‘The guy was a genius. What was inside his mind was crazy.’ So says my guide, Victor, of the late architect Antoni Gaudi. And I have to agree.
I’m looking up at the golden base of the new Virgin Mary tower on a private tour of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. The church, Gaudi’s famously unfinished masterpiece, has been under construction for nearly 140 years.
I’m here on a historic day – hours previously, the Virgin Mary tower became the
Days after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to flood Europe with migrants, dozens of mostly Iraqi Kurds started arriving in Lithuania. In a cross-border investigation spanning Lithuania, Belarus and Iraq, EURACTIV’s media partner LRT digs into the new human smuggling route.
Black Mercedes vans are waiting at Minsk airport to bring Iraqi arrivals straight to some of the most popular three- and four-star hotels in the city with names such as Planeta and Sputnik. The new arrivals will spend several
