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At a European Parliament press conference, four people stand at lecterns, speaking and gesticulating. A spectator can be seen in the foreground.

Daring more integration: Spinelli Group in the EU Parliament presents “Project 27”

National solo efforts repeatedly hinder a united European Union. With its “Project 27”, the Spinelli Group in the EU Parliament is working on an ambitious reform for deeper European integration.

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People

  • Oleksandr Beluga is standing in front of his desk. On the wall behind many awards for him and his NGO can be seen.

    Meet the man who set up the biggest Humanitarian NGO in Zaporizhzhia
  • A white door with a red door in front of it.

    A door opens: Kamela’s start into a new life in Germany

  • “I was sure they were going to kill me.”

  • From a Village in Afghanistan to Germany

  • Flight to freedom: Afghan women share their stories

  • Fighting Windmills: Anas al Mustafa and the Turkish State
  • Alexandr (Sasha) Semenchenko lives in Kyiv as an entertainer and musician.

    Aleksandr Semenchenko: Music cook with a special intuition
  • Vadim Tereshchuk (Вадим Терещук) is a local politician and a member of the city council in Odesa for the European Solidarity Party (Європейська Солідарність -Evropeis'ka Solidarity').

    Vadym Tereshchuk: Views of a Ukrainian local politician
  • Tatiana Ovays fled Sievierodonetsk and is building a new life in Vinnytsia.

    Tatiana Ovays: IDP from Sievierodonetsk starts over in Vinnytsia
  • Dmitro Soochekov fled Bakhmut with his family and now lives in a guest room at Ahrobud in Orativ.

    Dmitro Soochekov’s painful return to Bakhmut

Topics

  • At a European Parliament press conference, four people stand at lecterns, speaking and gesticulating. A spectator can be seen in the foreground.

    Daring more integration: Spinelli Group in the EU Parliament presents “Project 27”
  • The EU Parliament in Strasbourg is a large, round hall with numerous people sitting at desks facing a central podium. Several flags are displayed and presentations are shown on digital screens.

    Donald Trump and the three tongues of the EU
  • The red sculpture of a hooded figure protrudes from a wall and draws the coat of arms of Ukraine in red.

    Political scientist explains what opportunities Trump brings for Ukraine
  • A woman with a headscarf holds a child in her arms and looks out over a vast landscape with numerous graves and mountains in the background. The scene is drawn in monochrome.

    Ten years after the genocide: How Yazidi people are faring in Germany
  • A destroyed urban area with scattered bricks and debris, a flooded crater, and distant buildings under a cloudy sky.

    Will Kupyansk become a new Avdiivka?
  • Children are walking on a street between skyscrapers. in the background an explosion can be seen. The image was generated with AI to illustrate the attacks in Israel and Ukraine.

    Haunted by war: Ukrainian Jews in Israel face missile attacks – again

  • Ineffective confirmation of admission promises: lawyers in the dock

  • Earthquake in Hatay: “Not even to get help, there was media freedom”

  • Social policy specialist on elections in Türkiye: “Society has become highly polarized”

  • Journalism in Turkey: Facts vs. Propaganda and AI

Places

  • A destroyed urban area with scattered bricks and debris, a flooded crater, and distant buildings under a cloudy sky.

    Will Kupyansk become a new Avdiivka?
  • A woman with a rucksack looks at a memorial exhibition displayed on a screen with the names of individual people. Another woman can be seen on the screen.

    Chemnitz gets an NSU documentation center – temporarily

  • Earthquake in Hatay: “Not even to get help, there was media freedom”

  • Contrast to Türkiye: Greeks do not expect much from elections
  • Serhiy Kolevych (47) stands in front of the ruins of his house. During the first air raid on March 14, he was in the building with his wife, niece and nephew and was injured. During the second attack, which completely destroyed the house, he was already staying with neighbors.

    Pidhaine: Traces of Devastation

  • Tank exhibition in Kyiv: Reality as a museum
  • Die Gasleitungen an der Unfallstelle in Majaky wurden bereits erneuert. Der Schaden ist noch deutlich sichtbar.

    Mayaky… and then the rocket hit

  • Irpin: Vitali’s tour through his destroyed home
  • A destroyed tank stands on the side of the road in Kharkiv.

    Kharkiv: Victory on ruins

  • Juli Karzanova reports from Chernihiv: “We are dying here: for no reason at all”

Projects

  • A person wearing a hairnet and gloves holds a large tray of uncooked shredded material, possibly food, in a kitchen with plastic bins and an industrial oven in the background, preparing for food delivery organized by Ukrainian volunteers.

    A taste of home: Ukrainian charity sends borscht to the trenches
  • A woman with a rucksack looks at a memorial exhibition displayed on a screen with the names of individual people. Another woman can be seen on the screen.

    Chemnitz gets an NSU documentation center – temporarily

  • Journalism in Turkey: Facts vs. Propaganda and AI

  • How Stanislava Liasota started Ukraine’s first musical group
  • The Kyiv-based charity

    The “Caring Cats” from Kyiv

  • Module Club Dnipro: DJs at the front

  • Vinnytsia: Ukrainian humanitarian aid hub
  • Kids Rainbow, construction site of the new community center

    Kids Rainbow in Gaziantep: Education instead of child labour

  • War Childhood Museum and YIHR: Reconciliation through Sharing Experiences

In full length

  • A car buried in rubble amidst a scene of urban destruction.

    The lessons of living with war
  • A white door with a red door in front of it.

    A door opens: Kamela’s start into a new life in Germany

  • “I was sure they were going to kill me.”

  • Social policy specialist on elections in Türkiye: “Society has become highly polarized”
  • Juli Karzanova is documenting the daily life in the war-torn city of Chernihiv in Ukraine.

    Transcript of the interview with Juli Karzanova from Chernihiv
  • Diyarbakır

    Diyarbakır: The consequences of the civil war in Turkey

  • “They rule with fear”: HDP Mardin on the situation in Turkey
  • Kurtuluş Baştimar is a lawyer for international human rights

    On laws made of paper: Kurtuluş Baştimar represents Anas al Mustafa

  • Anas al Mustafa: Deportation without legal basis

Srsly…?! (Comments)

  • A car buried in rubble amidst a scene of urban destruction.

    The lessons of living with war
  • A group of people holding signs.

    Peace for Ukraine: An unconventional approach to a solution
  • Ready to launch the Gamestop rocket. “GME to the moon” is a popular comment in the

    Stocks as pop culture: The hype of Gamestop and Wallstreetbets