Europe

The small town of Bodø has achieved recognition as the European Capital of Culture 2024. Now, will it also recognise one of its own?

An intelligent and fearless French novel of clear-eyed anger digs deep into contemporary morality

Thirty timeless classics shot on the continent

At the Grand-Synthe camp on the French coast, people are risking everything to reach England. And it’s not for the benefits system

His life’s work has been a catastrophe – and now Hannan’s latest Brexit argument will be music to Putin’s ears

The dark daring of the extraordinary mid-century comics artist and illustrator, Italy’s answer to Norman Rockwell

If Labour does bring in a smoking ban in beer gardens, how many non-smokers will start using them again?

Old mistakes are catching up with the German industrial colossus

When the island’s agriculture sector suffers, its tourism industry soon feels the consequences

The city’s improved cycling infrastructure has caused e-bike sales to shoot up. So, too, have thefts

This international jazz summer school has become a unique utopia for lovers of the genre

Peter Hummelgaard, Danish minister for justice, has blamed the emergence of ‘child soldiers’ on years of failed integration policies in Sweden

Barça’s new manager, Hansi Flick, must understand one simple fact: he is faced with a virtually impossible task

He was the future once, but now French voters are heading for the extremes

The French president’s new choice of PM shows that his political project has ended in failure

One of the first women of celebrity in the modern sense of the word, Elisabeth of Austria was a gifted, vibrant woman imprisoned by contemporary etiquette

What do you get when you mix Ancient Greek with Scottish Gaelic? An almost flightless mountain bird

There are some foods that work to a near-unfathomable degree. This is that: a total, unadulterated masterstroke of a lunch

What is behind the rise in Spain of dark tourism, the trend for visiting places associated with tragedy?

Three architects pitch monuments to massacres in Lara Haworth’s debut novel about who gets to write history

Angelina Jolie’s Callas biopic sinks at the Venice Film Festival

Siena’s chaotic horse race is over in a minute and a half, but the plotting goes on all year round

Without a dominant culture, it appears everyone can fit in in Brussels

The country has seen months of increasing political tensions paired with rising temperatures

Dani Karavan's Passages honours the memory of Walter Benjamin, who took his own life in Portbou when faced with being handed over to the Gestapo

German voters are not becoming extremists. They are just fed up

Is the prime minister serious about his EU red lines - or just playing a long game?

Keir Starmer’s trip to Germany and France feels empty without rejoining the scheme

The photographer used his camera and the city of lights as a doorway to poetry

Ukraine’s daring incursion into Kursk shows a dictator in crisis, with the Russian people and China turning their backs on him

The far right AfD is poised for major wins this weekend’s eastern state elections amid rising discontent