Dear reader,

This is not the newsletter you were looking for: we’re on a break until Monday. It's the first time we are taking off in over two years of publishing – and with good reason: we're taking this time to relaunch bigger and better. This is what changes:

You may not have realised it, but our journalists wrote every story published in the past 2.5 years without remuneration. Without these journalists, The European Correspondent would lie in the graveyard of nice-but-theoretical ideas.

Together, we published over a thousand newsletters, more than 8000 stories, posted thousands of posts on social media and visualised Europe from top to bottom!

To us, that’s a miracle. But that would imply that it “just” happened, which is not true: Only because everyone in this team decided that a place like The European Correspondent should exist have we made it this far.

This project will forever be deeply indebted to these talented and passionate volunteers who, for the past 2.5 years, brought together the perspectives from every corner of Europe.

After all these experiments, thousands of published stories, and now, thanks to a generous startup grant, we’re finally able to help everyone involved pay their rent, buy groceries, and enable them to spend their day researching stories for you.

If you enjoy our work and want to help us reach more Europeans, please consider becoming a supporter.

On Monday, we’ll connect the cables to launch our new website, sign contracts, and begin writing – and then send you the next edition on 4 August. We’re very excited to show you what we’ve been working on!

Stay curious,