The New Europe

In the Austrian physicist’s style, the mooted right wing coalition is simultaneously dead and alive

What if Russian soldiers return to the small town Paldiski that they left 30 years ago?

The capital’s anger shows the polarised nature of Spain’s politics and how populists could take power

The Council president who U-turned over resignation and Hungary’s populist head bring shame on Brussels

The guardians of the French countryside are posing a headache for the very new, very young PM

The Serbian leader's authoritarian grip is tightening amid allegations of election irregularities and growing discontent

The party is banking on the country turning a blind eye to its past – but the German citizens have had a wake-up call

Finland has rejected the far right, but is the country ready for a gay, Green head of state in Pekka Haavisto?

Poland’s pensioners will not be swayed from their belief that Tusk sold their country to Russia and Germany

Bulgarians are tired of being treated as second-class citizens by the EU

Olaf Scholz is helping the AfD blend in when they need to be singled out

Populists are set to triumph in June’s EU elections, fuelled by fears over immigration, inflation and insecurity. How bad could it get?

Evacuation orders were issued just hours before the eruption in the south-west of Iceland

Nikola Sandulović’s trauma has cast a shadow over Vučić’s government

Has Macron just chosen his successor?

The Bundestag has still not passed the proposed new law decriminalising the use of marijuana

Experts warn that it’s not a matter of if an emergency situation will be declared, but when

Serbia’s frontier with Hungary has been turned into a war zone

Delors’ political vision was spot on for the time, just as it is now

For the bereaved citizens of Ukraine, the holiday season is the cruellest time of all

The west must understand that when it comes to Putin, there are only binary outcomes

Serbia’s nationalist government seeks re-election. If it succeeds, Europe may be poised for renewed war in the Balkans

Putin’s Russia is a chaos engine and we are letting him get away with it

The number of refugees arriving in Athens is out of control

As Israel’s response to the Hamas attacks goes on, a spiral of violence by West Bank settlers is worrying Washington DC and Brussels

Joining the European family is what Georgians have wanted for decades

Erdoğan is risking alienating Israel, a crucial trade partner, to please his voter base

This lesson is as old as the 1930s but clearly it takes a long time to learn

Wilders promised a vote on the Netherlands’ EU membership. But the grass isn't always greener...

Geert Wilders and his party have taken hate into the mainstream

The US president must take a leaf out of the Spanish prime minister’s book and focus on social justice and saving democracy

A dreary campaign is entirely in keeping with the country’s political process