Europe

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

Brussels spares little time to think of the UK, and the waters of the North Sea really are closing over the British

Breaking with their stereotype, the country’s fiscal responsibility has gone awry

A dreary campaign is entirely in keeping with the country’s political process

The amnesty causing outrage in Madrid is no different to what happened with Blair and Northern Ireland

A debate on reversing Brexit is moving from the Edinburgh Fringe to the London stage

Celebrating a rediscovery of the Norwegian realist who used colour combinations ‘like chords sounding in perfect harmony’

A German’s documentary about an end-of-the-pier show in Norfolk might be the best movie yet about Brexit

The blame for the end of a glorious imperial story cannot be laid solely at his feet, but the longer he lived the more anachronistic his rule became

Party leaders will have plenty of political ammunition during their next stint in opposition

Italy’s one-euro homes may be more trouble than they’re worth

The rising tensions were far from an ideal atmosphere for an international sporting competition

The city, known for its food and politics, is demanding a better future for its younger generations

To my delight, this Germanic tradition lives on across Europe