Europe

From Poland to Italy, a guide to the continent's most bizarre ways to celebrate the festive season

Brussels is gripped by fears that Qatargate might expand, with populists and Putin ready to capitalise

From Westminster and European parliament to film and TV, test your knowledge with our fiendishly tricky quiz of the year

A new book about Britain’s MEPs charts the political journeys of this quiet army of people still – mostly – fighting for Europe

The point is not the corruption but the response

Can this British mercantile mentality ever be changed? Or perhaps the EU is simply better off without us

The reality behind the continent's happiest nations

What does Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter really have to do with our 21st-century complex over free speech?

Forget the rejoin label, we need to start again with our rhetoric

Bands, lawyers and architects are all suffering as Brexit damages a sector that makes up 80% of the UK economy

As the year comes to a close, what new lingo has emerged across the continent?

Britain is a more civilised society without the death penalty. I hope this Orwellian humanitarianism prevails, but these are dark days

Neil Kinnock introduced me to a new word this week and it perfectly sums up the silence and dishonesty surrounding the Brexit debate

From a Nordic baby boom to a drop in Lithuania and Romania, how birth rates compare across the continent

Brexit sent the message that we have detached ourselves from economic reality. With that, investors' confidence evaporated

We are living in a climate crisis. So, how is Europe responding?

Britain has collapsed under Brexit. Now, the Tories must pay for this crisis with a generation out of power

In a union built on diplomacy, foreign minister Josep Borrell’s undiplomatic language has caused a stir - yet he has made more progress than his predecessors

Seaside towns like Skegness are yet to experience the 'merits' of Brexit and levelling up just isn't cutting it

The government’s Brexit policy has devastated the sector – and opened up a £7bn black hole in public finances

Which European nations are refusing to, as requested by the current Fifa president Gianni Infantino, "focus on the football"

These zones will not only protect women from abuse and intimidation; they will also make the law more coherent when it comes to access

Climate campaigners are blocking roads and defacing artworks. But is anyone listening?

The logic of a British passport is sound enough. But, it underlines how much we have lost for the little we have gained

Brexit has been a car crash. When will we have a leader brave enough to tell the truth about this?

Europe’s largest landfill site is just outside Belgrade – and it’s a factory of poison gases

Britain will stop on Sunday to honour its war dead. But in a new era, what should we remember, and how should we do it?

A guide to how pensions are funded across the continent

Welcome to Europe’s future, in which Britain holds a referendum in 2041 to rejoin the European Union

Rejoining the single market would begin to offer some stability to our troubling times

Which countries across the continent have high profile politicians from minorities?

After all these years (and all those documentaries), no one understands brutalism... especially Nadine Dorries