I am still in it for a wonderful green future. Nature and wildlife, but also useful, accessible tech, art, and urban planning. Polish, living in Sweden. I love living in the EU and the values it represents. Fascinated by and open to the rest of the world.

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  • It’s quite a repetitive thing, but arte.tv has quite some content made from European perspective. mubi.com has arthouse cinema with global coverage, and Europe may well be the most vibrant place for arthouse cinema (though international production and audience is a very distinctive trait of arthouse).

    Most of the time I go to a cinema I see this network at the intro - www.europa-cinemas.org Local, indie cinema, even if you watch at home most of the time, might be a great place to look for interesting movies. Some of them also play classics (I know BioRio does it in Stockholm)

    I’ve sometimes been sometimes watching “TLDR Europe” and “EU Made Simple” for EU news. They are on Youtube, but I believe there is a PeerTube copy now (would appreciate a link).

    News is easy: The Guardian, Deutsche Welle, Le Monde, France24, all have fully working sites in English - whatever suits you.

    From podcasts one of the things I’ve tried is the award-winning Living Planet podcast from Deutsche Welle: https://www.dw.com/en/living-planet/program-19028671 Kinda in similar mood, but more hippie/way-out/thought-provoking is “Forest of Thought” based in Uppsala, Sweden: https://forestofthought.com/

    In general, I am not sure if “alternative to” approach works for culture. European culture is markedly different from American. At least for me, it is one of the reasons to stay in this part of the world.










  • Szewek@sopuli.xyztoBuyFromEU@feddit.orghow Ireland helps annulling EU laws
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    16 days ago

    Great comment. We can and should criticize the actions of the Irish government, and the German, Hungarian, Polish ones, etc. But boycotting Ireland is too far of a stretch.

    There is a good point related to what OP is writing: Beware of “European” sidekicks of US companies. Many subsidiaries are a good European-washing examples, though might still be better than full-US companies when no alternative is available. But labeling the whole country of Ireland as a sidekick is too much.