![](https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/SVETLANA-LAZAREVA-illo-300x300.png)
Svetlana Lazareva
22 May 2024
France is losing the war on drugs
![](https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/389_CAROUSEL_FRANCE-300x169.jpg)
The most brutal aspects of the country's drug war are spreading nationwide
Read the full article15 May 2024
The French march in Rouen
![](https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/388_CAROUSEL_FRANCE-300x169.jpg)
A call for peace remains an integral part of France's annual workers' march
Read the full article01 May 2024
Students stand up for Palestine
![](https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/386_CAROUSEL_FRANCE-300x169.jpg)
Protesters at the Paris Institute of Political Studies have taken a leaf out of Columbia University’s book
Read the full article21 March 2024
Voting in an election without choice
![](https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/GettyImages-2082113288-e1710950083745-300x169.jpg)
The polls opened at the Russian embassy in Paris – what I saw there gave me hope
Read the full article28 February 2024
Yulia, Russia’s new messenger of hope
![](https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/GettyImages-2015015925-e1709032075342-300x169.jpg)
Yulia Navalnaya is keeping her husband’s work alive, making hundreds of thousands of Russians feeling less alone
Read the full article24 January 2024
French kids don’t read books
![](https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/01/373_CAROUSEL_FRENCH-READ-300x169.jpg)
Reading is not the preferred choice of recreation for France’s youth
Read the full article06 December 2023
Notes from the Parisian Underground Symphony
![](https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/12/GettyImages-524080134-e1701779994145-300x169.jpg)
A journey on the Paris Métro can be a kaleidoscope of cultures, stories and impromptu musical performances
Read the full article18 October 2023
Russia’s new art outcasts
![](https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/IMG_4675--e1697535147532-300x169.jpg)
Following in the footsteps of 20th-century exiles who ran from communism, four artists are fighting their own war, from Paris
Read the full article