Europe

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

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