The Spanish DJ, musician and composer from Malaga teaches in a music academy in Fuengirola. A successful remix has helped him hit the top of the world house music charts, in a genre becoming ever-popular in Europe

Riot is a self-proclaimed pest. Having fallen for Europe as a young boy, he is a regular critic of both politicians and journalists and tries to join the European debate whenever possible

The Cornwall-born writer, politician and father of London's new conservative mayor Boris Johnson, 59, on why his great-grandfather Ali Kemal Bey would have supported Turkish accession to the EU

The 93-year-old Italian director and father of the ‘commedia all’Italiana’ film genre, on the power of cinema, which ‘acts like a mirror, tells a story, but doesn’t preach’

The Grammy-nominated British RnB artist, 26, helped make garage music mainstream in the UK in 2000. Eight years wiser, he talks his fourth album, grime music and bulking up

The British psychotherapist from Sussex, 63, brings together Jung theory and eastern philosophy in his 'deep memory process'. His theory on reincarnation: our past lives help us resolve our present neuroses

A linguist and voyager, the Italian painter transported her Jewish origins from the United States to Portugal, where her multiple identities are exhibited by a flourishing brushstroke

The German mother-of-six, 50, is a woman of superlatives: as one of three women in an eight-man advocate general team at the ECJ, she most famously helped put Berlusconi on trial

The British short-story writer, 41, cites Italo Calvino and Raymond Queneau as his influences, discusses literature, lipograms and Iberia - and why the boy from Wales only publishes in certain languages