Europe

Never a religious man, at the end of his life converting a damp garage into a chapel became an unlikely obsession

The promotion of conservative or even hard-right ideas across Europe is a threat

In Sardinia you can buy a house for just one euro, but is this too good to be true?

The post-GDR party she used to co-chair is on the brink of extinction, and Wagenknecht is gearing up to push her former comrades off a cliff

“Jews so keenly feel the trauma of 7 October and its aftermath, not because they support the Netanyahu government or the fundamentalist West Bank settlers… because, like everyone else, we want to be accepted”

Instead of standing up to the far right in the name of democracy and peace, Brussels often enables it

Turkish secularists and Islamists have been demonstrating against the war, but for different reasons

Trafficked migrants, fake embryo transfers, babies for sale… the shocking story that reveals the dark side of Crete

Valencia’s minister of culture calls the practice an art form – he’s wrong

The paper's story about the supposed economic magic of freeports is a pack of lies

‘There is no room for a renegotiation of substance’ says the EU’s former Brexit chief

A year in, the prime minister's time in office has been less eventful than expected

The self-styled Brexit hard man is already setting the ground for a future referendum on rejoining the EU

The new women’s wing of the Limerick prison is a symbol of the view the best system is when there is the least amount of imprisonment

Just a small percentage have been able to shut down their operations in the country since it invaded Ukraine

Born a century ago, the Italian author was the best kind of writer, because he understood what it was to be a reader

Following in the footsteps of 20th-century exiles who ran from communism, four artists are fighting their own war, from Paris

After WWII, Britain started building new play areas for its children – and imported its inspiration from Europe

There was much more to Tove Jansson than the troll family that made her famous

On the outskirts of the capital, Punjabi-Sikhs are being forced to work in brutal conditions

In France, businesses, societies and individuals move slower – sometimes a lot slower – than lawmakers

Spaniards famously eat late, but make an exception at Atrio – you won’t want to miss the sunset viewings from the courtyard

Hamas has made it brutally simple to pick a side – the challenge for our society is seeing it through

It was the Franco-British aircraft that flew too close to the sun. But could supersonic travel now make a surprise comeback?

An old Tory slogan was: “Britain’s better off with the Conservatives”. Now we’d be better off without them. It’s time they went before they ruin us irreparably

The populists have been stopped in their tracks. It will soon be Britain’s turn to do likewise

The ruling hard right party doesn’t have the votes to form a government. Can Donald Tusk put together a centrist ruling coalition?

The gap between public opinion and political inertia is huge - and growing. It should be filled

The home secretary’s warnings makes little sense in a world that is increasingly homophobic

The Leave-supporting media is still reluctant to admit it damaged its own readers’ interests

The people are heading to the polls this weekend and whatever the result, Poland will remain starkly divided

Hardcore Remainers were disappointed but unbowed by Keir Starmer’s conference