The biggest mafia trial in decades gets underway in Italy - The UK'S health system on the brink of a coronavirus crisis - Ireland's mother-and-baby homes scandal explained - Injecting life into Spain's depopulated villages - Turkey and Greece address long-standing issues - Milan bans outdoor smoking in many public places - The Swiss watch industry looks to the youth to boost business

The Julian Assange verdict and the case for press freedom - Germany's lockdown tightened - Greek Orthodox Church clashes with Athens over lockdown measures - How the Eurotunnel forged links between Britain and France - Will Britain create a new trading union with Canada, Australia and New Zealand? - Biohacking rockstar Siim Land's tips on getting a fresh start for 2021 - Wine untouched by light

A special culinary tour of Europe, exploring how food can connect people and bridge cultural divides: Syrian refugees tickle taste buds in Berlin — Chinese students flock to France to cultivate their palates — We'll take a ride on Vienna's food-free underground — And we head to the cradle of wine: Europe's Georgia — and more!

Alone at Christmas: Pandemic of loneliness — Keeping the British Christmas panto tradition alive — Estonia targets digital nomads with its e-Residency program — Reconnecting members of Armenia's diaspora — And a special half-hour focus on European traditions.

Trump's legacy at NATO - Hungary passes a law banning same-sex couples from adopting children - Denmark's mink farms - We visit the birthplace of first lady Melania Trump in Slovenia - Record daily deaths as Germany enters a hard lockdown - Telling tales over the telephone in Italy -
UK music artists say they're being paid unfairly by streaming services - and more...

First COVID-19 vaccines administered in UK — Angela Merkel rocks Bundestag with pandemic speech — Germany surpasses 20,000 COVID deaths — Canary Islands: New escape route for African migrants — Deadline looms for Britons who want to live in the EU — Circuses in Italy set off the alarm bells — and more.

The EU sets out its wish-list for rebooting transatlantic ties - The perilous conditions facing migrants and refugees on the Balkan route - Is the French government lurching to the right? - Ski resorts in Bavaria count the cost of a corona-closure over Christmas - On the Green Fence

Finland's coronavirus success - Germany's COVID-19 Christmas plans - Italian cafe corona ban • The UK plans to relax its restrictions over Christmas - Hungary prepares to test Russia's Sputnik V vaccine - Corona and mental health - Could the coronavirus crisis become a large-scale environmental crisis? - Was 2020 a lost year for Europe-Africa relations?

Britain's health system faces staff shortage of healthcare workers - Hungary and Poland veto EU's budget - The fours seasons of corona - Exhibition of works by exiled Turkish artist - Could face masks for schoolchildren be counterproductive? - The Danish government's mink cull - Online yoga during the pandemic - Much ado about Lidl - Bird hunting on Malta

The EU seals a deal with German and US firms for their coronavirus vaccine - European reaction to Joe Biden winning the US elections - The future of Russia-US relations - How victims of the Bataclan terror attacks in Paris five years ago have coped - Tips on dealing with the effects of the pandemic on our mental health - The world's first clown car wash opens in Germany

Growing resistance to a second lockdown in England - Slovakia rolls out mass coronavirus testing - Police investigate terror links to deadly rampage in Vienna - Abortion protests across Poland - Taking school to the streets of Naples - A century-old dispute between Greece and Turkey still shapes people's identity - How the pandemic has been impacting Germany's bluegrass music scene

Soaring coronavirus infection rates sweep across Europe - Fresh lockdowns announced in Germany and France - The UK's human challenge trial which will expose healthy volunteers to COVID-19 - The mental health of Armenian expats amid the conflict in Nagorno Karabakh - Turkey keeps a close eye on the US Presidential elections - Jewish leaders warn of rising anti-Semitism in Greece - And much more..

A crackdown on radical extremism in France - Increasing support for Scottish independence - Polish academics say they’ll boycott the new education minister - An Italian restaurant cooks up a new scheme to stay in business - Are economic issues fuelling the war in Nagorno-Karabakh? -
The ballot blues facing US expat voters - And in Madrid, golf provides relief from the coronavirus crisis.

Thousands flee fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh - The Golden Passports scandal in Cyprus - Malta journalist murder: No justice three years on - Another blow to traditional British pubs - Tensions flare again between Greece and Turkey - The Dutch U-turn on coronavirus - Bread waste in France - and much more

France's new plan to tackle radical Islam - A landmark ruling for Golden Dawn - Turkey and Nagorno-Karabakh - The world's oldest podcaster - Austrian citizenship for descendants of Holocaust Jews - Anger over a new rail route in Bavaria - The Pope's new encyclical - And much more...

A decades old conflict flares up in Nagorno Karabakh, causing alarm in Europe - Lockdown leads to lawsuits in Germany - Is the work of aid groups being criminalized in Greece? - Italy’s black designers make a bold statement on the catwalk - And we have a special half hour focussing on 30 years since German reunification.

Coronavirus infections surge right across Europe - The FinCen files and how the flow of dirty money is aided by banks - Godfather tourism takes a direct hit in Sicily - It’s full steam ahead for Turkey’s plans to boost its navy and maritime influence - A Neapolitan solution to social distancing in schools - Is Spain’s heritage threatened by botched restoration jobs? And much more...

Belarus: Lukashenko travels to Sochi to shore up support from Moscow — Von der Leyen holds first State of the Union address — COVID-19 case numbers spike in the Czech Republic — Lampedusa struggles to deal with migrants from North Africa — Germany to take in 1,500 asylum seekers from Greece after Moria fire — and more.

EU under pressure as the situation in Belarus intensifies — Fires destroy Greece's largest refugee camp Moria — Shock as a court in Slovakia acquits a businessman of murdering a journalist — Spanish schools reopen despite an increase in COVID-19 infections — Russia hits out at 'hysteria' over Navalny poisoning — Austria looks to government courses to curb anti-Semitism among Muslim refugees.