Europe

Beloved of celebrities, the SS Normandie was the fastest, most beautiful ocean-going liner of them all – yet it was doomed from the start

Brexiteers are looking at the country’s crisis with glee. But their schadenfreude might just be misplaced

Pulling out of the ECHR would trash whatever reputation Britain has left

Toulouse-Lautrec was an aristocrat who recognised in the outliers of society a shared vulnerable otherness

This Danish colloquialism for menstruation is just one of countless slang terms and phrases – often demeaning – that apply to women

If history had been different, Lope de Vega might have been regarded as the greatest dramatist of them all

As Rimbaud’s masterpiece A Season In Hell turns 150, reappraising the short life and wild times of a talented, toxic “damned soul”

In recent years, Paris has experienced a cycling boom, but this has brought with it its own set of challenges

The problem with Italy’s transport isn’t its bridges, but its roads, trains and green infrastructure – or rather lack of

An influx of digital nomads in Spain has caused a rent spiral, pricing locals out of their own area

Thanks to French singer-songwriter Jain, the life of Miriam Makeba has had a recent renaissance on social media

Whichever side of Sardinia you visit, you’ll likely find yourself hiding in a cave away from the scorching heat

This comforting and easy salad works as a refreshing aside to a barbecue, sun willing, or a main course

Technology is making forged paintings easier to identify, and giving us a chance to appreciate the art and craft of the counterfeiters

Amid strikes and sexism, the Venice Film Festival plays it safe

Public opinion is divided over an antisemitic leaflet, which Aiwanger denies authorship of, that emerged from the Bavaria premier’s teenage years

A new photography book revels in the past of F1’s most famous team. But what would their founder make of their uncertain future?

Anything short of a complete ban on all whale hunting is immoral

Europe may have pivoted away from Russia's pipeline gas, but it will remain exposed until it reduces its gas demand

Makkabi Berlin have become the first Jewish club to play in Germany's premier cup

The Northern Irish rockers on Brexit, Britpop and their blistering new album

Italy’s prime minister has a new look, but have her politics changed?

It’s cheaper to buy beer than bottled water in Czechia but is this about to change?

Slowly but surely, old Europe is giving way to the new

The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne crushed hopes of a homeland for Turkey’s Armenian and Kurdish minorities. Today, hostilities remain

This year’s Festival d’Avignon – a celebration of song, music and dance – kicked off with a rebellion against Brexit

Brexit isn’t working – in fact, it’s causing long-term damage. Everyone knows it. How long can the opposition parties keep quiet?

Eclipsed by contemporaries like Garbo and Dietrich, it’s difficult today to appreciate just what a presence Baclanova was in her heyday

Populist ex-PM Robert Fico is whipping up discontent with mainstream politics and talking of rigged elections. Remind you of anyone?

Links with British industry and French universities – through ‘rugger diplomacy’ – helped to turn Romania into a surprising hotbed of the sport

A Dutch royal residence has been turned into a huge public art gallery – a lesson for other royal families, perhaps?

Full of intriguing quirks and anecdotes, Andrew Martin’s Metropolitain is nothing short of a love letter to a subterranean railway