Tag: european history

• ‘Our Auschwitz, our Dachau’

  November 6, 2022

  Waterberg, Namibia – The lacy shadows of the acacia trees lie over the dry grass. A chilly winter breeze sighs through the branches. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2022/11/6/reckoning-with-genocide-in-namibia more ›

• Billionaires club: These people are Europe’s wealthiest, according to Forbes

  April 7, 2021

  The number of billionaires worldwide grew by 660 in 2020, according to the latest annual tally by Forbes magazine. There are now a record 2,755 people globally who have more… more ›

• How pandemics extinguished an empire

  October 18, 2020

  At their peak during the reign of Trajan, around the start of the second century AD, the Romans had governed distant regions of the globe for longer than any other… more ›

• ‘We pick your food’: migrant workers speak out from Spain’s ‘Plastic Sea’

  September 27, 2020

  The tens of thousands of migrant workers working in the province are vital to the Spanish economy and pan-European food supply chains. Throughout the pandemic, they have held essential worker… more ›

• Auf wiedersehen, techno: Berlin’s banging Berghain club reborn as a gallery

  September 8, 2020

  With nightlife in limbo due to Covid-19, the legendary temple of techno has reinvented itself as art gallery. If a new report by nightlife consultancy VibeLab is anything to go… more ›

• World War II-Era Obstacle Is Curbing French Startup Diversity

  August 1, 2020

  The startup scene in France has the same problem that plagues the industry everywhere — too little diversity. Trouble is, in France you can’t measure it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/world-war-ii-era-obstacle-is-curbing-french-startup-diversity more ›

• Electric Crypto Balkan Acid Test

  July 21, 2020

  In early 2018, millions of digital clocks across Europe began falling behind time. Few took notice at first as slight disruptions in the power supply caused bedside alarms and oven… more ›

• UK accused of ‘behaving like cowboys’ over EU database copying

  January 10, 2020

  The British government has been accused of “behaving like a bunch of cowboys” after a confidential report revealed it had allowed illegal copying of an EU database. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/09/uk-accused-of-behaving-like-cowboys-over-eu-database-copying more ›

• Let them eat the city, say the urban farmers of Paris

  December 6, 2019

  Paris, France – Parisian mushrooms are reclaiming their space in the dark spaces under the City of Light. Huge quantities of button mushrooms used to be grown using the manure… more ›

• Documenting American segregation at the Berlin Wall

  November 9, 2019

  On August 13, 1961, East German forces closed the borders of East Berlin and encircled the allied sectors of the city’s western half. Two weeks later, American photographer Leonard Freed… more ›