Europe

Former EU negotiator tells The Rest Is Politics LEADING podcast ‘ideology took hold of the pragmatism of the UK’ during the Boris Johnson era

Transparency International has published its 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index. Where do Europe's nations rank?

Rishi Sunak believes there’s no way back to the EU. Three years after we officially left, the feeling’s increasingly mutual

This complete list will amaze you

Three years after they left Brussels, a new book finds them still – mostly – fighting for Europe

For one reason or another, they celebrated the referendum result. Nearly seven years on, have they changed their minds?

Their heyday was between the 1880s and 1940s. But green concerns about short-haul flights are bringing sleeper trains back in vogue

The UK isn't alone in experiencing industrial action. But, where are they most frequent across Europe?

This feelgood film offers the perfect escapism from Brexit disasters and Tory governance

Underrepresented and alienated, the reality of Britons in Europe post-Brexit is far from appealing

Which European nations consume the most alcohol and which have more sober habits?

Support for leaving the European Union has dramatically fallen across the bloc, much to the shock of Brexiteers

We have witnessed the rise of the clownocracy. But issues arise when ridicule replaces serious scrutiny

How do costs vary across the continent?

Welcome to 2023, the year of war, peace and Mark Zuckerberg’s collapsing Metaverse

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

From Poland to Italy, a guide to the continent's most bizarre ways to celebrate the festive season

Brussels is gripped by fears that Qatargate might expand, with populists and Putin ready to capitalise

From Westminster and European parliament to film and TV, test your knowledge with our fiendishly tricky quiz of the year

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

The reality behind the continent's happiest nations

What does Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter really have to do with our 21st-century complex over free speech?

Forget the rejoin label, we need to start again with our rhetoric

Bands, lawyers and architects are all suffering as Brexit damages a sector that makes up 80% of the UK economy

As the year comes to a close, what new lingo has emerged across the continent?

Britain is a more civilised society without the death penalty. I hope this Orwellian humanitarianism prevails, but these are dark days

Neil Kinnock introduced me to a new word this week and it perfectly sums up the silence and dishonesty surrounding the Brexit debate

From a Nordic baby boom to a drop in Lithuania and Romania, how birth rates compare across the continent

Brexit sent the message that we have detached ourselves from economic reality. With that, investors' confidence evaporated