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L’acqua che (non tutti) avremo

Più di 3,5 miliardi di persone in tutto il mondo vivono in aree che si confrontano con la scarsità d’acqua: un dato destinato ad aumentare

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No longer in tune | Eurozine

In 1827, while walking in the Sparrow Hills above Moscow, the poet Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877) and the writer and philosopher Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) made an

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Ukraine: Still Europe’s breadbasket | Eurozine

Ukraine has always been one of the largest s­uppliers of grain to global markets. At the beginning of the twentieth century its share in the

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Violence without end? | Eurozine

Focusing on the conflict in Gaza, Esprit asks how we can ‘intellectually assess an event of such a scale, one that has already polarised public

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Not so special treatment | Eurozine

The EU moves toward further restricting asylum. The new pact agreed on 20 December, even refuses a proposed age limit for the detention of irregular

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Peace to the plates! War on the animals!

My grandmother loathed chicken. During the Second World War she was forced to kill and pluck hens. The smell stuck in her nose and she

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Your favourites | Eurozine

This year, the magazine turned 25 years old, and our network of cultural journals celebrated the 40th anniversary of the first European Meeting of Cultural

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Comedy versus cancel culture | Eurozine

Related reads Further sources From political correctness to ‘cancel culture’, staying ‘woke’ seems to be the comedian’s new worst nightmare. While humor acts as a

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A recipe for survival | Eurozine

September. People, flies and wasps cling to the last of the blackberries and the first soft pears of autumn, while cherry plums and mirabelles lie

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Greenwashing oil | Eurozine

It seemed like an ordinary Tuesday in Frankfurt, the financial heart of Europe. Hundreds of bankers were busy working in Deutsche Bank’s two giant skyscrapers.