Europe

He wrote three operas with Mozart and ended up working at a grocers in New York City: meet Lorenzo da Ponte

A new exhibition in Basel aims to put women at the centre of the previously male-dominated Fauvism movement

For all the cod philosophy attached to the art, being a goalkeeper did not cause the Germany international to end his life

Italy has a history of premiers not completing their tenure. Will Meloni be any different?

Aleksandar Vučić’s sandwich PR stunt showed Serbians he’s all bark and no bite

Now you can try your first Belgian beer closer to home

Remembrance feels more important than ever this year

Conspiracy theory surrounds the 1978 kidnap and killing of the former Italian prime minister in the centre of Rome

The opening of the International French Language Centre embraces the evolution of the language in a globalised world

The French philosopher and writer, born on November 7, 1913, was a publisher’s dream

The Catholic church does not approve of zombies

A new poll shows 47% want a new Brexit vote by the end of 2028

Macron says “non”

In 2022, Britain produced a billion fewer eggs than in 2019. The knock-on effects of that shortfall are huge

Forty years on, the adventures of a bunch of brickies abroad still have a lot to tell us about Britain, its workers and Europe

The award-winning story of how a psychiatric facility on a River Seine barge helps to keep its patients afloat

Never a religious man, at the end of his life converting a damp garage into a chapel became an unlikely obsession

The promotion of conservative or even hard-right ideas across Europe is a threat

In Sardinia you can buy a house for just one euro, but is this too good to be true?

The post-GDR party she used to co-chair is on the brink of extinction, and Wagenknecht is gearing up to push her former comrades off a cliff

“Jews so keenly feel the trauma of 7 October and its aftermath, not because they support the Netanyahu government or the fundamentalist West Bank settlers… because, like everyone else, we want to be accepted”

Instead of standing up to the far right in the name of democracy and peace, Brussels often enables it

Turkish secularists and Islamists have been demonstrating against the war, but for different reasons

Trafficked migrants, fake embryo transfers, babies for sale… the shocking story that reveals the dark side of Crete

Valencia’s minister of culture calls the practice an art form – he’s wrong

The paper's story about the supposed economic magic of freeports is a pack of lies

‘There is no room for a renegotiation of substance’ says the EU’s former Brexit chief

A year in, the prime minister's time in office has been less eventful than expected

The self-styled Brexit hard man is already setting the ground for a future referendum on rejoining the EU

The new women’s wing of the Limerick prison is a symbol of the view the best system is when there is the least amount of imprisonment

Just a small percentage have been able to shut down their operations in the country since it invaded Ukraine

Born a century ago, the Italian author was the best kind of writer, because he understood what it was to be a reader