Europe

He was the future once, but now French voters are heading for the extremes

The French president’s new choice of PM shows that his political project has ended in failure

One of the first women of celebrity in the modern sense of the word, Elisabeth of Austria was a gifted, vibrant woman imprisoned by contemporary etiquette

What do you get when you mix Ancient Greek with Scottish Gaelic? An almost flightless mountain bird

There are some foods that work to a near-unfathomable degree. This is that: a total, unadulterated masterstroke of a lunch

What is behind the rise in Spain of dark tourism, the trend for visiting places associated with tragedy?

Three architects pitch monuments to massacres in Lara Haworth’s debut novel about who gets to write history

Angelina Jolie’s Callas biopic sinks at the Venice Film Festival

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

Without a dominant culture, it appears everyone can fit in in Brussels

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

Dani Karavan's Passages honours the memory of Walter Benjamin, who took his own life in Portbou when faced with being handed over to the Gestapo

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

Is the prime minister serious about his EU red lines - or just playing a long game?

Keir Starmer’s trip to Germany and France feels empty without rejoining the scheme

The photographer used his camera and the city of lights as a doorway to poetry

Ukraine’s daring incursion into Kursk shows a dictator in crisis, with the Russian people and China turning their backs on him

The far right AfD is poised for major wins this weekend’s eastern state elections amid rising discontent

The Italian prime minister’s abortion law amendment has sparked fear and anger among women across the country

My relentless pursuit of French fluency and European belonging has had its ups and downs but I realise I am making progress

The redevelopment of a bombed ministry complex in the Serbian capital is set to feature a Trump-Kushner hotel

The late Sven-Göran Eriksson faced scepticism and downright xenophobia from the British press but always remained a true gentleman of football

In the meantime, the Irish literary scene is thriving

Few things in music sound more like the punchline to a joke than a millionaire mouth organist, but Thielemans forged a brilliantly idiosyncratic path

Bombed, suppressed, destroyed… but the work of Ukrainian artists goes on

Hanna Pylväinen’s new novel is a haunting tale of love and conflict set in the Sápmi lands of northern Europe in the 19th century

The exotic world of James Bond was also that of his creator, Ian Fleming

During the singer’s 10-night residency in Munich, she understood exactly what Germans need to hear

Delays for travellers to Europe are about to get much worse with the EU’s new entry/exit system

If you do not like a social media site, do not use it. If it is not used enough, it will eventually evaporate

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