European Union

At Mountainoak Cheese in rural Ontario, their Gouda is winning awards. The owners support Canada's tariffs on cheese imports.
Economics
What turns some law-abiding Canadians into smugglers? The high price of imported cheese.
An Albanian state police officer holds a piece of freshly cut cannabis near the town of Kruja. Most of the pot produced in Albania is grown outdoors, on public land. Growers take advantage of the country’s Mediterranean climate and mountainous terrain.
Economics
Riding along with Albania’s pot police
Election campaign posters for the leader billionaire politician Andrej Babis in Prague, Czech Republic, reading: "Stand up against corruption and stop babbling."
Global Politics
The populist tide has spread to one of Central Europe’s last liberal democracies
Barcelona soccer fans make their feelings known about Catalan independence, at a game on Wednesday Oct 18th 2017
Culture
The roots of Catalonia’s differences with the rest of Spain
Sound of Thunder
Music
A heavy metal band from Virginia went viral in Catalonia
People's Party candidate Sebastan Kurz at a polling station in Vienna, Austria, on Oct. 15, 2017.
Global Politics
Austria is projected to elect a conservative millennial as Europe’s youngest leader
A pro-union demonstration organised by the Catalan Civil Society organisation makes its way through the streets of Barcelona, Spain October 8, 2017.
Global Politics
As Spain sinks further into instability, the EU remains mute
Same-sex couple Karl Kreil and Bodo Mende get married at a civil registry office, becoming Germany's first married gay couple
Lifestyle
Germany celebrates its first same-sex marriages
Riot police grab at a woman near a polling station for the banned independence referendum in Barcelona, Spain, on Oct. 1, 2017.
Conflict
Spanish riot police fight to suppress Catalonia’s defiant independence vote
Chickens
Health
Europe has a tainted egg scare and it’s spreading
Migrant Offshore Aid Station rescues migrants from a rubber dinghy during an operation in the central Mediterranean
Conflict
This group wants to ‘defend Europe’ from migrants at sea
US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Economics
Trump wins concessions, and isolates the US, at the G-20 summit
One of the two Chinese panda bears is munching while German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping visit their compound during a welcome ceremony at the zoo in Berlin, Germany on July 5.
Environment
Two giant pandas have a new home in Berlin, the latest stop for China’s ‘panda diplomacy’
African migrants arriving in Italy from Mediterranean
Conflict
African migrants are reaching Europe with tales of kidnap and torture in Libya
Bison in Poland forest
Environment
In Poland, a primeval forest is threatened by commercial logging
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Global Politics
Merkel warns that the US and Britain are no longer reliable partners
The Libyan coast guard boards a boat in the Mediterranean while humanitarian groups bring migrants onto their ships.
Conflict
Libya’s coast guard is ‘endangering lives’ of migrants trying to reach Europe
Barcelona's Neymar looking dejected after a game at Nou Camp in Barcelona, Spain, on April 19.
Justice
Now Barcelona’s Neymar has to stand trial for fraud
Tattooed human skin forms part of an exhibit in Portugal.
Arts
Portugal is exhibiting human skin with smutty old tattoos
Muslim men gathered in a basement transformed into a a prayer room in the neighborhood of Agios Nikolaos, in Athens
Belief
Athens doesn’t have a single mosque, so Muslims worship in makeshift prayer rooms
Russia's President Vladimir Putin inside a C-Explorer 5 submersible
Global Politics
In Europe, accusations of Russian meddling in elections come as no surprise
Fado
Arts
Lisbon’s serious fado fans go underground
Tow trucks move the beer truck that crashed into the department store Ahlens after plowing down the Drottninggatan Street in central Stockholm, Sweden, April 7, 2017.
Conflict
ISIS has detailed instructions for carrying out truck attacks. They’re pretty horrifying.
Syrian refugees arrive on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos
Conflict
Refugees suffer PTSD and attempt suicide in Greece
Calais
Economics
Migrants are returning to Calais, France, and residents aren’t sure how to cope
The financial district of Paris, La Defense, at dusk on January 5th 2017
Business
French financial companies want a slice of London’s business after Brexit
At the Camlough Cattle Mart, which serves Crossmaglen. Farmers are worried how competitive their beef will be in a post-Brexit world.
Economics
Farmers in Northern Ireland know Brexit will be bad for them — they just don’t know how bad
US President Donald Trump meets with Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on March 17.
Global Politics
Watch: Trump meets Angela Merkel at the White House
The British Union Flag, right, and a Scottish Saltire flag fly above the Scottish Office in Whitehall, with the London Eye wheel seen behind, in London.
Global Politics
Scotland’s leader wants another independence vote before Brexit
Some Jews in France are feeling increasingly uneasy, amid some high-profile anti-Semitic incidents.
Religion
Why some French Jewish parents are taking their kids out of public schools
Religious headscarves, like the one this Palestinian woman is wearing, can be prohibited at the workplace in Europe, the European Court of Justice ruled.
Religion
Europe’s top court rules companies can ban Islamic headscarves
Spain unemployment Malaga
Economics
Why far-right populism hasn’t caught on in Spain
Migrants, hoping to cross into Hungary, walk with babies on their backs along a railway track outside the village of Horgos in Serbia, toward the border it shares with Hungary, on Aug. 31, 2015.
Conflict
Hungary will detain asylum-seekers in shipping containers
​Former Catalan President Artur Mas and former regional councilors Irene Rigau and Joana Ortega leave court after attending the first day of their trial for staging a 2014 informal referendum on independence in breach of a legal order, in Barcelona, Spain
Global Politics
Catalonia is still pushing for an independence vote that Spain calls illegal
Trump Europe threat
Global Politics
European Union head says Trump is a ‘threat’ to Europe
Supporters of Austrian far right Freedom Party (FPOe) presidential candidate Norbert Hofer hold images of his face in Vienna, Austria.
Economics
The European Union may be fragile, but it’s not cracking up just yet
Refugees and migrants try to warm themselves as they take a break at a gas station before abandoning their trek to the Hungarian border, in the town of Indjija, Serbia on Oct. 5.
Conflict
Refugees are still squeezing through Europe’s clamped borders
Catalans who want to separate from Spain join hands as part of a human chain across Catalonia on Sept. 11, 2013.
Culture
Why one American wants Catalonia to be Europe’s new nation
East London street scene
Economics
Britain’s undergoing an identity crisis
Brexit-EU
Rule Britannia
Full Episode
Hungarian women leave voting booths at a polling station during a referendum on European Union migrant quotas in Veresegyhaz, Hungary, on Oct. 2.
Global Politics
Not all Hungarians back their leader’s campaign against Muslim migrants
Who are ‘we’?
Full Episode
Turkey Refugee Camp
Conflict
Refugees in Turkey will get EU-funded debit cards
A spray painted sign against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade agreement is pictured in Frankfurt, Germany, March 29, 2016.
Economics
The huge US-EU trade deal is in danger of falling apart. No surprise there.
European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager in a news conference on Ireland's tax dealings with Apple Inc at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium on Aug. 30.
Business
The EU orders Apple to pay a record $14.5 billion in taxes
Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May speaks during her Conservative party leadership campaign at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Birmingham, England, on July 11.
Global Politics
Theresa May is about to become Britain’s next prime minister
Brexit-EU
Global Politics
After the UK, which nations are more vulnerable to an anti-EU revolt? These 5 charts may tell you.
Brexit beer
Virtual beer and Brexit chat with European friends
Full Episode
Demonstrators take part in a protest on Tuesday aimed at showing London's solidarity with the European Union after the UK voted to dump the club.
Culture
I’m British and Spanish. I feel kicked out of myself.
Nigel Farage (left) checks his watch during the first EU Summit in Brussels after the Brexit vote. Boris Johnson (right) leave his home in London. June 28, 2016.
Global Politics
Nigel and Boris: The blokes who made this Brexit happen
The leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, Nigel Farage, in Brussels
Global Politics
Brexiteer to Brussels: ‘You’re not laughing now, are you?’
Jean-Claude Juncker welcomes Nigel Farage
Global Politics
From Brussels, Brexit looks a lot like Kabuki theater
Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) Nigel Farage holds his passport as he speaks at pro Brexit event in London, Britain June 3, 2016.
Global Politics
People in Northern Ireland are applying for Irish passports to keep their EU rights
Rates of currencies, including British Pound, are displayed after Brexit referendum on an electronic board at a currency exchange in Warsaw, Poland.
Economics
The UK’s Brexit vote could severely impact its ability to trade (perhaps)
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage poses during a media launch for an EU referendum poster in London on June 16.
Global Politics
How the Brexit campaign used refugees to scare voters
trump
Economics
Obama, Clinton and Trump weigh in on the ‘special relationship’ with the UK
Tributes in memory of murdered Labour Party MP Jo Cox, who was shot dead in Birstall, are left at Parliament Square in London,
Global Politics
Will the murder of an idealistic, young British MP swing the EU membership vote?
A Brexit supporter holds a Union Flag at a ‘Vote Leave’ rally in London
Economics
‘Should I stay or should I go now?’ Brits mull the fate of their European experiment
A flotilla of fishing vessels campaigning to leave the European Union sails up the river Thames in London on June 15.
Economics
British referendum campaigners are facing off in the river. And their music rocks.
European Union and the British Union flags fly outside Europe House in London, November 10, 2015.
Global Politics
These women in the UK want to make EU exit debate more hip