Europe

Next month’s local elections are sure to bring extensive debate over how the disaster was handled by local government

Navalny knew that every syllable he uttered was a potential death sentence, but he spoke anyway

Cast adrift from the rest of Europe in self-imposed isolation, the UK is behaving like a spoilt child

Why not make it clear that any party which takes a donation from an individual cannot then award that individual an honour?

Italy is far from the Wild West but the country’s gun laws need attention

The tradition is one of the defining events of the Sámi people’s annual calendar

Germans demonstrate a remarkable zeal for pursuing fraudsters

The former deputy prime minister has urged the pro-European movement in the UK to show “vision”

Alexander Stubb won the presidential election, but now he faces an even bigger challenge – Russia

As good a musician as Keith Richards, the German was never entirely comfortable in the limelight

No other writer has captured the singular beauty of the northern French coast like Rebecca Gisler in her debut novel

Agriculture is in a crisis created by Brexit, and farmers are furious.. as Jacob Rees-Mogg found out

Brussels is accustomed to demonstrations but the farmers’ protests were a different story

The German Jewish writer defied the Nazis by producing a magazine from his hiding place in Holland. They are testament to his life and times

Rothko’s Seagram murals come to Paris

The country’s army is full of middle-aged volunteers hoping to save the next generation from fighting

Is the prime minister’s amendment a push for sports culture or a faint echo of the country’s fascist past?

In the Austrian physicist’s style, the mooted right wing coalition is simultaneously dead and alive

The AfD’s flirtations with leaving the EU are helping the far right attack the union from within

If Keir Starmer wins the election, how will he rebuild Britain’s relationship with Europe?

It could happen. And if it does, the global security order could be turned on its head

PM Attal is using Britain’s struggles as a weapon against Le Pen in his EU election campaign

Once the toast of New York society, the mystery of why she did what she did remains

A long (and brilliant) article about Steve McQueen’s long (and brilliant) documentary about Amsterdam under the Nazis, Occupied City

How an illiterate model reinvented herself as one of Italy’s greatest modern painters

Brexit has caused a crisis for British manufacturers who export into Europe – and things could be about to get even worse...

The story of the fateful real-life race that inspired Michael Mann’s Ferrari movie

What if Russian soldiers return to the small town Paldiski that they left 30 years ago?

The capital’s anger shows the polarised nature of Spain’s politics and how populists could take power

The mythology around the Spanish civil war lives on in Munich

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