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Gaudi’s architecture, including Park Güell, is extensively decorated with Moorish-style tiles, known as azulejo in Spanish. Pajor Pawel/Shutterstock

The Islamic legacy built into Gaudí’s most famous designs

The Barcelona architect was a devout Catholic, but his work was heavily influenced by Moorish techniques.
The Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft – one of the most successful military collaborations of the cold war making an appearance at the ILA Berlin Air Show in 2024. Sergey Kohl/Shutterstock

Compete to survive, cooperate to exist: the sovereignty paradox at the heart of Europe’s defence industry

Understanding the coopetition mechanics behind Europe’s defence dilemma is vital and key for making much-needed headway.
Predictive pyrogeography-powered software and real-time models offer fire responders considerable benefits for understanding where and how wildfires will spread, via mapping based on wind conditions, topography, temperature and the dryness, density and types of foliage that serve as fuel. Apiguide/Shutterstock (no reuse)

Analysing wildfire behaviour can help detect risk zones earlier and support fire‑smart strategies

Studying the scale and intensity of previous fires can help us to detect thermal hotspots earlier and support faster, smarter crisis response and post-fire restoration.
What next for European defence following the announcement of the scuppering of the joint combat aircraft project championed by Paris and Berlin? VanderWolf Images/Shutterstock

What the failed next generation fighter jet deal means for European defence

The collapse of the Future Combat Air System programme led by France and Germany highlights how diverging national interests and coordination difficulties are challenging European armament cooperation.
Social housing projects in Barcelona, Spain, which has sought EU funding to build public low-rent accommodation faster and cheaper amid ongoing protests over soaring rents and high home prices. CSP/Shutterstock

Europe needs 10 million homes and net‑zero buildings by 2040. Here are four ways it could happen

The housing shortage is a major concern for many EU citizens. A foresight study by more than 30 experts examines four ways affordable, low-carbon homes could emerge by 2040.
Immigrants, in Belgium as elsewhere, often work, sometimes even when their papers are not in order in short-staffed areas, such as elderly care. Jacob Lund/Shutterstock

Is public opinion in favour of granting Europe’s undocumented migrants legal status?

A new study by the University of Liège that takes a closer look at the situation in Belgium shows that there is public support for granting undocumented migrants who work legal status.
History has shown that fertiliser is among the natural resources that repeatedly gets caught in the crossfire in wartime. Fotokostic / Shutterstock

Fertiliser: the forgotten history linking the agricultural commodity and empire in wartime

A labour and political ecology expert looks back at imperialistic logic and how chemical fertilisers have repeatedly served as strategic objectives and weapons, particularly in wartime.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrive for a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris on April 17, 2026. Jeanne Accorsini/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Why the Iran war is breaking the US‑European strategic alliance

European leaders are learning they cannot rely on Washington, and that the US will act against their interests and at their economic expense.
In the last two decades, as a result of climate-driven sea warming, almost half of commercially relevant fish in the Mediterranean have been deserting their original habitats in their quest for higher latitudes, depths and cooler waters. KinoMasterskaya / Shutterstock

What fish redistribution in the Mediterranean is telling us about species’ climate resilience

The Mediterranean is one of the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems. A scientific study on shifting distribution dynamics examines how its fish species contend with sea warming.

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