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On 13 September 2017, Paris was named as host city of the 2024 summer games. Two days later, visitors to the city visited the games’ iconic rings, displayed by the Trocadero. Anne Jea/Wikipedia

Paris Olympics: with 365 days to go, will this mega-event clinch a sustainability gold medal?

One year away from the 2024 Olympic Games, the grim reality of climate change is impossible to deny. How do we make the mega-event sustainable and avoid the pitfalls of greenwashing?
Proclamation of the Second Republic in Spain. Crowds with banners and flags. Archivo Baldomero y Aguayo, IPCE, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte

The 1930s municipal elections that put an end to the monarchy in Spain

After the country’s municipal elections in May 2023, perceived as a plebiscite on the government, President Pedro Sánchez called for general elections.
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Does Spanish nationalism exist?

Spanish history recounts the existence of various peripheral nationalisms (Catalan and Basque), while, in many cases, the existence of a Spanish nationalism of Castilian origin is ignored.
The British cook Jamie Oliver, whose series The Naked Chef premiered in 1999, is one of the most notable examples of rock star chefs. Shutterstock

How chefs became rock stars

Today, chefs – and some women chefs too – are listened to, admired and respected. But it wasn’t always that way.
In February 2022 in Brussels, demonstrators (wearing masks of Ursula von der Leyen, Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron) protest against the European Commission’s decision to classify gas and nuclear energy as “sustainable”. François Walschaerts/AFP

France and Germany clash in race for energy transition

While EU countries are capable of initiating strong joint actions, a divide is emerging between countries with very different, even antagonistic, decarbonisation strategies.
Joint appearance of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, at the beginning of the Spanish Presidency. Pool Moncloa/Fernando Calvo

Spain’s EU presidency is an opportunity to reset relations with Latin America and the Caribbean

Relations between the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean will resume at the highest level after eight years without summits of presidents from both regions. Spain is the main driving force.
Busta Rhymes and P. Daddy’s song “Pass the Courvoisier” was a major hit in 2001, and reportedly led to a significant rise in the brand’s US sales. Busta Rhymes/YouTube

From Black GIs to Puff Daddy: how African Americans fell in love with cognac

Legend has it that African Americans soldiers brought back a love of cognac after service in Europe in World War II. It’s a lovely story, but the history goes back much further.
Jep Gambardella, the narcissistic and excessive central character in Sorrentino’s allegory of Silvio Berlusconi. Allociné

How ‘La Grande Bellezza’ captured Italy’s Berlusconian era

The Oscar-winning film sketches out the broad themes of Berluconist hedonism, all against the backdrop of the decline of ideologies that shaped 20th-century Italy.
More than two hundred migrants were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard in Pozzallo (Sicily, Italy) in February 2023. Alessio Tricani / Shutterstock

Criminals, terrorists and freeloaders: how migrants are portrayed in the European media

Research in Spain, Italy and Greece has analysed the representation of immigration in the media, hate speech on social media and the perceptions of journalists in these countries.
Picture from the film ‘The Class’. FilmAffinity

Films to understand the French riots

A young unarmed teenager has been shot dead in a Paris suburb by a policeman during a routine checkpoint. It is not the first time, and French cinema has been denouncing it for years.
Demonstration in Piazza Della Scala, in Milan (Italy) for the rights of children of same-sex parent couples. Shutterstock/Federico Fermeglia

LGBTQ+ parents are being removed from their children’s birth certificates in Italy – here’s what’s behind this disturbing trend

The Prosecutor’s Office of Padova (Italy) has asked a local court to remove any same-sex non-biological parent on birth certificates, denying same-sex families the right to State recognition.
It estimated one out of ten of us will hear voices at some point in our lives. Keyut Subiyanto/Pexels

Hearing voices? You’re not alone

The international Hearing Voices Movement has spent the past decades campaigning to destigmatise a surprisingly common phenomenon.
The rise in extreme weather events dent into developing countries’ budget and raise their debt interest rates. Pexels/Karthikeyan Perumal

Paris hosts summit to secure debt relief and climate cash for developing countries

This week’s summit for a “New Global Financing Pact” will look to secure some much-needed climate cash for developing countries, while ensuring their debt remains manageable.
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Let’s focus on AI’s tangible risks rather than speculating about its potential to pose an existential threat

The question of whether artificial intelligence could, hypothetically, wipe out human civilisation is counterproductive and diverts attention from more pressing challenges.

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