Europe

Barcelona, heavily in debt, have managed to go on a summer spending spree

Ukrainian artist turned soldier Hamlet Zinkivskyi is decorating his war-torn hometown... on the orders of his commander

Truss has been described as “a woman so dense that light bends around her”, shares one reader

The country has a lack of digital infrastructure. Germany is a fax republic

Spain’s bill to offer paid menstrual leave is a first for Europe. Closer to home, the push for change is coming from individuals

Strangely, Truss's beloved idol, Margaret Thatcher, didn't put office layout in any leadership and election manifestos

Tight, exciting and nuanced, new six-part Croatian drama thriller Four Strangers is a proper treat

We need the Fringe more than ever, but European comedians are finding the price of playing there beyond a joke

Are markets ever a place's real cultural centre, asks our columnist

Celebrated as one of Europe’s leading fashion writers, the Italian was better known for her sheer presence on the scene

Many family names in Britain seem likely to have descended from bynames of Norwegian and Danish origin

This month, the fish is in the last throes of its season, but there’s still a fair bit about. Let’s make the most of it, then

The word also makes us think of 'trust'. Then we realise that 'Truss' has nothing to do with that at all, writes one reader

President Erdoğan’s draconian punishments and indiscriminate subjugation of creativity have caused outrage and anger across the country

Are decisions about firing nuclear weapons best left to error-prone humans? Scientists want reform of the launch protocols, which are 70 years old

Electricity costs in Germany have been much higher than the rest of Europe for years, but now they are exploding

On Washington DC’s grand 16th Street, an outdoor photography exhibition has brought a fragment of Europe to the new world

If Amon Amarth's Johan Hegg is a Viking, he’s one who is fully paid up to modern Scandi liberal values

A new Spanish Netflix series portrays celebrity as inherently toxic and destructive, and yet a natural ambition for the aimless disenfranchised young people to whom it is sold

Sarina Wiegman, the mastermind of that Euros win, is steeped in a rich coaching tradition

The plot to depose Italy’s PM is good news for Silvio Berlusconi, the country’s far right – and Vladimir Putin

Humiliated over its Ukraine response, the country is again debating its position in Europe and the wider world

Why Germany is swaying to the sound of a controversial hit

Both Tory leadership contenders clearly want to be tough on immigration to appease the many ultras in their party, writes one reader

The time has come for Europeans to take back control of the world’s most popular juvenescent fashion statement

The Frenchman was no newshound but had a knack of witnessing some of the 20th century’s key episodes

Tartare with fine cuts of beef, from one of the Czech Republic's most famous chefs, is a new experience for our food writer

A fire that destroyed a library in Venice 455 years ago has inspired a superb Anselm Kiefer exhibition on loss and retrieval

Public service radio orchestras have played far more than just a cultural role over the last century but they are now under threat

In a new documentary, French superstar DJ Laurent Garnier recalls his part in the birth of dance music and traces his career all the way from Manchester’s Haçienda to Tbilisi’s Bassiani

Flee is the best representation yet of what it really means to be a refugee

The torture and destruction of Ukraine is just a practice run for the same routine to be used against Europe