Europe

A new book eschews cosy nostalgia to explore the fractures that Europe’s picture postcard tourist traps keep hidden

They endured the civil war, persecution and Franco, but the Basques are still singing

The Targa Florio road race pitted drivers against every imaginable danger.. including stray dogs

Post-Brexit, there’s even less use for a royal family than there was when we were an important nation

In Germany today, a lot of stereotypes between the East and the West remain. This is far from healthy

Can the football-mad Italian city achieve the ultimate goal?

The German media can see the damage Brexit has done, even if the Europhobes can’t

After austerity was followed by stability and positivity, the country’s elusive search for sustainable growth is stalling

How sheep can fight the climate crisis

The Dutch cyclist should have fallen to his death after tumbling into a 1,000-foot ravine during the 1951 Tour de France, but emerged in miraculously good shape

My inexplicable inability to call out the bigotry of the far right during an appearance on Question Time nearly a decade ago still rankles to this day

She was on her way to becoming a tennis all-time great. Then, 30 years ago, an attacker changed history

A revelatory collection of Mediterranean antiquities makes for a quietly subversive exhibition in Cambridge

The story of Odysseus’s Italian origins are surprisingly popular and Sicilian tourism companies know how to capitalise on this

When Maria Callas met Pier Paolo Pasolini in the late 1960s, the results were predictably explosive

Don’t expect a kitchen photo-op from Olaf Scholz and his wife, Britta Ernst, any time soon

In Algeria and Polynesia, the shadow of French atomic and nuclear experiments in the 1950s and 60s still causes suffering and anger

Extraordinarily, three years after the UK formally left the EU, it will be the first time that MPs have had an opportunity to debate the impact of Brexit

Brexit pressures, from a devalued pound to a worker shortage, are to blame

What has Brexit got to do with the fate of the critically endangered big cat? Quite a lot – and many other species will be affected, too

The Red Baron shot down a total of 80 allied aircraft in a flying career that made his name immortal both in aerial combat and the history of aviation itself

Germany has shut down its last remaining nuclear power plants, despite concerns over volatile power grids and rising energy costs

How an unstarry, violent story of crime and redemption with echoes of the classic policiers cleaned up at France’s Oscars

Painstakingly plotted, the Swedish author’s bestselling debut Collected Works weighs in at 733 pages – over a quarter of a million words

The city wants to change its image. But this rebranding will be no mean feat

A new show at the National Gallery maps startling changes in pre-first world war European art

Berlin is lively and welcoming. But, reminders of past horrors are ever-present across the city

The consequences of a new divide in Slovakian society will extend far beyond the country's borders

Looking at the blurred and bloody borders of Habsburg history through the writings of Joseph Roth

The role of Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern during the talks, to this day, simply cannot be overstated

Does the psychedelic drug have real benefits, and should it be legalised for medical use? A colleague of acid’s inventor speaks…

The iconic service, the setting for Agatha Christie’s famous novel, is to scrap its British leg next year - and the culprit is Brexit