Europe

Migrants on the southern border are causing France to re-examine its own history

“In Britain we have hot-water bottles; on the continent, they have sex.” And nowhere is that more true than in Germany…

Welcome to your new, continental playlist

Rishi Sunak is leading a broken government blind to their errors

In death as well as in life, the Rasputin story is shrouded in an awed mythology

From Poland to Italy, a guide to the continent's most bizarre ways to celebrate the festive season

We have to go far north, to the lands most closely identified with snowy festiveness, to find nations truly invested in Christmas music and embracing songs in their own language

How did an obscure British comedy sketch become a New Year tradition for Germans?

Brussels is gripped by fears that Qatargate might expand, with populists and Putin ready to capitalise

Hidden for nearly 200 years, the embalmed organ that symbolises the bond – and tensions – between Portugal and Brazil has now gone public

Sint-Nicolaas will be visiting children in the Netherlands as usual this year – but Zwarte Piet won’t be going with him

Christmas markets defy the logic of “seen one, seen them all”. They just have one thing in common: the magic of the festive season

A Storm for Christmas fails to deliver more than the usual festive tropes… but perhaps it doesn’t need to

A new book about Britain’s MEPs charts the political journeys of this quiet army of people still – mostly – fighting for Europe

The point is not the corruption but the response

Can this British mercantile mentality ever be changed? Or perhaps the EU is simply better off without us

His was acting of remarkable subtlety and nuance, especially when sharing the screen with some of cinema’s most magnetic women

When the two meet there's danger ahead. But rest assured, German democracy is well-fortified

Unveiling Vienna-bound Gustav Klimt’s pan-European inspirations

T. S. Eliot's masterpiece still shocks and disconcerts and bewilders after 100 years

The reality behind the continent's happiest nations

Despite the fuss over the Northern Ireland Protocol, it’s not a new idea

The deflated dictator is playing mind games with the west as his war in Ukraine lurches into a stalemate

An alleged coup attempt by the obscure Reichsbürger movement reflects growing belief in conspiracy theories among Germany’s far right

The Dane had a reputation as a vamp but in truth was as fragile as a gazelle

Volodymyr Zelensky, the unlikely hero who faced down a tyrant, is the New European’s European Of The Year

Why Pierre Choderlos de Laclos's novel remains a story for all eras

Jerzy Połomski, one of the most-loved entertainers in Polish history, has died at the age of 89

As the year comes to a close, what new lingo has emerged across the continent?

The painting made Pablo Picasso the most famous – or notorious – artist in the modern world

Britain is a more civilised society without the death penalty. I hope this Orwellian humanitarianism prevails, but these are dark days

German immigration policy has been dominated by prefixes for too long. Now, this has finally changed