Many Europeans aren’t happy with the way their country’s politics are run. Does this mean they could accept to live in a regime other than a democracy? Photo taken at a protest against pension reform, 2019.
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During the summer, our eyes are particularly exposed to the elements: solar radiation, the cold from fans and air conditioners, chlorine or the salt in the water where we bathe…
A happy day, by Joaquín Sorolla.
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Far from the idea of “trickle-down economics”, a map illustrates how the waterworks of the financial system are parching certain sections of the real economy and producing vast inequality.
Helen Mirren playing Caesonia in Tinto Brass’ 1979 historical drama film, Caligula .
Following a number of films featuring debauched emperors, it is nowadays commonplace to associate the Greek-Roman antiquity with orgies. But is this historically accurate?
We acquire languages in a intuitive process that involves little effort; we learn them through the conscious assimilation of grammatical rules and usage.
‘For a peseta a drink you can dance all afternoon, even if you wear racket trousers, with a line-up of pretty girls’. Photograph by Contreras y Vilaseca illustrating a news item about dances in the magazine ‘Estampa’ of 31 July 1928.
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The NATO summit in Vilnius has kicked the prospects of Ukraine’s membership into the long grass. Kyiv, however, has other security tricks up its sleeve.
Summer is here, together with its host of sun-drenched paraphernalia. One marketing scholar takes a look at our relationship to the emblematic cocktail, Aperol spritz.
Meteor shower during the 2015 Perseids.
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The general elections in Spain have left a confusing scenario in which party agreements will be the main protagonists.
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.
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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.
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Jaume Claret, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
After the country’s municipal elections in May 2023, perceived as a plebiscite on the government, President Pedro Sánchez called for general elections.
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.
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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”.
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While EU countries are capable of initiating strong joint actions, a divide is emerging between countries with very different, even antagonistic, decarbonisation strategies.
Are holidays really necessary, and why do we need them? And, above all, what are the benefits of a few days off? This is what science says.
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.
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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.