Many of the European Union's most important decisions take shape in a small district of Brussels, where power flows through a dense web of relationships. Here, interest groups spend more than €1.5 billion each year trying to influence the legislative process

For years, the Austrian capital has been experimenting with new models of public housing and providing affordable rents for more than half of its population. A unique system in Europe, it challenges the private market and offers a fairer, more dignified housing system for the future

Family members and emotional companions, today’s pampered dogs occupy an ever-growing place in our hearts. This fuels a global market worth 300 billion dollars and raises an uncomfortable question: are we truly respecting them as animals, or are we projecting our own needs onto them?

At the heart of the Mediterranean lies a district that, alongside cutting-edge missiles and tanks, produces some of the most beautiful yachts in the world. This is how war and the race to rearm have fueled the economic boom of a small yet stunning Italian gulf

The Moroccan city is racing toward the future with its eyes on the 2030 World Cup: major infrastructure projects, finance, and startups are turning it into Africa’s most ambitious metropolis. A cradle of a new generation of young people—educated and open to the world, creative and bold

Capital of China's LGBTQ+ world, tolerant Chengdu is nicknamed ‘Gaydu’: a relaxed and inclusive free port where one can live one's homosexuality openly. An exception in a still deeply conservative country

Ten years ago, El Hierro staked everything on sustainability and renewable energy. Today the small Canary Island faces another epochal challenge: migration from Africa, a phenomenon that is turning it into the Lampedusa of the Atlantic

The "inland areas" cover half of the national territory, and are inhabited by a quarter of the population. But neither transportation nor schools nor health care reach them.

How youth, technology and investment are transforming Europe’s youngest republic into the excellence of the Balkans

Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields: the world’s most fearsome super-volcano is a potential time bomb

In Belgrade, with music and a thirst for empowerment, six talented women are on a mission to change the gypsy world

Along the border between Russia and NATO, where Russian speakers don’t always feel European

Calabria in Southern Italy has some of Europe's worst hospitals. A story of the mafia and an inefficient health service

Climate change in the Mediterranean, new crops, damaged farmland and super technologies

Can man really live forever?

The Indian capital is the world’s most polluted city. And the consequences are disastrous

Thirty years after the civil war, Lebanon is poised between economic crises and political instability

What really separates the richest town from the poorest one of the European Union?

For a long time part of the Soviet Union, Estonia it’s in the middle of the new Cold War

Is Caracas really the tough place they told you?

Young millionaires in Shanghai: not an ordinary Chinese life

Along the Mexican border, in a city where desperate migrants and Americans in search of cut-price dental care cross paths

Long before official diplomacy, market reforms brought American-style capitalism to Havana, reshaping the city’s economy and lifestyles. A small, visible bourgeoisie has emerged, exposing deep contradictions between socialist ideals and growing social inequality

Saint Petersburg is full of old aristocratic palaces that the Communists turned into collective proletarian housing. They still exist, but many people have their eyes on them

Every year in Kenya, obesity kills four out of ten people: a paradox in a country where undernutrition rates remain extremely high. But it is also an emergency that, by 2030, will affect the whole of Africa.

Beneath the unrestrained city of casinos and slot machines, hundreds of homeless people live in tunnels dug sixty years ago to drain stormwater. A shelter from the sun that can become a dangerous trap