, the legitimacy of the transition is uncertain. Could things have been done differently?

It’s only two months into Trump’s second presidency and Americans are already suffering from nightmarish visions of democracy being suffocated. Brutal spending cuts in the name of efficiency, coercion of institutions threatening academic freedom, strong-arming law firms into pro bono work – all inducing fight or flight responses.

Editor-in-chief Réka Kinga Papp is stepping down from her post at Eurozine and offers three main lessons from her tenure.

From getaway destination to point of entry, the EU’s southernmost territories attract plenty of ongoing arrivals. Migrant containment policies, outlining stringent confinement and processing, would see newcomers restricted to the archipelago. But could Spain’s swift transfers and regularization turn the tide of migration strategy?

The digital world we navigate today was built on centuries of technological innovation by librarians and archivists. The unprecedented access to online information now compels these institutions to evolve. In this discussion, librarians and a data steward from Helsinki, Vienna, and Pécs explore the challenges and opportunities of this transformation.

Denmark’s neglected areas of urban social housing are up for regeneration. But Copenhagen’s demographic diversification plans threaten to ostracize the very communities ghettoized within the city’s ‘imaginary borders’ – immigrants fear expulsion at the hands of gentrification.

The white saviour, driven by a moral mission, benefits from the oppression they claim to resist. Reactions to the plight of ‘victims’ often fail to translate into concrete actions, leaving those in need of care begging for sympathy. Could acknowledgement of individual complexity to the point of mystery alter this dynamic?

After the catastrophic performance of the traffic light coalition, what Germany needs is a strong, unified government able to provide an antidote to the new fascism. Friedrich Merz must begin by rebuilding trust, writes the editor of ‘Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik’.

Radio waves may travel indefinitely through space, but maintaining a record of live transmissions requires dedicated archival practices. In Portugal, where an outdated legal deposit law only safeguards printed material, even historically important broadcasts are recorded over. Could a new law based on a French model be the answer to libraries saving priceless material from obscurity?