The New Europe

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

The amnesty causing outrage in Madrid is no different to what happened with Blair and Northern Ireland

Party leaders will have plenty of political ammunition during their next stint in opposition

Italy has a history of premiers not completing their tenure. Will Meloni be any different?

The promotion of conservative or even hard-right ideas across Europe is a threat

The post-GDR party she used to co-chair is on the brink of extinction, and Wagenknecht is gearing up to push her former comrades off a cliff

Instead of standing up to the far right in the name of democracy and peace, Brussels often enables it

The ruling hard right party doesn’t have the votes to form a government. Can Donald Tusk put together a centrist ruling coalition?

The people are heading to the polls this weekend and whatever the result, Poland will remain starkly divided

With a populist returned to power in Slovakia, the Czech Republic has been reminded of the ever-changing nature of nationhood

Can Donald Tusk turn back the populist tide in this weekend’s election? Or will PiS deal yet another blow to the EU’s hopes of unity?

As the aftermath of the Hamas incursion dominates the headlines, we should not take our eyes off Kosovo

Renewed unrest in Kosovo has raised concerns of escalating ethnic tensions in the region

The Confederates are far from what you would expect – don’t write them off as cranks

If this 'Ukraine fatigue' continues to spread, it could ultimately lead to Ukraine's failure on the battlefield

The Vajont dam was hailed as an engineering miracle. Then, 60 years ago, it was the cause of one of Italy’s deadliest disasters

The Czechs, who have always regarded themselves as part of “the west” know the dangers of appeasement better than any other nation. They will not back down on Putin

Critics call it Islamophobic – but Emmanuel Macron’s ban on the abaya, the long Islamic dress, in schools has won surprising support

The Commission president's state of the union speech saw her press for expansion for the union’s own good

Nicolas Sarkozy’s reappearance in the media demonstrates that public opinion in the country is far from uniform