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Amidst far-right instrumentalisation, can musicians play a progressive tune? Emília Barna and Melanie Schiller talk to Konrad Bleyer-Simon.

Justin O’Connor views culture as part of society’s basic infrastructure.

How Turkish TV dramas have taken the world by storm.

Rowan Jaines counts on satellites and architects to correct the rural record.

Art has a unique capacity to capture complexity, Lucile Schmid and Ladislav Miko tell Edouard Gaudot.

Laurence Vandewalle breaks down the history of Chinese cultural soft power.

Activists and climate groups have carried out a series of non-violent but disruptive acts in cultural institutions. But what has driven them?

Sam Murray draws the contours of green cultural policymaking.

Across Europe, arts and culture are facing defunding, job precarity, censorship, marginalisation, and instrumentalisation by economic and political agendas. How do we assert the value of culture and protect artistic freedom in this challenging landscape? And under what conditions can culture meaningfully contribute to the ecological transformation? This editorial introduces Acting Out: Arts and Culture Under Pressure, the winter 2025 print edition of the Green European Journal.

Can the success of Italian farmers forgoing decades of monoculture and chemical overuse be replicated on a broader scale in Europe?