Europe

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.

Olaf Scholz's in-tray is bulging, and Germany is braced for change. But can a cautious chancellor deliver it?

Businesspeople, academics, journalists and a top trade unionist have formed a group with the purpose of repairing fractured UK-EU relations.

In the wake of the tragedy in the Channel, media commentator LIZ GERARD’s searing essay exposes how newspapers demonised refugees - and encouraged ministers to follow them.

Umberto Bombana secured the product known locally as Truffle of the White Madonna.

Over the weekend, bicycles were burnt and rocks were thrown in protest against increasing Covid restrictions.

The gifted photographer died last week. His images, however, live on and continue to change the way people think.

Our columnist looks at “only in Berlin” syndrome and at how the country’s capital fails its democracy.

The Balkan nation has emerged as an unlikely global centre of high- tech industry – and of hacking.

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.