Why is Europe facing a summer of discontent?
Strikes across Europe have thrown the continent into chaos just as summer travel takes off. Emily Tamkin, Alona Ferber and Alix Kroeger discuss what is driving workers across the public sector to take...
23 Juni 202224min
Is Emmanuel Macron to blame for the rise of the far right? | France Elects
In the final episode of this series of France Elects Ido Vock, Europe correspondent, is joined by the New Statesman’s writer-at-large Jeremy Cliffe to digest France’s legislative election, at which Em...
21 Juni 202224min
How Nato can protect Ukraine, with Anders Fogh Rasmussen
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine heading towards its fifth month, Europe correspondent Ido Vock speaks to the former Nato general secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen.They discuss what else can be done to...
20 Juni 202218min
Was Angela Merkel too easy on Russia?
On 7 June, the former German chancellor Angela Merkel appeared at a speaking event at a Berlin theatre, to discuss how she has spent the past six months since leaving office and reflect on present pol...
16 Juni 202230min
Will Emmanuel Macron lose his parliamentary majority? | France Elects
In the first of a two-part special of France Elects, as the united left comes ahead of Emmanuel Macron’s party in the first round of the French legislative elections, we look at what this might mean f...
14 Juni 202217min
What the West must do to stop Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, with Bruno Maçães
Fresh from his reporting trip to Kharkiv in Ukraine, Bruno Maçães talks to Katie Stallard about the mood in Ukraine.They discuss how Kharkiv is at the heart of a new national movement, why Ukraine nee...
13 Juni 202223min
Could Mélenchon be France’s next prime minister?
After narrowly missing out on making the second round of the presidential election, the leader of the left in France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is battling Emmanuel Macron’s renamed Renaissance party to win...
9 Juni 202227min
What happened in Ireland’s mother and baby institutions? With Deirdre Finnerty
Bessborough House, a grand mansion on the outskirts of the city of Cork, was one of Ireland’s largest mother and baby institutions, open from 1922 to 1998. Thousands of women and girls confined there ...
6 Juni 202223min
