Transeuropa caravans

The footbridge is narrow, with a high fence on both sides. From Monday to Friday, Grzegorz walks it twice a day. Cars pass underneath his feet; the sun has just risen. He looks ahead, at men and women who, like him, are walking towards Gate Six. The Skoda Factory is the very heart of Mladá […]

Before the European Parliament elections in 2019, Transeuropa Caravans, a pro-European integration activist group, set out to explore EU countries and “places of struggle and resistance, in defense of fundamental rights beyond borders.” The project took the activists across 15 countries where the diversity in political landscapes varied as much as the social and cultural […]

As a group of young female activists travels across Europe — part of the Transeuropa Caravans project — they carry a banner that defiantly reads: “Cities have become the field of the social battle: of resistance and of innovation, a place where protests spark and mutual cooperation grows.” The premise of their pan-European initiative is […]

Two seventeen-year-old boys, originally from Iran, stand motionless in front of a police vehicle in the wasteland near the Croatian town of Korenica. Two officers put on black gloves and begin their search before loading the boys into a car and driving to the local police station. These are just two of the thousands of […]

In Europe and the United States, the far-right continues to gain political ground. And yet — despite increasingly frequent episodes of racist violence and the breakdown of the rule of law — acts of dissent remain scattered, limited to internet bubbles, and scarcely offer opportunities concrete change. But how can citizens make a difference when […]

Blog by Irene Dominioni, communications officer for the Central Eastern caravan, originally published in Italian here. Follow the Transeuropa Caravans project here and on social media on the hashtag #TranseuropaCaravans. They can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The associations, organisations and collectives of resistance in Budapest, campaigning for equality, basic rights and against […]

Blog by Irene Dominioni, communications officer for the Central Eastern caravan, originally published in Italian in Linkiesta. Follow the Transeuropa Caravans project here and on social media on the hashtag #TranseuropaCaravans. Dresden is a clean and tidy city, very silent. It’s almost unimaginable that here, in February 1945, the Allies’ bombs were falling in tonnes, killing tens […]

Blog by Irene Dominioni, communications officer for the Central Eastern caravan, originally published here. Follow the Transeuropa Caravans project here and on social media on the hashtag #TranseuropaCaravans. It is a peaceful Tuesday night when we arrive in Dresden, in the North-East of Germany. It is just the second day of the route; the Central […]