Europe

Are decisions about firing nuclear weapons best left to error-prone humans? Scientists want reform of the launch protocols, which are 70 years old

Electricity costs in Germany have been much higher than the rest of Europe for years, but now they are exploding

On Washington DC’s grand 16th Street, an outdoor photography exhibition has brought a fragment of Europe to the new world

If Amon Amarth's Johan Hegg is a Viking, he’s one who is fully paid up to modern Scandi liberal values

A new Spanish Netflix series portrays celebrity as inherently toxic and destructive, and yet a natural ambition for the aimless disenfranchised young people to whom it is sold

Sarina Wiegman, the mastermind of that Euros win, is steeped in a rich coaching tradition

The plot to depose Italy’s PM is good news for Silvio Berlusconi, the country’s far right – and Vladimir Putin

Humiliated over its Ukraine response, the country is again debating its position in Europe and the wider world

Why Germany is swaying to the sound of a controversial hit

Both Tory leadership contenders clearly want to be tough on immigration to appease the many ultras in their party, writes one reader

The time has come for Europeans to take back control of the world’s most popular juvenescent fashion statement

The Frenchman was no newshound but had a knack of witnessing some of the 20th century’s key episodes

Tartare with fine cuts of beef, from one of the Czech Republic's most famous chefs, is a new experience for our food writer

A fire that destroyed a library in Venice 455 years ago has inspired a superb Anselm Kiefer exhibition on loss and retrieval

Public service radio orchestras have played far more than just a cultural role over the last century but they are now under threat

In a new documentary, French superstar DJ Laurent Garnier recalls his part in the birth of dance music and traces his career all the way from Manchester’s Haçienda to Tbilisi’s Bassiani

Flee is the best representation yet of what it really means to be a refugee

The torture and destruction of Ukraine is just a practice run for the same routine to be used against Europe

Transport is the only sector where greenhouse gas emissions have increased in the past three decades. Now a backlash is growing, with forward-thinking mayors spearheading new visions of urban centres

Italy’s unusually stable government under the experienced Mario Draghi is poised to collapse and take the country back to the days of ineffective alliances and controversial populists

Will a catastrophic summer in Europe deliver real change on climate policy? Not while states remain captured by fossil fuel interests

Italy’s unusually stable government under the experienced Mario Draghi teeters on the brink of collapse as it faces a confidence vote that could take the country back to the days of ineffective alliances and controversial populists

The Conservative leadership contenders are not being required to explain how they would address the devastating economic impacts of our decision to leave the EU. They should be

So-called ‘dark stores’ are surreptitiously popping up all over Europe – but is the business model sustainable in the post-pandemic world?

Ahead of another vote in the Tory leadership race, former chancellor Rishi Sunak pledges to get rid of those pesky EU regulations and unleash Britain’s potential. Where have we heard that before?

The Dutch actor brought depth at a time when the industry expected little more from roles than grunting henchmen, murderous Nazis or ring fodder for Rocky Balboa

To prevent all-out war in Europe we have to be prepared to spend money on defence. Even if this means higher taxes and higher borrowing

Hip hop and rap are holding a mirror up to a changing Latvia, its problems and its obsessions

The return of the band who made a continent cool

Little known elsewhere, the brutal Calcio Storico is a 500-year-old annual tradition unique to the Tuscan city

Archaeological evidence indicates the language was used in southern England before the Roman invasion of AD43

The question for the Tories' new leader and prime minister is if a Post-Johnson-Britain is ready for a bit more boredom. The answer to which should be yes