Europe

The former Soviet Union countries are full of Russian speakers… surely they don’t all need Putin’s protection?

Netflix's retelling of a French tragedy depicts the humanity of events with a beautiful rawness

A TNE writer hoped the country she was born in would become more like Britain… but it’s Britain that has changed instead

From the very beginning, Sylvia Kristel’s life thrummed with an undercurrent of impermanence

Kylian Mbappé is becoming such a prima donna that he risks destabilising the clubs that pay his fortune

The stripped-down prose and raw honesty of Nobel prize for literature winner Annie Ernaux

As opposition to Putin grows inside Russia, a timely photographic exhibition revisits sites of protest against the old Soviet Union

Gentrification has come to Amsterdam’s Noord borough. But not everyone is happy with the results

After last year's election disaster in the capital, trust in Germany's democracy needs to be restored

One hundred years ago, a malign figure took power in Rome and led a country to disgrace and destruction

After fighting the Nazis in the second world war, Paul Barrière fought to save his outlawed sport

What do European nations spend their money on?

Before the Romans arrived in south-west France along with Latin, people there spoke what we now call Aquitanian

The Norwegian trio’s new album arrives with their legacy secure - but it hasn’t always been that way

Elon Musk’s 'peace plan poll' would trample Ukraine’s right to defend its own people from Vladimir Putin’s onslaught

A new historical drama brings to life the story of a German duchess turned Austrian empress

Why are so many stories that are bad for the government unreported in large sections of the press? Simple. Intellectual corruption

For all the remarkable events and achievements of his life, Brynner was always content for mythologies to propagate around him

Whatever comes next for Russia, it will not be liberal democracy

Trickle-down economics is a big lie and always has been, argues one reader

Denmark’s biggest literary celebrity returns to the remote peninsula where she grew up

The country's nudist clubs are running out of members. Soon, Germans au naturel may become extinct

How an ex-WAG popstar brought and won a case at the European Court of Human Rights

The city of light always looks lovely in films like Mrs Harris Goes to Paris.. but the truth about the French capital is a little different

A guide on the shortest serving leaders in European history. Happy reading prime minister!

The flats of La Vele were supposed to be the emblem of a utopian style of architecture. But they soon took on a very different identity

Putin's aggression is not just aimed at Ukrainians, it's aimed at the West too. But, time is on our side

A new Spanish Netflix dramedy reimagines cancer storytelling with style, wit and grace

Chess has long been a hotbed of gamesmanship. But a new cheating dispute threatens to take the game to new lows

Tory MPs are finally beginning to question whether they are in a toxic relationship with Paul Dacre's newspaper

A recent visit to Algeria was part of efforts to write a new chapter in diplomacy - but the ghosts of France's exploitative colonial past linger on

Brexit is a disaster. But, it may be a very long time before the EU is willing to take another chance on the UK, writes one reader