How a fight over an Alpine pass turned into an EU-wide political
![How a fight over an Alpine pass turned into an EU-wide political](https://www.politico.eu/cdn-cgi/image/width=1160,height=870,quality=80,onerror=redirect,format=auto/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/07/SteinachamBrennerfromabove2-scaled.jpg)
Locals want fewer trucks; truckers and national politicians want uninterrupted cargo traffic; Brussels wants the problem to go away.
![](https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dfc448e31f20249abb20181754cd800e6e5722e3/0_0_5127_3075/master/5127.jpg?width=1200&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7d6769b26d397688fa51aded946e2828)
The truth about Hannibal's route across the Alps, Science
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Thirty_Years_War_Collage.jpg/1200px-Thirty_Years_War_Collage.jpg)
Thirty Years' War - Wikipedia
![](https://e360.yale.edu/assets/site/Border-Wall_Getty-Small.jpg)
Fenced In: How the Global Rise of Border Walls Is Stifling Wildlife - Yale E360
![](https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/8FXE_ATAB-1AQmqOIOxre1jOfGE=/0x159:2878x1778/960x540/media/img/mt/2022/12/GettyImages_526736974/original.jpg)
Against Skiing - The Atlantic
![](https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/Qz2FCom1rF4_NLs9YBaPi2phE2g=/fit-in/1600x0/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer/e8/89/e88999a4-c03d-4bb1-b3e8-870e4599e210/julaug2017_e05_hannibal.jpg)
How (and Where) Did Hannibal Cross the Alps?, History
![](https://gdb.rferl.org/23ec5ae6-f7d1-4eb9-8445-b1a1509f9d91_cx0_cy4_cw0_w408_r1_s.jpg)
Thousands Stranded Along Closed Border Crossing Between Afghanistan And Pakistan
![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71doLJ7y02L._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg)
Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe-and Started the Protestant Reformation: Pettegree, Andrew: 9780399563232: : Books
![](https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/no-frame-david-napoleon-full.jpg)
Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps
![](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41ESZDDiCHL._SR600%2C315_PIWhiteStrip%2CBottomLeft%2C0%2C35_PIStarRatingFOURANDHALF%2CBottomLeft%2C360%2C-6_SR600%2C315_ZA192%2C445%2C290%2C400%2C400%2CAmazonEmberBold%2C12%2C4%2C0%2C0%2C5_SCLZZZZZZZ_FMpng_BG255%2C255%2C255.jpg)
Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe-and Started the Protestant Reformation: Pettegree, Andrew: 9780399563232: : Books
![](https://img.lemde.fr/2023/08/08/0/0/7685/5123/664/0/75/0/6ca60ae_1691504456196-482611.jpg)
Typhoon-hit Scout jamboree turns into political storm in South Korea
![](https://cdn.britannica.com/38/128838-050-50942730/penetration-European-Southern-Africa.jpg)
Southern Africa - European and African interaction in the 19th century
![](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/luca-locatelli-copenhill-copenhagen-bjarke-ingels.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
Architect Bjarke Ingels' Plan for Addressing Climate Change
![](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/02/9d8abc9eb47dbcda9b13eb63227d3997-459914673_highres-data.jpg)
Why Switzerland doesn't want to join the European Union - SWI
![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/05/26/climate/26cli-alaskaroad-hovercraft/00cli-alaskaroad-hovercraft-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Jimmy Carter Steps Into Fight Over Proposed Road in Alaska - The New York Times
![](https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/styles/16x9_large/public/multimedia_images_2018/201811us_mtr_cover3_paint1.jpg?itok=8zPOUzWH)
The Coal Mine Next Door: How the US Government's Deregulation of Mountaintop Removal Threatens Public Health