Europe

Parisians embraced the Games – but it was a different story in one corner of rural France

Will Starmer’s inaction on Brexit help strengthen the cause of Scottish independence?

Boxer Cindy Ngamba, from Cameroon via Bolton, won the Refugee Team’s first medal thanks in part to the value of youth workers

Brecht lived through some of Europe’s darkest times yet still produced some of the 20th century’s boldest, most influential and epoch-defining theatre

Vadim Krasikov is a free man. Putin wanted his hitman back

More Belgian in its culture than French, the north has nothing on the western coast

Valencia’s shores are paying the price of booming seasonal tourism

If opera needs a way to entrance new, younger audiences, this production of Samson needs to get on the road

The long road back to the EU will take years – maybe decades – to traverse. But we must make a start

The small town of Barga in Italy celebrates Burns night in its own way

The islands welcome 14 million holidaymakers a year. Now asylum seekers are frequent visitors, too

In a community shared by the Belgians and Dutch, you can be in bed in one country while the partner beside you is asleep in another

Foreign language teaching in Britain is on the decline, which risks making the country more cut-off and inward-looking than ever before

If such a compromise between Kyiv and Moscow were achieved, it would most likely come about as a result of pressure from Washington and Beijing

With his gramophone recordings, the Italian transcended the closed world of performance to become a global phenomenon

It is the utilitarian nature of crêpes, their accessibility and the fact they enjoy French ceremony that I adore

The opening ceremony felt like France reintroducing itself to the world, warts and all

The chancellor’s political standing is putting him in danger of having his own ‘Biden moment’

The overturning of Roe v Wade could come back to bite Trump during this campaign and play into Kamala Harris’s hands

Pierpaolo Mittica’s photos capture everyday existence in the ‘new Pompeii’ – close to the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident

Nude modelling has been an integral part of French art schools for centuries but now the models are demanding respect and status

A recent defamation case has shocked the public, not for its contents, but its speed

Knowing which language to speak to strangers in Brussels is a taxing task

The writer who risked his life to watch his own books burned by Nazis – so he could write about it

How Berlin made the notorious, magnificent Einstürzende Neubauten

The man behind the masks and mysteries – James Ensor, the angry, vindictive, solitary genius of Ostend

He was only truly fulfilled when either in the air or writing about being in the air

Rather surprisingly, the French word for ‘customs’ is related to the English word for a low sofa-bed

Le Clarence trades in Parisian fine dining in its purest, truest form in matters of service and personality

In the aftermath of events in the US, it’s important not to fall into the same hyperbolic trap that plagued our media in the run-up to other recent elections

The Olympic torch is ready to be lit. But this Games would not be happening without the efforts of undocumented, low-paid workers

The 1924 Olympics featured a future Tarzan, the men who inspired Chariots of Fire and a farewell to the man who created the modern Games.