What drives people in Europe? How do Europeans lead their lives? What are their views, hopes and fears? Fokus Europa provides the answers: up close, exciting and balanced.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 4 days 1 hour 17 minutes
Kalavryta in Greece: City of widows
December 13, 1943 is a dark day in the history of Kalavryta. German soldiers shot dead around 700 men and boys in the small town in southern Greece. Survivors of the massacre have been fighting to this day for restitution.
Moscow, city of oligarchs
Many of Russia's super-rich carved their wealth out of the Soviet Union's vast and crumbling empire. They've proven largely immune to the ongoing economic crisis - unlike most ordinary Muscovites.
Turkey: death on the job
An average of four people die in workplace accidents in Turkey every day. - more than in any European country. Now, relatives have decided to sue for better working conditions like the ones the government promised long ago.
Russia: Moscow's oligarchs
Many of Russia's super-rich carved their wealth out of the Soviet Union's vast and crumbling empire. They've proven largely immune to the ongoing economic crisis - unlike most ordinary Muscovites.
Ukraine: massacres of the Jews
75 years ago, tens of thousands of Jews and other Ukrainians were herded into the Babi Yar ravine and shot dead. The remembrance and accounting for the war crimes has been mired for years.
Freedom in a pig's eye
Traditionally, livestock has roamed freely on Corsica. Now, some incensed farmers would like that to stop. One Corsican shot down over forty pigs and cows - an unmistakeable warning to keep livestock on the French island fenced in.
Poland Proposes Tightening Abortion Laws
The proposed law would leave serious risk to the mother's life as the only legal reason for an abortion, while penalizing illegal abortions with up to five years imprisonment. Thousands of women and men have turned out in protest.
Russia: Like back in the USSR
16 families sharing one apartment - the days of the Kommunalkas seem to be back in St. Petersburg. Communal apartments in older buildings are a relic of the Soviet era and starkly out of step with the grandeur of the world-famous Venice of the North.
Greeks face mass property seizures
Late last year, Alexis Tsipras' left-wing government changed laws protecting insolvent debtors from lenders. Since then, thousands of Greeks have lost their homes to repossessions. It's yet another consequence of the financial crisis.
Greece: Debts Are Coming Due
Late last year, Alexis Tsipras' left-wing government changed laws protecting insolvent debtors from lenders. Since then, thousands of Greeks have lost their homes to repossessions. It's yet another consequence of the financial crisis.