Elena Cavallone

World

Road Trip Europe Day 24: Caserta/Naples - "Commuters should be given some dignity"

Our team continues their journey across the continent ahead of the European Elections - today, they took a train with commuters from Cassino to the city of Naples.

18 April 2019

Italy

Road Trip Europe Day 22: L'Aquila – 'I'm voting to say thank you'

Today we are in L'Aquila, the city devastated by an earthquake exactly ten years ago. Reconstruction is still ongoing, and has in large part been funded by EU money.

16 April 2019

World

Road Trip Europe Day 21: Verona - "Europe has to stay borderless"

As we continue our road trip across Europe ahead of the EU parliamentary elections in May, our correspondents Jack Parrock and Elena Cavallone stop in Verona – where Shakespeare’s famous Romeo and Juliet is set.

15 April 2019

Europe News

Former European Commission president,Prodi, on Brexit "It's a mess"

Brexit chaos is dominating the headlines. Euronews asked the opinion of the former head of the executive body of the EU and Italian prime minister

15 March 2019

Europe News

Anuna: the young Belgian who fights for the climate

Inspired by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Anouna de De Wever is one of the founders of the movement "Youth for Climate"

7 March 2019

Europe News

The Brief: from death row to the European Parliament

European countries have long banned capital punishment, but Europeans can end up on death row around the world, so we look at how Europe can help to abolish the death sentence.

28 February 2019

Europe News

The Netherlands tougher on migration after granting asylum to Armenian family

As European election approach, the government led by Mark Rutte is tightening up asylum regulations

25 February 2019

Europe News

Electrifying politics? The new candidates vying for your votes

"Bad politics brought us were we are," says Colombe the co-founder of Volt - a pan-European party hoping to win at least 25 seats across seven EU countries in May's elections. We met three of the members, who met as students, in Brussels this week.

22 February 2019

Europe News

A hard Brexit may put a thorn in your flower purchase

Tariffs and increased border checks in the UK could lead to increased prices of flowers imported from the Netherlands.

12 February 2019

Europe News

MEPs to discuss violent political climate in Europe

MEPs will discuss the increasing climate of hatred in European politics in Brussels Wednesday.

29 January 2019

Europe News

The Brief: Space race, religious freedom, gas talks and rule of law

In this edition we look at what Europe's future policy is on space (including joining up with NASA to smash asteroids), a court ruling on religious holidays, Russia Ukraine gas talks and Hungary's Foreign Minister speaks about rule of law.

22 January 2019

Serbia

Serbia smiles eastward as Putin visit builds ties

Russia has strong support in Serbia because of its backing over Kosovo.

18 January 2019

Cinema

Kustendorf festival celebrates best of independent cinema

Partly financed by the Serbian government, the Festival created by director Emir Kusturica aims to promote independent cinema.

18 January 2019

Europe News

The film festival halfway up a mountain

Forget glitter, red carpets and black ties — at Kustendorf Film and Music Festival you’ll need to wear boots and a good coat.

15 January 2019

Italy

2018 review: EU and Rome at loggerheads over budget and debt

2018 review: EU and Rome at loggerheads over budget and debt

26 December 2018

Europe News

Gilets Jaunes echoes heard in Lisbon

Gilets Jaunes echoes heard in Lisbon

10 December 2018

Portugal

SOS: last call for the European socialist party

Gathered in Brussels, the European socialist leaders endorsed the candidacy of Frans Timmermans as president of the European Commission. Will they be able to calm the anger that seems to prevail in Europe?

8 December 2018

Europe News

Dutch man builds the Noah's Ark: when Bible shapes the debate on climate change

A Dutch carpenter reproduced the ark, by following the instructions contained in the Old Testament. He warns that there will be new floods

5 December 2018

Ukraine

Tackling the nightmare of being a woman and HIV positive in Ukraine

In Ukraine, HIV discrimination is still common and amid conflict, cases of HIV are on the rise as families struggle to cope with medical shortages

30 November 2018

Europe News

Being woman and HIV-positive in an armed conflict: a life-sentence in Eastern Ukraine

Discrimination and daily violence: this is the reality that HIV-positive women face in eastern Ukraine, where the incidence of HIV could turn into an epidemic bomb

30 November 2018