Europe

Can an Israeli-Arab exchange programme work during wartime?

The Council president who U-turned over resignation and Hungary’s populist head bring shame on Brussels

The guardians of the French countryside are posing a headache for the very new, very young PM

The singer almost came to embody the nation’s revival before it all ended at the dawn of a decade that could have been made for him

The artist's landscapes inspired German romanticism and are now turning him into a green icon

The farmer blockades show that Emmanuel Macron and the City of Light must put on a winning show this summer for a deeply divided country

Just as food inflation finally slows, new border checks will make EU produce more expensive in our shops

The icon of St Matrona of Moscow and Stalin has caused a remarkable division of opinion in Georgia, culminating in an act of vandalism

Jannick Sinner’s victory at the Australian Open proves that Italians, like us all, love a winner

The Serbian leader's authoritarian grip is tightening amid allegations of election irregularities and growing discontent

The party is banking on the country turning a blind eye to its past – but the German citizens have had a wake-up call

After eight successful seasons at Anfield, Team Germany really needs Kloppo to come home

Finland has rejected the far right, but is the country ready for a gay, Green head of state in Pekka Haavisto?

On the anniversary of us officially leaving the EU, the damage is clear

German protests against AfD’s far right extremism show us how to beat the populists

Worrying trends across Europe and the world suggest that women’s rights are under threat

A “yes” to independence would also mean “yes” to Brussels

A hugely ambitious exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art shows how a burgeoning sense of nationhood gripped many European countries in 1918

This extract from Martin Sixsmith’s new book explores how Putinism emerged from the country’s brutal history

Poland’s pensioners will not be swayed from their belief that Tusk sold their country to Russia and Germany

A thawing ice rink, frosty relations between some competitors and a distinct lack of fans couldn’t stop the success of Chamonix 1924

The country’s state of military readiness is laughable to other nations

Bulgarians are tired of being treated as second-class citizens by the EU

Reading is not the preferred choice of recreation for France’s youth

Olaf Scholz is helping the AfD blend in when they need to be singled out

We investigated 274 suspects - and secured only one conviction

More famous dancers would follow her lead but Nora Kovach was the first, the pioneer, arguably the bravest of them all

With only 20 of his works left in the world, the National Gallery is hosting the first exhibition devoted to the Renaissance master

Blending headbanging with head-nodding, Norway’s genre-bending guitarist is having her moment in the sun

Unravelling the secrets of the German film-maker

We have a media that seems to shield the government from accountability while at the same time attacking those seeking to scrutinise it

The creator of the first totalitarian state died on January 24, 1924. His body was viewed by the faithful in temperatures of -35C