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13/09/2026

This European country has FREE public transport for all 😮🚍 Put your guess in the comment before reading on!

🇱🇺 If you said Luxembourg, that’s right! In 2020, the Grand-Duchy became the first country in the world to make its public transport completely free for both residents and visitors.

🎤 Our reporter , herself from the Luxembourgish countryside, takes you for a tour and asks: did it actually change people’s travel habits? ☝️

💸 Now, as to the other question you’re probably asking yourself: no, abolishing fares cost the country surprisingly little.

The reason: even before becoming entirely free, public transport was already heavily subsidised by the state, making tickets quite cheap. A single trip by train, for example, cost only €2, even if you were crossing the entire country.

At the time of the launch, ticket revenue loss was estimated to be around 41 million per year. This covered only 8% of the total cost of running the network (e.g. maintenance operations, conductors’ salaries etc.)

🚗 Still, car culture remains very ingrained in the country: despite free public transport, Luxembourg still has one of the highest car ownership rates in the EU, according to Eurostat.

➡️ What would you do if public transport were free where you live? Let us know in the comments, and don’t forget to subscribe for more content from all over Europe!

Sources: L’Essentiel (25/10/2025), Observatoire des villes du transport gratuit (02/03/2020), Virgule (16/12/2025)

ENTR journalist: Morgane Anneix

11/09/2026

Your country probably just got bigger or smaller… at least on the UN world map. Here’s why ☝️

🗺️ Early September, the United Nations adopted a resolution to start favouring a new world map, the so-called Equal Earth projection.

Today, the most commonly used map is probably the Mercator projection, which was developed by a Flemish cartographer in the 1500s. It’s the one you find in textbooks, wallpapers and even on Google Maps.

🫠 The only issue: it distorts areas so that countries far from the Equator look much bigger (and, some have argued, more symbolically important) than they actually are. Conversely, South America and especially the African continent are significantly downsized.

As experts and activists have been pushing for a new world map to be adopted for years, they even coined a term for this: “cartographic colonialism”.

‼️ By the way, the UN resolution doesn’t ban other maps from being used. Watch till the end to see some other fun projections, and tell us your favourite in the comments ⤵️

Sources: IGN (07/09/2026), The Independent (04/09/2026), The Guardian (04/09/2026)

ENTR journalist: Morgane Anneix

09/09/2026

🇳🇱 Last Tuesday, a group of more than 30 armed men took part in a shootout in the Dutch town of Overasselt. Allegedly, they were trying to recover more than a ton of stolen co***ne.

They ended up killing a 51-year-old security guard and injuring two police officers.

As of right now, 35 suspects have been arrested, including two French minors, but details surrounding the incident remain scarce.

The shootout has sparked a debate in the Netherlands over drug-related violence and the illicit economy that hides behind it. We spoke about it to our colleague Nina from over in Amsterdam 👆

02/09/2026

🌊 The Netherlands always has to deal with the challenge of protecting itself from flooding… Even during a historical drought 🤯

We spoke with our colleague Frank from about a rather surprising consequence of this summer’s exceptionally dry weather: damage to Dutch dikes 🇳🇱

01/09/2026

Are wealthy nations not interested in joining the EU anymore? 🤔🇪🇺

🇮🇸 For Icelanders at least, the answer seems to be ‘no’: last weekend, they narrowly rejected a referendum on even just resuming accession talks with the European Union.

🗳️ And young voters might actually have tipped the polls: according to Politico, only 40% of 18- to 29-year-olds said they were likely to vote ‘yes’ in a poll in late August.

Do you understand Iceland’s decision? Come debate in the comments!

ENTR journalists: Morgane Anneix, Bruno Esteban-Garay

Sources: France Info (31/08/2026), The Guardian (30/08/2026), Politico (30/08/2026)

31/08/2026

🇫🇷France is recalling hundreds of thousands of condoms for potentially being
unsafe.

🇪🇺Officials warn that some of them could even burst, while others were flagged for not having an EU conformity seal.

🫢This is not the first European controversy involving faulty condoms this summer.

👀Watch the video to learn more.

# voxpops

28/08/2026

🇮🇸 Icelanders have a big decision to make on Saturday.

🗳️ The country is holding a referendum on EU membership, and citizens are being asked to decide whether they would like Iceland to restart accession talks with Brussels, or put the matter behind it.

🇪🇺 Of course, even if a majority of Icelanders vote “yes”, this doesn’t mean Iceland will definitely join the EU. It will all depend on the kind of deal they’re able to negotiate. But still… it would bring them one step closer.

🐟🇺🇸 Some of the main considerations for voters as they head to the polls will be Icelandic fisheries and… Donald Trump. But why? Watch this video to understand 👆

26/08/2026

For the latest episode of our “Growing Up in Europe” series, we met , a young Catalan DJ who’s fighting for his region’s independence with music!

In the past couple of years, he’s become a key figure at pro-independence Catalan festivals, and we headed to the latest edition of to interview him 🎶

Check out the full video on our YouTube channel 👀

23/08/2026

Are you able to set some money aside each month like Marno? 💸👀

🇳🇱 Marno, 29, lives in the Dutch town of Emmen, near the border with Germany. He and his partner spend about €1,300 per month on rent whilst saving up to buy their own home. Not an easy task in a country with one of the worst housing crises in Europe…

🏠 According to the Dutch Ministry of Housing and Social Planning, the Netherlands currently face a shortage of nearly 400,000 homes. This has put pressure on both the rental and buying market, where the average house now goes for €500,000.

💡 Besides building more, officials are also exploring a more unusual solution: divide up existing homes into slightly smaller dwellings that can, in total, accommodate more people. Whilst the average European has 1.7 rooms at their disposal, in the Netherlands, it’s closer to 2.1.

👉 What about you, would you be ready to give up some space to fix the housing crisis?

Sources: The Guardian (23/06/2026), NL Times (22/07/2026), Volkshuisvesting Nederland

18/08/2026

How would you feel if the language you spoke every day was not your country’s official language?

We spoke with two young Catalans about what it means to keep their identity alive.

To hear their full testimony, watch our latest documentary on YouTube!

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