‘When the Cranes Fly South,’ the debut novel by a sociology doctoral student, has captivated nearly 200,000 readers in a country of 10 million inhabitants, where reading is on the decline. This bestseller is set to be translated into about 30 languages.
โCouldnโt organise a piss-up in a brewery,โ one frustrated candidate wrote.
New arrivals sit in drab spaces and are learn how to fit in, in a film that quietly addresses the costs of integration to minority groupsThomas Fรผrhapterโs documentary sheds light on the challenges of adjusting to a new culture as it follows a series o…
Despite its rhetoric, Washington’s busy organizing a historically unprecedented retrenchment of American power.
At first, I didnโt know my mouchoir from my torchon, but shifts at Le Bar Commun improved my French, opening up a world of opportunitiesI donโt know why I thought I would be like Grace Jones. The singer and model (neither of which I am) reportedly beca…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Oslo on Thursday for talks with Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, the Norwegian government said. Zelensky’s visit comes as some 30 military chiefs from countries keen to protect an eventual Rus…
In ending media mission Washington will be “ceding territory to the Russians, the Iranians and the Chinese,โ says Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty CEO.
Ukraine said talks with the United States in Saudi Arabia began “very constructively”, with a partial ceasefire with Russia on the table hours after Kyiv conducted its largest drone attack on Moscow in three years of war. For in-depth analysis and a d…
Cottagecore, gorpcore, balletcore โ theyโre all coming under fire from French language officials. But what does it mean – and will anyone actually arrรชt? Plus: your wardrobe dilemmas solvedThey think itโs bizarre not to take a two-hour lunch break, and…
Catalan president, Salvador Illa, is fighting for Spain’s regional languages Catalan, Basque and Galician to be recognised as official EU languages.
In an interview with Euronews, president of Catalonia Salvador Illa talked about the possibility of Catalan, Galician and Basque becoming official EU languages.
We may not be able to change how people ingest information, but we can and should place guardrails around the evidence we use to inform the public.
Fresh, delicious Asian food in a convenient location.
Carla Toney responds to Donald Trumpโs proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico, and suggests a name change of her ownDonald Trump has suggested that the Gulf of Mexico should be renamed and referred to as the Gulf of America in the future. I have&nb…
We listened to three hours of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Lex Fridman so you don’t have to.
About 34,000 Ukrainian children have fled to UK since Russian invasion โ yet are unable to study their mother tongueUkraine is lobbying the UK government to give teenage refugees who fled the war-torn country the chance to study a GCSE in Ukrainian, am…
Brussels and Bern have been negotiating the partnership agreement for ten years, with several hiccups along the way.
Three years in, Russiaโs invasion has drawn in dozens of countries.
Disrupter No. 3 โ Poland
AI could instantly open up a huge range of books in different languages โ but fiction really does require that human touch
Axel Scheffler says he hopes Wuschel auf der Erde will encourage more children to learn his first languageAxel Scheffler, the illustrator behind the international childrenโs bestseller The Gruffalo, has launched a book to help primary school pupils lea…
Parliament votes to express โdeepest regretโ over more than a century of โNorwegianisationโ of minoritiesThe Norwegian parliament has apologised unreservedly to minority groups and Indigenous people for more than a century of historical injustices comm…
Many liberal Russians shelter in states once part of the Soviet Union. Itโs time that they learned to respect the cultures and languages their nation has so long suppressedOne day in the 1990s, I was playing with my cousin in a local park in Chiศinฤu, …
Multilingualism is coming for Flanders โ though not everyone likes that idea.
They are more likely to thrive and receive funding from Nordic governments if an academy is formed to establish unified language norms, writes Donald RayfieldThe alarming prospect of extinction for the Sรกmi languages of Nordic countries is not as inevi…
Even as I am taught about the German credo of tolerance and compassion, the government is betraying it to pander to the far rightI live in a small, quaint old town in north-west Germany, and every day I attend four hours of German and integration lesso…
Sweden and Finland plan to withdraw funding to safeguard nine languages defined as threatened by UnescoThe Indigenous parliaments of Sweden, Finland and Norway have warned that some Sรกmi languages could disappear if Stockholm and Helsinki press ahead w…
Immediate action and investment are needed to save the languages.
In 2022, 6.5% of primary school students in the EU were learning two or more foreign languages, according to Eurostat.
British MCs are increasingly making bilingual tracks with their European peers โ and, they explain, itโs not just to attract new audiencesThe British are notoriously bad at bothering to learn other languages โ and even listening to them. Across Europe,…
Revealed: a small but growing number of Chinese people are travelling to the Balkans with the hope of getting into the EU In a sleepy Bosnian town, barely five miles from the border with the European Union, a crumbling old water tower is falling into r…
Everything you need to know about Ursula von der Leyen’s team for her second term.
Regulators are cracking down on tech firmsโ development of artificial intelligence systems over data protection concerns.
‘La Mort en Face’ (‘Death in the Face’), his third book recounting the strangest, craziest and saddest cases of his career, has sold 300,000 copies and is about to be translated into some 30 languages.
The scrapping of the Erasmus scheme was a mistake. But by working with Brussels, the PM can put it rightIn my lifetime, it has always felt as if the government has served old people at the expense of young people. The most notable example during the Co…
Joan Walley on how the efforts to promote the teaching of German in Stoke on Trent are bearing fruit. Plus letters from Veronica Hardstaff and Keith HaywardThe Goethe Institute is right to insist that the shocking decrease in the number of A-level stud…
With A-level entries for the language halving in a decade, a new initiative is hoping to save it from the academic scrapheapWhen Londoner Amber Tallon started learning German at the age of 12, she โtook to it like a duck to waterโ, she says.An A-level …
Iโm married to a German, bringing up my family in the Netherlands and speak five languages โ yet I still donโt โbelongโ I have always thought of myself as the very model of a model European. Both sets of my grandparents were diplomats who lived and wor…
Kamala Harris’ national security adviser is one of a dying breed of top U.S. officials with deep knowledge of Europe.
Your quick guide on what to expect from the different quarters of Brussels โ depending on which languages you speak and whom
you might prefer to have as neighbor.
Your guide to the jargon that’s everywhere in Brussels.
Emphasizing Europeโs โJudeo-Christianโ heritage and looking only to antiquity betrays the European project, excluding the various peoples and entities that shaped the Continent.
Across the globe, populists are rolling back efforts to save nature and the planet.
Quietly and without much fanfare, Viktor Orbรกnโs government is allowing more and more guest workers into the country.
The Meloni coalitionโs plan to give more power to โvirtuousโ regions has inflamed the country’s North-South divide.
The EU is complicated, so let’s break it down for our cousins across the Atlantic.
Prime ministers in the wings to save Belgium.
Billions of voters head to the polls this year โ and consultants, advocates and nonprofits want to use the emerging tech to reach them. But the success of such campaigns is far from clear.
Amid deepfakes and disinformation, votersโ better judgment is likely to prevail.
For us, young people from all corners of Europe, the European flag is a unifying symbol that transcends borders, cultures, and languages. It symbolises our collective desire to live in a Europe where freedom, peace, and cooperation reign supreme, Dorin…
While Europeโs lingua franca remains dominant, there has been a definite shift since a Portuguese song triumphed in 2017There was a time when in order to win Eurovision you had to โfly on the wings of loveโ, โtake me to your heavenโ or โsail into infin…
Fiona Schenk outlines the compassionate treatment refugees receive in Germany and the benefits that brings to the host countryRe the treatment of refugees in the UK (Report, 2 May), I work in Germany in a government-run institution for newly arrived as…
The cityโs startling turnaround has triggered a debate about whether ordinary residents are benefiting, or itโs become a playground for property developers and affluent newcomers.
Spain’s PM has threatened to resign, but will he end up becoming the next president of the European Council?
Pro-Kremlin network “Doppelganger” is buying Facebook ads to spread divisive content on social media site ahead of EU election.
Hundreds of European conservatives gathered in Cyprus for a “cultural weekend” that mixed policy discussions, networking and time away from the bureaucratic machine.
The survival of ancient dialects matters not just for scholarship, but because of the wisdom they convey about how to live with natureThe launch of a โlast chanceโ crowdsourcing tool to record a vanishing Greek dialect drew attention back this week to …
By calling for conquest, Xi has made an enemy of the Taiwan’s tribes, which rightfully say their ancestors inhabited the island long before the dawn of the Chinese era.
Members of a pro-Russian oligarchโs party can now run for president later this year.
EU and US officials have warned about potential attacks in recent months.
Parliamentary elections thought vulnerable to fake news will test social media firms and blocโs new DSA lawsSocial media firms including TikTok, X, Facebook and Instagram will be required to put an army of factcheckers and moderators in place with a co…
Social media giants will have to tool up to stop deepfakes and disinformation from going viral.
The Russian president is about to be reelected for another six years. What will that mean for his country and the West?
The Italian prime minister is courting Trump and preparing to tilt European policy her way.
The European Parliament voted on Tuesday (12 March) to extend a rule that leaves the door open to keep sidelining Irish Gaelic and Maltese from the institutionโs translation and interpretation services until the end of the next mandate
What Europeโs largest private collection of Asian art says about the trade in cultural heritage.
Email asking Babiลก colleagues to dig up dirt on Czech foreign minister was sent in error to ecological activist.
Kremlin-allied breakaway region claimed that Chiศinฤu is ramping up “pressure” โ and now it needs Moscow’s help.
Maksim Kuzminov flew a Russian miltary helicopter to Ukraine. Armed with a new identity, he moved to a Spanish resort. Then he was killed in an underground car parkIn some ways it is easy to see why Maksim Kuzminov chose to start a new life in Villajoy…
Your guide to the EU’s big election.
Readers respond to Michele Gazzolaโs article on the dominance of the English language across the worldIt was refreshing to see the Guardian publishing an article claiming what those of us working in the field of English as a lingua franca have argued f…
For fluent speakers, there are clear benefits โ for others, there are huge costs. Here are some ways to boost linguistic justiceAnyone spending their Christmas holidays on the European mainland will likely have observed that it is quite common to meet …
At the European Council, liberalism and populism will lock horns. Whichever side prevails could decide the course for years to comeI have been in more than 20 European countries this year and I have seen two Europes. Across large parts of the continent…
Even as he allegedly worked for Qatar and Morocco, Francesco Giorgi was looking for other options.
The in-tray is overflowing, but political attention is elsewhere.
The prime minister of Belgium is really a tech geek.
Our country voted decisively against Brexit โ and has so much to offer Europe.
Generous investment in Seoul, Bogotรก and beyond has created local artists who can rip up the world stage. Meanwhile, the UK cuts its fundingThe dominance of English-language pop music appears to be waning. Before Psyโs breakthrough K-pop single Gangnam…
This delay comes only weeks after France sued the Commission over the primacy of English in hiring.
Kyiv says it is ready to work to join the bloc.
France is ready to put up a fight to defend ‘la langue de Moliรจre’ in front of EU court.
The Catalan government has launched a massive public relations campaign across Europe as negotiations to reform the roster of official EU languages continue with the next ministerial meeting on the subject scheduled for Tuesday (24 October).ย
