Europe

Ukraine has learned lessons from the battlefield but Russia has not. The result is humiliating for Vladimir Putin

In dark times, it is genuinely heartening to see Europeans coming together. We have our differences, but we are, essentially, the same, writes one reader

He has the task of preserving a system that even he knows can no longer be justified

From the Kingdom of Denmark to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, how the other monarchies across Europe function

Sweden’s big parties took up populist talking points to kill off the far right. Instead, the extremists are close to power – and getting worse

Germany isn't a country of royalists, but we turned into a republic of Elizabethans

Populists have struck at the heart of European social democracy

Amid the respect, there was some sorrow for what has been lost - not just the ruler, but her country

There was far more to Anna Maria Pierangeli than what cinema-goers saw on the screen and friends saw off it

In Rome, to remember the past and our common humanity, sometimes you must look down

Another transfer window shows a sport increasingly at wild odds with the lives of those who follow it

In Ukraine a group of artists is confronting the conflict in the spirit of Goya, Dix and Picasso

Directness and realness makes Nathy Peluso stand out among the current crop of female rappers

The big presence at the Venice Film Festival's 90th birthday party was the streaming giant

The man who oversaw the breakup of the Soviet Union was an apparatchik who wanted to keep the Communist Party in power, says former head of MI6

Fast food or multicultural icon? Take a slice of European history via the intriguing tale of the doner kebab

There are few things Germans have a closer bond to than the woods and now they're under threat. However, there is hope...

This new French Netflix sitcom sets out to make profound and amusing statements about younger generations’ relationship with technology. It fails on both accounts

After Brexit killed freedom of movement, how easy is it to live in the EU for Brits in despair?

Ten years after four people were gunned down on a forest track in the French Alps, the murders remain a mystery. But six detectives are still working on the case

He baffled and fascinated his critics, but the actor somehow became the absolute personification of insouciant cool

In the north of Berlin, on the site of a little-visited former garden, lies one of the city’s best-kept historical secrets

Not for the first time, France's national football squad is going into a major tournament facing internal strife

Former home secretary Alan Johnson returns with a new novel and some dissenting thoughts on Brexit, Corbyn and Starmer

There has been more nuanced conversation on reality television than during the Tory leadership race, says one reader

Sophie and the Giants are virtually unknown at home - but bona fide disco royalty elsewhere

Why video games may well be the first truly globalised medium

The word arrived in English in the 1500s from France along with the ‘bay-coloured cloths’ it described

Venice has produced few major writers – yet few places have inspired so many authors

Karl May's Winnetou and the German soul are inseparable. I'm optimistic the country's icon will evade cancellation

It’s hard to put in words how much my country owes him. Danke, Gorbi