Europe

Scholz doesn't do charisma. True to form, he delivered his address seriously and without needless bumbling or theatrics.

Our columnist steers a steady course to bring us up to speed on a debate raging on Germany's roads

The Spanish earth groans with horrors a modern mind struggles to comprehend, yet which were buried there within the lifetimes of our grandparents.

The posturing of Putin and Lukashenko on the Poland-Belarus border risks lives while leaving Europe on the brink of erecting walls.

A new poll shows that all the “Brexit good news” is not getting through to voters. Strange that...

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Il Duce's granddaughter was the star of Rome's recent elections, and his spiritual ancestors are thriving in Italy too.

Even without his leading role in the French Revolution, Bailly would have been remembered as an exceptional man.

After working on Armin Laschet’s bid to become chancellor, our columnist returns to explore the relationship between her country and Poland

Afghan female judges and lawyers left behind in Kabul and beyond now have targets on their backs. BARONESS HELENA KENNEDY makes an impassioned plea for intervention.

Britain’s Far Right is now intensely Eurosceptic, but there was a time when it provided Britain’s most pro-European voice of all.

Food writer JOSH BARRIE brings readers an Italian recipe from Liverpool Street.

The decision to block a Hebrew version of her latest book because of her dislike of what she sees as an apartheid state in Israel has seen the author come under fire.

One thing's for sure, he's certainly ready to try.

As Twitter goes full-on berserko over the "non-EU salt and pepper" crisis, the fact that shoppers and staff at the supermarket are about to be stuffed appears to have been forgotten

Janus Boye, a Social Democrat in Denmark, has earned himself a new nickname after the sun faded out the first and last letters of his name on a poster.

The fishing row is politically charged in both Britain and France. Now, it seems, part of the dispute has been lost in translation.

The UK encouraged Afghan women to take up top judicial roles. Now they need, and deserve, our help, argues Baroness Kennedy.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

CHARLIE CONNELLY on a page-turner which brings to vivid, often gruesome, life one of the most violent periods in the history of Britain

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

The country has a reputation for doing things better. But Berlin’s disastrous new airport shows that given a chance, it can stuff things up just as badly as everyone else.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

The Russian region, disconnected from the motherland and deep in EU territory, is both an asset and a vulnerability for the Kremlin. PAUL KNOTT tells the story of one of the continent’s most intriguing places, where geography and history collide

The most vicious presidential contest in almost a century is likely to be decided by left wing voters... even though their own parties don’t have a prayer of winning.

Two downfalls hint at a return to more respectable politics in countries at the heart of the continent.

Huge crowds may have gathered to oppose ‘Polexit’, but the gauntlet thrown down by the country’s populist government still poses an existential threat to the union.

For many, it inspires cooperation and hope... for others annoyance. But what does the European flag actually stand for?

Sensational reports of a plot to kill the Netherlands PM have raised fears about the seemingly sedate, safe country’s descent to narco-state status. But they are also a reminder of the country’s violent political past.

The violent histories of France’s former African colonies owe much to the continued meddling of Paris and other Western capitals.

Pictures emerged showing the winner posing with other models in the colours of the opposition.

This month marks the anniversary of a bloodbath in the centre of Paris, the full story of which is yet to emerge. SUNA ERDEM reports on a tragedy that continues to haunt France.