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Barcelona brought sunshine and the promise of fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The glory of Primavera\u2019s Barcelona location at the Parc del F\u00f2rum just north of the city centre meant arriving in the city centre itself was a breeze, after booking a last-minute train through <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"http:////Omio.com/">Omio to take me direct from Paris to Barcelona. <\/p>\n<p>Within the city itself, Primavera\u2019s late sets mean you get to spend time in the day hanging out in Barcelona\u2019s best haunts. After sampling endless wafer-thin slices of jam\u00f3n ib\u00e9rico at the Mercat de la Boqueria and gawping at <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//tag//antoni-gaudi/">Gaud/u00ed/u2019s architecture<\/strong><\/a>, it\u2019s a short metro ride to the Parc del F\u00f2rum where the fun can continue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-gallery widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" \n data-ratio=\"0.667\"\n data-gallery-img-nb=\"10\"\n data-gallery-key=\"c972c820-2114-11ef-8109-232b85cac99b\"\n data-gallery-featured-index=\"0\"\n>\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure widget__figure-has-button\">\n <a class=\"widget__gallery__image__link\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"//culture//2024//06//02//what-went-down-at-primavera-sound-in-barcelona-this-year?gallery=c972c820-2114-11ef-8109-232b85cac99b#photo-1\" title=\"open image gallery\">\n <img class=\"widget__gallery__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//39//52//384x256.12800000000004_cmsv2_5048bd18-50e2-567a-b8b6-c68f93f67cec-8473952.jpg/" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_5048bd18-50e2-567a-b8b6-c68f93f67cec-8473952.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/640x427_cmsv2_5048bd18-50e2-567a-b8b6-c68f93f67cec-8473952.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/750x500_cmsv2_5048bd18-50e2-567a-b8b6-c68f93f67cec-8473952.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/828x552_cmsv2_5048bd18-50e2-567a-b8b6-c68f93f67cec-8473952.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1080x720_cmsv2_5048bd18-50e2-567a-b8b6-c68f93f67cec-8473952.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1200x800_cmsv2_5048bd18-50e2-567a-b8b6-c68f93f67cec-8473952.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1920x1281_cmsv2_5048bd18-50e2-567a-b8b6-c68f93f67cec-8473952.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <\/a>\n <a class=\"widget__button u-color-white u-display-flex u-flex-direction-column u-margin-bottom-2 u-margin-bottom-medium-5 u-text-transform-none\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"//culture//2024//06//02//what-went-down-at-primavera-sound-in-barcelona-this-year?gallery=c972c820-2114-11ef-8109-232b85cac99b#photo-1\" title=\"open image gallery\">\n <div class=\"widget__button__title u-color-white u-margin-top-0 u-text-transform-none u-text-weight-bold\">View Gallery<\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__button__text u-display-flex u-text-weight-semibold u-text-size-extra-small\">10 Photos<\/div>\n <\/a>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3>A Korean wave on the coast of Spain<\/h3><p>Balming Tiger were the first of a handful of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//tag//k-pop/">K-pop bands to make an impression on the Iberian Peninsula at the festival. Spanish crowds are renowned for their proclivity to have a little dance, and Balming Tiger made the most of this with a loosely choreographed set that was the first to galvanise the festival as it opened on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spanning genres as widely as their arm-flapping bum-shaking dance moves, Balming Tiger are a semi-supergroup collective of talented Korean singers, rappers and songwriters. Their ascent has been gaining momentum since first single \u2018I\u2019m Sick\u2019 in 2018, and while they\u2019re still on the smaller side of the colossal genre, recent-ish single \u2018Sexy Nukim\u2019 featuring BTS\u2019s RM shows they\u2019re a formidable force to keep an eye on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6667741935483871\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//39//52//808x539_cmsv2_1ebade27-8f63-5297-b4f7-a40a85aebbbc-8473952.jpg/" alt=\"Balming Tiger\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_1ebade27-8f63-5297-b4f7-a40a85aebbbc-8473952.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/640x427_cmsv2_1ebade27-8f63-5297-b4f7-a40a85aebbbc-8473952.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/750x500_cmsv2_1ebade27-8f63-5297-b4f7-a40a85aebbbc-8473952.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/828x552_cmsv2_1ebade27-8f63-5297-b4f7-a40a85aebbbc-8473952.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1080x720_cmsv2_1ebade27-8f63-5297-b4f7-a40a85aebbbc-8473952.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1200x800_cmsv2_1ebade27-8f63-5297-b4f7-a40a85aebbbc-8473952.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1920x1280_cmsv2_1ebade27-8f63-5297-b4f7-a40a85aebbbc-8473952.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Balming Tiger<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Christian Bertrand<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8454828,8471870\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//05//25//primavera-sound-in-barcelona-kicks-off-spains-summer-of-music/">Primavera Sound in Barcelona kicks off Spain's summer of music<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//05//31//euronews-cultures-film-of-the-week-la-bete-the-beast-bertrand-bonellos-sci-fi-masterstroke/">Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'La B\u00eate' ('The Beast')- Bertrand Bonello's sci-fi masterstroke<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3>Noughties bands with new albums<\/h3><p>Turn back the clock to the summer of 2008 and \u2013 among the many interminable indie bands of the era \u2013 two new artists stood out ahead of the crowd. Vampire Weekend and Justice\u2019s debut albums made distinctive in-roads with the former\u2019s intelligent lyrics and twangling instrumentation alongside the latter\u2019s aggressively thumping French disco.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to 2024, and thankfully most of the twaddle NME were banging on about 16 years ago is long gone. But the year has also brought new albums from Vampire Weekend and Justice, and live, both groups prove they\u2019re still forces to be reckoned with. Vampire Weekend\u2019s \u2018Only God Was Above Us\u2019 returns the band to their earlier sound with intricately orchestrated pieces that translate seamlessly into their greatest hits setlist, while still feeling like a step forward with Ezra Koenig\u2019s arch lyricism on songs like \u2018Gen-X Cops\u2019 and \u2018Classical\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//39//52//808x539_cmsv2_ab5cdcdb-30e3-5708-9584-88aa665085e3-8473952.jpg/" alt=\"Vampire Weekend\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_ab5cdcdb-30e3-5708-9584-88aa665085e3-8473952.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/640x427_cmsv2_ab5cdcdb-30e3-5708-9584-88aa665085e3-8473952.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/750x500_cmsv2_ab5cdcdb-30e3-5708-9584-88aa665085e3-8473952.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/828x552_cmsv2_ab5cdcdb-30e3-5708-9584-88aa665085e3-8473952.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1080x720_cmsv2_ab5cdcdb-30e3-5708-9584-88aa665085e3-8473952.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1200x800_cmsv2_ab5cdcdb-30e3-5708-9584-88aa665085e3-8473952.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1920x1280_cmsv2_ab5cdcdb-30e3-5708-9584-88aa665085e3-8473952.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Vampire Weekend<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Sergio Bertrand<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the evening on the first night was a triumphant set from French electro duo Justice. Starting off with first album classic \u2018Genesis\u2019 \u2013 when you\u2019ve written a song like that, how could you not start every set with it? \u2013 they ripped through highlights of their back catalogue. All told, the crowd was somewhat tame given the deeply bass rich sounds of \u2018We Are Your Friends\u2019, \u2018D.A.N.C.E\u2019 and \u2018Audio, Video, Disco\u2019, but no matter \u2013 the true success of the evening was how seamlessly new album tracks like \u2018Neverender\u2019 featuring Tame Impala fit into overall soundscape.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Bonafide Britpop legend stuns<\/h3><p>Svelte, lithe and writhing, Sheffield\u2019s own <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2021//11//11//jarvis-cocker-releases-surprise-sustainability-anthem-to-coincide-with-cop26/">Jarvis Cocker<\/strong><\/a> brought with his expansive band Pulp to remind the Catalonian capital that Britpop never died. In heels, a perfectly tailored suit and his distinctive boxy glasses, Jarvis is still a law-unto-himself, traipsing round the stage with stereotypical candour, whispering sweet nothings to the local crowd about his fondness of the festival between the band\u2019s array of 90s classics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//39//52//808x454_cmsv2_30215dd5-6371-5f17-abfb-25f59a65eec5-8473952.jpg/" alt=\"Every reliable... the Jarv\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/384x216_cmsv2_30215dd5-6371-5f17-abfb-25f59a65eec5-8473952.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/640x360_cmsv2_30215dd5-6371-5f17-abfb-25f59a65eec5-8473952.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/750x422_cmsv2_30215dd5-6371-5f17-abfb-25f59a65eec5-8473952.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/828x466_cmsv2_30215dd5-6371-5f17-abfb-25f59a65eec5-8473952.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1080x608_cmsv2_30215dd5-6371-5f17-abfb-25f59a65eec5-8473952.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1200x675_cmsv2_30215dd5-6371-5f17-abfb-25f59a65eec5-8473952.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1920x1080_cmsv2_30215dd5-6371-5f17-abfb-25f59a65eec5-8473952.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Every reliable... the Jarv<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Eric Pamies<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Starting off with the somewhat lesser-known \u2018I Spy\u2019, Jarvis coaxed the crowd into believing in magic with their handclaps before thrusting into massive hit \u2018Disco 2000\u2019. They first played in Barcelona in the 90s and haven\u2019t been back to Primavera since they reformed in 2011, so they took every opportunity to remind people why they are so beloved through a hit-laden set that spanned their catalogue while focusing on favourite album \u2018Different Class\u2019. Never retire again Jarvis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Big crowds for new names<\/h3><p>British band The Last Dinner Party burst onto the scene with their hit single \u2018Nothing Matters\u2019 last year, and since releasing their first full album, have proven that indie rock still very much matters to a large audience of young music fans. They were out in their droves at the atmospheric amphitheatre Cupra stage on Friday as the frontwoman Abigail Morris swept through a packed set of indie bangers. An all-woman rock band isn\u2019t that radical but it\u2019s still a refreshing sight to see the empowering effect on female fans in the audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6667774086378737\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//39//52//808x539_cmsv2_6fd1c9dc-eba5-52e6-9cad-d4ce56e1b471-8473952.jpg/" alt=\"Newbies on the block: the Last Dinner Party\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_6fd1c9dc-eba5-52e6-9cad-d4ce56e1b471-8473952.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/640x427_cmsv2_6fd1c9dc-eba5-52e6-9cad-d4ce56e1b471-8473952.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/750x500_cmsv2_6fd1c9dc-eba5-52e6-9cad-d4ce56e1b471-8473952.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/828x552_cmsv2_6fd1c9dc-eba5-52e6-9cad-d4ce56e1b471-8473952.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1080x720_cmsv2_6fd1c9dc-eba5-52e6-9cad-d4ce56e1b471-8473952.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1200x800_cmsv2_6fd1c9dc-eba5-52e6-9cad-d4ce56e1b471-8473952.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1920x1280_cmsv2_6fd1c9dc-eba5-52e6-9cad-d4ce56e1b471-8473952.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Newbies on the block: the Last Dinner Party<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Eric Pamies<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Toying with gender norms on the main stage, Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan brought his 00s revivalist pop with his trademark sultry flare. Sivan has been on the scene for a while as an actor and musician, but last year broke through musically with \u2018Rush\u2019. Although still nascent into a career as a main-stage pop icon, a confidently choreographed and sexy show was the biggest draw of the late afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Lana Del Rey draws but disappoints<\/h3><p>This year\u2019s Primavera was all about <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//05//27//no-license-to-lana-the-rejected-james-bond-songs-through-the-years/">Lana Del Rey<\/strong><\/a>. By far the artist featured on the most T-shirts, merchandise, and even the odd Catholic prayer candle. Friday\u2019s crowd was notably more densely packed with day-ticket holders dedicated to the American singer-songwriter. Images of the \u201cLana-stans\u201d queuing up to get into the festival at doors, hours before her slot, set the tone for the evening, and by the time she was due on stage, it felt like everywhere else at the festival site was deserted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//39//52//808x454_cmsv2_8e3f81f5-3f91-54ca-8220-bf38da37cfdf-8473952.jpg/" alt=\"Everyone came down for Lana's set\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/384x216_cmsv2_8e3f81f5-3f91-54ca-8220-bf38da37cfdf-8473952.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/640x360_cmsv2_8e3f81f5-3f91-54ca-8220-bf38da37cfdf-8473952.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/750x422_cmsv2_8e3f81f5-3f91-54ca-8220-bf38da37cfdf-8473952.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/828x466_cmsv2_8e3f81f5-3f91-54ca-8220-bf38da37cfdf-8473952.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1080x608_cmsv2_8e3f81f5-3f91-54ca-8220-bf38da37cfdf-8473952.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1200x675_cmsv2_8e3f81f5-3f91-54ca-8220-bf38da37cfdf-8473952.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1920x1080_cmsv2_8e3f81f5-3f91-54ca-8220-bf38da37cfdf-8473952.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Everyone came down for Lana's set<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Sharon Lopez<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And then\u2026 it was alright, I guess? In typical Lana style she came on a good 25 minutes late, forcing her to cut her set short as Primavera is vigilant about timings given its double mainstage set-up. Visually the show was stunning with Lana performing among beautifully choreographed jazz-inflected ballet dancers and her intricately detailed art-deco stage dressing. The dedicated fans heaved and made the atmosphere somewhat unpleasant while you strained to hear Lana\u2019s hushed vocals. Immaculate to a tee, yet the suddenly underpowered mainstage speakers kicked in for her backing singers every time. Lana Del Rey has perfected her sonic aesthetic on record, and visual one live, but can\u2019t seem to ever make the two come together at a festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//39//52//808x539_cmsv2_e171e253-aedf-5ff9-a2f1-a3bc52cdae06-8473952.jpg/" alt=\"And it disappointed\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_e171e253-aedf-5ff9-a2f1-a3bc52cdae06-8473952.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/640x427_cmsv2_e171e253-aedf-5ff9-a2f1-a3bc52cdae06-8473952.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/750x500_cmsv2_e171e253-aedf-5ff9-a2f1-a3bc52cdae06-8473952.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/828x552_cmsv2_e171e253-aedf-5ff9-a2f1-a3bc52cdae06-8473952.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1080x720_cmsv2_e171e253-aedf-5ff9-a2f1-a3bc52cdae06-8473952.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1200x800_cmsv2_e171e253-aedf-5ff9-a2f1-a3bc52cdae06-8473952.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1920x1280_cmsv2_e171e253-aedf-5ff9-a2f1-a3bc52cdae06-8473952.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">And it disappointed<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Sharon Lopez<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>By comparison, American indie rockers <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//04//28//the-national-counting-down-the-bands-best-songs/">The National<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 who played the longest set of the weekend straight after Lana Del Rey \u2013 proved why they\u2019re so reliably booked at big festivals. Matt Berninger and his gang of sad dads didn\u2019t do anything out of the ordinary for them, but their well-oiled machine of textured guitars, thundering drums and earnestly delivered \u2013 if croaky \u2013 baritone vocals works for their legions of fans. You know what you\u2019re getting with The National at this point, but after a semi-disappointing set from Lana Del Rey, they delivered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//39//52//808x454_cmsv2_28db5316-ea50-528c-ae13-18db3236caad-8473952.jpg/" alt=\"What did Harvard teach you? The National on stage\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/384x216_cmsv2_28db5316-ea50-528c-ae13-18db3236caad-8473952.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/640x360_cmsv2_28db5316-ea50-528c-ae13-18db3236caad-8473952.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/750x422_cmsv2_28db5316-ea50-528c-ae13-18db3236caad-8473952.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/828x466_cmsv2_28db5316-ea50-528c-ae13-18db3236caad-8473952.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1080x608_cmsv2_28db5316-ea50-528c-ae13-18db3236caad-8473952.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1200x675_cmsv2_28db5316-ea50-528c-ae13-18db3236caad-8473952.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1920x1080_cmsv2_28db5316-ea50-528c-ae13-18db3236caad-8473952.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">What did Harvard teach you? The National on stage<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Clara Orozco<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3>Primavera is now a tightly run ship<\/h3><p>In 2022, after years off for the pandemic, Primavera\u2019s Barcelona weekend was criticised for its slapshot organisation. Festival organiser Joan Pons accepted that there was work to do to fix the overcrowding that beleaguered that first year back. Clearly, that work has paid dividends. Bars are always well-stocked and quick to navigate and the rest-facilities on the site are reliably clean. It\u2019s still a mission to queue up for the few public water taps that offer free hydration, but that\u2019s the only major snag still in the well-organised festival\u2019s layout.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another touching detail is the Gaza Mirror installation by the entrance of the festival. The art piece, by Jofre Oliveras, plays on the recent New York-Dublin installation and gives the hedonistic music fans in Barcelona a moment of reflection. It\u2019s a far cry from the chaos last month when the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//05//15//great-escape-music-festival-in-doubt-over-artist-exodus-in-protest-of-israel-link/">Great Escape Festival<\/strong><\/a> in Brighton was almost brought to a stand-still when around 200 acts pulled out last minute over the sponsor Barclays\u2019s ties with munitions manufacturers supplying arms to Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Lankum is like nothing else<\/h3><p>Also not ones to shy away from the horrors in Gaza, Irish folk musicians Lankum made the point of draping a Palestinian flag over their instruments and commended Spain and their country\u2019s (and Norway\u2019s) recognition of the Palestinian state. The discussion received a huge applause before the band launched into their unique brand of folk-inflected post rock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//39//52//808x539_cmsv2_176bec7b-59a4-5152-bd15-53842b053540-8473952.jpg/" alt=\"Eerie and ethereal from the depths, Lankum\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_176bec7b-59a4-5152-bd15-53842b053540-8473952.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/640x427_cmsv2_176bec7b-59a4-5152-bd15-53842b053540-8473952.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/750x500_cmsv2_176bec7b-59a4-5152-bd15-53842b053540-8473952.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/828x552_cmsv2_176bec7b-59a4-5152-bd15-53842b053540-8473952.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1080x720_cmsv2_176bec7b-59a4-5152-bd15-53842b053540-8473952.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1200x800_cmsv2_176bec7b-59a4-5152-bd15-53842b053540-8473952.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1920x1280_cmsv2_176bec7b-59a4-5152-bd15-53842b053540-8473952.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Eerie and ethereal from the depths, Lankum<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Sergio Albert<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While the rest of the festival danced about in the sunshine, Lankum were set apart, performing in the bowels of the indoor arena of the Auditori Rockdelux. In the packed-out auditorium, silence pervaded the audience as they went through their catalogue of eerie, hypnotic melodies that feel ancient and brand new all at once. If you have an opportunity to see \u2018Go Dig My Grave\u2019 live, it\u2019s imperative you take it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>The waters finally came<\/h3><p>The nearly <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//06//01//barcelona-grapples-with-the-future-of-tourism-as-rain-provides-last-minute-drought-relief/">four-year-long drought<\/strong><\/a> that has crippled Barcelona\u2019s reservoirs came to an end in time for Primavera. 070 Shake was busy on the main stage, drawing out her dull low-energy performance way beyond her set-time to the point she was cut off by the sound engineers, and as her almost immediate follow-up act, PJ Harvey came to the stage, the shapeshifting English songwriter brought the rains with her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harvey ran through her eclectic catalogue, replicating her multisensory spectrum of genres for a rapt audience that braved through the rain, which seemed to only keep on lashing. In other circumstances, it might have been miserable, but during \u2018Let England Shake\u2019, there was something fitting about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally bucking under the rain and my complete lack of suitable clothing, I retreated to check out some of the acts on the smaller stages. Riot Grrrl legends Bikini Kill were a revitalising presence to help thrash out any memories of damp. The queens of feminist hardcore rocketed through a fast-paced set as lightning forks struck down on either side of their stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Romy commands the late-night dancefloor<\/h3><p>One of the biggest clashes of the festival was last night headliner SZA and Romy. We\u2019ll be covering <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//03//14//glastonbury-line-up-2024-announced-and-its-historic-heres-why/">Glastonbury later this month, so you\u2019ll get the lowdown on SZA\u2019s headline set then. For now, it was time to dance in euphoric awe to the XX singer\u2019s new album.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Behind bright lights, Romy is almost always cast in silhouette, but she is no cipher. Her pulsing beats never obscure the personal and self-energising content of her lyrics. Her debut solo album \u2018Mid Air\u2019 has translated perfectly to the big stages and as the rain abated, received of the most ecstatic atmosphere\u2019s of the entire weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.667\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//39//52//808x539_cmsv2_47853149-5715-556b-8b6f-d95a09656043-8473952.jpg/" alt=\"Primavera at night\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_47853149-5715-556b-8b6f-d95a09656043-8473952.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/640x427_cmsv2_47853149-5715-556b-8b6f-d95a09656043-8473952.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/750x500_cmsv2_47853149-5715-556b-8b6f-d95a09656043-8473952.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/828x552_cmsv2_47853149-5715-556b-8b6f-d95a09656043-8473952.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1080x720_cmsv2_47853149-5715-556b-8b6f-d95a09656043-8473952.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1200x800_cmsv2_47853149-5715-556b-8b6f-d95a09656043-8473952.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/39\/52\/1920x1281_cmsv2_47853149-5715-556b-8b6f-d95a09656043-8473952.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Primavera at night<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Silvia Villar<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Back on the main stages and the huge crowds filtered out after SZA to leave a comparatively paltry group for Irish electropop musician <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//06//27//world-music-day-celebrating-the-best-european-albums-of-the-21st-century/">R/u00f3is/u00edn Murphy<\/strong><\/a>. Primavera prides itself on its LGBTQ+ inclusive atmosphere and line-up, and while Murphy was once considered a proud ally, she\u2019s fallen out of favour in the last year with many people in the Queer community for her comments on puberty blockers. Was her small crowd a reflection on that or do Spanish fans simply not know her that well? Murphy still put on an excellent show with costume changes and high energy renditions of her expansive repertoire. 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Seven people were initially pulled from the debris, including two who were seriously injured, Istanbul Governor Davut Gul said while visiting the scene.\n\nHis office later said one more injured person was rescued and a body was recovered. \n\nThe governorship said the 36-year-old structure collapsed at 8:40 a.m. (0540 GMT). The cause was not immediately clear but there was no sign of an explosion or seismic activity. Only the top two floors were being used as residences, with the rest of the building being occupied by businesses.\n\nImages from nearby CCTV showed the moment the building collapsed.\n\nThe collapse renewed fears about the resilience of buildings in a city prone to earthquakes.\n\nMore than 59,000 people were killed last year when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck parts of southern Turkey and neighbouring Syria. The disaster highlighted the poor enforcement of building regulations in Turkey.\n\nIstanbul, with an official population of 16 million, lies near the North Anatolian Fault. A 1999 earthquake centred to the south of the city killed at least 18,000 people. The municipality has said there are 200,000 buildings housing three million people that are in urgent need of improvement.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>TV images showed firefighters shifting rubble by hand from the flattened five-story building in Kucukcekmece, on the city\u2019s European side. Seven people were initially pulled from the debris, including two who were seriously injured, Istanbul Governor Davut Gul said while visiting the scene.<\/p>\n<p>His office later said one more injured person was rescued and a body was recovered. <\/p>\n<p>The governorship said the 36-year-old structure collapsed at 8:40 a.m. (0540 GMT). The cause was not immediately clear but there was no sign of an explosion or seismic activity. Only the top two floors were being used as residences, with the rest of the building being occupied by businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Images from nearby CCTV showed the moment the building collapsed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1797246185373151552\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The collapse renewed fears about the resilience of buildings in a city prone to earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>More than 59,000 people were killed last year when a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck parts of southern Turkey and neighbouring Syria. The disaster highlighted the poor enforcement of building regulations in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Istanbul, with an official population of 16 million, lies near the North Anatolian Fault. A 1999 earthquake centred to the south of the city killed at least 18,000 people. The municipality has said there are 200,000 buildings housing three million people that are in urgent need of improvement.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1717313012,"updatedAt":1717334080,"publishedAt":1717313348,"firstPublishedAt":1717313352,"lastPublishedAt":1717313348,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Associated Press","altText":"FILE - The sun sets behind high buildings of a financial business area in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, March 22, 2024. ","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":"FILE - The sun sets behind high buildings of a financial business area in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, March 22, 2024. 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Also up for grabs on Sunday are more than 80 municipal councils and city halls in two other key cities - the northern Novi Sad and Nis in the south.\n\nSkirmishes were reported at a Novi Sad fair complex when opposition members tried to enter the hall packed with SNS activists and police moved in to stop them. The N1 regional television reported that ruling party activists later brought out boxes with unidentified content through a back exit and left.\n\nPolice said in a statement they were attacked in Novi Sad but \u201cthere have been no serious incidents\u201d so far on the election day.\n\nOpposition officials said those \u201ccall centres\u201d are involved in bribing voters to cast their ballots in favour of the ruling party.\n\nThe existence of a similar SNS-run centre was earlier on Sunday reported also in a Belgrade sports hall while in a downtown area opposition activists tried to enter a restaurant where they said the ruling party activists were camped.\n\nThe SNS party said their activists' activities were in accordance with the law. Senior official Ana Brnabic, who is a former prime minister and current parliament speaker, said on X social media platform that the party organised \u201ccall centres\u201d to contact supporters and urge them to turn out to vote.\n\n\u201cSo what?\u201d said Brnabic. \u201cWe have a party with strong infrastructure and well-organised. What is the problem?\u201d\n\nThe ruling populists in December were accused by the opposition and foreign observers of busing in voters from other areas in Serbia and from neighbouring Bosnia, which they have denied. Similar reports were published by the opposition supporters on social media on Sunday.\n\nThe populists have presented themselves as the only political force capable of running the country and keeping it safe at a time of global turmoil.\n\nVu\u010di\u0107 is formally seeking to have his troubled nation join the European Union but has steadily drifted away from pro-EU democracy values while nurturing close ties with Russia and China. The populists have presented themselves as the only political force capable of running the country and keeping it safe at a time of global turmoil.\n\nPro-Western opposition groups have accused Vu\u010di\u0107 of crime links, rampant corruption and a crackdown on democracy. But a wide alliance that was behind big anti-government street protests last year has splintered and turned against each other, fueling apathy among Serbia's 6.5 million voters.\n\nVucic\u2019s governing party is seen as the favourite on Sunday. It has for more than a decade controlled all levels of power in Serbia, so if the opposition manages to wrestle away at least some of the local councils, not to mention in big cities, it would be a significant shift.\n\nThe opposition groups split over whether to take part in the ballot or press on with demands for free and fair elections. Those running in Belgrade campaign under the slogan: \u201cWe choose to fight!\u201d\n\nInternational election observers have said that the December election, which also included a parliamentary vote, was held in \u201cunjust conditions,\u201d in part because of the president\u2019s involvement and systemic advantages for the ruling party.\n\nA report by an office of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe said the ballot was \u201cmarred by harsh rhetoric, bias in the media, pressure on public sector employees and misuse of public resources.\u201d\n\nLocal election observers have said that not much has changed for the Sunday vote despite a set of recommendations listed by international observers after the December balloting. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Incidents were reported in the capital Belgrade and in the northern city of Novi Sad where opposition groups said the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, or SNS, organised election centres during Sunday's balloting.<\/p>\n<p>The election in Belgrade was a rerun vote following reports of widespread irregularities last December that triggered political tensions and accusations that President Aleksandar Vucic's SNS rigged the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Populists have denied the accusations. Also up for grabs on Sunday are more than 80 municipal councils and city halls in two other key cities - the northern Novi Sad and Nis in the south.<\/p>\n<p>Skirmishes were reported at a Novi Sad fair complex when opposition members tried to enter the hall packed with SNS activists and police moved in to stop them. The N1 regional television reported that ruling party activists later brought out boxes with unidentified content through a back exit and left.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1797267208684417322\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Police said in a statement they were attacked in Novi Sad but \u201cthere have been no serious incidents\u201d so far on the election day.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition officials said those \u201ccall centres\u201d are involved in bribing voters to cast their ballots in favour of the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>The existence of a similar SNS-run centre was earlier on Sunday reported also in a Belgrade sports hall while in a downtown area opposition activists tried to enter a restaurant where they said the ruling party activists were camped.<\/p>\n<p>The SNS party said their activists' activities were in accordance with the law. Senior official Ana Brnabic, who is a former prime minister and current parliament speaker, said on X social media platform that the party organised \u201ccall centres\u201d to contact supporters and urge them to turn out to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what?\u201d said Brnabic. \u201cWe have a party with strong infrastructure and well-organised. What is the problem?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ruling populists in December were accused by the opposition and foreign observers of busing in voters from other areas in Serbia and from neighbouring Bosnia, which they have denied. Similar reports were published by the opposition supporters on social media on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The populists have presented themselves as the only political force capable of running the country and keeping it safe at a time of global turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Vu\u010di\u0107 is formally seeking to have his troubled nation join the European Union but has steadily drifted away from pro-EU democracy values while <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//05//21//serbian-parliamentary-minnow-pushes-for-russian-law-equivalent/">nurturing close ties with Russia and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//05//08//china-signs-free-trade-agreement-with-serbia-as-it-expands-influence-in-europe/">China. The populists have presented themselves as the only political force capable of running the country and keeping it safe at a time of global turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-Western opposition groups have <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2024//03//04//claims-of-eroded-democracy-threaten-serbias-eu-relations-and-economic-growth/">accused Vu\u010di\u0107 of crime links, rampant corruption and a crackdown on democracy. But a wide alliance that was behind big anti-government street protests last year has splintered and turned against each other, fueling apathy among Serbia's 6.5 million voters.<\/p>\n<p>Vucic\u2019s governing party is seen as the favourite on Sunday. It has for more than a decade controlled all levels of power in Serbia, so if the opposition manages to wrestle away at least some of the local councils, not to mention in big cities, it would be a significant shift.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition groups split over whether to take part in the ballot or press on with demands for free and fair elections. 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Experts on what\u2019s needed to get more Europeans to ditch flights ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Will the European elections make or break the rail renaissance?","titleListing2":"Why not take the train? Experts on what\u2019s needed to get more Europeans to ditch flights ","leadin":"Skyscanner for trains and shorter journey times are just two of the improvements that are needed.","summary":"Skyscanner for trains and shorter journey times are just two of the improvements that are needed.","keySentence":"","url":"why-not-take-the-train-experts-on-whats-needed-to-get-more-europeans-to-ditch-flights","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/06\/02\/why-not-take-the-train-experts-on-whats-needed-to-get-more-europeans-to-ditch-flights","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Anna Pagani is no stranger to long journeys. She has spent thousands of euros and countless hours criss-crossing Europe\u2019s train tracks since pledging not to take flights a couple of years ago.\n\nA decision that has been \u201charder than it should be\u201d.\u00a0\n\n\u201cPlanning train rides takes time, patience, and money,\u201d she tells Euronews Travel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\nShe lives in London but frequently travels back to her native Italy and to Austria to see her partner\u2019s family.\n\nOn top of that her job as a researcher requires her to go to conferences scattered across the continent.\n\n\u201cOverall, it\u2019s a lot of learning by doing,\u201d she confides. \u201cSometimes my plane to Turin would cost \u20ac9 and I\u2019d pay more than \u20ac250 for my train.\u201d\n\nWhy are flights cheaper than trains?\n\nIt\u2019s an experience that many can relate to when looking into whether to take a train or a plane.\n\nA Greenpeace report published last year found that train tickets are on average twice as expensive as flights. The analysis looked at 112 routes in Europe and discovered that for some routes like London-Barcelona the train cost a whopping 30 times more.\n\n\u201cPrice is key,\u201d concedes Dr Alberto Mazzola when asked how train passenger numbers can be boosted. He is the executive director of the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER), an advocacy group representing European train companies.\n\nMazzola believes trains are treated differently than the road and aviation sectors. He says they get preferential tax arrangements, pointing to examples like airlines not having to pay taxes on kerosene and tickets for international flights being exempt from VAT.\n\nTo address these disparities, CER wants the EU to create rules that ensure fair competition between trains, planes, and other types of transportation.\u00a0\n\nMazzola also wants to see trip durations tackled. \u201cIf it takes 18 hours very few will take the train,\u201d he says. He is pushing the EU to provide more funding for infrastructure to create high-speed rail links between major European cities.\n\nHow popular are trains in Europe?\n\nDespite these challenges, trains are undergoing something of a renaissance in Europe. Passenger numbers increased by 10 per cent in the decade leading up to the pandemic, night trains are making a comeback and travellers are yearning for more sustainable travel options.\u00a0\n\nHowever, a report by the European Commission found that the total number of long-distance passenger cross-border services in the EU remained the same from 2001 to 2019, and overall they make up only about 7 per cent of train journeys in Europe.\n\nTo help boost these numbers, Victor Th\u00e9venet, rail policy manager at sustainable mobility NGO Transport and Environment, insists that planning a train journey needs to be much simpler.\n\n\u201cPeople need to be able to combine different rail operators and for this, you need to have your different tickets in one single ticket,\u201d he tells Euronews Travel.\u00a0\n\nBuying train tickets in Europe can be complicated\n\nThere is currently no skyscanner equivalent for trains. This makes booking and managing international train journeys difficult and often more expensive.\n\nThe EU has a plan to remedy the situation in the form of the Multimodal Digital Mobility Services legislation. It was delayed last year but it is hoped it will be given another chance in early 2025. \n\nIt would create a platform where you could buy one ticket for an entire cross-border journey instead of having to go through multiple national operators separately and give passengers stronger rights if they were to miss a connecting train.\n\nBut at the moment the signals from some companies don't give confidence to rail enthusiasts. Since 23 May French train company SNCF has suspended the sale of some international tickets on its website, such as Paris to Berlin. It says this is due to \u2018an ongoing change to the reservation system.\u2019 In a statement to Euronews Travel the company said: \u201cImprovements will be made from autumn 2024 before a new system is rolled out in 2025.\u201d\n\nThe EU can help improve cross-border travel\n\nWith Europe\u2019s railways at a pivotal moment, next week\u2019s European elections could make or break the future of cross-border rail.\u00a0\n\nDuring the last mandate the EU\u00a0made some strides in improving the situation through funding climate tickets and infrastructure projects and promoting high-speed rail links. But rail advocates say there is much more to be done and MEPs can play a key role by lobbying the commission and amending legislation.\n\nThere is also concern from train advocacy groups that funding will be difficult to come by depending on the makeup of the next parliament and commission because of the backlash to the European Green Deal and the rise of the far right.\n\n\u201cEuropean citizens that really care about improving rail should definitely vote for the parties that are the most ambitious when it comes to setting a progressive and ambitious green agenda,\u201d Th\u00e9venet believes.\n\nDespite the current problems with train travel, enthusiasts like Anna Pagani maintain their love for rail.\u00a0\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s the feeling of joy when I reach a destination, crossing landscapes and languages, avoiding the car, enjoying the ride,\u201d she says.\n\n\u201cI do take planes when the length of the journey or other obstacles prevent me from taking a train. But I would love to live in a world where those barriers didn\u2019t exist.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Anna Pagani is no stranger to long journeys. She has spent thousands of euros and countless hours criss-crossing Europe\u2019s train tracks since pledging not to take flights a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A decision that has been \u201charder than it should be\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlanning train rides takes time, patience, and money,\u201d she tells Euronews Travel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She lives in London but frequently travels back to her native Italy and to Austria to see her partner\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that her job as a researcher requires her to go to conferences scattered across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, it\u2019s a lot of learning by doing,\u201d she confides. \u201cSometimes my plane to Turin would cost \u20ac9 and I\u2019d pay more than \u20ac250 for my train.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Why are flights cheaper than trains?<\/h2><p>It\u2019s an experience that many can relate to when looking into whether to take a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//03//05//the-kids-now-prefer-trains-to-planes-how-i-took-my-family-on-a-7-day-rail-adventure-around/">train or a plane<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Greenpeace report published last year found that train tickets are on average twice as expensive as flights. The analysis looked at 112 routes in Europe and discovered that for some routes like London-Barcelona the train cost a whopping 30 times more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrice is key,\u201d concedes Dr Alberto Mazzola when asked how train passenger numbers can be boosted. He is the executive director of the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER), an advocacy group representing European train companies.<\/p>\n<p>Mazzola believes trains are treated differently than the road and aviation sectors. He says they get preferential tax arrangements, pointing to examples like airlines not having to pay taxes on kerosene and tickets for international flights being exempt from VAT.<\/p>\n<p>To address these disparities, CER wants the EU to create rules that ensure fair competition between trains, planes, and other types of transportation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mazzola also wants to see trip durations tackled. \u201cIf it takes 18 hours very few will <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//01//28//budapest-to-lyon-why-i-chose-to-take-a-night-train-with-my-6-year-old-son-instead-of-a-fli/">take the train<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d he says. He is pushing the EU to provide more funding for infrastructure to create high-speed rail links between major European cities.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"6768358,7812930\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//10//france-is-raising-taxes-on-flights-to-pay-for-trains-should-other-european-countries-do-th/">France is raising taxes on flights to pay for trains: Should other European countries do the same?<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2022//07//22//meet-the-man-battling-to-fix-europe-s-trains-via-an-epic-40-day-journey/">This man is taking 150 trains across 28 European countries. Here\u2019s what he has learnt<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>How popular are trains in Europe?<\/h2><p>Despite these challenges, trains are undergoing something of a renaissance in Europe. Passenger numbers increased by 10 per cent in the decade leading up to the pandemic, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//03//29//colourful-carriages-and-dreamy-elbe-views-on-board-the-european-sleeper-from-brussels-to-p#:~:text=The%20night%20train%20is%20composed,and%20back%20since%20May%202023.\"><strong>night trains<\/strong><\/a> are making a comeback and travellers are yearning for more sustainable travel options.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C0wXTPTNmh7\/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.instagram.com//p//C0wXTPTNmh7//?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading\%22 style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Euronews Travel (@euronewstravel)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote> <script async src=https://www.euronews.com/"////www.instagram.com//embed.js/">/n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>However, a report by the European Commission found that the total number of long-distance passenger cross-border services in the EU remained the same from 2001 to 2019, and overall they make up only about 7 per cent of train journeys in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>To help boost these numbers, Victor Th\u00e9venet, rail policy manager at sustainable mobility NGO Transport and Environment, insists that planning a train journey needs to be much simpler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople need to be able to combine different rail operators and for this, you need to have your different tickets in one single ticket,\u201d he tells Euronews Travel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Buying train tickets in Europe can be complicated<\/h2><p>There is currently no skyscanner equivalent for trains. This makes booking and managing international train journeys difficult and often more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>The EU has a plan to remedy the situation in the form of the Multimodal Digital Mobility Services legislation. It was delayed last year but it is hoped it will be given another chance in early 2025. <\/p>\n<p>It would create a platform where you could buy one ticket for an entire cross-border journey instead of having to go through multiple national operators separately and give passengers stronger rights if they were to miss a connecting train.<\/p>\n<p>But at the moment the signals from some companies don't give confidence to rail enthusiasts. Since 23 May French train company SNCF has suspended the sale of some international tickets on its website, such as Paris to Berlin. It says this is due to \u2018an ongoing change to the reservation system.\u2019 In a statement to Euronews Travel the company said: \u201cImprovements will be made from autumn 2024 before a new system is rolled out in 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8230770\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//02//11//millions-of-euros-and-thousands-of-delays-how-copper-theft-is-delaying-passengers-all-over/">Millions of euros and thousands of delays: How copper theft is delaying passengers all over Europe<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>The EU can help improve cross-border travel<\/h2><p>With Europe\u2019s railways at a pivotal moment, next week\u2019s European elections could make or break the future of cross-border rail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the last mandate the EU\u00a0made some strides in improving the situation through funding <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//04//04//france-set-to-launch-49-rail-pass-this-summer-who-is-eligible-and-when-will-it-start/">climate tickets<\/strong><\/a> and infrastructure projects and promoting high-speed rail links. But rail advocates say there is much more to be done and MEPs can play a key role by lobbying the commission and amending legislation.<\/p>\n<p>There is also concern from train advocacy groups that funding will be difficult to come by depending on the makeup of the next parliament and commission because of the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//05//17//is-europes-green-deal-entering-a-grey-zone#:~:text=A%20set%20of%20policy%20initiatives,challenging%20in%20different%20economic%20sectors.\"><strong>backlash to the European Green Deal<\/strong><\/a> and the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//05//23//epp-leads-eu-vote-polls-while-far-right-grows-dramatically-with-liberals-in-free-fall/">rise of the far right<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEuropean citizens that really care about improving rail should definitely vote for the parties that are the most ambitious when it comes to setting a progressive and ambitious green agenda,\u201d Th\u00e9venet believes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the current problems with train travel, enthusiasts like Anna Pagani maintain their love for rail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the feeling of joy when I reach a destination, crossing landscapes and languages, avoiding the car, enjoying the ride,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do take planes when the length of the journey or other obstacles prevent me from taking a train. 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Landfills are piled high with cheap, throwaway home decor","leadin":"Nearly half of furniture waste is burned in incinerators or buried in landfills.","summary":"Nearly half of furniture waste is burned in incinerators or buried in landfills.","keySentence":"","url":"is-fast-deco-the-new-fast-fashion-landfills-are-piled-high-with-cheap-throwaway-home-decor","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/06\/02\/is-fast-deco-the-new-fast-fashion-landfills-are-piled-high-with-cheap-throwaway-home-decor","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Fast fashion has come under the spotlight in recent years with many consumers making an effort to avoid buying cheap, mass-produced clothing.\n\nNow, another environmentally damaging market is emerging.\u00a0\n\nFast deco, as it has been dubbed in a recent report, refers to low-cost furniture and home decorations produced in bulk.\u00a0\n\nLike clothing, they are a cheap imitation of high fashion trends and are replaced quickly by the next craze.\u00a0\n\nFast deco is as environmentally damaging as fast fashion\n\nA recent report by French environmental associations has called out the growing environmental impact of fast deco.\n\nZero Waste France, Les Amis de la Terre and the R\u00e9seau National des Ressourceries et Recycleries say the ecological problem is comparable to that of fast fashion.\u00a0\n\nThe authors report that fast deco and fast fashion share the same business model: huge quantities of low-cost products and rapid collection renewals.\u00a0\n\nCommercial holidays such as Valentine's Day and Mother's Day are used to launch new collections and stimulate purchases.\n\nAs with fashion, they take advantage of social media by encouraging \u201cunboxing\u201d and \u201chaul\u201d videos.\u00a0\n\nThis business model is exploited by chains such as Zara Home, H&M and Shein.\n\n\u201cObviously, the giants of fast fashion, e-commerce and mass distribution, but also the emerging players in clearance and e-commerce, have done everything to strengthen this trend in order to make the most profit, with disastrous consequences for the planet,\u201d says Pauline Debrabandere, campaign coordinator for Zero Waste France.\n\nCOVID saw a boom in fast deco\n\nDuring COVID, many people invested in refurnishing their homes, leading to a boom in purchases.\u00a0\n\nA study published in French financial newspaper Les \u00c9chos shows that between 2017 and 2022, the number of furniture items placed on the market in France increased by 88 per cent.\u00a0\n\nEven now, 46 per cent of buyers of home decoration products renew elements of their living room at least once a year.\n\nWith the increase in purchases, the quantity of waste has also increased. Between 2014 and 2020, waste from furniture items doubled in France.\n\nToday, eco-organisations collect 1.3 million tonnes of furniture waste. Nearly half of it is non-reusable, non-repairable and non-recyclable and is burned in incinerators or buried in landfills.\n\n\u201cFaced with a saturation of goods, the decoration sector is choosing to accelerate its production rate towards levels that are unsustainable for the planet, always with the same objective: to create desire from superficial need,\u201d says Pierre Condamine, overproduction campaign manager at Friends of the Earth France.\u00a0\n\n\u201cAt a time when planetary limits are being exceeded, we need urgently to regulate the sector in order to limit its excessive consumption of resources.\u201d\n\nEnvironmentalist groups advocate for reuse and repair\n\nEnvironmental organisations want fast deco to be replaced with a culture of reuse and repair.\u00a0\n\nAccording to an estimate from RREUSE, a European network of social reuse enterprises, members succeeded in saving around 1 million tonnes of goods and materials from landfill sites in 2022.\u00a0\n\nThis saves the equivalent of the annual CO2 emissions of more than 108,000 European citizens.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Fast fashion has come under the spotlight in recent years with many consumers making an effort to avoid buying cheap, mass-produced clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, another environmentally damaging market is emerging.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fast deco, as it has been dubbed in a recent report, refers to low-cost furniture and home decorations produced in bulk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like clothing, they are a cheap imitation of high fashion trends and are replaced quickly by the next craze.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Fast deco is as environmentally damaging as fast fashion<\/h2><p>A recent <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.zerowastefrance.org//wp-content//uploads//2024//05//rapport-meubles-fast-deco-zwf-rnrr-at-13052024.pdf/">report by French environmental associations has called out the growing environmental impact of fast deco.<\/p>\n<p>Zero Waste France, Les Amis de la Terre and the R\u00e9seau National des Ressourceries et Recycleries say the ecological problem is comparable to that of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//18//italys-textile-town-is-leading-the-way-to-a-responsible-closet/">fast fashion<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The authors report that fast deco and fast <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//28//top-fashion-brands-vow-to-stop-greenwashing-what-does-this-mean-for-the-industry/">fashion share the same business model: huge quantities of low-cost products and rapid collection renewals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commercial holidays such as Valentine's Day and Mother's Day are used to launch new collections and stimulate purchases.<\/p>\n<p>As with fashion, they take advantage of social media by encouraging \u201cunboxing\u201d and \u201chaul\u201d videos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This business model is exploited by chains such as Zara Home, H&M and Shein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, the giants of fast fashion, e-commerce and mass distribution, but also the emerging players in clearance and e-commerce, have done everything to strengthen this trend in order to make the most profit, with disastrous consequences for the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//04//16//to-save-our-oceans-and-our-planet-we-need-leaders-ready-to-challenge-the-status-quo/">planet,/u201d says Pauline Debrabandere, campaign coordinator for Zero Waste France.<\/p>\n<h2>COVID saw a boom in fast deco<\/h2><p>During COVID, many people invested in refurnishing their homes, leading to a boom in purchases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A study published in French financial newspaper Les \u00c9chos shows that between 2017 and 2022, the number of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2019//06//18//5-sustainable-and-stylish-furniture-brands-in-europe/">furniture items placed on the market in France increased by 88 per cent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even now, 46 per cent of buyers of home decoration products renew elements of their living room at least once a year.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8289068,7862972\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//15//an-ecological-disaster-french-bill-proposes-crackdown-on-throwaway-culture-of-ultra-fast-f/">/u2018Major breakthrough\u2019: French parliament votes in favour of crackdown on ultra fast fashion <\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//09//01//we-are-part-of-the-problem-how-hm-mango-and-zara-are-trying-to-clean-up-their-act/">/u2018We are part of the problem\u2019: How H&M, Mango and Zara are trying to clean up their act<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>With the increase in purchases, the quantity of waste has also increased. Between 2014 and 2020, waste from furniture items doubled in France.<\/p>\n<p>Today, eco-organisations collect 1.3 million tonnes of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2020//10//14//is-ikea-s-new-buy-back-furniture-scheme-greenwashing/">furniture waste. Nearly half of it is non-reusable, non-repairable and non-recyclable and is burned in incinerators or buried in landfills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaced with a saturation of goods, the decoration sector is choosing to accelerate its production rate towards levels that are unsustainable for the planet, always with the same objective: to create desire from superficial need,\u201d says Pierre Condamine, overproduction campaign manager at Friends of the Earth France.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when planetary limits are being exceeded, we need urgently to regulate the sector in order to limit its excessive consumption of resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Environmentalist groups advocate for reuse and repair<\/h2><p>Environmental organisations want fast deco to be replaced with a culture of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//06//08//made-to-last-this-french-start-up-turns-construction-waste-into-beautiful-furniture/">reuse and repair.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to an estimate from RREUSE, a European network of social reuse enterprises, members succeeded in saving around 1 million tonnes of goods and materials from landfill sites in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This saves the equivalent of the annual CO2 emissions of more than 108,000 European citizens.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1717170451,"updatedAt":1717304436,"publishedAt":1717304411,"firstPublishedAt":1717170808,"lastPublishedAt":1717304411,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/22\/26\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_39419d0c-5001-52ed-9148-285f5431e2cd-8472226.jpg","altText":"Fast deco, as it has been dubbed in a recent report, refers to low-cost furniture and home decorations produced in bulk.\u00a0","caption":"Fast deco, as it has been dubbed in a recent report, refers to low-cost furniture and home decorations produced in bulk.\u00a0","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Patrick 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inflatable watercraft carrying four firefighters capsized as they navigated floodwaters to bring residents to safety in the town of Pfaffenhofen, on the Ilm River in the southern Bavaria region.\n\nA long-distance train derailed after the ground under a section of track collapsed near the town of Schwaebisch Gmund some 50 kilometres east of Stuttgart late on Saturday. The 185 passengers were uninjured.\n\nGerman rail operator Deutsche Bahn warned of extensive cancellations and delays and told customers who postponed trips that their tickets would be honoured. Traffic was disrupted on routes including those from Munich to Berlin, Stuttgart and the Swiss city of Zurich.\n\nAuthorities in Germany have urged residents in the southern state of Bavaria to heed evacuation orders as flooding in some areas continues to worsen.\n\nSo far, six districts in the state have declared states of emergency and meteorologists are warning of more rain and thunderstorms still to come.\n\nThe district office in Fischach in the district of Augsburg urged people to leave their homes and avoid underground car parks and basements. Some people there had to be airlifted away by helicopter.\n\nInterior Minister Nancy Faeser urged residents to \"absolutely take seriously any warning messages\" from emergency teams, adding that compliance could save lives.\n\nBavaria's state premier Markus S\u00f6der visited one affected area near Augsburg, northwest of Munich, where days of heavy rain has caused severe flooding.\n\n\"The situation is very dynamic. At the moment, the situation is very, very difficult, especially in the Swabian region around Augsburg and Unterallg\u00e4u, for example in G\u00fcnzburg. The water levels continue to rise,\" he said.\n\nHe said emergency services were working in affected areas and that flooding had caused \"enormous\" damage but that not all parts of Bavaria have been flooded.\n\nPersonnel from the German Lifeguard Association have been deployed to evacuate residents by boat and tractors have also been used to move people.\n\nThere were similar scenes across the border in Switzerland with broiling waters at the point where the River Murg meets the Thur. Authorities there say the water level is 20 times higher than the monthly average.\n\nThe federal government says with more rain forecast, water levels are expected to rise again on Sunday.\n\n\"Since Friday afternoon, the Thurgau cantonal police have received around 150 reports of damage. Several fire brigades throughout the canton had to be called out to pump out cellars. Roads that were no longer passable also had to be closed,\" said spokesperson for the Thurgau police, Matthias Graf.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The body of a firefighter was recovered after an inflatable watercraft carrying four firefighters capsized as they navigated floodwaters to bring residents to safety in the town of Pfaffenhofen, on the Ilm River in the southern Bavaria region.<\/p>\n<p>A long-distance train derailed after the ground under a section of track collapsed near the town of Schwaebisch Gmund some 50 kilometres east of Stuttgart late on Saturday. The 185 passengers were uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>German rail operator Deutsche Bahn warned of extensive cancellations and delays and told customers who postponed trips that their tickets would be honoured. Traffic was disrupted on routes including those from Munich to Berlin, Stuttgart and the Swiss city of Zurich.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Germany have urged residents in the southern state of Bavaria to heed evacuation orders as flooding in some areas continues to worsen.<\/p>\n<p>So far, six districts in the state have declared states of emergency and meteorologists are warning of more rain and thunderstorms still to come.<\/p>\n<p>The district office in Fischach in the district of Augsburg urged people to leave their homes and avoid underground car parks and basements. Some people there had to be airlifted away by helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Nancy Faeser urged residents to \"absolutely take seriously any warning messages\" from emergency teams, adding that compliance could save lives.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-medium widget--align-left\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1796939838723063909\"><\/div>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Germany's interior minister Nancy Faeser urges residents to heed emergency orders<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Bavaria's state premier Markus S\u00f6der visited one affected area near Augsburg, northwest of Munich, where days of heavy rain has caused severe flooding.<\/p>\n<p>\"The situation is very dynamic. At the moment, the situation is very, very difficult, especially in the Swabian region around Augsburg and Unterallg\u00e4u, for example in G\u00fcnzburg. The water levels continue to rise,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said emergency services were working in affected areas and that flooding had caused \"enormous\" damage but that not all parts of Bavaria have been flooded.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel from the German Lifeguard Association have been deployed to evacuate residents by boat and tractors have also been used to move people.<\/p>\n<p>There were similar scenes across the border in Switzerland with broiling waters at the point where the River Murg meets the Thur. Authorities there say the water level is 20 times higher than the monthly average.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//36//84//808x454_cmsv2_6e402275-b3f8-5532-b731-223170a2751e-8473684.jpg/" alt=\"Water levels rise at the point where the River Murg meets the Thur in Thurgau, Switzerland, June 1, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/36\/84\/384x216_cmsv2_6e402275-b3f8-5532-b731-223170a2751e-8473684.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/36\/84\/640x360_cmsv2_6e402275-b3f8-5532-b731-223170a2751e-8473684.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/36\/84\/750x422_cmsv2_6e402275-b3f8-5532-b731-223170a2751e-8473684.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/36\/84\/828x466_cmsv2_6e402275-b3f8-5532-b731-223170a2751e-8473684.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/36\/84\/1080x608_cmsv2_6e402275-b3f8-5532-b731-223170a2751e-8473684.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/36\/84\/1200x675_cmsv2_6e402275-b3f8-5532-b731-223170a2751e-8473684.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/36\/84\/1920x1080_cmsv2_6e402275-b3f8-5532-b731-223170a2751e-8473684.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Water levels rise at the point where the River Murg meets the Thur in Thurgau, Switzerland, June 1, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Screenshot from EBU 2024_10236079<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The federal government says with more rain forecast, water levels are expected to rise again on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\"Since Friday afternoon, the Thurgau cantonal police have received around 150 reports of damage. Several fire brigades throughout the canton had to be called out to pump out cellars. 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Here it is about specialists sitting at the table and finding the best solutions, and then the SCND can make the decision with all available information, so that it takes the best decision. So, at this moment, the proposal is under analysis\".\n\nLocal media clarified that this meant the issue will not be discussed in public - but instead privately with military experts. \n\n\"This proposal goes to the SCND\", Prime Minister Ciolacu explains, \"If you want me to make a decision now, on the show, I can't. I am not a specialist. I am the Prime Minister of Romania, I have to listen, in an institutional framework, a secret one, because it is a decision regarding Romania's defence, and then we make the decision together. \n\nIt is not a discussion, in the first place, that it can become an electoral topic, because it would be a disaster and an incorrect approach towards our NATO partners. It is not a discussion to be made public. I know it is an interesting topic. I would create a breaking news, but I think we have reached the political maturity to avoid such things in matters so important, and we see this not only for Romania but for the whole of Europe. \n\nThis decision will certainly create breaking news, and all my questions are for the people. I am thinking about what interests them. It is known, and this one surely, yes, it is of maximum interest. \n\nTo live in security... It is certain... I am firmly convinced that the decision will not be such as to weaken Romania's security.\u201d \n\nWhat does Romania's defence system look like now?\n\nIn 2017, Romania signed a deal to obtain Patriot defence systems but so far have only one that is operation. \n\nUkraine needs 25 Patriots to protect the country from Russian attacks, says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.\n\nTheir current focus is to secure at least seven to protect Ukraine's largest cities, according to Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. \n\nPatriots are a surface-to-air missile and anti-ballistic system considered one of the most sophisticated in the world. 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So, at this moment, the proposal is under analysis\".<\/p>\n<p>Local media clarified that this meant the issue will not be discussed in public - but instead privately with military experts. <\/p>\n<p>\"This proposal goes to the SCND\", Prime Minister Ciolacu explains, \"If you want me to make a decision now, on the show, I can't. I am not a specialist. I am the Prime Minister of Romania, I have to listen, in an institutional framework, a secret one, because it is a decision regarding Romania's defence, and then we make the decision together. <\/p>\n<p>It is not a discussion, in the first place, that it can become an electoral topic, because it would be a disaster and an incorrect approach towards our NATO partners. It is not a discussion to be made public. I know it is an interesting topic. 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EU WILFIRE SEASON","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Wildfire season is upon us: Here's what the European Union is putting in place ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Wildfire season is upon us: Here's what the EU is putting in place","titleListing2":"Wildfire season is upon us: Here's what the European Union is putting in place ","leadin":"Following a devastating summer of fires across Europe last year, the EU has upped its resources to prevent widespread damage in 2024.","summary":"Following a devastating summer of fires across Europe last year, the EU has upped its resources to prevent widespread damage in 2024.","keySentence":"","url":"wildfire-season-is-upon-us-heres-what-the-european-union-is-putting-in-place","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/06\/01\/wildfire-season-is-upon-us-heres-what-the-european-union-is-putting-in-place","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"With summer just around the corner, we\u2019re all dreaming of sunshine and swimming in the sea - but with the hot weather comes the risk of wildfires. \n\nThat\u2019s where the European Union comes in. From June, they\u2019re putting in place measures to bolster firefighting efforts in order to better protect communities across Europe - and the surrounding environment.\n\nFollowing devastating fires in 2023 - recorded as some of the very worst this century - the EU has put together a team of 556 firefighters from 12 countries. \n\nThey\u2019ll be strategically placed across key locations in Europe this summer, including in high risk areas like France, Greece, Portugal and Spain. \n\nLocal fire brigades can find themselves overwhelmed when the scale of a wildfire outsizes the response capabilities of a country. \n\nThe EU are also introducing a dedicated rescue fleet of firefighting aircraft, which will consist of 28 aeroplanes and 4 helicopters stationed in 10 of the bloc\u2019s Member States.\n\nThere\u2019s also \u20ac600 million in extra EU funds which will go towards buying 12 further firefighting planes in the future, which will be distributed among six Member States - as well as several helicopters.\n\nHere\u2019s what four of the countries involved are planning to do this summer to save lives, livelihoods and protect the environment when wildfire season arrives. \n\nFrance\n\nM\u00e9t\u00e9o-France recently announced they believe the summer of 2024 will likely be hotter than usual - especially in the Mediterranean region.\n\nLast year, 22,400 hectares of forests were lost to wildfires. Using that tragic example, France has put in place some 3,600 firefighters and 600 vehicles, whose role will be to strengthen the resources of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service - known as the SDIS. \n\nThe resources come from regions typically less affected by forest fires and will bolster the work done by departments more likely to experience them. \n\nFrance also has twelve Canadair CL-415s planes, which can each carry more than 6,000 litres of water. Two of them are positioned in Ajaccio in Corsica and the other ten in N\u00eemes.\n\nThey\u2019ll be supported by a further eight Dash planes - seven based in N\u00eemes and another in Bordeaux. They can each carry 10,000 litres of water. \n\nAs of 1 June, they\u2019ll be on active service as and when they are needed alongside a number of other aircraft with firefighting capabilities. \n\nPortugal\n\n2023 was an intense year of wildfires for Portugal and, as such, the country\u2019s rural firefighting system will be reinforced from 1 June for the second time this year.\n\nAhead of the summer season, there will be some 12,096 operational units and 70 aircraft available for use. \n\nMany of the people involved in the Special Rural Fire Fighting Device (DECIR) are volunteer firefighters. Others will be drawn from the Special Civil Protection Force, military personnel from the National Republican Guard and also from the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests.\n\nUnlike in France, Portugal will not be using Canadair planes, apparently due to difficulties in the market. That came as a surprise to the crews who had been carrying out this service for over 20 years.\n\nWith the weather heating up from July, resources are set to be reinforced again from the first of the month until 30 September - the period considered as the most critical phase of fires.\n\nIn that three month stretch, 14,155 operational personnel from 3,162 teams will be on standby this year, as well as 3,173 vehicles - which is a slight increase compared to 2023.\n\nSpain\n\n2023 saw hundreds of thousands of hectares of woodland destroyed in Spain, as well as more than 3,000 people forced to evacuate the Canary Island of Tenerife in the summer season. \n\nFrom 1 June, the Spanish state forest fire campaign is in place. Taking in consideration the tragedies of last year, authorities have introduced a more robust plan to more effectively fight any potential forest fires occurring in different areas of the country.\n\nLast month, at a meeting of the State Coordination and Direction Committee (CECOD) in Spain, politicians came together to finalise plans. \n\nIt includes the Forest Fire Reinforcement Brigades (BRIF) and a fleet of high-capacity seaplanes, which is operated by the 43 Group of the Air and Space Army. \n\nThe Military Emergency Unit of the Ministry of Defence and the Civil Guard and National Police will be able to support devices put in place by the country\u2019s various autonomous communities. \n\nCatalonia has historically been one of the worst affected regions in Spain. \n\nThe acting Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, highlighted that it \"faces an extremely complex campaign, which is not temporary and which has severe consequences.\" \n\nAs a result, 240 new firefighters have been recruited to join hundreds of others. \n\nThe Corps of Rural Agents has gone from having about 500 troops to a total of 620 in the face of the increased forest fire campaign.\n\nThere will also be 22 aircraft including planes and helicopters, with 4 amphibious craft located in Sabadell and Empuriabrava, supported by 821 cars and vans. \n\nLess than halfway through the year, 2024 has been recorded as one of the driest ever in Catalonia in decades.\n\nBetween 1 January and 15 May 15 this year, firefighters have already battled 1,750 vegetation fires. That figure is slightly down on last year, though, thanks to heavy April rains. \n\nDespite this, authorities have installed 5 levels to their climate emergency plan - meaning that they are as prepared as possible to fight any potential blazes ahead. \n\nItaly\n\n\u201cGood prevention, with the full involvement of municipalities and citizens, can serve to save thousands of hectares of vegetation,\u201d Nello Musumeci, the Minister for Civil Protection in Italy said at a meeting earlier this spring. \n\nCalled to address this summer's forest fire fighting campaign, the meeting was attended by representatives of Italy\u2019s regions (ANCI), the Fire Brigade, the Armed Forces, as well as the Ministries of the Interior, Defence, Environment, Agriculture and Economy. \n\nItaly is currently facing temperatures well above the usual, which have a knock on effect on the availability of water. \n\nThe south of the country and the islands are particularly likely to be affected, but all administrations in Italy have prepared contingencies for both forest fires and those in built up areas. \n\nAs well as this, Musumeci has made sure to put in place a widespread campaign of raising awareness among populations via the media. \n\nWhile many fires are due to climate change, he has a further plan. \n\n\u201cI will suggest the opportunity for greater surveillance in rural areas to discourage arsonists and criminals in their senseless purposes,\u201d Musumeci suggests, \u201clet's remember that the vast majority of fires are caused by humans, through fault or malice.\" \n\n","htmlText":"<p>With summer just around the corner, we\u2019re all dreaming of sunshine and swimming in the sea - but with the hot weather comes the risk of wildfires. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where the European Union comes in. From June, they\u2019re putting in place measures to bolster firefighting efforts in order to better protect communities across Europe - and the surrounding environment.<\/p>\n<p>Following devastating fires in 2023 - recorded as some of the very worst this century - the EU has put together a team of 556 firefighters from 12 countries. <\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll be strategically placed across key locations in Europe this summer, including in high risk areas like France, Greece, Portugal and Spain. <\/p>\n<p>Local fire brigades can find themselves overwhelmed when the scale of a wildfire outsizes the response capabilities of a country. <\/p>\n<p>The EU are also introducing a dedicated rescue fleet of firefighting aircraft, which will consist of 28 aeroplanes and 4 helicopters stationed in 10 of the bloc\u2019s Member States.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also \u20ac600 million in extra EU funds which will go towards buying 12 further firefighting planes in the future, which will be distributed among six Member States - as well as several helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what four of the countries involved are planning to do this summer to save lives, livelihoods and protect the environment when wildfire season arrives. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1777320493944578490\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>France<\/h2><p>M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France recently announced they believe the summer of 2024 will likely be <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//04//28//a-very-clear-sign-of-climate-change-france-prepares-wildfire-fighting-forces-a-month-early/">hotter than usual<\/strong><\/a> - especially in the Mediterranean region.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 22,400 hectares of forests were lost to wildfires. Using that tragic example, France has put in place some 3,600 firefighters and 600 vehicles, whose role will be to strengthen the resources of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service - known as the SDIS. <\/p>\n<p>The resources come from regions typically less affected by forest fires and will bolster the work done by departments more likely to experience them. <\/p>\n<p>France also has twelve Canadair CL-415s planes, which can each carry more than 6,000 litres of water. Two of them are positioned in Ajaccio in Corsica and the other ten in N\u00eemes.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll be supported by a further eight Dash planes - seven based in N\u00eemes and another in Bordeaux. They can each carry 10,000 litres of water. <\/p>\n<p>As of 1 June, they\u2019ll be on active service as and when they are needed alongside a number of other aircraft with firefighting capabilities. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//30//68//808x539_cmsv2_0f14a7b5-261b-5ed0-9b6b-7f9ee7cbdf92-8473068.jpg/" alt=\"French President Emmanuel Macron (C) poses with rescue workers and firefighters at the Nimes-Garons firefighters air base in 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/384x256_cmsv2_0f14a7b5-261b-5ed0-9b6b-7f9ee7cbdf92-8473068.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/640x427_cmsv2_0f14a7b5-261b-5ed0-9b6b-7f9ee7cbdf92-8473068.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/750x500_cmsv2_0f14a7b5-261b-5ed0-9b6b-7f9ee7cbdf92-8473068.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/828x552_cmsv2_0f14a7b5-261b-5ed0-9b6b-7f9ee7cbdf92-8473068.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/1080x720_cmsv2_0f14a7b5-261b-5ed0-9b6b-7f9ee7cbdf92-8473068.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/1200x800_cmsv2_0f14a7b5-261b-5ed0-9b6b-7f9ee7cbdf92-8473068.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/1920x1281_cmsv2_0f14a7b5-261b-5ed0-9b6b-7f9ee7cbdf92-8473068.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">French President Emmanuel Macron (C) poses with rescue workers and firefighters at the Nimes-Garons firefighters air base in 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Daniel Cole\/Pool\/File<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Portugal<\/h2><p>2023 was an intense year of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//04//28//a-very-clear-sign-of-climate-change-france-prepares-wildfire-fighting-forces-a-month-early/">wildfires for Portugal<\/strong><\/a> and, as such, the country\u2019s rural firefighting system will be reinforced from 1 June for the second time this year.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the summer season, there will be some 12,096 operational units and 70 aircraft available for use. <\/p>\n<p>Many of the people involved in the Special Rural Fire Fighting Device (DECIR) are volunteer firefighters. Others will be drawn from the Special Civil Protection Force, military personnel from the National Republican Guard and also from the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike in France, Portugal will not be using Canadair planes, apparently due to difficulties in the market. That came as a surprise to the crews who had been carrying out this service for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>With the weather heating up from July, resources are set to be reinforced again from the first of the month until 30 September - the period considered as the most critical phase of fires.<\/p>\n<p>In that three month stretch, 14,155 operational personnel from 3,162 teams will be on standby this year, as well as 3,173 vehicles - which is a slight increase compared to 2023.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//80//51//80//808x539_cmsv2_a52ce73d-5d75-550a-8f8f-729828a703fe-7805180.jpg/" alt=\"A firefighting helicopter flies amid clouds of smoke from a wildfire burning near houses in Alcabideche, outside Lisbon in July 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/51\/80\/384x256_cmsv2_a52ce73d-5d75-550a-8f8f-729828a703fe-7805180.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/51\/80\/640x427_cmsv2_a52ce73d-5d75-550a-8f8f-729828a703fe-7805180.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/51\/80\/750x500_cmsv2_a52ce73d-5d75-550a-8f8f-729828a703fe-7805180.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/51\/80\/828x552_cmsv2_a52ce73d-5d75-550a-8f8f-729828a703fe-7805180.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/51\/80\/1080x720_cmsv2_a52ce73d-5d75-550a-8f8f-729828a703fe-7805180.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/51\/80\/1200x800_cmsv2_a52ce73d-5d75-550a-8f8f-729828a703fe-7805180.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/80\/51\/80\/1920x1281_cmsv2_a52ce73d-5d75-550a-8f8f-729828a703fe-7805180.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A firefighting helicopter flies amid clouds of smoke from a wildfire burning near houses in Alcabideche, outside Lisbon in July 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Armando Franca<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Spain<\/h2><p>2023 saw hundreds of thousands of hectares of woodland <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//11//03//850-people-evacuated-as-storm-ciaran-whips-up-a-wildfire-in-eastern-spain/">destroyed in Spain<\/strong><\/a>, as well as more than 3,000 people forced to evacuate the Canary Island of Tenerife in the summer season. <\/p>\n<p>From 1 June, the Spanish state forest fire campaign is in place. Taking in consideration the tragedies of last year, authorities have introduced a more robust plan to more effectively fight any potential forest fires occurring in different areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, at a meeting of the State Coordination and Direction Committee (CECOD) in Spain, politicians came together to finalise plans. <\/p>\n<p>It includes the Forest Fire Reinforcement Brigades (BRIF) and a fleet of high-capacity seaplanes, which is operated by the 43 Group of the Air and Space Army. <\/p>\n<p>The Military Emergency Unit of the Ministry of Defence and the Civil Guard and National Police will be able to support devices put in place by the country\u2019s various autonomous communities. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1720413863399563270\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Catalonia has historically been one of the worst affected regions in Spain. <\/p>\n<p>The acting Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, highlighted that it \"faces an extremely complex campaign, which is not temporary and which has severe consequences.\" <\/p>\n<p>As a result, 240 new firefighters have been recruited to join hundreds of others. <\/p>\n<p>The Corps of Rural Agents has gone from having about 500 troops to a total of 620 in the face of the increased forest fire campaign.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be 22 aircraft including planes and helicopters, with 4 amphibious craft located in Sabadell and Empuriabrava, supported by 821 cars and vans. <\/p>\n<p>Less than halfway through the year, 2024 has been recorded as one of the driest ever in Catalonia in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1 January and 15 May 15 this year, firefighters have already battled 1,750 vegetation fires. That figure is slightly down on last year, though, thanks to heavy April rains. <\/p>\n<p>Despite this, authorities have installed 5 levels to their climate emergency plan - meaning that they are as prepared as possible to fight any potential blazes ahead. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//30//68//808x539_cmsv2_309e690a-b01e-5c65-ac03-87feb1e32f3a-8473068.jpg/" alt=\"Local residents try to clean a forest to prevent it from flames as fire advances in La Orotava in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain in August 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/384x256_cmsv2_309e690a-b01e-5c65-ac03-87feb1e32f3a-8473068.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/640x427_cmsv2_309e690a-b01e-5c65-ac03-87feb1e32f3a-8473068.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/750x500_cmsv2_309e690a-b01e-5c65-ac03-87feb1e32f3a-8473068.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/828x552_cmsv2_309e690a-b01e-5c65-ac03-87feb1e32f3a-8473068.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/1080x720_cmsv2_309e690a-b01e-5c65-ac03-87feb1e32f3a-8473068.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/1200x800_cmsv2_309e690a-b01e-5c65-ac03-87feb1e32f3a-8473068.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/1920x1281_cmsv2_309e690a-b01e-5c65-ac03-87feb1e32f3a-8473068.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Local residents try to clean a forest to prevent it from flames as fire advances in La Orotava in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain in August 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Arturo Rodriguez\/The AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Italy<\/h2><p>\u201cGood prevention, with the full involvement of municipalities and citizens, can serve to save thousands of hectares of vegetation,\u201d Nello Musumeci, the Minister for Civil Protection in Italy said at a meeting earlier this spring. <\/p>\n<p>Called to address <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//08//07//more-than-600-people-evacuated-as-wildfires-rage-across-italys-sardinia/">this summer's<\/strong><\/a> forest fire fighting campaign, the meeting was attended by representatives of Italy\u2019s regions (ANCI), the Fire Brigade, the Armed Forces, as well as the Ministries of the Interior, Defence, Environment, Agriculture and Economy. <\/p>\n<p>Italy is currently facing temperatures well above the usual, which have a knock on effect on the availability of water. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//30//68//808x539_cmsv2_4f9297a0-2bf9-5a96-9985-fb98545489fc-8473068.jpg/" alt=\"Fire burns near the towns of Alcamo and Partinico, in western Sicily, Italy in August 2023. The intensity of the fires forced the closure of nearby Trapani airport\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/384x256_cmsv2_4f9297a0-2bf9-5a96-9985-fb98545489fc-8473068.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/640x427_cmsv2_4f9297a0-2bf9-5a96-9985-fb98545489fc-8473068.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/750x500_cmsv2_4f9297a0-2bf9-5a96-9985-fb98545489fc-8473068.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/828x552_cmsv2_4f9297a0-2bf9-5a96-9985-fb98545489fc-8473068.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/1080x720_cmsv2_4f9297a0-2bf9-5a96-9985-fb98545489fc-8473068.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/1200x800_cmsv2_4f9297a0-2bf9-5a96-9985-fb98545489fc-8473068.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/30\/68\/1920x1281_cmsv2_4f9297a0-2bf9-5a96-9985-fb98545489fc-8473068.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Fire burns near the towns of Alcamo and Partinico, in western Sicily, Italy in August 2023. The intensity of the fires forced the closure of nearby Trapani airport<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Alberto Lo Bianco\/LaPresse via AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The south of the country and the islands are particularly likely to be affected, but all administrations in Italy have prepared contingencies for both forest fires and those in built up areas. <\/p>\n<p>As well as this, Musumeci has made sure to put in place a widespread campaign of raising awareness among populations via the media. <\/p>\n<p>While many fires are due to climate change, he has a further plan. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will suggest the opportunity for greater surveillance in rural areas to discourage arsonists and criminals in their senseless purposes,\u201d Musumeci suggests, \u201clet's remember that the vast majority of fires are caused by humans, through fault or malice.\" 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We all just need to go more - and if it's recommendations you need, it's recommendations we've got. \n\nExhibitions\n\nOpera Gallery London: 'The Whole World Smiles with You' (UK) \n\nAn exploration of figurative Black art from the 1980s onwards, 'The Whole World Smiles with You' is a group exhibition at London's Opera Gallery that includes work from popular modern day artists like Jazz Grant, Anya Paintsil, Thelonious Stokes, Derrick Adams and many more. Curated by Alayo Akinkugbe, a historian who runs the popular @ablackhistoryofart Instagram account, the displays seek to challenge traditional Western ideas of Blackness by reinterpreting its (largely negative and stereotypical) portrayal in traditional European portraiture. Open until 26 June. \u00a0\n\nFestivals\n\n'Primavera Sound Barcelona' (Spain)\n\nPulp, Vampire Weekend, Lana Del Rey, SZA and The National are just some of the huge names in music making an appearance at this year's Primavera Sound in Barcelona, which began on Wednesday (29 May) and ends 2 June. One of the biggest festivals in Europe, it also marks the start of another musical summer garnished in glitter. If you've not managed to nab tickets to this particular event, check out our list of other fantastic European festivals - and stay tuned for more Primavera updates from Euronews Cultures' Jonny Walfisz, who's probably enjoying Beth Gibbons as this is written. We're not jealous at all. \n\nFestival Cin\u00e9-Palestine (Marseille, France)\n\nNow in its tenth edition, the Festival Cin\u00e9-Palestine opens in Marseille from 30 May, then moves to Paris on 7 June, finishing up in Ivry-sur-Seine on 16 June. It's a celebration of Palestinian filmmakers, showcasing the lost archives of those that have documented the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. This year, there's a total of 45 films that have been selected - none of which were made after the Hamas attack on 7 October. In an interview with AFP, one of the festival's organisers stressed the importance of showing the \"perpetual Palestinian resistance\". Find out more here. \n\nMovies\n\n'La B\u00eate' ('The Beast')\n\nOur Film of the Week is La B\u00eate (The Beast), genre-bending and layered sci-fi tale from French conceptualist Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama, Zombi Child) that is a lot to take in. However, give this Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-riffing tale the required time, and you'll be rewarded to one of this year's most audacious movies. \n\nIt's already out in various European territories, but gets released in the UK and Ireland today. We can't recommend it enough. Read the full review. \n\n'Sasquatch Sunset'\n\nOn paper, it sounds crazy. 90 minutes of watching hairy big foots (feets?) doing 'day in the life' style content, without the ten-step skincare routine. \"They eat, sleep, fornicate, defecate, fight, play with turtles, sniff skunks, and gradually come into contact with things they don\u2019t fully comprehend, like a red \u2018X\u2019 on a tree, or a concrete road that puzzles them to the point of distress (and urination),\" wrote David Mouriquand, Euronews Culture's film critic, who saw the film earlier this year at the Berlinale. \n\nBut, with stunning visuals and a heartwarming message, it also ended up being one of the most memorable films of the festival - and a reminder of the joys of silent cinema and physical comedy. Read David's review in full here. \n\n'Jim Henson: Idea Man' (disney+) \n\n\"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending,\" Jim Henson, the beloved American puppeteer and filmmaker, once said. Now, his life truly has been turned into a movie, with this newly streaming Disney+ documentary by Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13). Documenting Henson's life through a series of show clips, interviews, bloopers, behind-the-scenes moments and home movies, it's a moving portrait of a life that was filled with so much kindness and creativity. There are also so many fascinating little facts in here, including the fact Henson grew a beard because of his acne scars, or first created Kermit the Frog by cutting up his mother\u2019s green coat and adding ping-pong balls for eyes.\n\nTV series\n\n'The Sympathizer' (HBO)\n\nIt doesn't take much to sell HBO's new miniseries 'The Sympathizer'. A tale of espionage that's directed by Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden), produced by A24 and stars Robert Downey in a variety of wacky roles, it comes freshly served with a lot of cool credentials. It's also based on a 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Set in the mid-70s, just before the fall of Saigon, it follows a half-Vietnamese, half-French pro-communist spy (Hoa Xuande) infiltrating the south-Vietnamese police before being exiled to LA. Offbeat, playful and clever, it's mostly just a pleasure to watch for the mesmerising visuals - nobody does transition shots like Chan-wook. Although he has, once again, ruined squid for us. \n\n'Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult' (Netflix) \n\nAh, another three-part Netflix documentary about a weird cult? Count us in. This time, it involves a group of young, impressionable TikTok dancers - and an LA-based church pastor that misled and groomed them under the guise of running a talent agency called 7M management. As with many of these types of documentaries, it seems to just keep getting weirder...And more worrisome. \n\nMusic\n\nEminem: 'Houdini' \n\nGuess who's back? Back again? Not Slim Shady, that's for sure - Eminem's alter-ego is \"dead\" according to the rapper's upcoming album title: \u2018The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Gr\u00e2ce)\u2019, which is due to be released this summer. The first single dropped today, titled 'Houdini' (Dua Lipa is so side-eyeing right now). Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III, teased the track on May 29 with a social media video featuring magician David Blaine biting into a wine glass and Mathers saying, \"well for my last trick, I'm gonna make my career disappear.\" \n\nArooj Aftab: 'Night Reign'\n\nOne of the most recent comments on the above YouTube video reads: \"For Sensitive - Elegant People', which feels right. Although, we'd also add that Pakistani-American singer and songwriter Arooj Aftab's mesmerising music is for night owls and maladaptive daydreamers, her trance-inducing melodies capturing a specific feeling of nightfall: reality gently falling away, a warmth and drowsiness that spreads through your body like sipping whiskey. Her latest album, 'Night Reign', is a magical listen. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>What's going on with 2024's box office? <\/p>\n<p>This week, we looked into why big blockbuster releases like <em>The Fall Guy<\/em> and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//05//16//cannes-2024-review-furiosa-a-mad-max-saga-an-origin-story-worth-telling/">Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga<\/strong><\/em><\/a> have <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//05//29//why-is-furiosa-a-flop-should-we-be-worried-for-2024s-box-office/">underperformed with cinema-goers<\/strong><\/a> (spoiler: streaming services and possible prequel fatigue have a lot to answer for). <\/p>\n<p>It's a worrying trend, but still, the range of fantastic films shown at last week's <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//05//27//cannes-film-festival-2024-key-takeaways-and-talking-points-of-the-77th-edition/">Cannes festival<\/strong><\/a> prove cinema is far from dead! We all just need to go more - and if it's recommendations you need, it's recommendations we've got. <\/p>\n<h2>Exhibitions<\/h2><p><strong>Opera Gallery London: 'The Whole World Smiles with You' (UK)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.0375888926515409\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//46//60//70//808x842_cmsv2_ad038b02-1a0f-50a8-b3da-191c55c2445d-8466070.jpg/" alt=\"'Still Got Your Back', (2023) by Adjei Tawiah\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/46\/60\/70\/384x398_cmsv2_ad038b02-1a0f-50a8-b3da-191c55c2445d-8466070.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/46\/60\/70\/640x664_cmsv2_ad038b02-1a0f-50a8-b3da-191c55c2445d-8466070.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/46\/60\/70\/750x778_cmsv2_ad038b02-1a0f-50a8-b3da-191c55c2445d-8466070.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/46\/60\/70\/828x859_cmsv2_ad038b02-1a0f-50a8-b3da-191c55c2445d-8466070.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/46\/60\/70\/1080x1121_cmsv2_ad038b02-1a0f-50a8-b3da-191c55c2445d-8466070.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/46\/60\/70\/1200x1245_cmsv2_ad038b02-1a0f-50a8-b3da-191c55c2445d-8466070.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/46\/60\/70\/1920x1992_cmsv2_ad038b02-1a0f-50a8-b3da-191c55c2445d-8466070.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">'Still Got Your Back', (2023) by Adjei Tawiah<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Opera Gallery<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>An exploration of figurative Black art from the 1980s onwards, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.operagallery.com//event//the-whole-world-smiles-with-you/">'The Whole World Smiles with You'<\/strong><\/a> is a group exhibition at London's Opera Gallery that includes work from popular modern day artists like Jazz Grant, Anya Paintsil, Thelonious Stokes, Derrick Adams and many more. Curated by Alayo Akinkugbe, a historian who runs the popular @ablackhistoryofart Instagram account, the displays seek to challenge traditional Western ideas of Blackness by reinterpreting its (largely negative and stereotypical) portrayal in traditional European portraiture. 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One of the biggest festivals in Europe, it also marks the start of another musical summer garnished in glitter. If you've not managed to nab tickets to this particular event, check out <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//03//12//forget-coachella-here-are-the-unmissable-2024-european-music-festivals/">our list of other fantastic European festivals<\/strong><\/a> - and stay tuned for more Primavera updates from Euronews Cultures' Jonny Walfisz, who's probably enjoying Beth Gibbons as this is written. We're not jealous at all. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Festival Cin\u00e9-Palestine (Marseille, France)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C66jr-8tAEZ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.instagram.com//p//C66jr-8tAEZ//?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading\%22 style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.instagram.com//p//C66jr-8tAEZ//?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading\%22 style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Festival Cin\u00e9-Palestine (@festivalcinepalestine)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote> <script async src=https://www.euronews.com/"////www.instagram.com//embed.js/">/n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Now in its tenth edition, the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.festivalpalestine.paris//fr///">Festival Cin\u00e9-Palestine<\/strong><\/a> opens in Marseille from 30 May, then moves to Paris on 7 June, finishing up in Ivry-sur-Seine on 16 June. It's a celebration of Palestinian filmmakers, showcasing the lost archives of those that have documented the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. This year, there's a total of 45 films that have been selected - none of which were made after the Hamas attack on 7 October. In an interview with AFP, one of the festival's organisers stressed the importance of showing the \"perpetual Palestinian resistance\". <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//05//30//festival-cine-palestine-france-looks-to-preserve-palestinian-cultural-memory/">Find out more here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<h2>Movies<\/h2><p><strong>'La B\u00eate' ('The Beast')<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-youtube-embed\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//Z5KsjVf8YdU/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Our Film of the Week is <em>La B\u00eate<\/em> (<em>The Beast<\/em>), genre-bending and layered sci-fi tale from French conceptualist Bertrand Bonello (<em>Nocturama<\/em>, <em>Zombi Child<\/em>) that is a lot to take in. However, give this <em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/em>-riffing tale the required time, and you'll be rewarded to one of this year's most audacious movies. <\/p>\n<p>It's already out in various European territories, but gets released in the UK and Ireland today. We can't recommend it enough. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//05//31//euronews-cultures-film-of-the-week-la-bete-the-beast-bertrand-bonellos-sci-fi-masterstroke/">Read the full review.<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>'Sasquatch Sunset'<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//KgfkthLpeXw?si=9k7hSgiL51m7gDgQ\%22 title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On paper, it sounds crazy. 90 minutes of watching hairy big foots (feets?) doing 'day in the life' style content, without the ten-step skincare routine. \"They eat, sleep, fornicate, defecate, fight, play with turtles, sniff skunks, and gradually come into contact with things they don\u2019t fully comprehend, like a red \u2018X\u2019 on a tree, or a concrete road that puzzles them to the point of distress (and urination),\" wrote David Mouriquand, Euronews Culture's film critic, who saw the film earlier this year at the Berlinale. <\/p>\n<p>But, with stunning visuals and a heartwarming message, it also ended up being one of the most memorable films of the festival - and a reminder of the joys of silent cinema and physical comedy. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//02//20//berlinale-2024-review-sasquatch-sunset-a-silly-yet-touching-ode-to-silent-cinema/">Read David's review in full here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>'Jim Henson: Idea Man' (disney+)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//iyGFV6VIxkI?si=TyHsF2BjWZII5O9v\%22 title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending,\" Jim Henson, the beloved American puppeteer and filmmaker, once said. Now, his life truly has been turned into a movie, with this newly streaming Disney+ documentary by Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (<em>A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13<\/em>). Documenting Henson's life through a series of show clips, interviews, bloopers, behind-the-scenes moments and home movies, it's a moving portrait of a life that was filled with so much kindness and creativity. There are also so many fascinating little facts in here, including the fact Henson grew a beard because of his acne scars, or first created Kermit the Frog by cutting up his mother\u2019s green coat and adding ping-pong balls for eyes.<\/p>\n<h2>TV series<\/h2><p><strong>'The Sympathizer' (HBO)<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//47dRkhiERpE?si=opcUrKc9OfVX0H-4\%22 title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It doesn't take much to sell HBO's new miniseries 'The Sympathizer'. A tale of espionage that's directed by Park Chan-wook (<em>Oldboy, The Handmaiden<\/em>), produced by A24 and stars Robert Downey in a variety of wacky roles, it comes freshly served with a lot of cool credentials. It's also based on a 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Set in the mid-70s, just before the fall of Saigon, it follows a half-Vietnamese, half-French pro-communist spy (Hoa Xuande) infiltrating the south-Vietnamese police before being exiled to LA. Offbeat, playful and clever, it's mostly just a pleasure to watch for the mesmerising visuals - nobody does transition shots like Chan-wook. Although he has, once again, ruined squid for us. <\/p>\n<p><strong>'Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult' (Netflix)<\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//-CCG5RXbtwc?si=hD0G8aRyVO6Kx2Ma\%22 title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ah, another three-part Netflix documentary about a weird cult? Count us in. This time, it involves a group of young, impressionable TikTok dancers - and an LA-based church pastor that misled and groomed them under the guise of running a talent agency called 7M management. As with many of these types of documentaries, it seems to just keep getting weirder...And more worrisome. <\/p>\n<h2>Music<\/h2><p><strong>Eminem: 'Houdini'<\/strong> <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//22tVWwmTie8?si=yufzA4W8EofU7CuR\%22 title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Guess who's back? Back again? Not Slim Shady, that's for sure - Eminem's alter-ego is \"dead\" according to the rapper's upcoming album title: <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//04//26//eminem-announces-his-next-album-and-his-last/">/u2018The Death Of Slim Shady (Coup De Gr\u00e2ce)\u2019<\/strong><\/a>, which is due to be released this summer. The first single dropped today, titled 'Houdini' (<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//11//10//dua-lipa-is-back-with-houdini-heres-our-review-and-why-were-excited-about-her-upcoming-alb/">Dua Lipa<\/strong><\/a> is <em>so<\/em> side-eyeing right now). Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III, teased the track on May 29 with a social media video featuring magician David Blaine biting into a wine glass and Mathers saying, \"well for my last trick, I'm gonna make my career disappear.\" <\/p>\n<p><strong>Arooj Aftab: 'Night Reign'<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//6QwMt4tflD8?si=xsQturnkZ6ZTy2eu\%22 title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>One of the most recent comments on the above YouTube video reads: \"For Sensitive - Elegant People', which feels right. 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POLL NINE COUNTRIES","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Super Poll Q&A: Is EU-wide conservative coalition losing momentum?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Super Poll Q&A: Is EU-wide conservative coalition losing momentum?","titleListing2":"Q&A: The Euronews Polls Centre unveils the last opinion polls of the European elections in nine countries ","leadin":"The Euronews Super Polls foresee an election victory for the EPP, unprecedented growth for the ultraconservatives, and a slight increase for the socialists. Data suggest that crafting the future ruling coalition could turn out to be a political conundrum.","summary":"The Euronews Super Polls foresee an election victory for the EPP, unprecedented growth for the ultraconservatives, and a slight increase for the socialists. Data suggest that crafting the future ruling coalition could turn out to be a political conundrum.","keySentence":"","url":"super-poll-qa-is-the-eu-conservative-coalition-loosing-momentum","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/06\/01\/super-poll-qa-is-the-eu-conservative-coalition-loosing-momentum","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"According to the Euronews Super Polls, one thing looks certain: after the 6-9 June elections, the European Parliament will have a clear right-wing majority. \n\nFurthermore, the forces of the conservative camp \u2014 from the centre-right to the far-right \u2014 will have to overcome deep rifts and contradictions among each other to craft a functional alliance.\n\nMeanwhile, the conservative groups will hardly be able to join their forces in one strong coalition. \n\nSocialist parties have been slightly and steadily growing for three months, while the liberal-democrats of Renew are on a fast-declining path.\n\nFinally, here is a bit of trivia rather than political data: the only countries where the far right is expected to have a meaningless showing are Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta. \n\nWe asked Boyd Wagner, chief analyst of the Euronews Polls Centre, to help us better understand the results of our latest Super Poll in nine representative EU countries.\n\nEuronews: In Germany, the union's largest economy, the Christian Democrats (CDU) are steadily leading the opinion polls. How do you comment on this?\n\nWagner: The EPP (European People's Party) will continue to get its biggest boost from the German coalition, the German group, the CDU, and the CSU (German and Bavarian Christian Democrats, respectively).\n\nWe project them to be at about 30%. They should break the 30% threshold in Germany next week. And that should be a big boom for the EPP group.\n\nEuronews: The far-right party Alternative for Germany seems to be losing some of its appeal to the German electorate and could be outpaced by the Social Democrats (SPD) as the second party. Is this due to the recent scandals and accusations against some of its members of being Russian influence agents and the declarations of sympathy to the SS by the head of the party's European Parliament electoral list, Maximilian Krah? \n\nWagner: We might see a greater impact when the people go to vote in a week or so, in Germany, that the SS scandal has a greater impact. it's really going to be probably the SS scandal because of the fact that it keeps them out of the (far-right) Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament. So, just the reverberation of that scandal is going to have an effect on everything that is going to play out in the long term.\n\nEuronews: In France, the landslide victory of Jordan Bardella, from Marine Le Pen's National Rally, is a foregone conclusion. The gripping race is for the second position between two staunch pro-EU candidates, the Renaissance's Val\u00e9rie Hayer and the Socialist Party's Rapha\u00ebl Glucksman. Isn't it? \n\nWagner: You can see the Socialist party in France really making big-time gains on Rennaisance's heels. I think that is going to become their bigger concern for Macron and the group. I think that the Renaissance cannot afford to be looking at trying to make sure that they're getting closer to the National Rally at this time; they need to make sure that they stay in the strong second place and don't let the socialists come at their heels\"\n\nEuronews: Is Glucksman's Socialist Party a real threat to the so-called \"presidential majority\" both in France and Europe? \n\nWagner: Rennaisance shouldn't let the socialists come at their heels, as they're doing right now, just with a little bit more than a week ahead of the election, as we kind of track these last set of numbers on a two-week bit on the two-week basis before we had. The Macron list is at 16.6%, and the Socialists are at just under 14%. So we're now inching very, very, very close between those two parties right now.\n\nEuronews: Italy is the other important piece of the EU's far-right ultra-conservative camp. Post-fascist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni steadily occupies the first position. We have assisted in the past couple of weeks with a cautious rapprochement between Meloni (her party is an ECR member) and the number one of the French opposition, Le Pen (her party is affiliated with Identity and Democracy). Do you think that they could be tempted to join their forces, create a new group, and let go of the project of a \"pro-von der Leyen\" conservative coalition (without Le Pen)? \n\nWagner: I certainly don't think that PM Meloni would think that it's the death of that possibility. If we include everybody in there, and I'm going to exclude the AfD \u2014 now that they've been excluded from the Identity and Democracy group \u2014 you have 60 to 65 seats from the ID, and you're looking at over 80 seats from the ECR. That together becomes a formidable number two, potentially number two; they could be bigger than the S&D in the European Parliament. And that would mean that there is a strong right-wing that then needs to be considered. \n\nNow, can the EPP still work with this? This is something that they're going to have to consider. And at the end of the day, just having that many seats to the right of them is not enough. Either the EPP decides to get in coalition with them or not, or they decide to form a government with them. \n\nEither way, they're going to have to reckon with the power that is on right now because it's much more inflated than it had been previously. \n\nEuronews: Let's move now to Spain. Looking at the Euronews Super Poll, the Partido Popular is slightly leading the polls, followed by the socialist party, PSOE. Is Spain the last bastion of the mainstream parties of the European political tradition? \n\nWagner: The Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) was the largest party. They are the party of government right now in Spain. We don't project them to be the winning party. But it's not like you're seeing some more right-wing party kind of coming to the fore to take that place. You're not seeing the rise of Vox as much as we might have thought. \n\nInstead, it's kind of ending up as a fight between those two establishment parties, the Partido Popular and the PSOE. And, as we track them right now, it looks like it's going to be the Partido Popular that is going to take the lead, but it's still close to call. \n\nAs we kind of project things out, we're looking at 25 MEPs for the EPP, for the PP in Spain, and we're looking at just 20 for the PSOE and the S&P. Again, that's a very unique one. \n\nEuronews: So, let me conclude that the EPP group will be a German-Polish-Spanish affair. What is your analysis of this? \n\nWagner: It's very clear that it's going to be driven by the Germans, driven by the Spanish. And, I think in third place, you probably will see the Polish. I think you're right about that. The EPP will stand to benefit from it's the Eastern flank of Europe. \n\nI think on the eastern flank of Europe, you're seeing a lot of these more traditional parties accumulate more votes than they had before. So I think that the EPP will do better there. But at the end of the day, there are just not as many MEPs and seats in the European Parliament to be found in some of those countries. So they're really going to have to be buoyed by the Spanish, by the Germans, by the Polish.\n\nEuronews: Romania is another interesting exercise in the fine art of political coalition design. Could the next European Parliament be inspired by the structure of the current ruling coalition in Romania? \n\nWagner: It certainly looks that way. We project the EPP to be the leader with about 11 members in the next European Parliament. We project the S&D to be right behind them with nine members. There's seven for the ECR. And then you have five for the Renew group. \n\nAgain, the hardest thing to track with Romania is just exactly because they're running for their own national parliament elections as well.\n\nEuronews: I would move to the Netherlands. Are they going to confirm the results of the recent national elections?\n\nWagner: The Netherlands is an interesting track because they had their own internal battles that they have been waging for some time, and it looks like they're coming to some conclusions there. \n\nIt does look like I think that they will be confirming their own government in due time very soon. So, as we put it right now, you're looking at nine MEPs from the Netherlands for the ID, so that's it's certainly a strong position to take on the right\n\nEuronews: How about Belgium? They will also hold their Federal elections on the same day as the European elections. \n\nWagner: Belgium is always a very tough one to put the finger on. You're thinking about where we track with where members of the European Parliament are going to be sitting from Belgium. You also see again, there's a strong rise in the right, just like you see in the Netherlands next door, just like you're seeing in France next door. \n\nIt's going to be very well-proportioned. From Flanders (Dutch-speaking region), we are going to see most of the right-wing voters. Whereas in Wallonia (French-speaking region) you're going to see a stronger proportion of left voters.\n\nEuronews: Regarding right-wingers, in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n's ultra-conservative Fidesz party is leading the poll, yet, for the first time, a new opposition party seems to be on the rise. Could P\u00e9ter Magyar's movement become a political threat to Orb\u00e1n? \n\nWagner: We track them right now at almost 20% in the polls. That's a very strong number for a group that is not technically a united opposition. Two years ago, when Hungary had its last national parliamentary elections, they ran as a united opposition, and they were able to achieve upwards of 30% of the vote, if I recall correctly. It still didn't come close to achieving a victory over Prime Minister Orban. So 20% is not going to get them close in terms of an overall movement. I don't really see it. \n\nI mean, we still project for (Fidesz) to get over 40% of the vote in Hungary. They will maintain their spot as a clear leader, and they should double up on anybody. When you're looking at Magyar, I think most of his voters are actually coming from some of the other former opposition or the other opposition parties. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>According to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////polls.euronews.com//?view=map&menu=latest&loaded-analyses=3&loaded-polls=3&loaded-news=4\%22>Euronews Super Polls<\/a>, one thing looks certain: after the 6-9 June elections, the European Parliament will have a clear right-wing majority. <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the forces of the conservative camp \u2014 from the centre-right to the far-right \u2014 will have to overcome deep rifts and contradictions among each other to craft a functional alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the conservative groups will hardly be able to join their forces in one strong coalition. <\/p>\n<p>Socialist parties have been slightly and steadily growing for three months, while the liberal-democrats of Renew are on a fast-declining path.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here is a bit of trivia rather than political data: the only countries where the far right is expected to have a meaningless showing are Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta. <\/p>\n<p>We asked Boyd Wagner, chief analyst of the Euronews Polls Centre, to help us better understand the results of our latest Super Poll in nine representative EU countries.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Euronews: In Germany, the union's largest economy, the Christian Democrats (CDU) are steadily leading the opinion polls. How do you comment on this?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wagner: The EPP (European People's Party) will continue to get its biggest boost from the German coalition, the German group, the CDU, and the CSU (German and Bavarian Christian Democrats, respectively).<\/p>\n<p>We project them to be at about 30%. They should break the 30% threshold in Germany next week. And that should be a big boom for the EPP group.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/17773637?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Euronews: The far-right party Alternative for Germany seems to be losing some of its appeal to the German electorate and could be outpaced by the Social Democrats (SPD) as the second party. Is this due to the recent scandals and accusations against some of its members of being Russian influence agents and the declarations of sympathy to the SS by the head of the party's European Parliament electoral list, Maximilian Krah?<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Wagner: We might see a greater impact when the people go to vote in a week or so, in Germany, that the SS scandal has a greater impact. it's really going to be probably the SS scandal because of the fact that it keeps them out of the (far-right) Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament. So, just the reverberation of that scandal is going to have an effect on everything that is going to play out in the long term.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/18192071?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Euronews: In France, the landslide victory of Jordan Bardella, from Marine Le Pen's National Rally, is a foregone conclusion. The gripping race is for the second position between two staunch pro-EU candidates, the Renaissance's Val\u00e9rie Hayer and the Socialist Party's Rapha\u00ebl Glucksman. Isn't it?<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Wagner: You can see the Socialist party in France really making big-time gains on Rennaisance's heels. I think that is going to become their bigger concern for Macron and the group. I think that the Renaissance cannot afford to be looking at trying to make sure that they're getting closer to the National Rally at this time; they need to make sure that they stay in the strong second place and don't let the socialists come at their heels\"<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Euronews: Is Glucksman's Socialist Party a real threat to the so-called \"presidential majority\" both in France and Europe?<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Wagner: Rennaisance shouldn't let the socialists come at their heels, as they're doing right now, just with a little bit more than a week ahead of the election, as we kind of track these last set of numbers on a two-week bit on the two-week basis before we had. The Macron list is at 16.6%, and the Socialists are at just under 14%. So we're now inching very, very, very close between those two parties right now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/18192805?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Euronews: Italy is the other important piece of the EU's far-right ultra-conservative camp. Post-fascist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni steadily occupies the first position. We have assisted in the past couple of weeks with a cautious rapprochement between Meloni (her party is an ECR member) and the number one of the French opposition, Le Pen (her party is affiliated with Identity and Democracy). Do you think that they could be tempted to join their forces, create a new group, and let go of the project of a \"pro-von der Leyen\" conservative coalition (without Le Pen)?<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Wagner: I certainly don't think that PM Meloni would think that it's the death of that possibility. If we include everybody in there, and I'm going to exclude the AfD \u2014 now that they've been excluded from the Identity and Democracy group \u2014 you have 60 to 65 seats from the ID, and you're looking at over 80 seats from the ECR. That together becomes a formidable number two, potentially number two; they could be bigger than the S&D in the European Parliament. And that would mean that there is a strong right-wing that then needs to be considered. <\/p>\n<p>Now, can the EPP still work with this? This is something that they're going to have to consider. And at the end of the day, just having that many seats to the right of them is not enough. Either the EPP decides to get in coalition with them or not, or they decide to form a government with them. <\/p>\n<p>Either way, they're going to have to reckon with the power that is on right now because it's much more inflated than it had been previously. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/18192837?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Euronews: Let's move now to Spain. Looking at the Euronews Super Poll, the Partido Popular is slightly leading the polls, followed by the socialist party, PSOE. Is Spain the last bastion of the mainstream parties of the European political tradition?<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Wagner: The Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) was the largest party. They are the party of government right now in Spain. We don't project them to be the winning party. But it's not like you're seeing some more right-wing party kind of coming to the fore to take that place. You're not seeing the rise of Vox as much as we might have thought. <\/p>\n<p>Instead, it's kind of ending up as a fight between those two establishment parties, the Partido Popular and the PSOE. And, as we track them right now, it looks like it's going to be the Partido Popular that is going to take the lead, but it's still close to call. <\/p>\n<p>As we kind of project things out, we're looking at 25 MEPs for the EPP, for the PP in Spain, and we're looking at just 20 for the PSOE and the S&P. Again, that's a very unique one. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/18192932?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Euronews: So, let me conclude that the EPP group will be a German-Polish-Spanish affair. What is your analysis of this?<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Wagner: It's very clear that it's going to be driven by the Germans, driven by the Spanish. And, I think in third place, you probably will see the Polish. I think you're right about that. The EPP will stand to benefit from it's the Eastern flank of Europe. <\/p>\n<p>I think on the eastern flank of Europe, you're seeing a lot of these more traditional parties accumulate more votes than they had before. So I think that the EPP will do better there. But at the end of the day, there are just not as many MEPs and seats in the European Parliament to be found in some of those countries. So they're really going to have to be buoyed by the Spanish, by the Germans, by the Polish.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/18193041?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Euronews: Romania is another interesting exercise in the fine art of political coalition design. Could the next European Parliament be inspired by the structure of the current ruling coalition in Romania?<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Wagner: It certainly looks that way. We project the EPP to be the leader with about 11 members in the next European Parliament. We project the S&D to be right behind them with nine members. There's seven for the ECR. And then you have five for the Renew group. <\/p>\n<p>Again, the hardest thing to track with Romania is just exactly because they're running for their own national parliament elections as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/18193088?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Euronews: I would move to the Netherlands. Are they going to confirm the results of the recent national elections?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wagner: The Netherlands is an interesting track because they had their own internal battles that they have been waging for some time, and it looks like they're coming to some conclusions there. <\/p>\n<p>It does look like I think that they will be confirming their own government in due time very soon. So, as we put it right now, you're looking at nine MEPs from the Netherlands for the ID, so that's it's certainly a strong position to take on the right<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/18193112?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Euronews: How about Belgium? They will also hold their Federal elections on the same day as the European elections.<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Wagner: Belgium is always a very tough one to put the finger on. You're thinking about where we track with where members of the European Parliament are going to be sitting from Belgium. You also see again, there's a strong rise in the right, just like you see in the Netherlands next door, just like you're seeing in France next door. <\/p>\n<p>It's going to be very well-proportioned. From Flanders (Dutch-speaking region), we are going to see most of the right-wing voters. Whereas in Wallonia (French-speaking region) you're going to see a stronger proportion of left voters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-flourish widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart u-min-height-375\" data-src=\"visualisation\/18193191?92060\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Euronews: Regarding right-wingers, in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n's ultra-conservative Fidesz party is leading the poll, yet, for the first time, a new opposition party seems to be on the rise. Could P\u00e9ter Magyar's movement become a political threat to Orb\u00e1n?<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Wagner: We track them right now at almost 20% in the polls. That's a very strong number for a group that is not technically a united opposition. Two years ago, when Hungary had its last national parliamentary elections, they ran as a united opposition, and they were able to achieve upwards of 30% of the vote, if I recall correctly. It still didn't come close to achieving a victory over Prime Minister Orban. So 20% is not going to get them close in terms of an overall movement. I don't really see it. <\/p>\n<p>I mean, we still project for (Fidesz) to get over 40% of the vote in Hungary. They will maintain their spot as a clear leader, and they should double up on anybody. When you're looking at Magyar, I think most of his voters are actually coming from some of the other former opposition or the other opposition parties. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1717152373,"updatedAt":1717431500,"publishedAt":1717228807,"firstPublishedAt":1717187848,"lastPublishedAt":1717228807,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Virginia Mayo\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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Can tourism survive in drought stricken Barcelona?","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Barcelona grapples with the future of tourism as rain provides last minute drought relief","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Drought leaves major questions about Barcelona's future in tourism ","titleListing2":"Barcelona grapples with the future of tourism as rain provides last minute drought relief","leadin":"As Barcelona exits its almost four-year-long drought, the aftermath has left many tough questions about the realities of water management and mass tourism.","summary":"As Barcelona exits its almost four-year-long drought, the aftermath has left many tough questions about the realities of water management and mass tourism.","keySentence":"","url":"barcelona-grapples-with-the-future-of-tourism-as-rain-provides-last-minute-drought-relief","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2024\/06\/01\/barcelona-grapples-with-the-future-of-tourism-as-rain-provides-last-minute-drought-relief","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Rain is falling consistently in Barcelona for the first time in almost four years. Catalonia\u2019s longest drought since records began is coming to an end, bringing the first \u2018normal\u2019 spring and much-needed respite as the tourist season begins.\n\nAs the reservoirs fill past their previously critically low condition, many hundreds of thousands of festival goers will fly to Barcelona in May for Primavera Sound. It is one of the largest music festivals in all of Europe.\n\nAs it begins its two-week run, Primavera Sound is the gunshot marking the beginning of the summer season which sees tourists flock to the Catalan capital from May until September. \n\nAnd though recent rainfall has rescinded the region's drought emergency, the experience has left many residents and officials wondering if the relationship between Barcelona and tourism will be sustainable when the next drought inevitably comes.\n\nIs tourism too big for water restrictions?\n\nPrimavera saw over 460,000 attendees from across the world in 2022 generating \u20ac349 million in revenue for the city of Barcelona.\n\nEven amidst the worsening water situation throughout 2023, few restrictions were placed on the tourist sector. As the city closed out 2023 with over 12 million tourists having stayed in hotels, tourist lets and hostels, the Manager\u2019s Office for Economy and Economic Promotion put tourist spending at \u20ac9.6 billion.\n\nTourism is one of the leading economic sectors for Barcelona and the surrounding region, responsible for more than 10 per cent of local GDP in 2021, and accounting for 5.4 per cent of Catalonia\u2019s overall GDP in 2022.\n\nAs the industry is so important to the economy of the city, there were many questions raised around the declaration of a drought emergency in February. As individual residents were limited to 200 litres of water per day, facing additional payments for exceeding this limit, there were fewer restrictions for the tourism sector beyond emptying pools, advisory signs and water usage recommendations.\n\n\u201cWe are aware that water use awareness campaigns are being carried out in the hotel sector with the aim of making customers aware,\u201d Elvira Garcia, General Manager at Barcelona Oberta, a Union of commerce and tourism hubs in Barcelona told Euronews Green. \n\n\u201cIn this sense, there are stickers or information in public toilets or a time of four minutes is recommended for showering.\u201d\n\nWhat lessons have been learnt from the drought?\n\nAlthough it seems the worst is over, the drought has been a large part of residents' lives, even seeping into politics with candidates of the Catalan regional elections in May addressing the issue of water security.\n\nDirector of the Catalan Water Research Institute (ICRA), Vicen\u00e7 Acu\u00f1a Salazar, knows first-hand the inequalities that water scarcity has brought - especially in the tourist sector. \n\n\u201cThe drought hasn\u2019t finished officially, and we will see what happens, especially next fall. If the next fall is as dry as the last three falls then in winter we will be again in an emergency, and there will be shortages for almost all sectors, but for now, the summer is solved,\u201d he explained to Euronews Green.\n\nFor Vicen\u00e7 and many others, the need to inform tourists of water scarcity, as well as establishing great autonomy from rainfall is a key factor in making Barcelona less susceptible to future drought.\n\n\u201cWe are starting to put together a group of stakeholders from the touristic sector, people from the Spanish Association of Hotels and hopefully the Ministry of Environment from Spain and develop and implement a system for measuring water usage on tourist activities.\u201d\n\n\u201cSo that whenever you have to choose which hotel you have to visit you can see their water use efficiency, if they have invested in recovering rainwater and then reusing it in the hotel, and these kinds of practices.\u201d\n\nHow is Barcelona adapting to drought?\n\nIt is a balancing act in Barcelona between concentrated periods of tourism during the summer and water usage during the worst months of the drought. It has highlighted how susceptible the city is to water shortages and why its tourism industry needs better water management strategies.\n\nThe Catalan government will invest nearly \u20ac2.5 billion in the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) to manage water supplies and address future droughts. The plan, running from this year until 2027, will triple previous investments, expanding the number of water production plants from 24 to 40 and boosting production from Barcelona\u2019s Besos River.\n\nIn 2024, a floating desalination plant will be installed off Barcelona\u2019s coast, producing 14 hm\u00b3 of water annually - 6 per cent of the metropolitan area\u2019s consumption - as well as the building of 12 mobile desalination units deployed along the northern Costa Brava, starting in June.\n\nThese units, costing \u20ac10 million, will supply 1,000 m\u00b3 of water daily, covering 35 per cent of water consumption in over a dozen municipalities.\n\nRecent rain has meant Barcelona has narrowly avoided effecting much change to its tourist sector, buying more time to prepare for the inevitable \u2018next time\u2019.\n\n\u201cMass tourism is not part of the city strategy we want. Companies are aware that the path is sustainability,\u201d Elvira Garcia tells Euronews Green.\n\nAs increased heatwaves and more sparse rainfall affect much of Spain and the Mediterranean region, new methods will have to be implemented to ensure the short-term benefits of tourism on the region\u2019s economy and the long-term sustainability of water.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Rain is falling consistently in Barcelona for the first time in almost four years. Catalonia\u2019s longest drought since records began is coming to an end, bringing the first \u2018normal\u2019 spring and much-needed respite as the tourist season begins.<\/p>\n<p>As the reservoirs fill past their previously critically low condition, many hundreds of thousands of festival goers will fly to Barcelona in May for Primavera Sound. It is one of the largest music festivals in all of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>As it begins its two-week run, Primavera Sound is the gunshot marking the beginning of the summer season which sees tourists flock to the Catalan capital from May until September. <\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8456968,8450130\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//05//27//airlines-will-lose-less-luggage-and-return-it-to-you-quicker-thanks-to-new-tracking-rules/">Airlines will lose less luggage and return it to you quicker thanks to new tracking rules <\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//05//22//mt-fuji-no-more-japanese-town-erects-huge-black-screen-to-deter-crowds-of-selfie-seeking-t/">Mt. Fuji no more: Japanese town erects huge black screen to deter crowds of selfie-seeking tourists<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And though recent rainfall has <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//05//07//rainfall-allows-catalonia-to-ease-water-restrictions-for-first-time-since-drought-began/">rescinded the region's drought emergency<\/strong><\/a>, the experience has left many residents and officials wondering if the relationship between Barcelona and tourism will be sustainable when the next drought inevitably comes.<\/p>\n<h2>Is tourism too big for water restrictions?<\/h2><p>Primavera saw over 460,000 attendees from across the world in 2022 generating \u20ac349 million in revenue for the city of Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Even amidst the worsening water situation throughout 2023, few restrictions were placed on the tourist sector. As the city closed out 2023 with over 12 million tourists having stayed in hotels, tourist lets and hostels, the Manager\u2019s Office for Economy and Economic Promotion put tourist spending at \u20ac9.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//29//agriculture-vs-tourism-how-are-farmers-and-hotels-coping-with-the-spanish-drought/">Tourism is one of the leading economic sectors for Barcelona and the surrounding region, responsible for more than 10 per cent of local GDP in 2021, and accounting for 5.4 per cent of Catalonia\u2019s overall GDP in 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//10//82//808x608_cmsv2_d630f89e-3817-55df-8fd4-db88384ba071-8471082.jpg/" alt=\"Posters that were plastered across Barcelona during peak drought period.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/384x288_cmsv2_d630f89e-3817-55df-8fd4-db88384ba071-8471082.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/640x480_cmsv2_d630f89e-3817-55df-8fd4-db88384ba071-8471082.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/750x563_cmsv2_d630f89e-3817-55df-8fd4-db88384ba071-8471082.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/828x621_cmsv2_d630f89e-3817-55df-8fd4-db88384ba071-8471082.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/1080x810_cmsv2_d630f89e-3817-55df-8fd4-db88384ba071-8471082.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/1200x900_cmsv2_d630f89e-3817-55df-8fd4-db88384ba071-8471082.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/1920x1440_cmsv2_d630f89e-3817-55df-8fd4-db88384ba071-8471082.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Posters that were plastered across Barcelona during peak drought period.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Daniel Harper<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As the industry is so important to the economy of the city, there were many questions raised around the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//02//01//spain-expected-to-declare-drought-emergency-today-with-big-fines-for-breaking-water-rules/">declaration of a drought emergency in February<\/strong><\/a>. As individual residents were limited to 200 litres of water per day, facing additional payments for exceeding this limit, there were fewer restrictions for the tourism sector beyond emptying pools, advisory signs and water usage recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are aware that water use awareness campaigns are being carried out in the hotel sector with the aim of making customers aware,\u201d Elvira Garcia, General Manager at Barcelona Oberta, a Union of commerce and tourism hubs in Barcelona told Euronews Green. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this sense, there are stickers or information in public toilets or a time of four minutes is recommended for showering.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What lessons have been learnt from the drought?<\/h2><p>Although it seems the worst is over, the drought has been a large part of residents' lives, even seeping into politics with candidates of the Catalan regional elections in May addressing the issue of water security.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the Catalan Water Research Institute (ICRA), Vicen\u00e7 Acu\u00f1a Salazar, knows first-hand the inequalities that water scarcity has brought - especially in the tourist sector. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//02//21//regular-droughts-could-become-the-mediterreneans-new-normal-due-to-climate-change/">drought hasn\u2019t finished officially, and we will see what happens, especially next fall. If the next fall is as dry as the last three falls then in winter we will be again in an emergency, and there will be shortages for almost all sectors, but for now, the summer is solved,\u201d he explained to Euronews Green.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8469680,8454954\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//05//30//sulphur-baths-and-soviet-markets-how-to-spend-a-weekend-in-tbilisi-on-a-budget/">Sulphur baths and Soviet markets: How to spend a weekend in Tbilisi on a budget<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//05//25//this-10-a-day-rail-pass-could-be-your-ticket-to-frances-biggest-wine-growing-region/">This \u20ac10 a day rail pass could be your ticket to France\u2019s biggest wine growing region<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For Vicen\u00e7 and many others, the need to inform tourists of water scarcity, as well as establishing great autonomy from rainfall is a key factor in making Barcelona less susceptible to future drought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are starting to put together a group of stakeholders from the touristic sector, people from the Spanish Association of Hotels and hopefully the Ministry of Environment from Spain and develop and implement a system for measuring water usage on tourist activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that whenever you have to choose which hotel you have to visit you can see their water use efficiency, if they have invested in recovering rainwater and then reusing it in the hotel, and these kinds of practices.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>How is Barcelona adapting to drought?<\/h2><p>It is a balancing act in Barcelona between concentrated periods of tourism during the summer and water usage during the worst months of the drought. It has highlighted how susceptible the city is to water shortages and why <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//04//01//tourist-taxes-all-of-the-countries-you-will-have-to-pay-to-enter-in-2022/">its tourism industry<\/strong><\/a> needs better water management strategies.<\/p>\n<p>The Catalan government will invest nearly \u20ac2.5 billion in the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) to manage water supplies and address future droughts. The plan, running from this year until 2027, will triple previous investments, expanding the number of water production plants from 24 to 40 and boosting production from Barcelona\u2019s Besos River.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6667235494880546\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//10//82//808x539_cmsv2_76c6f9a0-f118-5f41-a55b-9b4cc5de9fb0-8471082.jpg/" alt=\"A Barcelona city employee. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/384x256_cmsv2_76c6f9a0-f118-5f41-a55b-9b4cc5de9fb0-8471082.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/640x427_cmsv2_76c6f9a0-f118-5f41-a55b-9b4cc5de9fb0-8471082.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/750x500_cmsv2_76c6f9a0-f118-5f41-a55b-9b4cc5de9fb0-8471082.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/828x552_cmsv2_76c6f9a0-f118-5f41-a55b-9b4cc5de9fb0-8471082.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/1080x720_cmsv2_76c6f9a0-f118-5f41-a55b-9b4cc5de9fb0-8471082.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/1200x800_cmsv2_76c6f9a0-f118-5f41-a55b-9b4cc5de9fb0-8471082.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/10\/82\/1920x1280_cmsv2_76c6f9a0-f118-5f41-a55b-9b4cc5de9fb0-8471082.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Barcelona city employee. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Daniel Harper<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In 2024, a floating desalination plant will be installed off Barcelona\u2019s coast, producing 14 hm\u00b3 of water annually - 6 per cent of the metropolitan area\u2019s consumption - as well as the building of 12 mobile desalination units deployed along the northern Costa Brava, starting in June.<\/p>\n<p>These units, costing \u20ac10 million, will supply 1,000 m\u00b3 of water daily, covering 35 per cent of water consumption in over a dozen municipalities.<\/p>\n<p>Recent rain has meant <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//02//21//barcelona-venice-bali-how-hotspot-destinations-are-spending-millions-in-tourist-tax-revenu/">Barcelona has narrowly avoided effecting much change to its tourist sector, buying more time to prepare for the inevitable \u2018next time\u2019.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8447518,8443518\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//05//17//demand-for-sustainable-travel-is-booming-will-eurostar-add-new-routes/">Demand for sustainable travel is booming: Will Eurostar add new routes?<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//05//21//evasion-confusion-and-protests-how-effective-is-venices-new-entrance-fee/">Evasion, confusion and protests: How effective is Venice\u2019s new tourist tax? <\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//03//15//go-fcking-home-the-european-cities-where-locals-are-fighting-back-against-overtourism/">Mass tourism<\/strong><\/a> is not part of the city strategy we want. Companies are aware that the path is sustainability,\u201d Elvira Garcia tells Euronews Green.<\/p>\n<p>As increased heatwaves and more sparse rainfall affect much of Spain and the Mediterranean region, new methods will have to be implemented to ensure the short-term benefits of tourism on the region\u2019s economy and the long-term sustainability of water.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1717144155,"updatedAt":1717239084,"publishedAt":1717221606,"firstPublishedAt":1717168948,"lastPublishedAt":1717221606,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Joan Mateu, File","altText":"People sunbathe on the beach in Barcelona, Spain.","callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"caption":"People sunbathe on the beach in Barcelona, 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La D\u00e9fense Arena: Inside the Taylor Swift and Olympics venue striving to be sustainable","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"From Taylor Swift to Olympics host, how can Europe\u2019s largest indoor venue be sustainable?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Inside Europe\u2019s largest indoor arena as it seeks to clean up its act","titleListing2":"From Taylor Swift to Olympics host, how can Europe\u2019s largest indoor venue be sustainable?","leadin":"As audience expectations grow bigger and bigger, how can stadiums reign in their emissions?","summary":"As audience expectations grow bigger and bigger, how can stadiums reign in their emissions?","keySentence":"","url":"from-taylor-swift-to-olympics-host-how-can-europes-largest-indoor-venue-be-sustainable","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2024\/06\/01\/from-taylor-swift-to-olympics-host-how-can-europes-largest-indoor-venue-be-sustainable","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"As Taylor Swift takes to the stage at Paris La D\u00e9fense Arena, 45,000 people sparkle back - literally.\n\nWe\u2019ve each been handed a battery-powered plastic wristband that lights up in multi-coloured unison. In the blackout of the totally enclosed venue, it\u2019s a crowded galaxy.\n\nAs a fledgling Swiftie, I\u2019m immersed in the spectacle of it all. But I\u2019m also here to find out how this colossal arena - Europe\u2019s biggest indoor venue - operates, and whether it can possibly do so sustainably.\n\nFrom Taylor Swift to the Olympics: How does Paris La D\u00e9fense make the magic happen?\n\nParis La D\u00e9fense, named after the northwest business district where it stands in a giant U-shape, is a master of transformation.\n\nAs well as hosting megastars (kicking off with the Rolling Stones in 2017), the modular arena is home to the Racing 92 rugby union club and gets dirty for Supercross motorcycling events.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\nBy midnight on 5 May - minutes after the last show on the first leg of Swift\u2019s European Eras tour - it went into deconstruction mode.\u00a0\n\nWhen I return the next morning, the floor is far more sparsely populated with workmen, cranes and elongated lorries: an everyday sight that accentuates its cavernous scale.\n\nIt\u2019s mind-boggling to imagine, but a 50-metre swimming pool is being built here as the arena prepares for its next role as Olympic and Paralympic Games host this summer.\u00a0\n\nThe keys of France\u2019s only fully privately funded arena were handed over to Paris 2024 on 15 May and the Olympics team will spend the next five months inside, working 24\/7. The iconic rings are going up next week.\n\nHow is Paris La D\u00e9fense Arena getting greener?\n\nThe arena is aiming to reduce its energy consumption by 40 per cent and achieve an 80 per cent recycling rate by 2025.\n\nHigh-tech thermal and acoustic insulation helps limit its energy needs, by ensuring consistent temperatures of around 16-25C. Instead of conventional air conditioning, it relies on a cold water system that releases chilled water vapour to keep spectators cool.\n\nOn its massive roof, capable of handling 250 tonnes of weight, 34 solar panels are powering an adjoining brewery.\n\nThe building also collects rainwater - funnelling it into an 800-metre cubed storage tank under the car park. This is used to water the (currently covered) lawn, which despite being synthetic needs to be kept slick to reduce rugby player burns and injuries.\u00a0\n\nAs for waste management, Paris La D\u00e9fense Arena has had its own on-site waste sorting centre since May 2022, where it sifts through trash to ensure more is sent off for recycling. It has stopped Racing 92 and its rivals from using plastic water bottles.\n\nThe arena is about to get a lot wetter, of course. Two Olympic swimming pools are being built - the second behind a temporary curtain dividing the interior in half for athlete training purposes. As per the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regulations, the pools have to be 2.3 metres high (the bottom 20cm are used for underwater cameras) and it will take three days to fill them.\u00a0\n\nOnce the swimmers have thrashed it out, this water is set to be channelled into La D\u00e9fense district\u2019s heating network, the arena team says. By another feat of engineering, the pools will be divided into 25-metre units and moved to local community centres.\n\nHow sustainable is a Taylor Swift-sized show?\n\nTaylor Swift is gigantic. \u201cSometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby \/ And I\u2019m a monster on a hill,\u201d the billionaire sings in her self-portrait Anti-Hero. \u201cToo big to hang out \/ Slowly lurching toward your favourite city\u201d - or sometimes speeding in via private jet.\n\nEurope\u2019s largest indoor venue is a fitting space for the megastar and her legions of sexy babies. As is London\u2019s Wembley Stadium, and Berlin\u2019s Olympiastadium.\u00a0\n\nBut such huge events attract a lot of attention and criticism. Swift\u2019s UK Eras stint will use enough energy to power 194 UK homes for a year, according to utilities comparison site Love Energy Savings.\u00a0\n\nSo how can the desire of stars to create ever more spectacular shows align with the demands of the climate and ecological crises to make venues less resource-intensive?\n\n\u201cPart of the issue is that we have now raised the bar to such an extent that audiences expect levels of production that create a 'show' rather than a 'gig',\u201d says Lewis Jamieson, co-executive director at UK-based campaign group Music Declares Emergency.\n\nFrom a fan experience point of view, innovations in light and sound have led to what he calls an \u201carms race\u201d in production.\u00a0\n\nSince few of us would want to give up one of life\u2019s greatest pleasures - whether that\u2019s seeing Swift or another big artist - what\u2019s the solution?\n\nHow can big stadium shows be more sustainable?\n\n\u201cWithout wishing to pass the buck, many of the greatest challenges in live music are outside of the sector's control,\u201d adds Jamieson.\n\nTransport is the biggest one for the touring party, he says. HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) -powered lorries are a \u201cgreat first step,\u201d but these and future EV fleets need government support to incentivise tours away from more polluting forms of travel.\n\nArtists often get a bad rap for flying, though - as Jamieson points out - it's less impactful than audiences flying en masse to see their favourite performer if they don\u2019t travel to them.\u00a0\n\nA phenomenon of Swift\u2019s hyper fandom (and inflated US ticket prices) meant that a lot of US fans have in fact flown to Europe to see her. Paris La D\u00e9fense Arena estimates that Americans made up 20 per cent of her spectators last month.\u00a0\n\nBut around 80 per cent of people arrived at the Paris shows on the day via public transport, the arena calculated from its control room.\u00a0\n\nThe greatest challenge for the show itself remains audience travel, so, globally, \u201cconnecting venues to zero carbon transport is an obvious need here,\u201d says Jameison.\n\nRather than look to limit performers, the campaigner thinks venues should do what they can in-house: switching to renewable power; removing plastic and handling waste better; introducing ticketless systems; creating green spaces and increasing low carbon food options.\n\nLondon\u2019s O2 arena has ticked a lot of boxes; removing beef burgers after Billie Eilish\u2019s run and never returning them, for example, while achieving an impressive recycling rate.\n\nParis La D\u00e9fense Arena is getting a lot of things right too. And since music and culture\u2019s power lies in its ability to move people, communicating that with its audiences is key.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>As Taylor Swift takes to the stage at Paris La D\u00e9fense Arena, 45,000 people sparkle back - literally.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve each been handed a battery-powered plastic wristband that lights up in multi-coloured unison. In the blackout of the totally enclosed venue, it\u2019s a crowded galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>As a fledgling Swiftie, I\u2019m immersed in the spectacle of it all. But I\u2019m also here to find out how this colossal arena - Europe\u2019s biggest indoor venue - operates, and whether it can possibly do so sustainably.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//21//14//808x454_cmsv2_7b005ff8-c5dc-556a-9782-d0c3a9ca7d21-8472114.jpg/" alt=\"Paris La D\u00e9fense in Nanterre suburb.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_7b005ff8-c5dc-556a-9782-d0c3a9ca7d21-8472114.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_7b005ff8-c5dc-556a-9782-d0c3a9ca7d21-8472114.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_7b005ff8-c5dc-556a-9782-d0c3a9ca7d21-8472114.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_7b005ff8-c5dc-556a-9782-d0c3a9ca7d21-8472114.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_7b005ff8-c5dc-556a-9782-d0c3a9ca7d21-8472114.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_7b005ff8-c5dc-556a-9782-d0c3a9ca7d21-8472114.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_7b005ff8-c5dc-556a-9782-d0c3a9ca7d21-8472114.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Paris La D\u00e9fense in Nanterre suburb.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Paris La D\u00e9fense<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>From Taylor Swift to the Olympics: How does Paris La D\u00e9fense make the magic happen?<\/h2><p>Paris La D\u00e9fense, named after the northwest business district where it stands in a giant U-shape, is a master of transformation.<\/p>\n<p>As well as hosting megastars (kicking off with the Rolling Stones in 2017), the modular arena is home to the Racing 92 rugby union club and gets dirty for Supercross motorcycling events.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By midnight on 5 May - minutes after the last show on the first leg of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//02//07//taylor-swift-is-threatening-legal-action-against-a-student-tracking-her-private-jet/">Swift/u2019s European Eras tour - it went into deconstruction mode.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When I return the next morning, the floor is far more sparsely populated with workmen, cranes and elongated lorries: an everyday sight that accentuates its cavernous scale.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//21//14//808x608_cmsv2_e653f6de-1181-525a-af80-96a6529dbe44-8472114.jpg/" alt=\"The Paris La Defense arena worked overnight as soon as Taylor Swift left the building.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/384x288_cmsv2_e653f6de-1181-525a-af80-96a6529dbe44-8472114.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/640x480_cmsv2_e653f6de-1181-525a-af80-96a6529dbe44-8472114.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/750x563_cmsv2_e653f6de-1181-525a-af80-96a6529dbe44-8472114.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/828x621_cmsv2_e653f6de-1181-525a-af80-96a6529dbe44-8472114.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/1080x810_cmsv2_e653f6de-1181-525a-af80-96a6529dbe44-8472114.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/1200x900_cmsv2_e653f6de-1181-525a-af80-96a6529dbe44-8472114.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/1920x1440_cmsv2_e653f6de-1181-525a-af80-96a6529dbe44-8472114.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The Paris La Defense arena worked overnight as soon as Taylor Swift left the building.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews Green<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s mind-boggling to imagine, but a 50-metre swimming pool is being built here as the arena prepares for its next role as <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//03//21//paris-olympics-environmental-campaigners-question-claims-games-will-be-climate-positive/">Olympic and Paralympic Games host this summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The keys of France\u2019s only fully privately funded arena were handed over to Paris 2024 on 15 May and the Olympics team will spend the next five months inside, working 24\/7. The iconic rings are going up next week.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8327834\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//25//what-is-the-taylor-swift-effect-and-how-is-it-changing-the-way-brazil-copes-with-heatwaves/">What is the \u2018Taylor Swift effect\u2019 and how is it changing the way Brazil copes with heatwaves?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>How is Paris La D\u00e9fense Arena getting greener?<\/h2><p>The arena is aiming to reduce its energy consumption by 40 per cent and achieve an 80 per cent recycling rate by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>High-tech thermal and acoustic insulation helps limit its energy needs, by ensuring consistent temperatures of around 16-25C. Instead of conventional air conditioning, it relies on a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//07//28//paris-eco-friendly-underground-cooling-system-to-become-the-largest-in-the-world/">cold water system<\/strong><\/a> that releases chilled water vapour to keep spectators cool.<\/p>\n<p>On its massive roof, capable of handling 250 tonnes of weight, 34 solar panels are powering an adjoining brewery.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//21//14//808x608_cmsv2_f03cc5db-8829-5f33-9e61-2d1fbeff6dc7-8472114.jpg/" alt=\"Part of the cold water system used to keep the arena cool.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/384x288_cmsv2_f03cc5db-8829-5f33-9e61-2d1fbeff6dc7-8472114.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/640x480_cmsv2_f03cc5db-8829-5f33-9e61-2d1fbeff6dc7-8472114.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/750x563_cmsv2_f03cc5db-8829-5f33-9e61-2d1fbeff6dc7-8472114.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/828x621_cmsv2_f03cc5db-8829-5f33-9e61-2d1fbeff6dc7-8472114.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/1080x810_cmsv2_f03cc5db-8829-5f33-9e61-2d1fbeff6dc7-8472114.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/1200x900_cmsv2_f03cc5db-8829-5f33-9e61-2d1fbeff6dc7-8472114.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/1920x1440_cmsv2_f03cc5db-8829-5f33-9e61-2d1fbeff6dc7-8472114.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Part of the cold water system used to keep the arena cool.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews Green<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The building also collects rainwater - funnelling it into an 800-metre cubed storage tank under the car park. This is used to water the (currently covered) lawn, which despite being synthetic needs to be kept slick to reduce rugby player burns and injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As for waste management, Paris La D\u00e9fense Arena has had its own on-site waste sorting centre since May 2022, where it sifts through trash to ensure more is sent off for recycling. It has stopped Racing 92 and its rivals from using plastic water bottles.<\/p>\n<p>The arena is about to get a lot wetter, of course. Two Olympic <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//10//10//a-great-experience-french-swimmers-praise-mandatory-wetsuit-rule-as-swimming-pool-cuts-hea/">swimming pools<\/strong><\/a> are being built - the second behind a temporary curtain dividing the interior in half for athlete training purposes. As per the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regulations, the pools have to be 2.3 metres high (the bottom 20cm are used for underwater cameras) and it will take three days to fill them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Once the swimmers have thrashed it out, this water is set to be channelled into La D\u00e9fense district\u2019s heating network, the arena team says. By another feat of engineering, the pools will be divided into 25-metre units and moved to local community centres.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7075828\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//10//03//green-galatasaray-turkish-football-giant-saves-almost-400000-from-its-solar-roof/">Green Galatasaray: Turkish football giant saves almost \u20ac400,000 from its solar roof <\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>How sustainable is a Taylor Swift-sized show?<\/h2><p>Taylor Swift is gigantic. \u201cSometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby \/ And I\u2019m a monster on a hill,\u201d the billionaire sings in her self-portrait Anti-Hero. \u201cToo big to hang out \/ Slowly lurching toward your favourite city\u201d - or sometimes speeding in via <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//02//03//taylor-swift-isnt-the-only-private-jet-flier-does-celebrity-carbon-offsetting-work/">private jet<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s largest indoor venue is a fitting space for the megastar and her legions of sexy babies. As is London\u2019s Wembley Stadium, and Berlin\u2019s Olympiastadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But such huge events attract a lot of attention and criticism. Swift\u2019s UK Eras stint will use enough energy to power 194 UK homes for a year, according to utilities comparison site Love Energy Savings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-ease-in-up widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//21//14//808x454_cmsv2_29aabd65-530a-5428-835a-aabf912620d7-8472114.jpg/" alt=\"From Racing 92 games to music shows, Paris La Defense Arena is quick to transform.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_29aabd65-530a-5428-835a-aabf912620d7-8472114.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_29aabd65-530a-5428-835a-aabf912620d7-8472114.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_29aabd65-530a-5428-835a-aabf912620d7-8472114.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_29aabd65-530a-5428-835a-aabf912620d7-8472114.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_29aabd65-530a-5428-835a-aabf912620d7-8472114.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_29aabd65-530a-5428-835a-aabf912620d7-8472114.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/21\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_29aabd65-530a-5428-835a-aabf912620d7-8472114.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">From Racing 92 games to music shows, Paris La Defense Arena is quick to transform.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Paris La Defense<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>So how can the desire of stars to create ever more spectacular shows align with the demands of the climate and ecological crises to make venues less resource-intensive?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of the issue is that we have now raised the bar to such an extent that audiences expect levels of production that create a 'show' rather than a 'gig',\u201d says Lewis Jamieson, co-executive director at UK-based campaign group Music Declares Emergency.<\/p>\n<p>From a fan experience point of view, innovations in light and sound have led to what he calls an \u201carms race\u201d in production.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since few of us would want to give up one of life\u2019s greatest pleasures - whether that\u2019s seeing Swift or another big artist - what\u2019s the solution?<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7461278\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//03//21//paris-olympics-environmental-campaigners-question-claims-games-will-be-climate-positive/">Paris Olympics 2024: Athletes to be kept cool without air conditioning in sustainability drive<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>How can big stadium shows be more sustainable?<\/h2><p>\u201cWithout wishing to pass the buck, many of the greatest challenges in live music are outside of the sector's control,\u201d adds Jamieson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//20//problem-child-transport-on-track-to-produce-nearly-half-of-europes-emissions-by-2030/">Transport is the biggest one for the touring party, he says. HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) -powered lorries are a \u201cgreat first step,\u201d but these and future EV fleets need government support to incentivise tours away from more polluting forms of travel.<\/p>\n<p>Artists often get a bad rap for flying, though - as Jamieson points out - it's less impactful than audiences flying en masse to see their favourite performer if they don\u2019t travel to them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A phenomenon of Swift\u2019s hyper fandom (and inflated US ticket prices) meant that a lot of US fans have in fact flown to Europe to see her. Paris La D\u00e9fense Arena estimates that Americans made up 20 per cent of her spectators last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But around 80 per cent of people arrived at the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//12//09//paris-starts-work-to-transform-busy-roundabout-into-citys-first-urban-forest/">Paris shows on the day via public transport, the arena calculated from its control room.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The greatest challenge for the show itself remains audience travel, so, globally, \u201cconnecting venues to zero carbon transport is an obvious need here,\u201d says Jameison.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than look to limit performers, the campaigner thinks venues should do what they can in-house: switching to renewable power; removing plastic and handling waste better; introducing ticketless systems; creating green spaces and increasing low carbon food options.<\/p>\n<p>London\u2019s O2 arena has ticked a lot of boxes; removing beef burgers after <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//06//11//it-s-not-all-on-you-billie-eilish-appeals-to-gen-z-at-her-first-ever-climate-event/">Billie Eilish<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s run and never returning them, for example, while achieving an impressive recycling rate.<\/p>\n<p>Paris La D\u00e9fense Arena is getting a lot of things right too. 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I think so. Otherwise, it's not about a just peace, as they can stay just on their territory and through the border line just attack us and kill, like it is now going on,\" he said.\n\nHis comments come a day after two anonymous US officials indicated that the Biden administration was prepared to let Ukraine use American weaponry to strike inside Russia but only in the defence of the northern region of Kharkiv.\n\nThe officials pointed out, however, that White House policy that US arms should not be used to target Russia remained unchanged.\n\nSpeaking in Prague, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the \"stakes couldn't be higher\" for Ukraine.\n\n\"We know that if Russian aggression is allowed to proceed in Ukraine with impunity it will not stop with Ukraine. And other would-be aggressors in other parts of the world will take note and consider pursuing their own aggressions,\" he said. \u00a0\n\nThat modest shift in position in Washington was echoed on Friday by Germany, Ukraine's second-largest supplier of weaponry after the United States.\n\nSpeaking to the press in Berlin, the government's vice spokesman Wolfgang B\u00fcchner said Ukraine could now use German-supplied weapons to hit Russia but only in the defence of Kharkiv.\n\n\"We have agreed with Ukraine that the weapons we supply will be used in accordance with international law. Together with our closest allies and in close dialogue with the Ukrainian government, we are continuously adapting our support to the development of the war,\" he said.\n\n\"In recent weeks, Russia has prepared, coordinated and carried out attacks from positions in the Kharkiv area in particular from the directly adjacent Russian border region. Together, we are convinced that Ukraine has the right under international law to defend itself against these attacks.\"\n\nAnd calls for Ukraine to be permitted to strike Russian territory were also heard at a NATO Informal Summit in Prague.\n\nMinisters there were discussing the future and security of the military alliance and how it could contribute to Ukraine's defence until such time as it receives credible security guarantees.\n\n\"NATO must take a longer term approach to Ukraine security as well. Ukraine cannot fight against Russia with one hand tied behind its back. Ukraine must be able to fight against Russia barbaric invasion, even on Russian territory. I'm convinced that only long term guarantees against Russian imperialism is NATO membership,\" said Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsk\u00fd.\n\nMeanwhile, earlier on Friday, Ukraine and Russia carried out a prisoner-of-war exchange, their first in four months.\n\n150 service personnel - 75 from each side - were exchanged in the Ukrainian border region of Sumy in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates.\n\nEarlier in the day, at the same location, the two sides also swapped the bodies of fallen soldiers, with Ukraine returning 212 bodies and Russia 45.\n\nThe warring sides only meet when they swap their dead and POWs, which requires considerable preparation and diplomacy.\n\nVitalii Matviienko, an official at the Ukrainian POWs offices, said there were days when the exchanges didn't happen because Russia would cancel at the last minute.\n\n\"It is quite difficult to negotiate and talk with the Russian side,\" he said.\n\nThe two sides have traded blame for what they say is a slowdown in the swaps.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said it is only a matter of time before western allies allow his forces to strike targets inside Russia with weapons they have provided.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy was speaking at the Nordic Summit in Stockholm and complained to delegates that Russia had a tactical advantage, saying \"the way they attack and we can't\u2026this is not normal,\" referring to Russian strikes on Ukrainian territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"I think that using any weapon, western kind of weapon, on the territory of Russia is a question of time. I think so. Otherwise, it's not about a just peace, as they can stay just on their territory and through the border line just attack us and kill, like it is now going on,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come a day after two anonymous US officials indicated that the Biden administration was prepared to let Ukraine use American weaponry to strike inside Russia but only in the defence of the northern region of Kharkiv.<\/p>\n<p>The officials pointed out, however, that White House policy that US arms should not be used to target Russia remained unchanged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-large widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1796628936127910194\"><\/div>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on his country's defence capabilities<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Speaking in Prague, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the \"stakes couldn't be higher\" for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\"We know that if Russian aggression is allowed to proceed in Ukraine with impunity it will not stop with Ukraine. And other would-be aggressors in other parts of the world will take note and consider pursuing their own aggressions,\" he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That modest shift in position in Washington was echoed on Friday by Germany, Ukraine's second-largest supplier of weaponry after the United States.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//27//26//808x539_cmsv2_0454544e-4815-563d-bf35-ad9b05139048-8472726.jpg/" alt=\"Police officers cover a dead body after the Russian missile attack hit an apartment building in Kharkiv, May, 31, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/27\/26\/384x256_cmsv2_0454544e-4815-563d-bf35-ad9b05139048-8472726.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/27\/26\/640x427_cmsv2_0454544e-4815-563d-bf35-ad9b05139048-8472726.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/27\/26\/750x500_cmsv2_0454544e-4815-563d-bf35-ad9b05139048-8472726.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/27\/26\/828x552_cmsv2_0454544e-4815-563d-bf35-ad9b05139048-8472726.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/27\/26\/1080x720_cmsv2_0454544e-4815-563d-bf35-ad9b05139048-8472726.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/27\/26\/1200x800_cmsv2_0454544e-4815-563d-bf35-ad9b05139048-8472726.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/27\/26\/1920x1280_cmsv2_0454544e-4815-563d-bf35-ad9b05139048-8472726.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Police officers cover a dead body after the Russian missile attack hit an apartment building in Kharkiv, May, 31, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Andrii Marienko\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the press in Berlin, the government's vice spokesman Wolfgang B\u00fcchner said Ukraine could now use German-supplied weapons to hit Russia but only in the defence of Kharkiv.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have agreed with Ukraine that the weapons we supply will be used in accordance with international law. Together with our closest allies and in close dialogue with the Ukrainian government, we are continuously adapting our support to the development of the war,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>\"In recent weeks, Russia has prepared, coordinated and carried out attacks from positions in the Kharkiv area in particular from the directly adjacent Russian border region. Together, we are convinced that Ukraine has the right under international law to defend itself against these attacks.\"<\/p>\n<p>And calls for Ukraine to be permitted to strike Russian territory were also heard at a NATO Informal Summit in Prague.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-large widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1796507422808498198\"><\/div>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The Czech Defence Minister Jan Lipavsk\u00fd posts on X about the NATO Informal Summit <\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ministers there were discussing the future and security of the military alliance and how it could contribute to Ukraine's defence until such time as it receives credible security guarantees.<\/p>\n<p>\"NATO must take a longer term approach to Ukraine security as well. Ukraine cannot fight against Russia with one hand tied behind its back. Ukraine must be able to fight against Russia barbaric invasion, even on Russian territory. I'm convinced that only long term guarantees against Russian imperialism is NATO membership,\" said Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsk\u00fd.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, earlier on Friday, Ukraine and Russia carried out a prisoner-of-war exchange, their first in four months.<\/p>\n<p>150 service personnel - 75 from each side - were exchanged in the Ukrainian border region of Sumy in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, at the same location, the two sides also swapped the bodies of fallen soldiers, with Ukraine returning 212 bodies and Russia 45.<\/p>\n<p>The warring sides only meet when they swap their dead and POWs, which requires considerable preparation and diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>Vitalii Matviienko, an official at the Ukrainian POWs offices, said there were days when the exchanges didn't happen because Russia would cancel at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is quite difficult to negotiate and talk with the Russian side,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides have 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KHARKIV NIGHT STRIKE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"WATCH: Russian strikes kill four, wound 23 in Kharkiv","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"WATCH: Russian strikes kill four, wound 23 in Kharkiv","titleListing2":"Early Friday, Russian strikes on Kharkiv killed four and wounded twenty-three, including children, an ambulance medic, and a police officer. ","leadin":"Early Friday, Russian strikes on Kharkiv killed four and wounded twenty-three, including children, an ambulance medic, and a police officer.","summary":"Early Friday, Russian strikes on Kharkiv killed four and wounded twenty-three, including children, an ambulance medic, and a police officer.","keySentence":"","url":"watch-russian-strikes-kill-four-wound-23-in-kharkiv","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/05\/31\/watch-russian-strikes-kill-four-wound-23-in-kharkiv","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The State Emergency Service reported extensive damage to residential buildings and infrastructure. One strike hit a five-story building, collapsing its upper levels. \n\nThe Russians used \"double strikes,\" targeting areas again after emergency services arrived. Six missiles were fired, causing significant destruction. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov and Governor Syniehubov confirmed the details, with rescue operations continuing throughout Friday. The death toll is expected to rise.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The State Emergency Service reported extensive damage to residential buildings and infrastructure. One strike hit a five-story building, collapsing its upper levels. <\/p>\n<p>The Russians used \"double strikes,\" targeting areas again after emergency services arrived. Six missiles were fired, causing significant destruction. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov and Governor Syniehubov confirmed the details, with rescue operations continuing throughout Friday. The death toll is expected to rise.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1717171303,"updatedAt":1717176965,"publishedAt":1717176591,"firstPublishedAt":1717176597,"lastPublishedAt":1717176591,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/22\/42\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_524a81db-de74-5940-8b12-845d25042edf-8472242.jpg","altText":"Residents outside their apartment building destroyed by Russian strike","caption":"Residents outside their apartment building destroyed by Russian strike","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Andrii Marienko\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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OF THE UNION","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"State of the Union: EU struggles for the right Middle East policy","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"State of the Union: EU struggles for the right Middle East policy","titleListing2":"State of the Union: EU struggles for the right Middle East policy","leadin":"The crisis in the Middle East, the Franco-German vision for the next mandate and the upcoming EU elections were among the key topics discussed around Brussels this week.","summary":"The crisis in the Middle East, the Franco-German vision for the next mandate and the upcoming EU elections were among the key topics discussed around Brussels this week.","keySentence":"","url":"state-of-the-union-eu-struggles-for-the-right-middle-east-policy","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/05\/31\/state-of-the-union-eu-struggles-for-the-right-middle-east-policy","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"In this edition of State of the Union we focus on the EU's efforts to find diplomatic solutions for the Middle East crisis, Emmanuel Macron's visit to Germany, and how the European elections might change EU foreign policy in the future.\n\nHow to reign in the warring parties in the conflict between Israel and Hamas was, once again, on top of the EU diplomatic agenda this week.\n\nOne proposal was to revive a European border assistance mission at the Egypt-Gaza border, a second was a joint conference on how to implement a two-state solution. Another one was to review the EU-Israel Association Agreement which regulates trade between the two sides.\n\nMeanwhile, despite decisions by two international courts, the violence continued.\n\nIsrael\u2019s Prime Minister Netanyahu criticised as the decisions as \u201cnew antisemitism\u201d \u2013 which prompted a sharp rebuke by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.\n\n\u201cThe prosecutor of the court has been strongly intimidated and accused of antisemitism, as always when everybody, everyone does something that the Netanyahu government doesn\u2019t like,\" Borrell said.\n\n\"I think that the accusation of antisemitism against the prosecutor, the International Criminal Court, is completely not acceptable,\" he added.\n\nThe Franco-German engine\n\nAnother top story this week was Emmanuel Macron\u2019s trip to Germany, the first state visit of a French president in 24 years.\n\nMacron met ordinary people, posed for pictures and exchanged football jerseys with the German president - as if we needed a reminder that the Euro 2024 kicks off in two weeks \u2013 in Germany!\n\nMacron's political messages were strongly pro-European, pro French-German and anti-authoritarian - with Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n clearly in mind:\n\n\u201cLet\u2019s look around us at this fascination for authoritarian regimes. Look at Europe and the illiberal moment we\u2019re going through. Some say \u2013 including just a few kilometres away \u2013 in fact, let\u2019s take Europe\u2019s money, but never mind about the independence of judges. Let\u2019s take Europe\u2019s money but forget about freedom of the press. Let\u2019s take Europe\u2019s money but forget about cultural diversity.\u201d\n\nWhether Macron\u2019s strong words will have an impact on the European elections next week remains to be seen.\n\nPolls suggest that Europe will tilt to the far right. Could this affect the EU foreign policy and diplomacy?\n\nA geopolitical Europe\n\nWe wanted to know from Sven Biscop, political scientist at Ghent University and director of the Europe in the World programme at the Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels. \n\nEuronews: You\u2019re out with a new book on EU foreign policy called \u201cThis is not a new world order \u2013 Europe rediscovers geopolitics, from Ukraine to Taiwan\u201d. Tell us what exactly Europe has discovered?\n\nBiscop: I think for a long time Europe forgot about geopolitics. And then suddenly, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we realised it's actually quite important to know where are the resources that I need to import or my export markets, where are my friends, where are my enemies? Where are all the lines that connect them because that creates specific vulnerabilities? So, it's really key to know them. But maybe now we're overdoing it a little bit.\n\nEuronews: Based on this, what role does Europe want to play going forward? In 2019, Ursula von der Leyen spoke about a geopolitical Union.\n\nBiscop: That's my point. It's really important that we know what our geopolitical situation is. But geopolitics is not strategy. You then still have to choose how do you deal with these geopolitical problems, you are trying to solve them by going to war and you try to solve them by offering an association agreement. So my feeling is the EU lost the narrative a little bit. We say we want to be geopolitical, apparently meaning we want to be more assertive, I fully agree. But assertive for what purpose?\n\nEuronews: Governments come and go, but interests of countries never change \u2013 how about the EU, did its interests change over the past five years?\n\nBiscop: I don't think so. And one of our main interests that we should not forget is to keep the world together. With that I mean avoid that the world falls apart again in two rival blocs that decouple from each other, because that would be an economic disaster for Europe in the first place. And I think it's important that we remember that if we can avoid it, we try to keep the world together. And it's definitely not in our interest to launch a new, global confrontation or a new global Cold War.\n\nEuronews: In just a few days, Europeans will head to the polls again. To what extent will the outcome of the election change the EU\u2019s foreign policy position?\n\nBiscop: Very crucial is the composition of the European Parliament, because without a parliament you cannot make treaties. For example, China managed to antagonise the European Parliament entirely by sanctioning members of parliament. What would be the view of the new parliament on China? And will China be clever and say, well, those sanctions were against the previous parliament. We have a new parliament now, so we drop them. That would be my advice. If China is serious about revamping the relationship.\n\n'Behold the Man'\n\nBefore we go, here\u2019s a spectacular story from the art world.\n\nAt Madrid\u2019s Prado Museum, a restored masterpiece by Italian Renaissance artist Caravaggio went on display to the public for the first time this week.\n\n\u201cEcce Homo\u201d, Latin for \u201cBehold the Man\u201d, was thought to be lost, until it resurfaced at an auction three years ago.\n\nThe priceless painting was mistakenly attributed to an unknown artist and almost sold for \u20ac1,500 but the Spanish government blocked the auction at the last minute on concerns it was actually a Caravaggio.\n\nThe dark, atmospheric canvas depicts a blood-stained Jesus wearing a crown of thorns, his hands tied, just before his crucifixion.\n\nThe painting was originally part of the private collection of the Spanish kings, then traded hands a lot - only to disappear from sight for almost two hundred years.\n\nThe new owner, whose identity was not revealed, was generous enough to lend it to the Prado for nine months \u2013 after reportedly buying \"Ecce Homo\" for \u20ac36 million.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>In this edition of State of the Union we focus on the EU's efforts to find diplomatic solutions for the Middle East crisis, Emmanuel Macron's visit to Germany, and how the European elections might change EU foreign policy in the future.<\/p>\n<p>How to reign in the warring parties in the conflict between Israel and Hamas was, once again, on top of the EU diplomatic agenda this week.<\/p>\n<p>One proposal was to revive a European border assistance mission at the Egypt-Gaza border, a second was a joint conference on how to implement a two-state solution. Another one was to review the EU-Israel Association Agreement which regulates trade between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, despite decisions by two international courts, the violence continued.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Netanyahu criticised as the decisions as \u201cnew antisemitism\u201d \u2013 which prompted a sharp rebuke by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prosecutor of the court has been strongly intimidated and accused of antisemitism, as always when everybody, everyone does something that the Netanyahu government doesn\u2019t like,\" Borrell said.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think that the accusation of antisemitism against the prosecutor, the International Criminal Court, is completely not acceptable,\" he added.<\/p>\n<h2>The Franco-German engine<\/h2><p>Another top story this week was Emmanuel Macron\u2019s trip to Germany, the first state visit of a French president in 24 years.<\/p>\n<p>Macron met ordinary people, posed for pictures and exchanged football jerseys with the German president - as if we needed a reminder that the Euro 2024 kicks off in two weeks \u2013 in Germany!<\/p>\n<p>Macron's political messages were strongly pro-European, pro French-German and anti-authoritarian - with Hungary\u2019s Viktor Orb\u00e1n clearly in mind:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s look around us at this fascination for authoritarian regimes. Look at Europe and the illiberal moment we\u2019re going through. Some say \u2013 including just a few kilometres away \u2013 in fact, let\u2019s take Europe\u2019s money, but never mind about the independence of judges. Let\u2019s take Europe\u2019s money but forget about freedom of the press. Let\u2019s take Europe\u2019s money but forget about cultural diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether Macron\u2019s strong words will have an impact on the European elections next week remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>Polls suggest that Europe will tilt to the far right. Could this affect the EU foreign policy and diplomacy?<\/p>\n<h2>A geopolitical Europe<\/h2><p>We wanted to know from Sven Biscop, political scientist at Ghent University and director of the Europe in the World programme at the Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels. <\/p>\n<p>Euronews: You\u2019re out with a new book on EU foreign policy called \u201cThis is not a new world order \u2013 Europe rediscovers geopolitics, from Ukraine to Taiwan\u201d. Tell us what exactly Europe has discovered?<\/p>\n<p>Biscop: I think for a long time Europe forgot about geopolitics. And then suddenly, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we realised it's actually quite important to know where are the resources that I need to import or my export markets, where are my friends, where are my enemies? Where are all the lines that connect them because that creates specific vulnerabilities? So, it's really key to know them. But maybe now we're overdoing it a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Euronews: Based on this, what role does Europe want to play going forward? In 2019, Ursula von der Leyen spoke about a geopolitical Union.<\/p>\n<p>Biscop: That's my point. It's really important that we know what our geopolitical situation is. But geopolitics is not strategy. You then still have to choose how do you deal with these geopolitical problems, you are trying to solve them by going to war and you try to solve them by offering an association agreement. So my feeling is the EU lost the narrative a little bit. We say we want to be geopolitical, apparently meaning we want to be more assertive, I fully agree. But assertive for what purpose?<\/p>\n<p>Euronews: Governments come and go, but interests of countries never change \u2013 how about the EU, did its interests change over the past five years?<\/p>\n<p>Biscop: I don't think so. And one of our main interests that we should not forget is to keep the world together. With that I mean avoid that the world falls apart again in two rival blocs that decouple from each other, because that would be an economic disaster for Europe in the first place. And I think it's important that we remember that if we can avoid it, we try to keep the world together. And it's definitely not in our interest to launch a new, global confrontation or a new global Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>Euronews: In just a few days, Europeans will head to the polls again. To what extent will the outcome of the election change the EU\u2019s foreign policy position?<\/p>\n<p>Biscop: Very crucial is the composition of the European Parliament, because without a parliament you cannot make treaties. For example, China managed to antagonise the European Parliament entirely by sanctioning members of parliament. What would be the view of the new parliament on China? And will China be clever and say, well, those sanctions were against the previous parliament. We have a new parliament now, so we drop them. That would be my advice. If China is serious about revamping the relationship.<\/p>\n<h2>'Behold the Man'<\/h2><p>Before we go, here\u2019s a spectacular story from the art world.<\/p>\n<p>At Madrid\u2019s Prado Museum, a restored masterpiece by Italian Renaissance artist Caravaggio went on display to the public for the first time this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEcce Homo\u201d, Latin for \u201cBehold the Man\u201d, was thought to be lost, until it resurfaced at an auction three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The priceless painting was mistakenly attributed to an unknown artist and almost sold for \u20ac1,500 but the Spanish government blocked the auction at the last minute on concerns it was actually a Caravaggio.<\/p>\n<p>The dark, atmospheric canvas depicts a blood-stained Jesus wearing a crown of thorns, his hands tied, just before his crucifixion.<\/p>\n<p>The painting was originally part of the private collection of the Spanish kings, then traded hands a lot - only to disappear from sight for almost two hundred years.<\/p>\n<p>The new owner, whose identity was not revealed, was generous enough to lend it to the Prado for nine months \u2013 after reportedly buying \"Ecce Homo\" for \u20ac36 million.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1717143416,"updatedAt":1717175551,"publishedAt":1717174847,"firstPublishedAt":1717158718,"lastPublishedAt":1717174847,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/09\/68\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e70eb018-c980-5a3f-aebc-1569ad20d36c-8470968.jpg","altText":"European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 27, 2024.","caption":"European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrives for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 27, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Virginia Mayo\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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Taoiseach (prime minister) Simon Harris explained his government's thinking in this historic step. \n\n\"Quite frankly, because we must keep the hope, the dream and the destination of a two- state solution alive at a time when, sadly, others are working to undermine that. We believe, and Ireland has believed for many, many years, that the way you bring peace and stability to the Middle East is the recognition of a two-state solution. \n\n\"It's very hard to bring about a two-state solution if you don't recognise the existence of two states. Ireland would have much preferred to have this as part of a peace process. Indeed, that was what our programme for government had originally intended to do. But we can't wait forever and it's an awful long time - many decades since the Oslo Accords. \n\n\"Now, more than ever, we need to speak up and speak out about the importance of a two-state solution, because that is ultimately what provides the people of Israel, the people of Palestine and the broader region with the stability of the peace that both Israelis and Palestinians deserve. We've worked extensively with European counterparts. We've obviously moved in lockstep with Norway and with Spain. And I also expect in the coming weeks other European countries to also recognise Palestine.\"\n\nRallying support for two-state solution\n\nHarris feels recognition is critical at this stage as other interests, including Israel's leadership, are actively working to undermine progress towards a two-state solution. \n\n\"I don't think the Netanyahu government is in any way, shape or form committed to the delivery of a two-state solution. We've heard much rhetoric and commentary, in relation to that. The two-state solution has had been, I think, the widespread consensus that emerged over many, many years about the need for a two state solution. \n\n\"I think in recent weeks, in recent months, we have seen very many efforts to kill off that hope. But also we do need to, we make the decision to recognise Palestine on the merits of the decision. But I'm also particularly conscious that we make it at a time when there's an incredible, unconscionable humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in real time in Gaza, a scale of humanitarian catastrophe that I don't think yet, we even comprehend.\" \n\n\"Therefore it is so important that we empower moderate voices, both in Palestine and both in Israel, because there's a lot of rhetoric, there's a lot of intentional misrepresentation of what Ireland and others do in recognising Palestine. It's not about Hamas. We abhor Hamas. They're a terrorist organisation. They offer nothing to the Palestinian people in terms of a future. They are a danger and a threat to Israelis and to the Palestinian people. What happened on the 7th of October was a despicable, disgusting terrorist massacre. All hostages should be released unconditionally.\" \n\nFending off the far-right\n\nAside from the Palestine issue, Harris is fully focused on June's European elections in which polls indicate big gains for far-right parties across Europe. His Fine Gael party is part of the EU parliament's largest grouping, the centre-right European People's Party. How concerned is he about losing voters to the far-right? \n\n\"Firstly, let's see if they are, which is the first point I think is worth considering. You know, opinion polls come and go, but actually opinion polls here in Ireland at the moment, in terms of the European elections suggest that the centre may actually hold much better than expected. But let's see, we have a way to go and campaigns matter and elections matter. I do think more broadly, we're living through extraordinarily difficult times. The level of challenge that is being faced both externally in terms of Ukraine, in terms of the Middle East, in terms of the migration crisis, the inflationary crisis. I also think, though centrist politicians, including myself, must challenge ourselves to do better. The way you address the climate emergency isn't lecturing people, it's bringing people with you. The way you address the climate emergency isn't saying it's a choice between farmers or the planet. You have to be able to do both.\n\nClick on the video to watch the interview in full. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>The decision by Ireland, Spain and Norway <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//05//22//ireland-and-spain-poised-to-recognise-palestinian-state/">to recognise Palestine as a state<\/strong><\/a> outraged Israel but also put pressure on other European allies to take the same course. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.theguardian.com//world//2024//apr//09//simon-harris-pledges-new-energy-after-becoming-ireland-youngest-taoiseach/">Taoiseach (prime minister) Simon Harris<\/strong><\/a> explained his government's thinking in this historic step. <\/p>\n<p>\"Quite frankly, because we must keep the hope, the dream and the destination of a two- state solution alive at a time when, sadly, others are working to undermine that. We believe, and Ireland has believed for many, many years, that the way you bring peace and stability to the Middle East is the recognition of a two-state solution. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">"Now, more than ever, we need to speak up and speak out about the importance of a two-state solution<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Simon Harris\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Irish Prime Minister\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"It's very hard to bring about <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.reuters.com//world//middle-east//what-is-two-state-solution-israel-palestinian-conflict-2024-01-25///">a two-state solution<\/strong><\/a> if you don't recognise the existence of two states. Ireland would have much preferred to have this as part of a peace process. Indeed, that was what our programme for government had originally intended to do. But we can't wait forever and it's an awful long time - many decades since <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////foreignpolicy.com//2023//09//13//oslo-accords-1993-anniversary-israel-palestine-peace-process-lessons///">the Oslo Accords.<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\"Now, more than ever, we need to speak up and speak out about the importance of a two-state solution, because that is ultimately what provides the people of Israel, the people of Palestine and the broader region with the stability of the peace that both Israelis and Palestinians deserve. We've worked extensively with European counterparts. We've obviously moved <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////apnews.com//article//eu-palestinian-state-spain-israel-gaza-6efe351e53761befc2c539c535bbcc0c/">in lockstep with Norway and with Spain<\/strong><\/a>. And I also expect in the coming weeks other European countries to also recognise Palestine.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Rallying support for two-state solution<\/h2><p>Harris feels recognition is critical at this stage as other interests, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.timesofisrael.com//netanyahu-boasts-of-thwarting-the-establishment-of-a-palestinian-state-for-decades///">including Israel's leadership<\/strong><\/a>, are actively working to undermine progress towards a two-state solution. <\/p>\n<p>\"I don't think the Netanyahu government is in any way, shape or form committed to the delivery of a two-state solution. We've heard much rhetoric and commentary, in relation to that. The two-state solution has had been, I think, the widespread consensus that emerged over many, many years about the need for a two state solution. <\/p>\n<p>\"I think in recent weeks, in recent months, we have seen very many efforts to kill off that hope. But also we do need to, we make the decision to recognise Palestine on the merits of the decision. But I'm also particularly conscious that we make it at a time when there's an incredible, unconscionable <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.ohchr.org//en//stories//2024//01//gaza-massive-human-rights-crisis-and-humanitarian-disaster/">humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in real time in Gaza<\/strong><\/a>, a scale of humanitarian catastrophe that I don't think yet, we even comprehend.\" <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">It's not about Hamas. We abhor Hamas. They're a terrorist organisation. They offer nothing to the Palestinian people in terms of a future. <\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Simon Harris\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Irish Prime Minister\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"Therefore it is so important that we empower moderate voices, both in Palestine and both in Israel, because there's a lot of rhetoric, there's a lot of intentional misrepresentation of what Ireland and others do in recognising Palestine. It's not about Hamas. We abhor Hamas. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.consilium.europa.eu//en//policies//fight-against-terrorism//sanctions-against-terrorism///">They're a terrorist organisation.<\/strong><\/a> They offer nothing to the Palestinian people in terms of a future. They are a danger and a threat to Israelis and to the Palestinian people. What happened on the 7th of October was a despicable, disgusting terrorist massacre. All hostages should be released unconditionally.\" <\/p>\n<h2>Fending off the far-right<\/h2><p>Aside from the Palestine issue, Harris is fully focused on June's European elections in which <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.politico.eu//article//far-right-meps-european-peoples-party-eu-election-eu-parliament///">polls indicate big gains for far-right parties across Europe<\/strong><\/a>. His Fine Gael party is part of the EU parliament's largest grouping, the centre-right European People's Party. How concerned is he about losing voters to the far-right? <\/p>\n<p>\"Firstly, let's see if they are, which is the first point I think is worth considering. You know, opinion polls come and go, but actually <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.thejournal.ie//who-will-irish-people-vote-for-in-european-election-june-2024-6374791-May2024///">opinion polls here in Ireland<\/strong><\/a> at the moment, in terms of the European elections suggest that the centre may actually hold much better than expected. But let's see, we have a way to go and campaigns matter and elections matter. I do think more broadly, we're living through extraordinarily difficult times. The level of challenge that is being faced both externally in terms of Ukraine, in terms of the Middle East, in terms of the migration crisis, the inflationary crisis. I also think, though centrist politicians, including myself, must challenge ourselves to do better. The way you address <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////climate.copernicus.eu//europe-experiences-widespread-flooding-and-severe-heatwaves-2023/">the climate emergency<\/strong><\/a> isn't lecturing people, it's bringing people with you. The way you address the climate emergency isn't saying it's a choice between farmers or the planet. 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The city will also only use LEDs for public lighting.\u00a0\n\nUsing cemeteries to produce renewable energy\n\nCemeteries are ideal candidates for a solar panel project. These urban spaces can be harnessed for the production of clean energy without changing their original purpose - just like when roofs are used as sites for photovoltaic panels.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nThis is not the first time a council has had the idea to enlist cemeteries in the push for green energy.\u00a0\n\nSaint-Joachim is a cluster of islands located in the middle of the Bri\u00e8re marsh - a vast peat bog north of the Loire estuary in France.\n\nIts graveyard is located to the east of the town\u2019s main island, a drop from six to zero metres above sea level.\n\nBy 2025, a 1.3-megawatt solar canopy will cover the cemetery and supply electricity to the commune\u2019s 4,000 residents.\n\nFor an entry fee of just \u20ac5, they will eventually have a share in the energy it produces.\n\nThe structure will also collect rainwater for an adjacent sports complex, which will help reduce flooding.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A city in Spain is starting to use its cemeteries to generate renewable power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Valencia, on the east coast, aims to install thousands of solar panels in graveyards around the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The project has been dubbed RIP - standing for Requiem in Power - and was launched this month with the first photovoltaic panels installed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city intends the ambitious initiative to become the largest urban solar farm in Spain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Valencia to create the largest urban solar farm in Spain<\/h2><p>The city of Valencia plans to install 6,658 <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//04//21//solar-balconies-are-booming-in-germany-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-popular-home-/">solar panels in local cemeteries. Some 810 have already been laid down in Grau, Campanar and Benim\u00e0met cemeteries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These will generate a total power supply of more than 440,000 kilowatts per year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It will also result in over 140 tons a year of carbon dioxide savings, according to the local council.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//05//07//can-sunny-sicily-become-a-clean-energy-hub-for-europe-some-residents-need-convincing/">energy will mostly be used to power municipal buildings, but 25 per cent will also go to 1,000 vulnerable households.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8392538,8353834\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//04//23//bidens-earth-day-pledge-rooftop-solar-grants-could-save-us-households-over-300-million-a-y/">Biden's Earth Day pledge: Rooftop solar grants could save US households over \u20ac300 million a year<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//04//06//want-a-money-printing-machine-on-your-roof-leonardo-dicaprio-is-backing-this-european-sola/">How does subscription solar work? This Spanish company instals panels with no upfront investment<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Alejandro Ramon, Valencia\u2019s Councilor for Climate Emergency and Energy Transition, has also said the project will become the largest urban solar farm in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RIP is part of the wider Valencia 2030 Climate Mission, one of the key reasons the city was selected to be the 2024 European Green Capital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The long-term aim of the Climate Missions is to generate 27 per cent of energy for the city from <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//02//05//its-not-fix-and-forget-why-understanding-how-people-live-with-solar-panels-is-vital/">renewable sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>100 per cent of this clean energy production will be incorporated into infrastructure and public buildings by 2030. The city will also only use LEDs for public lighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Using cemeteries to produce renewable energy<\/h2><p>Cemeteries are ideal candidates for a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//09//19//solar-panels-installed-in-remote-arctic-community-to-power-green-energy-transition/">solar panel<\/strong><\/a> project. These urban spaces can be harnessed for the production of clean energy without changing their original purpose - just like when roofs are used as sites for photovoltaic panels.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time a council has had the idea to enlist cemeteries in the push for green energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//03//12//a-beautiful-idea-this-french-town-is-making-its-cemetery-a-source-of-solar-energy/">Saint-Joachim is a cluster of islands located in the middle of the Bri\u00e8re marsh - a vast peat bog north of the Loire estuary in France.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8316850,7464388\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a 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A focus on Germany and Portugal ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":"xxx","leadin":"The far right is growing throughout Europe and appears poised to upset the political balance in the upcoming European elections. Who votes for it and why? Witness Reporter Monica Pinna went to Germany and Portugal to hear from leaders and supporters of AfD and Chega.","summary":"The far right is growing throughout Europe and appears poised to upset the political balance in the upcoming European elections. Who votes for it and why? Witness Reporter Monica Pinna went to Germany and Portugal to hear from leaders and supporters of AfD and Chega.","keySentence":"","url":"will-the-far-right-win-big-in-the-eu-elections-a-focus-on-germany-and-portugal","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/05\/31\/will-the-far-right-win-big-in-the-eu-elections-a-focus-on-germany-and-portugal","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Two parties, two countries, one goal; to change Europe from within. Populist rhetoric is expected to score big in the European elections, with polls suggesting far-right and hardline conservative parties will become the third biggest force in the next European Parliament. Germany will elect highest number of MEPs among member states, 96. The country's far-right party Alternative for Deutschland, AfD, aims to have 20 of them. But will they succeed? \n\nShrugging off scandal\n\nAfD remains in a strong position despite several scandals involving its members. The party was recently excluded from the far-right Identity and Democracy group at the EU Parliament after their top candidate told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that not all the Nazi SS were criminals. Maximilian Krah is still AfD\u2019s lead candidate for the European elections. In an interview with Euronews he outlined AfD's vision for Europe: \n\n\u201cWe need more power to the nation states,\" he declared. \"We need less competences in Brussels, and more competitiveness. But we need, a common approach when it comes to trade agreements, customs, and to the guidelines of foreign policy.\u201d\n\nIn the eastern State of Thuringia, AfD is well placed to become the main political force in the new State Parliament, despite being under surveillance for its ties to\u202fNeo-Nazis. Bj\u00f6rn H\u00f6cke, Thuringian AfD's leader and top candidate for the state election, has recently been ordered to pay a fine for deliberately using a banned Nazi slogan at a campaign speech. Five years ago, another court ruled he can justifiably be called a \u201cfascist\u201d.\n\nDemocracy under pressure\n\nAccording to the experts of the 'Thuringia Project' democracy is coming under pressure all over Europe, as authoritarian populists are trying to change the rules of democracy from within:\n\n\u201cAt State level in Thuringia, an AfD Minister President could abolish public service broadcasting with a signature,\" says Friedrich Zillessen, editor of the Constitution Blog and of the Thuringia Project. \"It could influence cultural policy in schools and set priorities differently. And these are all formally legal options, but they are causing distress to our democracy as a whole,\u201d he added.\n\nFrom a country with a deeply entrenched far-right vote, I travelled to Portugal where a protest vote propelled the radical right group to the centre stage. In March's general elections, the far-right party Chega won 50 seats in parliament. It became Portugal\u2019s third political force. For leftists it was a heavy blow in the month that Portugal marked the 50th anniversary of the end of Salazar's nationalist dictatorship.\n\nChega's challenge to the establishment\n\nAs Lisbon celebrated this historic moment Euronews met Andr\u00e9 Ventura, Chega\u2019s founder and leader, in the national parliament. He presented himself as an anti-establishment politician aiming to reform justice and the economic and the political system. He slammed Portugal\u2019s current democracy:\n\n\u201cWe were never, in fact, a super democratic country. Chega was the first party, in the entire history of democracy [in Portugal] to succeed in breaking the two-party system,\u201d said Andr\u00e9 Ventura.\n\nVentura founded Chega, which means \u201cEnough!\u201d, in 2019. In only five years his party has gone from winning 1.3% of the vote, to 18% at the recent general election. The leader of the centre-right coalition that topped the poll has refused to ally with Chega, but some of the party\u2019s populist allies in the European Parliament Identity and Democracy group are enthusiastic.\n\n\u201cThe best way to defend Europe is not to dismantle the European Union, but we cannot let the EU destroy the identity of all countries and define things like immigration, our fiscal policy, our economic policy. What we eat, what we can eat or not.\u201d\n\nDespite splits and cracks, the European far-right looks like it is here to stay. The question is, will radical parties win enough in the upcoming European elections to influence policies and lawmaking? One thing is for sure, the June poll will be a test for liberal democracy and Europe, as we know it.\n\nClick on the video above to watch the episode in full.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Two parties, two countries, one goal; to change Europe from within. Populist rhetoric is expected to score big in the European elections, with polls suggesting far-right and hardline conservative parties will become the third biggest force in the next European Parliament. Germany will elect highest number of MEPs among member states, 96. The country's far-right party Alternative for Deutschland, AfD, aims to have 20 of them. But will they succeed? <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">We need more power to the nation states. We need less competences in Brussels.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Maximilian Krah\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n AfD leader\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6068301225919439\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//43//28//76//808x490_cmsv2_92746886-793b-59bd-8ba7-b06e0d356b84-8432876.jpg/" alt=\"Hundreds attending Gera's Monday march\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/384x233_cmsv2_92746886-793b-59bd-8ba7-b06e0d356b84-8432876.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/640x388_cmsv2_92746886-793b-59bd-8ba7-b06e0d356b84-8432876.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/750x455_cmsv2_92746886-793b-59bd-8ba7-b06e0d356b84-8432876.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/828x502_cmsv2_92746886-793b-59bd-8ba7-b06e0d356b84-8432876.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/1080x655_cmsv2_92746886-793b-59bd-8ba7-b06e0d356b84-8432876.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/1200x728_cmsv2_92746886-793b-59bd-8ba7-b06e0d356b84-8432876.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/1920x1165_cmsv2_92746886-793b-59bd-8ba7-b06e0d356b84-8432876.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Hundreds attending Gera's Monday march<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Pinna, Monica\/<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>Shrugging off scandal<\/strong><\/h2><p>AfD remains in a strong position despite several scandals involving its members. The party was recently excluded from the far-right Identity and Democracy group at the EU Parliament after their top candidate told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that not all the Nazi SS were criminals. <strong>Maximilian Krah<\/strong> is still AfD\u2019s lead candidate for the European elections. In an interview with Euronews he outlined AfD's vision for Europe: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need more power to the nation states,\" he declared. \"We need less competences in Brussels, and more competitiveness. But we need, a common approach when it comes to trade agreements, customs, and to the guidelines of foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the eastern State of Thuringia, AfD is well placed to become the main political force in the new State Parliament, despite being under surveillance for its ties to\u202fNeo-Nazis. Bj\u00f6rn H\u00f6cke, Thuringian AfD's leader and top candidate for the state election, has recently been ordered to pay a fine for deliberately using a banned Nazi slogan at a campaign speech. Five years ago, another court ruled he can justifiably be called a \u201cfascist\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6904512067156349\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//43//28//68//808x557_cmsv2_cb1707bc-9a1f-52b1-91d2-07734adaec6e-8432868.jpg/" alt=\"Monday march in Gera. Person wearing a T-Shirt with the slogan: \u201cNot interested in immigration- 100% Aryan\u201d\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/384x265_cmsv2_cb1707bc-9a1f-52b1-91d2-07734adaec6e-8432868.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/640x442_cmsv2_cb1707bc-9a1f-52b1-91d2-07734adaec6e-8432868.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/750x518_cmsv2_cb1707bc-9a1f-52b1-91d2-07734adaec6e-8432868.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/828x572_cmsv2_cb1707bc-9a1f-52b1-91d2-07734adaec6e-8432868.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/1080x746_cmsv2_cb1707bc-9a1f-52b1-91d2-07734adaec6e-8432868.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/1200x829_cmsv2_cb1707bc-9a1f-52b1-91d2-07734adaec6e-8432868.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/1920x1326_cmsv2_cb1707bc-9a1f-52b1-91d2-07734adaec6e-8432868.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Monday march in Gera. Person wearing a T-Shirt with the slogan: \u201cNot interested in immigration- 100% Aryan\u201d<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Pinna, Monica\/<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Democracy under pressure<\/h2><p>According to the experts of the 'Thuringia Project' democracy is coming under pressure all over Europe, as authoritarian populists are trying to change the rules of democracy from within:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt State level in Thuringia, an AfD Minister President could abolish public service broadcasting with a signature,\" says Friedrich Zillessen, editor of the Constitution Blog and of the Thuringia Project. \"It could influence cultural policy in schools and set priorities differently. And these are all formally legal options, but they are causing distress to our democracy as a whole,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6211849192100538\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//43//28//68//808x502_cmsv2_4b6e94c1-ce10-56d4-a5bc-338182439ebf-8432868.jpg/" alt=\"Chega's rise has sparked protests by anti-fascist groups \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/384x239_cmsv2_4b6e94c1-ce10-56d4-a5bc-338182439ebf-8432868.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/640x398_cmsv2_4b6e94c1-ce10-56d4-a5bc-338182439ebf-8432868.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/750x466_cmsv2_4b6e94c1-ce10-56d4-a5bc-338182439ebf-8432868.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/828x514_cmsv2_4b6e94c1-ce10-56d4-a5bc-338182439ebf-8432868.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/1080x671_cmsv2_4b6e94c1-ce10-56d4-a5bc-338182439ebf-8432868.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/1200x745_cmsv2_4b6e94c1-ce10-56d4-a5bc-338182439ebf-8432868.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/68\/1920x1193_cmsv2_4b6e94c1-ce10-56d4-a5bc-338182439ebf-8432868.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Chega's rise has sparked protests by anti-fascist groups <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Pinna, Monica\/<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>From a country with a deeply entrenched far-right vote, I travelled to Portugal where a protest vote propelled the radical right group to the centre stage. In March's general elections, the far-right party Chega won 50 seats in parliament. It became Portugal\u2019s third political force. For leftists it was a heavy blow in the month that Portugal marked the 50th anniversary of the end of Salazar's nationalist dictatorship.<\/p>\n<h2>Chega's challenge to the establishment<\/h2><p>As Lisbon celebrated this historic moment Euronews met <strong>Andr\u00e9 Ventura<\/strong>, Chega\u2019s founder and leader, in the national parliament. He presented himself as an anti-establishment politician aiming to reform justice and the economic and the political system. He slammed Portugal\u2019s current democracy:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were never, in fact, a super democratic country. Chega was the first party, in the entire history of democracy [in Portugal] to succeed in breaking the two-party system,\u201d said Andr\u00e9 Ventura.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">The best way to defend Europe is not to dismantle the European Union, but we cannot let the EU destroy the identity of all countries. <\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Andre Ventura\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Chega leader\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5947826086956521\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//43//28//76//808x481_cmsv2_f5d1dd1d-2742-5fe8-a51e-5076e2d6e2a2-8432876.jpg/" alt=\"Anti-Chega campaigners during April 25th March in Lisbon \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/384x228_cmsv2_f5d1dd1d-2742-5fe8-a51e-5076e2d6e2a2-8432876.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/640x381_cmsv2_f5d1dd1d-2742-5fe8-a51e-5076e2d6e2a2-8432876.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/750x446_cmsv2_f5d1dd1d-2742-5fe8-a51e-5076e2d6e2a2-8432876.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/828x492_cmsv2_f5d1dd1d-2742-5fe8-a51e-5076e2d6e2a2-8432876.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/1080x642_cmsv2_f5d1dd1d-2742-5fe8-a51e-5076e2d6e2a2-8432876.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/1200x714_cmsv2_f5d1dd1d-2742-5fe8-a51e-5076e2d6e2a2-8432876.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/43\/28\/76\/1920x1142_cmsv2_f5d1dd1d-2742-5fe8-a51e-5076e2d6e2a2-8432876.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Anti-Chega campaigners during April 25th March in Lisbon <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Pinna, Monica\/<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ventura founded Chega, which means \u201cEnough!\u201d, in 2019. In only five years his party has gone from winning 1.3% of the vote, to 18% at the recent general election. The leader of the centre-right coalition that topped the poll has refused to ally with Chega, but some of the party\u2019s populist allies in the European Parliament Identity and Democracy group are enthusiastic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best way to defend Europe is not to dismantle the European Union, but we cannot let the EU destroy the identity of all countries and define things like immigration, our fiscal policy, our economic policy. What we eat, what we can eat or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite splits and cracks, the European far-right looks like it is here to stay. The question is, will radical parties win enough in the upcoming European elections to influence policies and lawmaking? One thing is for sure, the June poll will be a test for liberal democracy and Europe, as we know it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click on the video above to watch the episode in 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GLOBAL HEALTH EQUITY","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"The power of partnerships can help us achieve global health equity","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"The power of partnerships can help us achieve global health equity","titleListing2":"Opinion | By working together and leveraging technology, we can break down barriers, improve health outcomes and build a healthier, more sustainable future for all,\u00a0Dr Naveen Rao writes.","leadin":"By working together and leveraging technology, we can break down barriers, improve health outcomes and build a healthier, more sustainable future for all,\u00a0Dr Naveen Rao writes.","summary":"By working together and leveraging technology, we can break down barriers, improve health outcomes and build a healthier, more sustainable future for all,\u00a0Dr Naveen Rao writes.","keySentence":"","url":"the-power-of-partnerships-can-help-us-achieve-global-health-equity","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2024\/05\/31\/the-power-of-partnerships-can-help-us-achieve-global-health-equity","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"As the 77th World Health Assembly gathers in Geneva, we have a unique opportunity to harness the power of collaboration. \n\nThis gathering can unite leaders from business, philanthropy, science, and communities to drive transformative change. Rather than dismissing any one sector, we must embrace partnerships to achieve the best outcomes.\u00a0\n\nFor over a century, The Rockefeller Foundation has sought to ensure universal access to the latest medical technology, irrespective of geographical barriers. Initially termed \u201cscientific philanthropy\u201d by our founder, today, we call it \u201cbig bets\u201d.\n\nWe have made many big bets to improve public health, from eradicating hookworm to ending COVID-19 lockdowns. These successes were built on innovative solutions, unlikely alliances, and rigorous progress measurement. \n\nNow, we must apply the same principles to fight the greatest public health threat of our time: climate change.\n\nTechnological divides at the heart of growing disparities\n\nData clearly shows that climate change is the gravest threat to the health and well-being of billions of people. The pandemic exposed the fragility and inequality of our global health system, and climate change is exacerbating these issues. \n\nThis is our chance to reimagine this system to create opportunities for everyone.\n\nThe gulf between rich and poor countries continues to grow, with the UN Development Programme finding record levels of disparity between 2023 and 2024. This has grave consequences for the health prospects of developing countries, where lower life expectancy is common. \n\nChildren born into the poorest 20% of households face nearly double the risk of mortality before their fifth birthday compared to those in the wealthiest 20%. Additionally, developing countries account for 99% of annual maternal deaths worldwide.\u00a0\n\nAt the heart of this disparity lies technological divides. While the digital revolution has transformed access to healthcare, education, and online resources, millions still languish on the wrong side of the technological abyss. \n\nFactors like geography, gender, age, and ethnicity continue to dictate one's access to these transformative innovations.\n\nHealth outcomes of billions are in our hands\n\nYet, we must be optimistic. I believe that challenges bring great opportunities. Innovative partnerships between governments, the private sector, and philanthropy stand as our foremost ally in this endeavour. By championing equitable access to technology and fostering partnerships, we can revolutionise global health outcomes for billions.\u00a0\n\nPromising initiatives are emerging at the intersection of philanthropy, public health, technology, and government. For example, our partners at the Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK) in India have developed a platform that integrates climate information into health data tools to forecast dengue outbreaks, which are increasing due to climate change. \n\nBy working with government stakeholders and local agencies, they created a dengue dashboard that updates decision-makers in real-time, helping target high-risk areas with testing and education campaigns. This tool covers 31 districts and 61 million people and is expanding to four other cities in India.\n\nAdditionally, an initiative in Gracias a Dios, Honduras, is integrating data collection with community action to reduce malaria cases exacerbated by the rise of mosquitos due to warming temperatures. \n\nLocal residents and Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) mapped out affected areas, identified mosquito breeding grounds, and drained them with minimal resources. This effort reduced malaria cases from hundreds to just a few annually, demonstrating how proactive measures, rather than reactive responses, can effectively combat climate-related health threats.\n\nMoreover, technology can help us predict and prepare for extreme heat events. Google, in collaboration with the Global Heat Health Information Network, has launched a new feature in its search engine to provide health tips during such events. \n\nThis initiative aims to help users in approximately 200 countries stay safe by offering evidence-based advice on managing heat exposure developed by experts from various health organisations. \n\nThis move aligns with global efforts to enhance public awareness and preparedness in response to the increasing frequency of heatwaves due to climate change.\u00a0\n\nTrue transformation requires unlikely partnerships\n\nThis is what big bets are all about: bringing people together to learn, collaborate, share, and scale solutions. \n\nAchieving true impact requires the collective effort of many. As demonstrated by the role of business at COP28, public-private partnerships are crucial in the fight against climate change. The global health community must follow suit, starting with discussions at the World Health Assembly.\u00a0\n\nAt the World Health Assembly, climate change is at the top of the agenda, with the newly approved resolution and the 14th General Programme of Work, including climate as one of six strategic\u00a0priorities.\n\nHowever, governments alone cannot shoulder this responsibility; we all must prioritise health and climate adaptation efforts because climate change threatens to unravel decades of progress in achieving health for all.\u00a0\n\nTrue transformation requires unconventional alliances. Whether it be the collaboration between tech giants and humanitarian organisations to deploy drones for disaster relief or the synergy between academia and industry to develop breakthrough treatments, these alliances underscore the boundless potential of collective action.\u00a0\n\nWe must embrace what some may view as \u201cunlikely partnerships\u201d as the best means to achieve global health equity. The challenges we face are too great for any one sector to solve alone. \n\nBy working together and leveraging technology, we can break down barriers, improve health outcomes and build a healthier, more sustainable future for all. The World Health Assembly is our chance to make these big bets and drive real change. Let\u2019s seize it.\n\nDr Naveen Rao is Senior Vice President, Health at the Rockefeller Foundation.\n\nAt Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>As the 77th World Health Assembly gathers in Geneva, we have a unique opportunity to harness the power of collaboration. <\/p>\n<p>This gathering can unite leaders from business, philanthropy, science, and communities to drive transformative change. Rather than dismissing any one sector, we must embrace partnerships to achieve the best outcomes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For over a century, The Rockefeller Foundation has sought to ensure universal access to the latest medical technology, irrespective of geographical barriers. Initially termed \u201cscientific philanthropy\u201d by our founder, today, we call it \u201cbig bets\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We have made many big bets to improve public health, from eradicating hookworm to ending COVID-19 lockdowns. These successes were built on innovative solutions, unlikely alliances, and rigorous progress measurement. <\/p>\n<p>Now, we must apply the same principles to fight the greatest public health threat of our time: climate change.<\/p>\n<h2>Technological divides at the heart of growing disparities<\/h2><p>Data clearly shows that climate change is the gravest threat to the health and well-being of billions of people. The pandemic exposed the fragility and inequality of our global health system, and climate change is exacerbating these issues. <\/p>\n<p>This is our chance to reimagine this system to create opportunities for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The gulf between rich and poor countries continues to grow, with the UN Development Programme finding record levels of disparity between 2023 and 2024. This has grave consequences for the health prospects of developing countries, where lower life expectancy is common. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Children born into the poorest 20% of households face nearly double the risk of mortality before their fifth birthday compared to those in the wealthiest 20%. <\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//20//80//808x539_cmsv2_50d6c3f1-32b4-50ba-b711-ce72d5a52071-8472080.jpg/" alt=\"Three Afghan internally displaced children look with surprise at an apple that their mother brought home after begging, in a camp on the outskirts of Kabul, February 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/384x256_cmsv2_50d6c3f1-32b4-50ba-b711-ce72d5a52071-8472080.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/640x427_cmsv2_50d6c3f1-32b4-50ba-b711-ce72d5a52071-8472080.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/750x500_cmsv2_50d6c3f1-32b4-50ba-b711-ce72d5a52071-8472080.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/828x552_cmsv2_50d6c3f1-32b4-50ba-b711-ce72d5a52071-8472080.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/1080x720_cmsv2_50d6c3f1-32b4-50ba-b711-ce72d5a52071-8472080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/1200x800_cmsv2_50d6c3f1-32b4-50ba-b711-ce72d5a52071-8472080.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/1920x1281_cmsv2_50d6c3f1-32b4-50ba-b711-ce72d5a52071-8472080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Three Afghan internally displaced children look with surprise at an apple that their mother brought home after begging, in a camp on the outskirts of Kabul, February 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ebrahim Noroozi\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Children born into the poorest 20% of households face nearly double the risk of mortality before their fifth birthday compared to those in the wealthiest 20%. Additionally, developing countries account for 99% of annual maternal deaths worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8467006,8469816\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//05//31//female-health-apps-arent-doing-enough-to-protect-sensitive-data-study-says/">Female health apps aren\u2019t doing enough to protect sensitive data, study says<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//05//30//5-deep-tech-solutions-for-the-worlds-biggest-healthcare-challenges/">5 deep-tech solutions for the world\u2019s biggest healthcare challenges<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>At the heart of this disparity lies technological divides. While the digital revolution has transformed access to healthcare, education, and online resources, millions still languish on the wrong side of the technological abyss. <\/p>\n<p>Factors like geography, gender, age, and ethnicity continue to dictate one's access to these transformative innovations.<\/p>\n<h2>Health outcomes of billions are in our hands<\/h2><p>Yet, we must be optimistic. I believe that challenges bring great opportunities. Innovative partnerships between governments, the private sector, and philanthropy stand as our foremost ally in this endeavour. By championing equitable access to technology and fostering partnerships, we can revolutionise global health outcomes for billions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Promising initiatives are emerging at the intersection of philanthropy, public health, technology, and government. For example, our partners at the Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK) in India have developed a platform that integrates climate information into health data tools to forecast dengue outbreaks, which are increasing due to climate change. <\/p>\n<p>By working with government stakeholders and local agencies, they created a dengue dashboard that updates decision-makers in real-time, helping target high-risk areas with testing and education campaigns. This tool covers 31 districts and 61 million people and is expanding to four other cities in India.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Governments alone cannot shoulder this responsibility; we all must prioritise health and climate adaptation efforts because climate change threatens to unravel decades of progress in achieving health for all.\u00a0<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//20//80//808x539_cmsv2_a93e472a-fbd5-574a-9ce8-5d48e6c1b1e7-8472080.jpg/" alt=\"Workers commuting to work in the truck bed of a pickup, ride past the Cathedral in downtown Copan Ruinas, July 2021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/384x256_cmsv2_a93e472a-fbd5-574a-9ce8-5d48e6c1b1e7-8472080.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/640x427_cmsv2_a93e472a-fbd5-574a-9ce8-5d48e6c1b1e7-8472080.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/750x500_cmsv2_a93e472a-fbd5-574a-9ce8-5d48e6c1b1e7-8472080.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/828x552_cmsv2_a93e472a-fbd5-574a-9ce8-5d48e6c1b1e7-8472080.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/1080x720_cmsv2_a93e472a-fbd5-574a-9ce8-5d48e6c1b1e7-8472080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/1200x800_cmsv2_a93e472a-fbd5-574a-9ce8-5d48e6c1b1e7-8472080.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/20\/80\/1920x1281_cmsv2_a93e472a-fbd5-574a-9ce8-5d48e6c1b1e7-8472080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Workers commuting to work in the truck bed of a pickup, ride past the Cathedral in downtown Copan Ruinas, July 2021<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Rodrigo Abd<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Additionally, an initiative in Gracias a Dios, Honduras, is integrating data collection with community action to reduce malaria cases exacerbated by the rise of mosquitos due to warming temperatures. <\/p>\n<p>Local residents and Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) mapped out affected areas, identified mosquito breeding grounds, and drained them with minimal resources. This effort reduced malaria cases from hundreds to just a few annually, demonstrating how proactive measures, rather than reactive responses, can effectively combat climate-related health threats.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"8447172,8469720\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//05//20//are-indias-heatwaves-getting-worse-with-climate-change-delhi-district-records-478c-heat/">Are India\u2019s heatwaves getting worse with climate change? Delhi district records 47.8C heat<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//05//31//benjamin-lost-a-friend-to-deadly-flooding-now-hes-holding-the-bosses-of-oil-firm-total-acc/">Meet the climate catastrophe victim filing a criminal case against the bosses of oil firm Total<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Moreover, technology can help us predict and prepare for extreme heat events. Google, in collaboration with the Global Heat Health Information Network, has launched a new feature in its search engine to provide health tips during such events. <\/p>\n<p>This initiative aims to help users in approximately 200 countries stay safe by offering evidence-based advice on managing heat exposure developed by experts from various health organisations. <\/p>\n<p>This move aligns with global efforts to enhance public awareness and preparedness in response to the increasing frequency of heatwaves due to climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>True transformation requires unlikely partnerships<\/h2><p>This is what big bets are all about: bringing people together to learn, collaborate, share, and scale solutions. <\/p>\n<p>Achieving true impact requires the collective effort of many. As demonstrated by the role of business at COP28, public-private partnerships are crucial in the fight against climate change. The global health community must follow suit, starting with discussions at the World Health Assembly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the World Health Assembly, climate change is at the top of the agenda, with the newly approved resolution and the 14th General Programme of Work, including climate as one of six strategic\u00a0priorities.<\/p>\n<p>However, governments alone cannot shoulder this responsibility; we all must prioritise health and climate adaptation efforts because climate change threatens to unravel decades of progress in achieving health for all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>True transformation requires unconventional alliances. Whether it be the collaboration between tech giants and humanitarian organisations to deploy drones for disaster relief or the synergy between academia and industry to develop breakthrough treatments, these alliances underscore the boundless potential of collective action.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We must embrace what some may view as \u201cunlikely partnerships\u201d as the best means to achieve global health equity. The challenges we face are too great for any one sector to solve alone. <\/p>\n<p>By working together and leveraging technology, we can break down barriers, improve health outcomes and build a healthier, more sustainable future for all. The World Health Assembly is our chance to make these big bets and drive real change. Let\u2019s seize it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr Naveen Rao is Senior Vice President, Health at the Rockefeller Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at <a href=https://www.euronews.com/news/\"mailto:view@euronews.com\">view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1717165359,"updatedAt":1717167820,"publishedAt":1717166870,"firstPublishedAt":1717166873,"lastPublishedAt":1717166870,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Euronews","altText":"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the WHO, during the opening of the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA77) at the European UN HQ in Geneva, May 2024","callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"caption":"Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the WHO, during the opening of the 77th World Health Assembly (WHA77) at the European UN HQ in Geneva, May 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become Swedish knighthood","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"ABBA receive prestigious Swedish knighthood for pop career that began at Eurovision","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"ABBA made Swedish knights for contribution to world culture ","titleListing2":"The winner takes it all after 50 years and counting on disco dancefloors. #ABBA #Swedish knighthood #Eurovision","leadin":"By royal appointment, the Swedish supergroup ABBA have finally received recognition for their musical contribution to Sweden and international culture with a knighthood for their pop career that started at Eurovision.","summary":"By royal appointment, the Swedish supergroup ABBA have finally received recognition for their musical contribution to Sweden and international culture with a knighthood for their pop career that started at Eurovision.","keySentence":"","url":"abba-receive-prestigious-swedish-knighthood-for-pop-career-that-began-at-eurovision","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/05\/31\/abba-receive-prestigious-swedish-knighthood-for-pop-career-that-began-at-eurovision","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Sweden's said a big 'Thank you for the music' to its most famous pop exports ABBA by honouring the supergroup with one of the country's most prestigious awards, the Order of the Vasa. \n\nIt's the first time it's been bestowed in nearly half a century in recognition of ABBA's \"very outstanding efforts in Swedish and international music life.\" \n\nThe band, which consists of Agnetha Faltskog, Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, sprang to international stardom by winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with their infectious love song 'Waterloo'. \n\nCultural Commanders \n\nThe Eurovision victory turned ABBA into a pop juggernaut and easily the most successful band to win the pan-continental music contest. ABBA\u2019s melodic disco pop sold hundreds of millions of records worldwide. The stage musical \u201c Mamma Mia! \u201d based on its songs is 25 years old and spawned two movies. \n\nAlthough, the Swedish band members have not performed together live for four decades, they released a comeback album, \u201cVoyage,\u201d in 2021 and a year later, the digital \u201cABBA-tars\u201d opened in London. \n\nThe royal recognition as \"Commander of the First Class\" is one of several Swedish orders, including the Royal Order of Seraphim awarded to heads of state and foreign royals, and the Royal Order of the Polar Star that is given to foreign citizens and stateless persons. \n\nThe Royal Order of Vasa, which is given in recognition of personal efforts for Sweden or for Swedish interests as well as the successful performance of public duties and assignments, was dormant until late 2022, when it was reactivated after regulations opened the Royal Orders to Swedish citizens again. \n\nEarlier this year, candidates were nominated by the public and the Swedish government and King Carl XVI Gustaf approved the nominees that included the four ABBA members. \n\nThis year's Eurovision was coincidentally held in Sweden and won by the Swiss singer Nemo , with \u201cThe Code,\u201d an operatic pop-rap ode to the singer\u2019s journey toward embracing a nongender identity. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Sweden's said a big 'Thank you for the music' to its most famous pop exports <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//tag//abba/">ABBA by honouring the supergroup with one of the country's most prestigious awards, the Order of the Vasa.<\/p>\n<p>It's the first time it's been bestowed in nearly half a century in recognition of ABBA's \"very outstanding efforts in Swedish and international music life.\"<\/p>\n<p>The band, which consists of Agnetha Faltskog, Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, sprang to international stardom by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//04//06//culture-re-view-the-day-abba-achieved-eurovision-glory/">winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest<\/strong><\/a> with their infectious love song 'Waterloo'.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//14//88//808x539_cmsv2_478fa8a2-648b-5e87-b6bd-376d14524f92-8471488.jpg/" alt=\"Swedish pop group ABBA celebrate winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest on stage at the Brighton Dome in England with their song "Waterloo", April 6, 1974\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/384x256_cmsv2_478fa8a2-648b-5e87-b6bd-376d14524f92-8471488.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/640x427_cmsv2_478fa8a2-648b-5e87-b6bd-376d14524f92-8471488.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/750x500_cmsv2_478fa8a2-648b-5e87-b6bd-376d14524f92-8471488.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/828x552_cmsv2_478fa8a2-648b-5e87-b6bd-376d14524f92-8471488.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/1080x720_cmsv2_478fa8a2-648b-5e87-b6bd-376d14524f92-8471488.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/1200x800_cmsv2_478fa8a2-648b-5e87-b6bd-376d14524f92-8471488.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/1920x1281_cmsv2_478fa8a2-648b-5e87-b6bd-376d14524f92-8471488.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Swedish pop group ABBA celebrate winning the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest on stage at the Brighton Dome in England with their song "Waterloo", April 6, 1974<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Robert Dear\/Copyright 2021 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Cultural Commanders<\/h2><p>The Eurovision victory turned ABBA into a pop juggernaut and easily the most successful band to win the pan-continental music contest. ABBA\u2019s melodic disco pop sold hundreds of millions of records worldwide. The stage musical \u201c<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2018//07//16//mamma-mia-here-we-go-again/">Mamma Mia!<\/strong><\/a>\u201d based on its songs is 25 years old and spawned two movies.<\/p>\n<p>Although, the Swedish band members have not performed together live for four decades, they released a comeback album, \u201cVoyage,\u201d in 2021 and a year later, the digital \u201cABBA-tars\u201d opened in London.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//14//88//808x539_cmsv2_b6a171c7-2c49-5b5b-ae10-aa8e1e99199f-8471488.jpg/" alt=\"ABBA with Sweden's King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia at a ceremony at Stockholm Royal Palace on May 31\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/384x256_cmsv2_b6a171c7-2c49-5b5b-ae10-aa8e1e99199f-8471488.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/640x427_cmsv2_b6a171c7-2c49-5b5b-ae10-aa8e1e99199f-8471488.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/750x500_cmsv2_b6a171c7-2c49-5b5b-ae10-aa8e1e99199f-8471488.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/828x552_cmsv2_b6a171c7-2c49-5b5b-ae10-aa8e1e99199f-8471488.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/1080x720_cmsv2_b6a171c7-2c49-5b5b-ae10-aa8e1e99199f-8471488.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/1200x800_cmsv2_b6a171c7-2c49-5b5b-ae10-aa8e1e99199f-8471488.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/1920x1280_cmsv2_b6a171c7-2c49-5b5b-ae10-aa8e1e99199f-8471488.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">ABBA with Sweden's King Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia at a ceremony at Stockholm Royal Palace on May 31<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Henrik Montgomery\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The royal recognition as \"Commander of the First Class\" is one of several Swedish orders, including the Royal Order of Seraphim awarded to heads of state and foreign royals, and the Royal Order of the Polar Star that is given to foreign citizens and stateless persons.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Order of Vasa, which is given in recognition of personal efforts for Sweden or for Swedish interests as well as the successful performance of public duties and assignments, was dormant until late 2022, when it was reactivated after regulations opened the Royal Orders to Swedish citizens again.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//47//14//88//808x539_cmsv2_5b8c6576-a65c-5850-ad29-ce2a23b621f9-8471488.jpg/" alt=\"The music group ABBA - Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha F\u00e4ltskog and Benny Andersson\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/384x256_cmsv2_5b8c6576-a65c-5850-ad29-ce2a23b621f9-8471488.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/640x427_cmsv2_5b8c6576-a65c-5850-ad29-ce2a23b621f9-8471488.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/750x500_cmsv2_5b8c6576-a65c-5850-ad29-ce2a23b621f9-8471488.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/828x552_cmsv2_5b8c6576-a65c-5850-ad29-ce2a23b621f9-8471488.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/1080x720_cmsv2_5b8c6576-a65c-5850-ad29-ce2a23b621f9-8471488.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/1200x800_cmsv2_5b8c6576-a65c-5850-ad29-ce2a23b621f9-8471488.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/47\/14\/88\/1920x1280_cmsv2_5b8c6576-a65c-5850-ad29-ce2a23b621f9-8471488.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The music group ABBA - 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Heavy rainfall causes flooding in Germany and Italy
Heavy rain and floods hit parts of Germany and Italy - with hundreds being advised to leave their homes and some missing.
01/06/2024
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'Sasquatch Sunset', 'The Sympathizer' and Primavera Sound in Barcelona. Here's what's hot in Europe this week.
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Super Poll Q&A: Is EU-wide conservative coalition losing momentum?
The Euronews Super Polls foresee an election victory for the EPP, unprecedented growth for the ultraconservatives, and a slight increase for the socialists. Data suggest that crafting the future ruling coalition could turn out to be a political conundrum.
01/06/2024
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Drought leaves major questions about Barcelona's future in tourism
As Barcelona exits its almost four-year-long drought, the aftermath has left many tough questions about the realities of water management and mass tourism.
01/06/2024
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Would you be revved up if you were offered an EV car with a new job?
A number of employers are offering electric vehicle (EV) salary sacrifice schemes, to try and attract employees looking for green benefits.
01/06/2024
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Brussels, my love? Special live edition ponders Europe's big questions
In this special edition, we dive into the big issues dominating the European elections and ponder whether voters will bother to turn out.
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France says plan to attack Olympic football events foiled
An 18-year-old man from Chechnya was arrested on suspicion of being behind a plan to target spectators and police at football matches in Saint-Etienne and a die a 'martyr'.
01/06/2024
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Zelenskyy says Ukraine will soon be permitted to strike inside Russia
The comments come a day after two anonymous US officials indicated that the Biden administration was prepared to let Ukraine use American weaponry to strike inside Russia but only in the defence of the northern region of Kharkiv.
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WATCH: Russian strikes kill four, wound 23 in Kharkiv
Early Friday, Russian strikes on Kharkiv killed four and wounded twenty-three, including children, an ambulance medic, and a police officer.
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State of the Union: EU struggles for the right Middle East policy
The crisis in the Middle East, the Franco-German vision for the next mandate and the upcoming EU elections were among the key topics discussed around Brussels this week.
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Simon Harris: Ireland recognised Palestine to push two-state solution
As Ireland, Spain and Norway recognise the State of Palestine in order to breathe new life into the two state solution, Shona Murray spoke to Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris about this historic move, for the Global Conversation.
31/05/2024
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WATCH: Europalia festival gets Brussels dancing
Around 65 dancers gathered at Brussels' Place de la Bourse for a dress rehearsal of 'Drumming' by Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
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Valencia’s cemeteries to become the country’s largest urban solar farm
The project has been dubbed RIP, standing for Requiem in Power.
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Will the far-right win big in the EU elections? A focus on Germany and Portugal
The far right is growing throughout Europe and appears poised to upset the political balance in the upcoming European elections. Who votes for it and why? Witness Reporter Monica Pinna went to Germany and Portugal to hear from leaders and supporters of AfD and Chega.
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ABBA made Swedish knights for contribution to world culture
By royal appointment, the Swedish supergroup ABBA have finally received recognition for their musical contribution to Sweden and international culture with a knighthood for their pop career that started at Eurovision.
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