Inside Europe

Levi Bridges, DW reporter covering Central Asian migrants returning from Russia. Nick Martin, DW reporter on proposed changes to jury trials in England and Wales. They discuss shifting migration flows and why migrants are leaving Russia. They examine plans to curtail jury trials, legal backlogs, and the debate over rights and trust in the justice system.

From Cold War power games to the cultural aspirations of the Pahlavi era, this extended conversation pulls back the curtain on the global forces that continue to shape - and be shaped by - Iran today. Dr Roham Alvandi is Director of the Iranian History Initiative at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

How European intersections with Iran's past might help us understand our collective present and how Turkey might hold the key to an exit strategy from the Iran conflict. Then: European elections from Denmark and Slovenia to rural France. Plus: the intriguing story of one of the most controversial deaths in Czech political history. + https://shorturl.at/h7PDP + ?maca=en-podcast_inside-europe-949-xml-mrss

Cyprus on alert as Middle East tensions spill into Europe; Orban turns anti‑Ukrainian rhetoric into campaign fuel; and Paris heads to the polls in a tight left‑right showdown. Plus: Turkey’s AI‑driven protest surveillance, Spain’s weather reporters under attack, Tromso’s tourism troubles, and a taste of tradition from Bologna.

European responses to the war in the Middle East, where Spain is the outlier once again; compulsory military service in Croatia, and home concerts in Prague. Then: an International Women’s Day special connecting past feminist milestones with the present.

DW's investigative journalist Alican Uludag arrested in Turkey, four years of war in Ukraine, and Ukraine's freedom song. Then: what Quentin Deranque's killing might mean for the French Left, Turkey's earthquake anniversary, the Berlinale Teddy Award turns 40, and an art exhibition exposes Robert Fico's tightening grip on Slovak cultural institutions.

A UK by-election that could spell trouble for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a wrap-up of the Munich Security Conference, a look at the Berlinale and whether it’s still political, and France’s last newspaper hawker. Then: efforts to rebuild Aghdam, US trans people seeking asylum in the Netherlands, and a pagan tradition seeing a revival — wassailing. + film.macht.kritisch https://shorturl.at/OTkz1 +?maca=en-podcast_inside-europe-949-xml-mrss

Peter Viggo Jakobsen, a Danish military analyst, explains Denmark’s longer conscription. Lavinia Pitu, a DW video editor, outlines the Hashim Thaci trial and the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. Sophia Kleftaki, a DW Greek reporter, investigates the Chios collision that killed 15 migrants, conflicting accounts, restricted footage and local political tensions.

Levi Bridges, DW reporter on religion in Russia; Brendan O'Shea, arts journalist covering Daughters of Donbas; Lars Bavanger, Norwegian DW correspondent on Arctic geopolitics. They discuss Epstein files and political fallout across Europe. They examine rising Islamophobia and the Orthodox Church's influence in Russia. They explore Arctic security, indigenous voices, and a music project giving voice to children taken from Ukraine.

How the US shifted from Greenland’s natural partner to its most feared would-be colonizer — and why the American far right is now a liability for Europe’s. Plus: pre-election Hungary, the retrial in the Ján Kuciak murder, Serbia’s oil troubles, and a portrait of Austro-Mexican artist Tamara Flores.