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Across Europe, millions of young people who grew up feeling British or French or Italian or just European, live in a state of limbo, the threat of deportation hanging over them. In the US, they are known as the “dreamers.” Europe has its own “dreamer” generation, but their stories are largely unknown. Over the coming weeks, in partnership with Lighthouse Reports and The Guardian, we will profile these European dreamers and investigate the policies that trap them in an undocumented limbo.

We have gathered data on excess deaths from 500 European regions to better understand the spread of the virus. Some regions report up to three times as many deaths as usual since March, but a large part of Europe has been able to live through the first wave of the pandemic without any significant excess death.