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RE: European Stories
Season 10 · Episode 28
The EU Parliament's Perpetual Commuting
0.031mFebruary 18, 2026
Every month, the entire European Parliament relocates. 720 members of parliament and thousands of staff members move from Brussels to Strasbourg, some 400 kilometers away, for almost four days – only to return again afterward. It's a practice that many no longer consider sensible. Can Europe really still afford this "traveling circus"?
Episodes
- Episode 1Will alcohol-free wine save winemakers?
- Episode 2Malta - Desert or Water Laboratory of the Future?
- Episode 3Bulgaria: The Super Physics Teacher
- Episode 4Spain: High Seas Rescue
- Episode 5Spiders: Between Phobia and Fascination
- Episode 6Poor masters, poor beasts!
- Episode 7Georgia's children, declared dead and then sold
- Episode 8Last trip to Belgium, for euthanasia
- Episode 9Give up alcohol and live life to the fullest!
- Episode 10Disbanding of the PKK: a hope for peace?
- Episode 11Latvia Arms Itself Against Putin
- Episode 12Tracking Gas Leaks
- Episode 13Climate: New Dangers in the Mountains
- Episode 14Urban Exploration in Romania: Saving the Relics
- Episode 15Ireland Overwhelmed by Cocaine
- Episode 16Breast Cancer: Their Daily Struggle
- Episode 17Romanian Expats: To Leave or to Return?
- Episode 18In Austria, the diabolical Krampus parade
- Episode 19The reading phenomenon of Gen Z
- Episode 20Forgotten villages in Albania's mountains
- Episode 21Ninja, a sport conquers Europe
- Episode 22The Mafia's sacred cows
- Episode 23When there's no money for tampons and pads
- Episode 24Foreign Doctors Save German Provincial Hospitals
- Episode 25Living with floods
- Episode 26Iranians in Europe: A Cry for Freedom
- Episode 27Bosnia's Citizens and Illegal Waste
- Episode 28The EU Parliament's Perpetual Commuting
- Episode 29Orca Shows at an End?
- Episode 30Not my king – Doubts about Charles
- Episode 31Poland: These Milk Bars Have Become Cult Classics
- Episode 32Kharkiv - My brother, dead in Ukraine
- Episode 33A polar cold snap hits Northern Europe
- Episode 34I want to live to 120!
- Episode 35Croatia Between Mines and Sea
- Episode 36Young French people take over old farms
- Episode 37Too many animals in the zoo – How does modern species conservation work?
- Episode 38Special Unit for Vienna's Migrant Women
- Episode 39German Expats: Growing Old in Tuscany?
- Episode 40Blacksmiths' Competition
- Episode 41The Dinosaur Fossil Business
- Episode 42Girl Power for an Ancient Ritual
- Episode 43Doctors of the Aegean
- Episode 44Saving Georgia's Largest Dam
- Episode 45The Challenges of Short Stature
- Episode 46Ski patrol paramedics on constant duty
- Episode 47My Life After Ozempic
- Episode 48A Home for LGBTQ+ Seniors
- Episode 49Stay-At-Home Dads
- Episode 50Public Health Funerals
- Episode 51Road Wars in Paris
- Episode 52Bouncers Against Squatters in Spain
- Episode 53Crater Danger in Anatolia
- Episode 54The Sell-Off of Ski Resorts
- Episode 55A Pizzeria That Gives Autistic People Independence
- Episode 56Bosnia's Farmers and the Coal Clan
- Episode 57Hungary's Smear Campaign Against Anti-Fascists
- Episode 58Osteoarthritis – New hope for the knee
- Episode 59Women working underground – coal for Ukraine
- Episode 60The most dangerous horse race on the continent
- Episode 61Diagnose Multiple Sklerose
- Episode 62Europe's lithium hunger: who pays the price?
- Episode 63Europe's Fight Against Cocaine
- Episode 64Healing for Ukrainian Soldiers in the Carpathians
- Episode 65Anger at Luxury Yachts
- Episode 66A Village Doctor in Russia
- Episode 67The Blatten Landslide – A New Beginning from Nothing
- Episode 68Shadow Work in the Netherlands
- Episode 69Child Poverty in Spain
- Episode 70France's Shepherds: United for More Rights
- Episode 71My Life in Retro Style
- Episode 72Women's Rights in Latvia Under Threat
- Episode 73Women of the Gitans Struggle for Freedom
- Episode 74Spain’s Boom Thanks to Immigration
- Episode 75Home: Venezuela - Exile: Madrid
- Episode 76Romania: The Uncharted Land
- Episode 77Sicily: A City on the Brink
- Episode 78Italy's Crumbling Heritage
- Episode 79Giving a Kidney to a Stranger
- Episode 80Greek Asparagus Challenges the Competition
- Episode 81Romania's Controversial Horse Markets
- Episode 82How Europe's Militaries Are Recruiting the Next Generation
- Episode 83Across Europe by Night Train
- Episode 84National Parks, Wildfires and the Challenge of Protection
- Episode 85When Citizens Take Justice into Their Own Hands
- Episode 86The Snake Catchers of Cocullo
- Episode 87Nightlife District Under Pressure
- Episode 88The Tempi Train Disaster - Tragedy Without Consequences?
- Episode 89Postmen and Doctors Fighting for Better Health
- Episode 90New Ideas for Safer Cities
- Episode 91A Country at Its Limit - When the State Loses Its Municipalities
- Episode 92Sewing for Europe - The Invisible Women of Durrës
- Episode 93A Fresh Start at the Campsite
- Episode 94Blood Feuds in Albania
- Episode 95Scorched Land, Shattered Dreams?
- Episode 96Montenegro - Wild, Affordable, Corrupt?
- Episode 97Hungary - One Family at a Crossroads
- Episode 98K-Pop Passion
- Episode 99New Approaches to Policing
- Episode 100Project Kamp, the world benefactor in Portugal
- Episode 101Child abuse - soon to be a crime forever?
- Episode 102Raccoons Invade Europe
- Episode 103River swimming in the city
- Episode 104Megafires in France
- Episode 105Young, loud, democratic in Saxony-Anhalt
- Episode 106A Village and 1 Million Chickens
- Episode 107Generation No Kids in France
- Episode 108The War on the Other Shore
- Episode 109Albania between Protest and Profit
- Episode 110An Emperor for Austria?
- Episode 111Asylum in a House of Worship
- Episode 112Alone at 18, when state support ends
- Episode 113When Arsenic Poisons a Serbian Town
- Episode 114After the earthquake - The survivors of Antakya
- Episode 11540 degrees Celsius in the shade - Europe's unequal heat
- Episode 116A farrier alleviates animal suffering in Romania
- Episode 117No more back pain!
- Episode 118Surgery in the womb, hope for babies
- Episode 119The Swiss and their bunkers
- Episode 120New life for Italy's kiosks
- Episode 121A Cheese at the Centre of a Dispute
- Episode 122Invasion of the Parrots
- Episode 123Between Two Worlds: Refugees from Ukraine
- Episode 124Small Flat? Renovate Instead of Moving
- Episode 125New start in the women's shelter
- Episode 126The Faroe Islands – In the Sights of the Great Powers
- Episode 127Bulgaria’s Rose Oil Industry in Crisis
- Episode 128Belgium’s Host Families for People with Mental Illness
- Episode 129Haute Cuisine for Everyone!
- Episode 130Asbestos Alert in Austria
- Episode 131Parents Against Social Media
- Episode 132Shalom Italy – A New Home for Israelis?
- Episode 133Back to Their Homeland: Poland
- Episode 134Following the Route of Turkish Guest Workers
- Episode 135Vorkuta – Russia’s Forgotten City in the Arctic
- Episode 136Fasting to Combat Chronic Diseases
- Episode 137Disappeared During the Kosovo War
- Episode 138Rescue Mission for a Nuclear Power Plant Under Heat Stress
- Episode 139Holiday in the Arctic Circle - Norway’s Lofoten Islands Under Pressure
- Episode 140Britain’s Pothole Heroes
- Episode 141Escalation in the West Bank
- Episode 142Jellyfish Invasion in the Mediterranean
- Episode 143Saving France’s Village Cafés
- Episode 144Troop Withdrawal - Are the Americans Abandoning Us?
- Episode 145Longing for Buddha
- Episode 146Hope in the Face of Bee Die-offs
- Episode 147Cliff Diving - The Thrill of Great Heights
- Episode 148Valencia - The Flood and the Rescue of the Photographs
- Episode 149Trump Drives US Researchers to Europe
- Episode 150Gen Z Discovers Faith