The New Europe

You’ve met Italy’s prime minister Giorgia – now meet her equally controversial sibling Arianna

But we won’t be there to reap the benefits of modernisation

But can a country join that is still part-occupied by Russia?

Siena’s chaotic horse race is over in a minute and a half, but the plotting goes on all year round

The country has seen months of increasing political tensions paired with rising temperatures

German voters are not becoming extremists. They are just fed up

Since 2017, Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies against the right) has grown into a national and international force

The former Catalan president vanished like the Scarlet Pimpernel, believing he had a duty to evade arrest

Parisians embraced the Games – but it was a different story in one corner of rural France

Boxer Cindy Ngamba, from Cameroon via Bolton, won the Refugee Team’s first medal thanks in part to the value of youth workers

Knowing which language to speak to strangers in Brussels is a taxing task

French politicians promised the Games would benefit everyone but, once again, the Olympics are bulldozing over a city and its residents

Thanks to affluent tourists, the city’s heart and soul is being auctioned off

Despite appearances, all is not well in the EU’s smallest member state

There are indications that the country will follow Italy and continue last year’s ‘temporary’ border controls until the end of 2024

Days after those election gains, squabbling over PM candidates makes it look as dysfunctional as ever

The vast number of tourists make our home town unliveable

Le Pen’s party is packed with Russia supporters – no wonder the Kremlin’s disinformation machine supported her

Most of France celebrated the defeat of Marine Le Pen last Sunday. But the price of victory will be chaos

Le Pen and Bardella are the stuff of 2016 nightmares

Both leaders thought politics would be easier than finance. They were wrong

As Italy turns to the right, the grass is looking greener back home for Britons

Marine Le Pen’s clear win underscores her party’s achievement of making a duplicitous surface-level transformation to voters

In Nice, a stronghold of the French hard right, the racial and political tensions simmer

Robert Fico’s supporters believed the attack on his life would secure them a major political win. It didn’t happen that way

Brussels has become synonymous with the European Parliament, but the real city is far removed from the exclusive little EU island inside the capital

Be it football or politics, Georgians know the importance of unity

The hard right has boomed under Macron – that will be his epitaph

Amid faint glimmers of hope, the European elections showed that a politics the world hoped was long gone is back on the march

Macron is playing a dangerous game by calling an election – and if Le Pen wins, we all lose

For years, the French hard right has cast a perpetual shadow over the country’s politics

Giorgia Meloni is now apparently allied with both Marine Le Pen and Ursula Von der Leyen – but is she really?