Greece & Spain: a precarious health system
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of a strong public health system. Since 2010, both Greece ans Spain have suffered cuts in their public systems due to severe measures proposed during the crisis. Popaganda and El Salto analyze the effects these measures had during the Covid crisis.
Spain & Poland: 6 questions and answers on the energy crisis
The climate crisis and the energy chaos caused by the Russian invasion have changed European markets and affected people’s wallets. In this video, Krytyka Polityczna and El Salto analyze six key issues about the energy model in Poland and Spain.
Italy: Remembering fascism on Milan’s street
Saverio Ferrari is an Italian expert of the far-right and head of the Democratic observatory on the new right. It has been monitoring neo-fascist groups and the radical right in Italy since 1999. VD met Ferrari, who takes us on a tour of the most important places in Milan for the far right. The tour […]
France: The MAP is discriminatory for Black Women
Pierrette is the founder and president of Diivines LGBTQIA+ association that fights for the representation and visibility of Afro-Caribbean, Afro-descendant LGBTQIA+ people. Pierrette explains how the MAP legislation in France is discriminatory for black women. Indeed, she denounces the pairing rule which means that a white PMA applicant can only receive a white donation and […]
Greece: the rarity of a Queer household in Athens
Marios Sergios Iliakis is an artist, former LGBTQ+ rights activist and a gay father. He had his child, Dimitris, with one of his best friends from school, a straight woman and they are raising him together. Marios explains how it feels to be part of a family away from the heteronormative style.
Hungary: Harassment and self-defense
Péter Hámori teaches self-defense to women and girls who have been victims of domestic violence or intimate partner violence, but also to those who are attracted to combat sports or do not feel safe in stressful situations.
Spain: the fight for the time of care of single mothers
Errukine Olaziregi is a single mother and works for public administration in Madrid. When her daughter was, Errukine had 16 weeks of leave to care for her. It’s half the time she would have had as a child in a two-parents family. This is why she went to court, to fight for the time of […]
Poland: Finding a home in Warsaw for Ukrainian refugees
With more than 8 millions Ukrainians crossing the Polish border and almost 500.000 refugees arriving in Warsaw, the housing situation is complicated. Oksana is Ukrainian and works for a Warsaw-based NGO called the Ukrainian House. She helps people who just came to Warsaw to find a place to stay. She connects with people who cannot […]
Greece: the antidote to Greece’s housing crisis
CoHab Athens is an exchange platform for urban researchers, activists and anyone interested in claiming housing as a right and exploring alternative housing models through self-management and collective ownership. CoHab Athens uses participatory workshop methods in order to diagnose local needs related to housing. The organization seeks to create the first project of cooperative housing/collective […]
Italy & France: can you save money?
Can you save money? VD News and StreetPress ask young people on the streets of Milan and Paris if they manage to save money.
