Europe

For Germans, Kissinger's is a story of forgiveness

Colour photography pioneer Ernst Haas created a new iconography for the city by blurring the space between art and photojournalism

The dictator in the Kremlin may not be popular, yet he rules unopposed. But once again he is going to the polls – why?

Europe's challenges with inflation requires very different weapons

The man who speaks for the City knows the bankers can’t do without Europe

Tetchy, thin-skinned, used to getting your own way? Then politics isn’t for you, Mr Sunak

There was no other with his extraordinary improvising in the medium

Vast, desolate and magically odd – what is it about Iceland that makes musicians so desperate to record there?

Dziga Vertov’s film changed cinema and outlasted the USSR – now it’s raising awareness of Ukraine’s fight

An anniversary year has featured as many scorching takedowns of Picasso’s character as it has paeans to his genius

Europeans have a long held fascination with volcanoes. But no one knows when or where the next potentially deadly eruption will occur

Erdoğan is risking alienating Israel, a crucial trade partner, to please his voter base

Despite recent events, the vast majority of Italians are opposed to using animals in circuses

Ridley Scott’s epic didn’t exactly win over viewers in France

How close are populist leaders like Geert Wilders to fitting Umberto Eco’s definition of fascist traits?

Southend’s adoption of European culture cannot fix all its problems but it is having shocking social impacts

Europe may have led the Tories to destroy themselves, but Thatcher had already set in motion the destruction of the country

This lesson is as old as the 1930s but clearly it takes a long time to learn

Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was anything but banal. His case is an apt reminder of how evil agents can deflect accountability

Wilders promised a vote on the Netherlands’ EU membership. But the grass isn't always greener...

Venturing out onto the city’s streets carries danger. But there is little reason to go out anyway

A report has found a significant correlation between cognitive ability and voting preference in the 2016 referendum

Geert Wilders and his party have taken hate into the mainstream

A walk in the footsteps of Philip Kerr’s fictional detective, who cracked cases and heads in Nazi-era and cold war Berlin

Young people’s snubbing of a massive Paris rally against antisemitism must sound a warning for Europe’s left

The US president must take a leaf out of the Spanish prime minister’s book and focus on social justice and saving democracy

Fifty years ago at the Palace of Versailles, French and American designers went head-to-head as the likes of Liza Minelli, Princess Grace, Andy Warhol and Rudolf Nureyev looked on

Icelanders are watching and wondering – will lava streams erupt in the high street?

Valencia is home to nearly 15,000 Chinese nationals and their culinary influence shows

Having said this, it’s certainly one of the tastier ways of responding to climate change

Back in 1975, the experience of travelling abroad broadened my mind – a foreign concept for Mark Francois