Europe

Trump’s disdain for ‘Good old Germany’ is well known. Will the chancellor hold his own on his first official trip to the White House?

The charming town of Llivia, a Spanish exclave in France, thrives with Catalan investment, in sharp contrast to its forgotten French surroundings

The continent lacks tech giants due to fragmented capital markets – a true single market also needs fiscal union

Hard right populists can get thrown out of power – just look at the Netherlands

Both Europe and America are being forced to face the populist right and they aren’t going to vanish all by themselves

Yet another had right opportunist has exploited the opening in European politics that the left continues to ignore

Unfortunately for Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister, the country's place in the EU will be secured not by optics, but by its democratic credentials and right now, those are being tested

The new UK-EU deal has annoyed all the usual suspects, so Keir Starmer must be doing something right

Crystal Palace's first-ever European campaign offers fans the opportunity of a gastronomic adventure too

The 81-year-old former chancellor claimed it prevented him from attending a parliamentary inquiry in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern over his role in the Nord Stream 2 saga

Don't discount the role of Gergely Kovács, head of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (MKKP), if Hungarians vote to remove Orbán from power next year

As in the Scottish Premiership, Spain’s Primera División is dominated by the same two clubs every season. And it’s getting boring

What it’s like to be in the centre of one of Putin’s airstrikes

Makis Voridis, Greece’s new minister for migration and asylum, and his ultra-nationalist links are catastrophic for refugees

I’m one of those people who’s lived in more than one country and has now settled in the UK. Is that really so unreasonable?

After 99 years, the German authorities and the Hohenzollern family have decided to bury the hatchet

Just like Putin, Slovakia's prime minister is cultivating a carefully crafted image of strength

In Brussels, Americans are distancing themselves from Trump's policies - and they're taking their dogs with them

Nicușor Dan, the pro-European presidential candidate, emerged victorious in the most emotional and consequential election in Romania's post-communist history

Following Farage means inching towards him as he inches further right – doing this has already left the Conservatives in ruins

The cemetery, opened by Napoleon, was unpopular at first. But then the VIPs came – followed by the ghosts

Robert Prevost may have been born American, but his experience, views and values are as far from Trumpian as were his predecessor’s

Many secular philosophers have opposed war and particular wars, but Russell stands in a class apart

Estonian Tommy Cash’s Espresso Macchiato mocks Italians. Is he a prankster, or a racist?

A Finnish comedy trio are among the bookies’ favourites to win the song contest... for Sweden

What happened to her as a 17-year-old was appalling, but was it down to the failings of a brainwashed society obsessed with celebrity?

A major power outage across the Iberian peninsula caused panic and unexpected joy as people rediscovered simplicity, resilience and community

A newly discovered, signed script for Jean-Luc Godard’s first and greatest movie, Breathless, could fetch more than £400,000 at auction

Scholz’s successor will exceed expectations – but only as the bar for the chancellor-designate has been set so low

However his works might have been assembled and whatever dissembling he did when talking about his life, Jerzy Kosiński was a master storyteller

Klaus Schwab, the man who founded the Davos summit, had a vision for the world. But things haven’t turned out the way he wanted