Europe

The Ruhrgebiet, Germany’s most densely populated region, is often seen as dirty and decrepit, but it has a rich history and an underrated charm

As Italy turns to the right, the grass is looking greener back home for Britons

Bands that played Spain in the heady aftermath of Franco’s death have been rewarded with remarkable loyalty

A wave of Brexiter MPs are on the way out. Can a new generation address the elephant in the room – that Britain has changed its mind on Brexit?

A fiery final interview with the provocative Dutch artist

Marine Le Pen’s clear win underscores her party’s achievement of making a duplicitous surface-level transformation to voters

In Nice, a stronghold of the French hard right, the racial and political tensions simmer

Labour’s leader has wasted one opportunity to reopen and win the debate. He can’t squander another

The advent of sound signalled the end of the silent movie star's career

A retrospective opens in Munich of the drawings, films and kinetic sculptures of German artist Rebecca Horn

A new exhibition of the Italian photographer’s work captures the glamour of postwar Italian film

Brexit is clearly the failure it was always going to be, but repairing the damage and avoiding the mistakes of the past is a long-term task

Why have we failed to invest anywhere near as much as our rivals – and what can we do to put things right?

The epidemic of cynical tackles at the Euros evokes Søren Kierkegaard’s concept of the ‘teleological suspension of the ethical’

There are rumours that a Labour government may try to put an end to Westminster’s drinking culture by shutting down the bars on the parliamentary estate

As Marine Le Pen’s extreme right party creeps ever further ahead of its rivals, a new democratic collective has emerged

The Pope has initiated the process of sanctification of a 15-year-old boy who died from a severe form of leukaemia

The cross-party political campaign group Unlock Democracy proposes overseas constituencies to better represent Brits abroad

The sentiments of the city’s inhabitants reveal a complex mix of political engagement and disillusionment

A new movie role shows there is much more to Sofie Gråbøl than that chunky jumper she wore as Sarah Lund in the classic Scandi noir drama

In past French elections, the left has voted for the centre to keep out Le Pen. Now the right is being asked to do the same – but will they?

The late French actor’s enigmatic beauty came to symbolise bohemian style and feminism across Europe

A year after the disastrous anti-Putin putsch that cost its founder his life, the Russian state-funded military group has resumed its mission to cause chaos and destruction – and in its more official guise is no longer trying to deny it

The geographical spread of Romansh in Switzerland is shrinking as speakers start to use the German of their near neighbours

Early Soviet avant-garde art… and how it was crushed

The mainstream media made some spectacular errors of judgment in the run-up to the EU referendum and were played for fools by the Leave campaign

The remarkable legacy of the late singer, who epitomised both French cool and French angst

The majority of British voters now recognise that Brexit was a disaster. So who is representing our views?

In order to woo Leave voters, Labour has adopted a policy of accepting Brexit, which is exactly what Nigel Farage wants

Macron’s snap election call has triggered turmoil across the country as parties rush to form alliances in time for June 30

The city has problems with aggressive gulls and overflowing rubbish – and the two go hand in hand

Does Belgium’s political limbo and the Netherlands’ far-right surge demonstrate that governments are optional?