Europe

The eccentric monarch’s fantastical Bavarian castles, once dismissed as kitsch, have finally gained Unesco World Heritage status

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Extreme summer heat, driven by climate change, is putting off tourists and having a devastating effect on the Eternal City’s economy

The chancellor's straight-talking has, unexpectedly, boosted his popularity

The world of extremism has moved on during the past 100 years – but the core ideas of Hitler’s book have not gone away

Like right wingers everywhere, the Italian government hates immigrants - it also can’t carry on without them. Which means only one thing

If Rousseau is right, it’s not just Venice and Bezos that are sinking. We all are 

A new book reveals the former Nazis at the heart of Das Kanzleramt, the chancellor’s office, the power hub of the young German democracy

Using the LGBTQ+ community as a punchbag is an age-old trick for Orbán but this time, the prime minister miscalculated

The protest band got an ecstatic welcome in Dresden, the city where a young Vladimir Putin was stationed as KGB officer

While trying to outflank the right, Labour risks relighting a highly flammable issue

Under Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz, laws were passed to this end. But, it never happened

Brussels, a city of 1.2 million, now has no open-air swimming facilities - just in time for summer

Like many European countries, Bulgaria is facing divisions about its future

In the age of drone warfare, people in Ukraine are living a higher-tech version of the terror that struck suburban London

Nine years on, Leave’s most enthusiastic voters have suffered the most. Yet they’re still backing the man who sold them the snake oil in the first place

Italy’s blue bloods don’t have the money to maintain their historic properties – so they’re giving them away

Ten years on, the country’s treatment in the midst of financial crisis remains a stain on European democracy

Britain has tumbled down the wellbeing rankings – and now it is time to learn from the country at the top

To be in Europe is to live without boundaries. The Irish have chosen that path, and their national identity has soared

Why did Queen Elizabeth I, in her famous speech at Tilbury in 1588, use two words with almost identical meanings to describe herself?

The Belgian is – temporarily – replacing Tintoretto in one of the Venice’s sacred spaces. But first he wants to talk about Trump

Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely turned machines and myths into joyful rebellion

From the Pilgrims to Star Trek, every promised land ends up looking suspiciously like the one we left behind

For now, the chancellor is sticking to policy – if only to keep the AfD in check

John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has a warning for Iceland: stay out of Trump’s line of sight

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