Europe Talks Back

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Europe Talks Back shines a light on the stories that matter from across Europe. A new Europe Talks Back episode drops every two weeks, showcasing storytelling podcasts, based on real stories The ongoing season of Europe Talks Back is produced by Europod in partnership with Sphera Network, the first network of independent media in Europe to reinvent the media space and paint a new picture of the continent through impactful, unbiased, raw and authentic stories. 
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The dark sides of the algorithm

Apr 26 2024 26 mins  
Artificial Intelligence is all the rage and most of us use it every day knowingly whether it's to get music recommendations or unlock our phones. But how far has IA gotten? Do we know when AI is being used and by whom? And most importantly is AI neutral? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let's talk about digital gender based violence

Apr 02 2024 25 mins  
According to the UN, 73% of women worldwide have experienced digital gender-based abuse: non-consensual intimate image-sharing, gender-based slurs or threats, online harassment, and unsolicited pornography. The consequences of this type of abuse go beyond the digital space, posing a threat to victim’s rights, health and safety both online and offline.Join our host of Europe Talks

Western feminism has a whiteness problem

Mar 19 2024 25 mins  
White feminism is a self-proclaimed feminism shaped by the priorities of white, upper-middle-class, cisgender women. It assumes that all women experience misogyny in the same way - but it’s not.”  What’s the point of breaking the glass ceiling if other women are left to pick up the pieces?Join our host of Europe Talks Back season 3, Gail Rego as she has a conversation wi

Does protesting change anything?

Feb 27 2024 24 mins  
In your opinion, can protesting change anything? Many protests have been organized in Europe and the UK to denounce the humanitarian situation in Gaza. Despite the worsening of the situation, these mobilizations don’t seem to have a real impact, as the situation on the ground remains catastrophic.This leads our host Gail Rego to ask whether mobilization makes any difference.

What is Integration?

Feb 06 2024 24 mins  
What is integration? What does it mean to you and the people who are expected to “integrate” into our societies?Having been born and raised as a migrant for her whole life, join our new host Gail Rego of Europe Talks Back as she unfolds the harmful and unreasonable expectations placed on people with a migration history and how this term is often used against people who migrate.

Teaser Season 3

Jan 25 2024 1 mins  
Join Gail Rego on Season 3 of Europe Talks Back as she speaks with grassroots activists to shed light on the stories that should matter, from gender to sex, digital to migration and everything in between. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Best Podcast of the Year : Disability in Times of War

Dec 31 2023 21 mins  
Once the Russian invasion of Ukraine started, people with disabilities suffered tremendously. And amid the panic and chaos that followed the invasion, many were unable to evacuate from their homes. This left people trapped in the crossfire without access to bomb shelters. In the first episode of the second season of Europe Talks Back, host Juli Simond tells the story of Tetyan

Dieselgate Reloaded - Part 2

Dec 15 2023 14 mins  
In this episode of Europe Talks Back, Gail Rego continues to dig into the investigation by Stefano Valentino published by the pan-European online media, Voxeurop, on how the European car industry has lobbied EU institutions to weaken Euro Seven, the next European Emission Standard. Over the years, the EU has adopted progressively more stringent regulations on car emissions, bu

Dieselgate Reloaded - Part 1

Nov 28 2023 16 mins  
In this episode of Europe Talks Back, Gail Rego takes us inside the investigation by Stefano Valentino published by the pan-European online media, Voxeurop, on how the European car industry has lobbied EU institutions to weaken Euro Seven, the next European Emission Standard. Over the years, the EU has adopted progressively more stringent regulations on car emissions, but esta

Europe’s energy policies fire up Estonia’s woodland warriors

Nov 14 2023 16 mins  
In this episode of Europe Talks Back, Gail Rego tells the story of Liina Steinberg and her fight against the Estonian booming biomass industry. In the decades since independence from the Soviet Union, Estonia started relaxing its forest management practices, and large-scale logging has boomed to meet the demand for renewable energy and has become one of the EU’s largest exporters