The European Correspondent

After 14 years of SNS rule, Serbia’s students have won a landslide election victory. Born out of two years of protests, the Student List secured a projected parliamentary majority, succeeding where opposition parties had long failed.

Literally “Pump it!”, it became the battle cry of a generation. After a station canopy collapsed in Novi Sad in November 2024, killing 16 people, students took to the streets demanding justice and an end to corruption.

Nearly three-quarters of packaged foods in our analysis scored C, D or E on Nutri-Score. Does that make them unhealthy? We analysed nearly one million products to find out what the label really tells us about the food we eat and what it leaves out.

- Promoted opinion by the Automotive Coalition for Europe - When your vehicle needs repairing, will you still have a choice? The next time your car breaks down, the EU may have already decided who can repair it

Europe’s transition to cleaner, smarter vehicles is usually discussed in terms of technology, industry and climate targets.

Women in politics are 33 times more likely than men to be targeted by AI-generated fake nudes. A new EU ban on nudification apps takes effect in December 2026, but gaps in the law and weak enforcement could leave victims exposed.

The strength of courts, rights and checks on power is declining across Europe, reflecting a broader global recession, according to data from the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index.

Russia, Belarus, Türkiye and Serbia remain at the bottom of the European rankings, but some of the steepest declines were also recorded in Georgia, Portugal and Slovakia.

The strength of courts, rights and checks on power is declining across Europe, reflecting a broader global recession, according to data from the World Justice Project’s Rule of Law Index.

The index measures eight factors, including checks on government power, the absence of corruption and the justice system. Since 2021, Europe's average score has fallen in seven of the eight areas, and remained unchanged in one: corruption.

When Netflix raised my subscription price again to €17 per month, I paid and moved on. But it made me wonder what the same subscription costs everyone else.

Netflix charges different prices in different countries, depending on local purchasing power. After all, not everyone can afford the €25 a month the Swiss pay. I found that Netflix's lower pricing in poorer countries is still far smaller than the gap in wages to richer countries.

Visas, customs paperwork, import taxes and new rules for transporting equipment have turned what used to be straightforward cross-border tours into an expensive logistical headache. For smaller bands, the extra costs and bureaucracy can make touring the EU almost impossible.

If you've never thought long and hard about stamps, you are most certainly not a philatelist – a student or collector of postage history.

As such, stamps have always been as much about power as they are about mail. Colonial and imperial rulers used them to thrust their faces into the daily lives of people; Poland and Czechoslovakia, once independent, reissued stamps from elsewhere by printing right over them.

If you've never thought long and hard about stamps, you are most certainly not a philatelist – a student or collector of postage history.

The most valuable stamps in the world are mostly the freaks among them, including those printed in the wrong colour or displaying their subject upside down.

If you've never thought long and hard about stamps, you are most certainly not a philatelist – a student or collector of postage history.

Europe’s wildlife is recovering: Iberian lynxes have grown from fewer than 100 in 2002 to 2,663 in 2025. But a new WWF report warns that wildlife populations worldwide have shrunk by 73% since 1970.

Europe’s “Amazon” is drying up. The Mura-Drava-Danube biosphere reserve, spanning five countries, is home to hundreds of bird and fish species. But prolonged droughts are threatening its wetlands, with water levels falling to record lows.

Conservationists are restoring riverbanks and reconnecting wetlands to help nature recover, protect drinking water supplies and reduce the impact of floods. Yet these efforts need long-term funding, just as climate change makes them more urgent than ever.

When Belgian physicist Francis Halzen was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, he became the ninth European among the past ten physics laureates.

The EU is trying to bring dissatisfied or laid-off American researchers to Europe through its “Choose Europe for Science” initiative. In the latest round of European Research Council grants, applications from the US surged by 120%, compared with a 17% rise in applications overall.

When Belgian physicist Francis Halzen was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, he became the ninth European among the past ten physics laureates.

It is most pronounced in economics, where more than two-thirds of European winners did their Nobel-recognised research at a foreign university. While in physics and chemistry, the share is more than a third.

When Belgian physicist Francis Halzen was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, he became the ninth European among the past ten physics laureates.

But Halzen, who won his prize while working at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is also part of a less celebrated trend. Four of those nine Europeans carried out the research that earned them the prize outside their home country, mostly in the United States.

- Sponsored by the European transport workers federation - 📦 Your parcel crosses borders. Your delivery driver’s rights? Not so easily. Across Europe, transport workers can do exactly the same job but have very different protections.

Why? Because when companies subcontract work, the rules on who takes responsibility change from country to country. 🚛 The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) is calling for stronger rules that hold companies accountable, no matter how many subcontractors are involved.

Ever wanted an (easy) way to get rich? Consider becoming a parliamentarian. Even before benefits and perks, Europe's decision-makers consistently out-earn the average worker in their country. In Georgia, even on a base salary, you'd be earning almost six times the national average.

Across Europe, young people are protesting over everything from poor schools and unaffordable housing to corruption. Their grievances differ, but many share a feeling that politics is failing their generation.

Rising living costs, uncertain job prospects and the climate crisis are making it harder for young Europeans to believe they will have a better future than their parents.