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A new Euro generation tries to build a life I am on the train from Brasov to Sibiu, in the middle of Rumania. The weather is cold and there is some snow. The train slides...

Plains near Poltava Ukraine, October 2016 Sunflower fields are abundant around Poltava, Ukraine. It is an important local industry and has been for almost a century. It is autumn now so the remains of the plants...

The only Roma town in Macedonia Macedonia, Skopje, August 2012 It is not easy to find the right bus to my destination Šutka. The signs are confusing and the name does not appear on the notice...

Crossing the EU border Ukriane, Slovakia, Uzhgorod, August 2014 There is airco when the driver feels like it. It is nearly 40 degrees in the bus from Košice in Slovakia to Uzhgorod Ukraine. This will be...

European youth January 2016 Przemyśl is a sleepy bordertown in the east of Poland, just a few kilometers away from the Ukrainian border. The river that splits the town in two halves was once the border between...

A contrast between the three houses. Two immaculaly kept in the centre of Gävle and in the middle of Dalarna, the other on the outskirts near a Stora Enso sawmill, derelict and surrounded by...

Roma and Sinti in Rumania November 2016 Andrea asks me habla Espagnol? She gestures: she is hungry. The three gypsy girls circle around me like a flock of birds, laughing, chirping. I sit down and try...

From the Russian border to Ventspils Latvia, Ventspils, August 2012 At the age of 8, she already realised there where only two options. Do what all seemed to do: drink and sink back or excel at...

Railroads are the arteries of Ukraine Western Ukraine, August 2016 “No time to print your ticket!” the platinum blond station attendant tells me through the small window on the вокзал (voksal, the train station in Ukrainian)...

Sweden, Nyhammar, November 2017 Marcel Schruijer from St.Maartensvlotbrug, the Netherlands in front of his new home in Kullen, near Nyhammar in Dalarna, Sweden. He moved there together with his girlfriend Petra Rempt in May 2016...