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Inside Europe

This award-winning one-hour weekly news magazine explores the topical issues that shape the European continent, including interviews, background features and cultural reports from correspondents throughout the region.
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50 Episodes
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Inside Europe 25.05.2023

Could the attack on Russia's Belgorod be the start of something bigger? How Greece's conservatives hope to go it alone as a second vote is called and Turkey goes into the election runoff with Erdogan's rival facing an uphill battle. Also: Is Europe falling behind in the AI race? Will…
27 May 54 min

Inside Europe 25.05.2023

Could the attack on Russia's Belgorod be the start of something bigger? How Greece's conservatives hope to go it alone as a second vote is called and Turkey goes into the election runoff with Erdogan's rival facing an uphill battle. Also: Is Europe falling behind in the AI race? Will…
25 May 54 min

Inside Europe 18.05.2023

Turkey's presidential election goes to a second round, hopes fade for those still missing months after Turkey's quakes, and what next for Georgia's EU membership hopes? Also: how are Kyiv residents coping with the on-off threat of Russian strikes, La Palma votes for the first time since the volcanic eruption,…
18 May 54 min

Inside Europe 11.05.2023

Election monitors in Turkey steel themselves for the task ahead, protests in Belgrade after mass shootings shock the nation, plus the British monarchy as seen by its fans… and by its critics. Then in the second half: a half-hour Eurovision Song Contest special packed full of sequins and spangles, politics…
11 May 55 min

Inside Europe 04.05.2023

Bosnia has a new regional government, Turkey’s Alevi community rally around their candidate, Britain gets out its bunting, and France’s Finance Minister writes a steamy novel. Also on Inside Europe: the World Press Freedom Index, Russian journalists in Riga, Fracking in the Netherlands, and refugee tours in Berlin.
4 May 54 min

Inside Europe 27.04.2023

The AfD’s youth-wing is officially right-wing extremist, urgent questions are raised about elections in North-Kosovo, an outside challenger shakes up the Turkish election race, and why the Pope will be staying a little longer in Hungary this time round. Also: Russian dissidents, North-Sea spy ships, and Scandinavian fact checkers.
27 Apr 55 min

Inside Europe 20.04.2023

Work begins on Finland’s border fence with Russia, an interview with breaking news reporter Allison Quinn, and climate protesters demand a 30 km/h speed limit in Prague. Also: sperm scandal in the Netherlands, a two-part look at the consequences of drought in southern Europe, and Luxemburg celebrates three years of…
20 Apr 54 min

Inside Europe 13.04.2023

Will Biden's call for a return to power-sharing in Northern Ireland be answered? Could lingering inflation in Turkey seal Erdogan's election fate? Why do many French see electronic billboards as an eyesore? Also: Amsterdam brothel owners see red over plans for sex in the suburbs, reality bites for young men…
13 Apr 55 min

Inside Europe 06.04.2023

Finland becomes NATO's 31st member in record time, was peace in Northern Ireland achieved by one stubborn spy? And Istanbul bulldozes shoddy buildings as it prepares for the big one. Also: As Kosovo's ex-president goes on trial, is the West trying to rewrite history? memories of the Warsaw Jewish ghetto…
6 Apr 55 min

Inside Europe 30.03.2023

Hungary votes to let Finland into NATO, Norway repatriates two sisters who left to join ISIS, Scotland has a new leader, and unvaccinated French medics remain in limbo. Also on Inside Europe: a half-hour migration special, including the view from Calais, the EU’s new Migration Pact, a model resettlement programme…
30 Mar 54 min

Inside Europe 23.03.2023

Macron forces through deeply unpopular pension reforms in France, reckoning time for London’s Metropolitan Police, and who is the man attempting to topple Turkey’s Erdogan? Also: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports back. We’ll be looking in detail at what this means, as well as offering ideas for solutions.
23 Mar 54 min

Inside Europe 16.03.2023

The Dutch provincial election brings farmers to the fore, all eyes on the skies after a US drone falls into the Black Sea, and the BBC reinstates Gary Lineker, but what about the corporation’s impartiality? Also: Turkish journalists struggle to be heard in the wake of the quake, Belarus' opposition…
16 Mar 55 min

Inside Europe

A weekly deep-dive into the twists and turns of European current affairs, politics and culture, brought to you by Germany’s international broadcaster.
9 Mar 54 min

Inside Europe 09.03.2023

A Women of Europe special edition: We hear from the Russian Feminist Resistance and Ukraine's frontline as well as the nonagenarian performer Thelma Ruby. Also: Trail-blazing Hungarian politicians from opposite sides of the political divide, Sasha Talaver on Soviet gender narratives, UK campaigners against police misogyny, and a dead French…
9 Mar 55 min

Inside Europe 02.03.2023

Finland votes to join NATO, investigative journalist Erika Kinetz on the phone intercepts throwing new light on the horrors of Bucha, and Hungary's spyware scandal deepens. Also: a new Brexit deal for Northern Ireland, Erdogan struggles in the wake of the quakes, German families say they’ve had enough, and we…
2 Mar 54 min

Inside Europe 23.02.2023

We mark the one year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine with a special programme in which we’ll be taking stock of the situation so far - hearing from those most impacted, and asking: where to from here? Featuring interviews with Mark Galeotti and Tetyana Ogarkova. https://linktr.ee/insideeurope&maca=en-podcast_inside-europe-949-xml-mrss
23 Feb 55 min

Inside Europe 16.02.2023

The fingerpointing begins over the lack of quake-proof buildings in Turkey, opposition areas outshine the Erdogan government's response to the disaster, and arch-enemy Greece offers assistance to Ankara. Also: Holding Putin to account for war crimes in Ukraine, how bringing back bodies from the battlefield brings some closure, and inflation…
16 Feb 54 min

Inside Europe Medium 09.02.2023

Turkey after the earthquake: we hear from DW's correspondents on the ground. Also: Giorgia Meloni's first three months in power, Germany gets its first ever Black children's library, Budpest hosts an Invisible University for Ukrainian students and the fight is on to save France's morribund churches.
9 Feb 54 min

Inside Europe 02.02.2023

Czechs elect a former NATO general as head of state, Turkey’s Erdogan clamps down on the political opposition and Spain repatriates the children of "Islamic State" fighters. Also: a million French people march against pension reform, it's game on for Ukrainian football despite the war, and meet the Bulgarian masked…
2 Feb 54 min
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