Europe

The country’s army is full of middle-aged volunteers hoping to save the next generation from fighting

Is the prime minister’s amendment a push for sports culture or a faint echo of the country’s fascist past?

In the Austrian physicist’s style, the mooted right wing coalition is simultaneously dead and alive

The AfD’s flirtations with leaving the EU are helping the far right attack the union from within

If Keir Starmer wins the election, how will he rebuild Britain’s relationship with Europe?

It could happen. And if it does, the global security order could be turned on its head

PM Attal is using Britain’s struggles as a weapon against Le Pen in his EU election campaign

Once the toast of New York society, the mystery of why she did what she did remains

A long (and brilliant) article about Steve McQueen’s long (and brilliant) documentary about Amsterdam under the Nazis, Occupied City

How an illiterate model reinvented herself as one of Italy’s greatest modern painters

Brexit has caused a crisis for British manufacturers who export into Europe – and things could be about to get even worse...

The story of the fateful real-life race that inspired Michael Mann’s Ferrari movie

What if Russian soldiers return to the small town Paldiski that they left 30 years ago?

The capital’s anger shows the polarised nature of Spain’s politics and how populists could take power

The mythology around the Spanish civil war lives on in Munich

Can an Israeli-Arab exchange programme work during wartime?

The Council president who U-turned over resignation and Hungary’s populist head bring shame on Brussels

The guardians of the French countryside are posing a headache for the very new, very young PM

The singer almost came to embody the nation’s revival before it all ended at the dawn of a decade that could have been made for him

The artist's landscapes inspired German romanticism and are now turning him into a green icon

The farmer blockades show that Emmanuel Macron and the City of Light must put on a winning show this summer for a deeply divided country

Just as food inflation finally slows, new border checks will make EU produce more expensive in our shops

The icon of St Matrona of Moscow and Stalin has caused a remarkable division of opinion in Georgia, culminating in an act of vandalism

Jannick Sinner’s victory at the Australian Open proves that Italians, like us all, love a winner

The Serbian leader's authoritarian grip is tightening amid allegations of election irregularities and growing discontent

The party is banking on the country turning a blind eye to its past – but the German citizens have had a wake-up call

After eight successful seasons at Anfield, Team Germany really needs Kloppo to come home

Finland has rejected the far right, but is the country ready for a gay, Green head of state in Pekka Haavisto?

On the anniversary of us officially leaving the EU, the damage is clear

German protests against AfD’s far right extremism show us how to beat the populists

Worrying trends across Europe and the world suggest that women’s rights are under threat

A “yes” to independence would also mean “yes” to Brussels