A trend is gripping many of Europe's democracies: young men are increasingly voting for right-wing parties, while young women are moving further left. In Sweden's September election, 22% of men aged 18 to 30 voted for the far-right Sweden Democrats, compared with half as many women. Young women…
While EU citizens can move freely and settle anywhere within the Union, they cannot vote in national elections where they live, unless they are also citizens of that country. Though mobile EU citizens can vote in municipal elections and can also run for the European Parliament in their country of…
What happened: The UK could think about getting back together with the EU after a bad decade since the break-up, British prime minister Andy Burnham told BBC radio on Wednesday. It's just one of several “options that need to be considered,” he said. Why it matters: None of the six (!) other British…
Today is International Coffee Day, so we have to ask: is there a more European drink than coffee? Europeans drink more coffee per capita than anywhere else in the world, on average. And across the continent, coffee has taken on countless forms – from the Italian cappuccino and Irish coffee, to the…
As temperatures across Europe begin to fall back into the single digits, the region is facing an unenviable challenge: how to get through the colder months with gas reserves at record lows and prices at record highs? EU-wide gas storage was about 70% full in late September – the lowest level…
If you heat your home and fill up your car with gas, oil, or coal, your bills are likely going up from 2028. The EU’s new carbon pricing system, the Emissions Trading System 2 (ETS2), will make fossil fuel suppliers pay for the emissions from the fuel they sell, and they’ll pass that cost on to…
Oktoberfest is in full swing in Munich, running until Sunday 4 October. Last year, some 6.5 million people flocked to the festival, including a large share of international visitors (21%). The festival is known around the world, and Oktoberfest-style events have popped up everywhere, arguably…
Trainload after trainload of “blood grain” is crossing Latvia's eastern border. This is what locals are calling Russian grain, which has found a new route to the Baltic Sea after Ukrainian attacks disrupted the standard route through the Black Sea. Though many Latvians reject the idea of allowing…
Norway has a green reputation, but it's one of the world's largest exporters of oil and gas, and the EU is its main customer. That could change: the EU is upholding a ban on new oil and gas drilling in the Arctic, despite heavy lobbying from Oslo. Norway has become the Union’s largest gas supplier…
We've all experienced it: you walk into a room, and all of a sudden your mind goes blank. What on earth did you go in there to do? That annoying little brain fart has a name: the doorway effect. A new study in the journal Brain and Environment may have come one step closer to figuring out why it…