Europe

Pierre Levegh’s name is forever linked with a dreadful day almost seven decades ago. As the 70th anniversary approaches, maybe his feat deserves to step out from the shadow of the catastrophe

Former French ambassador to London Sylvie Bermann on Brexit’s aftershocks and the battles still to come with Macron and the EU

Megan Nolan loves a bad rom-com, but this latest Netflix effort is stupid and hateful

The prime minister wasn't born a fascist. But his incompetence and desperation to survive is certainly driving him in that direction

If we harness the productive power of new technology and increase people’s skills across the board our relationship with work could be very different

Norway’s humane approach to rehabilitating prisoners is at odds with many Europe nations. And it is a remarkable success

Heading to Europe for your first post-pandemic summer holiday? Thanks to Brexit, your sun, sea and sand now come with added queues, forms and red tape

War has broken out among Germany's self-appointed intellectual literary elite

Procida is Italy's Capital of Culture 2022. It's not sure it wants to be

Kaliningrad encapsulates Russia’s psychosis – from glory days to aggrieved isolation. It is also perilously close to Nato’s weakest link

As Currygate follows Partygate, Europeans following events in the UK are doing so with a mixture of bemusement and incredulity

The government has the chance to show the world the days of London being Russian oligarchs' playground are over, but that would involve action by Boris Johnson

Liverpool and Real Madrid are the last two teams standing in Europe’s – the world’s – most prized club competition, the Uefa Champions League

The war in Ukraine is seeing the reputations of Olaf Scholz's two immediate predecessors reassessed, and not for the better

The French daredevil whose luck ran out in front of two young future Beatles

When Teffi grew sceptical of the revolution, she headed for Paris, writing a masterpiece on the way

Legalisation won't get rid of the criminals unless legal outlets undercut the undercutters

Tiny sculptures made by an 85-year-old tell an epic tale at the Venice Biennale

The frontman of one of Norway's most notorious death metal bands has now turned his hand to Riesling

Emmanuel Macron’s plan for a multi-tier European Union offers some hope for president Zelensky.. and for Rejoiners too

The former French president takes aim at flippant Boris Johnson, Putin, Orbán and more

The party looks trapped on a downhill path, straight towards the fate of a radical East German fringe party

A new exhibition reveals the secrets of a forward-thinking heiress whose taste and beliefs transcended her patriarchal age

The French star's new film sees her scrubbing floors and emptying bins. But it's actors who have it hard, she says

The story of Sweden's first celebrity gangster is a sub-Tarantino gushing glorification

She may have been at least as gifted, if not more so than her illustrious brother but Fanny was a woman, making any kind of career in music off limits

A chance encounter with a group of dancers shows the surprising origins of a very English tradition

The Europa League final represents the night of a lifetime for Eintracht Frankfurt and Rangers fans, but the cost of getting there will be a challenge

Years of pacifist policy are over in Germany as military spending rises. But what happens if conflict comes home?

A family story shows how our government’s treatment of refugees – including Ukrainians – mirrors 1930s attitudes to Jews fleeing conflict and persecution

Dutch-Turkish rapper Murda is not the first artist from Turkey’s contemporary rap scene to face the censure of the authorities