Europe

Joaquin Phoenix dons the bicorn hat in Ridley Scott’s new biopic, but will he fare better than his predecessors?

According to the Harvard historian, there is one country in Europe where they fight – and die – under the EU flag

A new proposal will make it easier to farm and sell genetically modified crops - and campaigners are aghast

A new exhibition is based on the life and works of a man who took part in orgies of rape and torture and boasted he had written the “most impure tale that has ever been told”

Ben Judah’s superb This Is Europe is a tour through the continent’s underbelly, giving voice to the exploited and marginalised

One night in 1989, the greatest gymnast in the world tried to escape from communist Romania

New photos by Paul McCartney reveal a band on the cusp of global stardom, trapped for a mad three weeks in the city of light

Many who work for the EU miss the rigour, clarity and discipline that British Eurocrats brought to the party

Putin’s previously ironclad reputation has sustained serious damage in recent times – how can he regain his mojo?

No matter the season, this rugged Norwegian archipelago holds my heart

Meet Italy’s new Wonder Woman, Inspector Imma Tataranni

The AfD’s recent electoral victory is set to cause chaos in the country

A friend remembers the Ukrainian novelist turned war crimes researcher killed in a Russian missile strike on a Kramatorsk pizza restaurant

The optimism of last week has gone. In its place are polarised politics and deep frustration with the country’s powerful police force

Brexiteers are back on the attack over the Windsor Framework

Marking the centenary of a book whose roots run far wider than just Dublin

How a 19th-century British aristocrat became the face of a Polish mining town

A 1988 report wrote off the relic as a medieval fake. But now the science seems to be turning. Could it have been a miracle all along?

The West must help Ukraine to defeat Putin, but a total Russian collapse could spell disaster

The conflict remains the front line in the battle between democracy and autocracy

The fatal shooting of a Baroness, allegedly by her stepson, has captured the public imagination

A military confrontation between Wagner and the Russian army is a real possibility. We should be careful what we wish for

New poll shows 79% think trade deals with Australia and New Zealand are bad

And almost 80% of all respondents want a closer relationship with the EU

For all life threw at her, the writer never lost the last sliver of an innocence battered irreparably by events outside her control

Our diplomats are working quietly to reconcile with the EU. Just don’t expect Britain to rejoin any time soon

One of Britain’s leading historians explains how the roots of the decision taken seven years ago were laid decades before that

Europe’s first celebrity is celebrated in a treasure trove of objects at Paris’ Petit Palais

A master documentarian returns to Ukraine to show the effects of Putin’s bloody invasion on the lives of ordinary people

The language can be found in some unexpected places, none more so than medieval “New England” on the Crimean peninsula

Over the course of a year, a couple created a bracing, bizarre series of Polaroids taken in the bars of the Dutch capital

Europe is edging closer to nuclear war. How would we behave in the world that remained?