RE: European Stories: The year 2025
Season 9 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of RE: European Stories Season 8.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
Inside Germany’s Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jan 30, 2025 · 31 min
They lead strict lives, like to stay within their community, and are convinced that a new and better world is coming. Critics of Jehovah's Witnesses call them a sect, but they see
Sweden's cult of Ami sleds
Nov 12, 2025 · 30 min
Chrome, exhaust clouds, tail fins: Hardly any other country outside the USA has as many American classic cars as Sweden. The highlight of the year: the „Classic Car Week“. Thousand
When the bankruptcy wave rolls
Nov 18, 2025 · 30 min
If large employers go bankrupt, this often affects entire regions. In Saxony-Anhalt, 580 employees of an automotive supplier feared for their future and their hometown. In central
High-altitude work on the rope
Nov 19, 2025 · 30 min
Attached to only one rope at a dizzying height: industrial climbers practice one of the most dangerous professions in France. The formerly freelance graphic designer Ella Freeman,
Kiruna, a city is moving
Nov 21, 2025 · 30 min
A church that moves „migrates“ several kilometers to a new location was the spectacular highlight of the move of the northern Swedish city of Kiruna. Because iron ore mining is get
Gymnasts, drilled to success?
Dec 5, 2025 · 31 min
Romania was once a leading nation in gymnastics. But behind the successes of the numerous world and Olympic champions lay not only flexibility and iron discipline, but also psychol
Restart in Syria
Dec 8, 2025 · 30 min
The new beginning in Syria is proving difficult. A year after the fall of the Assad regime, many who fled to Germany during the civil war are gradually returning – also out of resp
A Romanian village between NATO and fear of war
Dec 10, 2025 · 30 min
„I'm not afraid of the soldiers here, but of crazy Putin!“ says Dorin Todoruţ. The Romanian lives in Cincu, a village that has increasingly become a military-strategic hub on NATO'
My own island
Dec 11, 2025 · 30 min
An island of its own – a dream for many! But not all island owners are super-rich, reclusive and under palm trees in the sun. From an uninhabited island off Scotland to the Finnish
Vienna's baking grandmas and their recipe for old-age poverty
Dec 12, 2025 · 30 min
Women and men who would have been retired long ago bake at Vienna's Café Vollpension. They improve their slim pension and stay in contact with the youth – according to the concept
Hungary: A high school for Roma
Dec 15, 2025 · 30 min
Roma are in a difficult position in Hungary: 40 percent of them live below the poverty threshold, mostly away from city centers. This has a very strong impact on their education: 9
Spain jails women and men together
Dec 16, 2025 · 30 min
Only six per cent of prisoners in EU prisons are women. They are usually housed in women's correctional facilities or wards isolated from men. In Spain, however, they have long bee
The last lighthouse keepers of Croatia
Dec 17, 2025 · 30 min
In the middle of the Adriatic Sea lies Palagruža, a lonely rock with a lighthouse that has been inhabited since 1875. Vojo Šain has worked here for 26 years as one of Croatia's las
A village that heals children
Dec 18, 2025 · 30 min
Peace Village International staff regularly fly to the world's crisis areas. There they take children who are so sick or injured that they would die in their home countries. Curren
Safe Christmas markets?
Dec 19, 2025 · 30 min
Since the attacks on the Christmas markets in Berlin in 2016, Strasbourg in 2018 and Magdeburg in 2024, police, authorities and organizers have been providing increasingly massive
Palermo's Palace Saviors
Dec 23, 2025 · 30 min
More than 100 magnificent old palaces dominate the cityscape in Palermo. The owners try to save the old houses over time on their own. The state imposes costly requirements for mon
The hype about alpaca
Dec 29, 2025 · 30 min
Alpacas are sweet, fluffy and move people's hearts. Originally from the Andes, the camel species has become a phenomenon in Europe, and alpaca hikes or alpaca yoga are trendy. But
Las Vegas in the Czech province
Dec 30, 2025 · 30 min
The Czech village of Rozvadov – in the middle of no man's land on the German-Czech border has only 800 inhabitants, but a large casino – and millions in the game. Where once a bord