Europe

Policemen block an exit in Cologne's main railway station, where a man took a hostage in the early afternoon on October 15th, 2018, at Cologne Central Station in Cologne, Germany.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Conservation groups report that wetland forests are being drained, logged, burned, shipped across the Atlantic, and converted to monoculture pine plantations to create woody biomass.

• By Rachel Fritts

Europe announced it will seek to ban the use of certain common plastic items, including plastic cutlery, straws, plates, swabs, and fishing gear.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Globalization, politics, and the American psyche are all to blame.

• By Dwyer Gunn

More than a month after it's most recent elections the country's populace once again faces political gridlock, regional division, and a worsening relationship with Europe.

• By Claudia Chiappa

Recent studies find that Muslims throughout Europe repeatedly experience discrimination because of their religion.

• By Olga Mecking

A pile of tires burns as prison officers demonstrate in front of Villefranche-sur-Saône prison in Lyon, France, on January 15th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

An advocate general at the European Court of Justice declared that Uber is not chiefly a digital platform, but a transportation services company, in a highly influential recommendation to the court.

• By Jack Denton

A new study puts recent European summer heatwaves in ancient context.

• By Nathan Collins

Deaths at sea and a chaotic refugee influx reflect the failure of European Union leaders to settle on a common immigration policy, says one of Italy’s top elected officials.

• By Sebastian Rotella

As farmers came to Europe from the Near East, they usually brought their culture with them—just not in the Baltics and other parts of northern Europe.

• By Nathan Collins

Smartphone penetration in Spain is similar to that in the United States, but nobody over there seems to be talking about addiction to technology. They are talking though—to each other, in person.

• By Kyle Chayka

The call center boom in Lisbon, Portugal, provides another example of how brain drain promotes economic development.

• By Jim Russell

On the surface, today’s Jews can go about their lives as proudly, as openly, and as securely as members of the majority. But as the recent attacks in Denmark and France—and Europe’s response in the aftermath—remind us, this is a frighteningly fragile, if not illusory, achievement.

• By Yascha Mounk

New research refutes the claim that European rodents are responsible for the Black Death.

• By Kate Wheeling

It's actually not half bad! Well, except for the guns.

• By Brian Blickenstaff

After growing up watching the benefits of Iraqi oil elude the Iraqi people, a young executive insisted that Norway do things differently.

• By Lisa Margonelli

As feared, the possibility of once rare or neglected diseases slopping out of the cauldron that is Syria is becoming more real.

• By Michael Todd

New research from Europe finds those in creative professions are relatively low-paid, more likely to be unemployed—and robustly satisfied with their work.

• By Tom Jacobs

New research finds that recent European history shows up in the genetic material of those living on the continent.

• By Michael White

Worried about the government accepting gay marriages? It only pretty recently started accepting straight ones.

• By Daniel Luzer

Two lessons for Walter White: European meth users are locavores, and there's not that many of them anyway.

• By Marc Herman