Politics

The current state of the continent’s politics may be alarming, but that does not mean history will inevitably repeat itself

Today, highway robbery is common on Spanish motorways

The reality of German culture is more ancient, beautiful and varied than the extremist politicians understand

Nigel Farage has staked his political life on slavish support of Donald Trump. Now it seems to be coming back to bite him

We’d all like more money for public services - but in a world where the US has abandoned Europe, more money for the military is the only way

The excesses of the social justice movements will not be missed – but something even worse has come to take their place

The disastrous Oval Office meeting with Zelensky showed that Trump is slavishly devoted to Putin. Why?

Michael Wolff’s new book on Trump and his court reveals a president whose elixir is a cocktail of conflict and confidence, and for whom everything is spectacle

The Trump Zelensky disaster was unbearable to watch and revealed the inescapable fact about Trump – and the US

As the industry says visitor spend has slipped behind our European rivals, an insider’s view of why some EU tourists have dropped Britain from their travel plans

Pope Francis came close to anointing his personal choice of heir. But the conclave will consider a broad group from progressives to Trump supporters

The prime minister’s cut to the aid budget will cause horrendous suffering and weaken Britain

What happens next will define the prime minister’s legacy – and shape the futures of Britain and Ukraine

Britain’s troubled manufacturers are facing even more red tape and cost. Can the government do a deal in time?

It’s no surprise that so many people are looking for ways to get out of the country

It took Ernest Bevin and a fear of Soviet expansion to bring Nato to life. Not even the US’s nationalistic retreat from Europe will kill it off

In a time of crisis, the former Labour leader says he’d rejoin the EU tomorrow – and wants the Brexit reset to be speeded up

In these worryingly unpredictable times, the UK needs to be fully engaged with the EU, for our own safety, security and prosperity

From Voltaire to Kant, the world would be a duller place without the discipline’s coffee-fuelled breakthroughs

Despite the lessons from the pandemic, the demagogues and their followers are all too ready to embrace a cult of death

Donald Trump and the mind-bending insanity of his foreign policy that treats enemies as friends and vice versa

As the country’s courts become more Russian, the real Georgia can be found out on the streets

In these days of far right anti-Islam extremism, AfD politicians are quick to seize on any evidence of what they call the Islamisation of Germany

To avoid a repetition of this dark past, Spain’s citizens must listen to the testimonies of those who suffered at the hands of Franco’s torturers

The Belgian prime minister’s cries for the EU to stick to its core functions are selfish and short-sighted

Spending 2.5% of GDP on defence is a good start – but it’s not enough

A vote at the United Nations made it very clear what he thinks of America’s former allies across the Atlantic

The braggart in the White House claims to have record high approval ratings – but polls show he actually has the worst among modern American presidents

Despite the CDU achieving one of its worst results ever, the party has managed to keep the AfD out of power – for now