Europe

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

While trying to outflank the right, Labour risks relighting a highly flammable issue

Under Angela Merkel and Olaf Scholz, laws were passed to this end. But, it never happened

Brussels, a city of 1.2 million, now has no open-air swimming facilities - just in time for summer

Like many European countries, Bulgaria is facing divisions about its future

In the age of drone warfare, people in Ukraine are living a higher-tech version of the terror that struck suburban London

Nine years on, Leave’s most enthusiastic voters have suffered the most. Yet they’re still backing the man who sold them the snake oil in the first place

Italy’s blue bloods don’t have the money to maintain their historic properties – so they’re giving them away

Ten years on, the country’s treatment in the midst of financial crisis remains a stain on European democracy

Britain has tumbled down the wellbeing rankings – and now it is time to learn from the country at the top

To be in Europe is to live without boundaries. The Irish have chosen that path, and their national identity has soared

Why did Queen Elizabeth I, in her famous speech at Tilbury in 1588, use two words with almost identical meanings to describe herself?

The Belgian is – temporarily – replacing Tintoretto in one of the Venice’s sacred spaces. But first he wants to talk about Trump