Europe

As criticism grows, prime minister Robert Fico’s far-fetched tirades are looking increasingly desperate

There’s only one way to stand up to superpowers such as the US and China, and to the authoritarian bullies like Putin

The German discount retailers are piling pressure on Asda and Morrisons. But they will find Tesco and Sainsbury tougher to beat

The chancellor's policy change will do little to alter the course of the conflict in Gaza. It has, however, alienated his party

In Iceland, where the boundaries of what’s possible are often pushed, Thermal Beets is ditching the harmful plastic ordinarily used to make records

With more and more people moving to the cities, a shortfall of workers in the countryside means authentic Turkish carpets are a vanishing commodity

Only more centralisation can save the EU from fragmentation, irrelevance - and China

From politicians and A-listers to Jägermeisters at 2am, our big three festivals have all bases covered

With the government’s failing economic policies and rampant corruption, Magyar’s ascent is accelerating each day Orbán spends in office

The Torreo-Pacheco riots in southern Spain expose just how selective Vox’s anti-immigration rhetoric is

Teaching errors made in the country’s classrooms are now making their way up to university level. Textbooks should be binned and the Italian education system needs to be rewritten

Social housing in the UK has a reputation for drabness. Other countries have done it far better – it’s time to learn from the ones who got it right

Beneath the peak of Monte Soratte near Rome is a vast, eerie tunnel complex – an underground graveyard of the German troops who died there

Thirty years on, the genocide is remembered annually, but locals feel forgotten and struggle with ongoing division

A festival in Leipzig marks half a century since sex workers and priests stood together in solidarity against police violence

To avoid chaos, and in true German style, the country’s schools break-up for summer at different times

The president thinks tariffs make America stronger. The EU knows better - and walked away from a fight not worth having

Conspiracy theorist Candace Owens claims that France’s first lady was born a man. Now the president and his wife will face her in court

The constitutional court remains untouched by chaos and is still the country’s most trusted institution

After years in the culinary wilderness, pulses are becoming more popular in Britain. But yields are suffering as the climate crisis marches on

The artist has taken his two-year project around the UK to the nation’s public spaces – but he has come to understand the one line that art cannot cross

If more Italian hospitals were made as welcoming as the Rizzoli, patients would be less scared to go inside in search of help

The eccentric monarch’s fantastical Bavarian castles, once dismissed as kitsch, have finally gained Unesco World Heritage status

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Extreme summer heat, driven by climate change, is putting off tourists and having a devastating effect on the Eternal City’s economy

The chancellor's straight-talking has, unexpectedly, boosted his popularity

The world of extremism has moved on during the past 100 years – but the core ideas of Hitler’s book have not gone away

Like right wingers everywhere, the Italian government hates immigrants - it also can’t carry on without them. Which means only one thing

If Rousseau is right, it’s not just Venice and Bezos that are sinking. We all are 

A new book reveals the former Nazis at the heart of Das Kanzleramt, the chancellor’s office, the power hub of the young German democracy

Using the LGBTQ+ community as a punchbag is an age-old trick for Orbán but this time, the prime minister miscalculated

The protest band got an ecstatic welcome in Dresden, the city where a young Vladimir Putin was stationed as KGB officer