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RE: European Stories
Season 10 · Episode 50
Public Health Funerals
0.030mMarch 26, 2026
For people who have passed away with no next of kin, funerals are paid for by the state. ARTE Re: looks at how these very simple affairs happen in Berlin. Is it respectful to the deceased?
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