Europe

Go on, dive in. The cold water will do you a world of good – just ask Hippocrates

One generation of world leaders has failed to halt climate change. The next generation intend to change all that

Looking for a new year's resolution? Promise yourself a German passport

What are countries across the continent hoping to achieve in the new year?

Europe will continue to show it is a musical powerhouse this year

The Taoiseach’s admission about Brexit errors is not the climbdown they think it is

A new poll should concern Keir Starmer as much as Rishi Sunak

After Covid, Europe has just about dealt with another global crisis over Ukraine. Yet competing visions mean its own future is uncertain

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