Europe

New Year's Eve in agricultural Extremadura is not to be refused - just don't head out before 3am

Being a citizen of both the United States and United Kingdom was once a privilege. Now it’s an embarrassment. How did we get here?

Buffeted by the pandemic, Eurostar faced collapse. With little thanks to the UK government, this link to the continent is revived.

Football's authorities need to pay more attention to players' physical and mental burnout, says ROB HUGHES

From a fresh perspective on a classic French tale to a tense drama set on a freezing Russian train, our movie picks for the first third of 2022

Netflix's A Classic Horror Story deserves a wider audience, says MEGAN NOLAN

CLAUDIA PRITCHARD enjoys a European journey in the company of a German genius.

The president's wife is starting legal proceedings over a conspiracy theory that she is transgender.

SOPHIA DEBOICK on the traditional songs of celebration continuing to be sung across Europe

STEVE ANGLESEY on the latest sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain.

The West faces an ultimatum from Russia that could result in actual war. Yet we don’t seem to have noticed. Paris Sorbonne professor of international relations and Russia specialist FRANÇOISE THOM analyses the threat.

New rules and standards on EU trade will make the first set of Brexit measures pale into insignificance.

As much as the arrival of a New Year encourages us to look forward, it also offers a chance to look back. JONATHAN SALE flags up the most notable anniversaries in 2022.

He’s remembered as an unsmiling, bloated figure festooned with medals. But at one point the Soviet leader was classed as a heart-throb.

Calmer weather has brought a new surge of migrant boat crossings in the Channel - and with them, new risks.

A Norwegian Christmas advert depicting Santa falling in love with a man called Harry has been widely shared on social media.

Facing rare criticism at home, Vladimir Putin is preparing a crowd-pleasing war against what he considers a ‘fake’ country.

Why Germany and Britain diverge wildly when it comes to justice and imposing prison terms.

WILL SELF on the French far-right politician who emerged from a Jewish background.

Liz Truss, Yolanda Díaz, Valérie Pécresse, Mamata Banerjee, Andrew Bailey. Just some of the names we think will make the headlines in the next 12 months ... for better or worse

A young Frenchman has financially benefitted after finding gemstones, and being allowed to keep half, from a plane crash on Mont Blanc dating back to 1950.

With rival negotiators at odds over the Northern Ireland Protocol, and Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron trading insults, it seems that Britain and the EU have never been further apart. But a former diplomat argues that a coming together is inevitable.

Why do German-speaking countries have significantly lower vaccination rates than the rest of Western Europe?

Germany’s new chancellor faces a tough task in steering a risk-averse country through the radical change of modernisation.

The concept is fashionable yet controversial, exerting a romantic appeal on some and exerting deep atavistic fears in others. But at its essence, rewilding is a simple necessity.

Celebrations of Mark Francois' book, Spartan Victory, achieving best-seller status may be premature.

Boris Johnson’s posturing over France is making a terrible situation even worse.

Our columnist (who worked for his rival during the German elections) says Angela Merkel’s successor is a pragmatist, not an entertainer.

As a new variant hits, Austrians are once again dealing with the strangeness of life behind closed doors.

Mafia scams involving farming, tobacco, VAT and alcohol are taking billions out of EU funds. The Covid pandemic has opened the floodgates.

Italy’s Mafia is older than the country itself and, despite the cyclical efforts to stamp out its influence, the rise of the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta clan to displace the Sicilian Cosa Nostra underscores its intrinsic place in Italian society.

The new Commission for UK-EU Relations will propose solutions to problems caused by Britain’s botched exit.