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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. Jeanne Manjoulet / Flickr

Are Europeans really democrats?

Sweeping new research shows many Europeans could accept to live under a non-democratic regime.
‘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. Hemeroteca Digital / BNE

Wild times in Madrid’s roaring 20s: how Spain’s youth partied hard before Franco took away their dance halls

Let’s take a walk around Madrid a hundred years ago and meet the discotheques, pubs and unrestrained dancing of the roaring twenties.
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.

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