Europe

The country is usually seen as a force for stability and symbol of solidity on the international stage. But is that actually so?

How Germany's influence has grown in the world since the end of World War II.

Post-war Germany has been characterised by good governance and solid leadership. But as the country goes to the polls to replace Angela Merkel, Germans – and the wider world – fear its good run is coming to an end.

As David Frost moans about the deal they both agreed, Michel Barnier is entering the race to be Franceʼs president.

The pandemic has highlighted the importance of our urban parks. TOM CHESSHYRE, author of a new book on the subject, reports on how European cities are making the most of their green spaces, and celebrates the finest examples

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Angela Merkel has taught Germans to crave stability... but they are still turning away from her party.

Two of Germany’s candidates for Chancellor are running in the same constituency – home to the super rich and celebrities.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

The small spa resort in central France which gave its name to Marshal Petain’s pro-Nazi regime carries heavy historical baggage. As the town tries to reinvent itself once more, JOHN LICHFIELD paid it a visit.

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

Amid the bloodshed of the 20th century, it remains all but forgotten. But what became known as the Disaster of Annual, 100 years ago this summer, shaped Spain’s traumatic century.

PATRICK SAWER on his Italian immigrant mother’s quiet English patriotism

The threat from 21st century fascism is not of a modern day March on Rome or a beerhall putsch. It's far more insidious. By PAUL MASON, the broadcaster and author of a new book on the subject

The country’s media is being forced back to the dark days of the Iron Curtain, warns ex-Europe minister DENIS MACSHANE, a former journalist once arrested in Warsaw by the communist authorities

More weird news from Europe, including a fake Kanye West gig in a field near Paris, a cow-riding German and the Austrian punk singer who vaccinates his own fans

The Argentine's departure from the Catalan club has been the saga of the summer. But as this exclusive extract from a new book by SIMON KUPER shows, the footballing and financial relationship had been dysfunctional for several seasons

A mission to archive fanzines, flyers, badges and the ephemera of punk, techno, hip-hop and more is underway in Berlin. By DANIEL SCHNEIDER

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL on his first reading of one of the most important books of the 20th century

JAMES RODGERS was working in Russia in the summer of 1991, when the cracks in the USSR’s system suddenly broke apart.

ARTEMY TROITSKY was on the barricades in August 1991 to prevent the coup from succeeding. He says the freedoms that followed were soon squandered

Thirty years ago this month, the August Coup that preceded the crack up of the Soviet Union played out before an astonished world. Britain's man in Moscow had a ringside seat.

A vaccination centre in Sonneberg, central Germany, southern Thuringia, increased its footfall by nearly 80 per cent by offering a free bratwurst with each jab

SUNA ERDEM reports on a sleepy area of Germany, devoid of big cities and obvious structural advantages, whose economic success is defying orthodoxy and attracting attention as a model for levelling up left-behind regions

As elusive as they are exclusive, superyachts are the world's most glaring symbols of uber-wealth. Gemma Fottles explores the economics behind them

The country's tragic floods might have been expected to boost support for the Greens ahead of September's elections. But this doesn't appear to have happened

Actor Stanley Tucci's Searching For Italy is the food travel show we need right now

Bernard Arnault and François Pinault, two of France's richest men and the powers behind some of the world's most glamourous brands, fell out in a business dispute 20 years ago.