Europe

US NATO special operations forces take part in a military exercise.

Europe

Europe’s secret Plan B to replace NATO

What happens if America quits

5 min read

A portrait of Ozgur Ozel

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Turkey’s struggle for democracy is like Hungary’s, but harder

If it succeeds, though, it will resonate more widely, writes Ozgur Ozel, the opposition leader

5 min read

Rumen Radev is followed by members of the media after voting.

Europe

Who are Europe’s newest troublemakers?

Corruption and inflation are boosting eurosceptic populists

5 min read

Peter Magyar during his inauguration at Parliament in Budapest, Hungary.

Europe

Peter Magyar takes office pledging to clean up Hungary’s mess

EU funds blocked because of corruption under Viktor Orban are his priority

3 min read

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, second right, walk together during an official welcome ceremony for the EU-Armenia summit at the Presidential Palace in Yerevan, Armenia.

Europe

Armenia’s election will test its leader’s pivot to the West

Let down by Russia, Nikol Pashinyan wants to make up with Azerbaijan and join the EU

3 min read

Europe's left-wing politicians warding off threatening dark faces

Europe

Socialism is being left behind in Europe

The workers’ parties aren’t working

5 min read

A man riding a Vespa scooter past residential buildings in Spain.

Europe

To understand European voters’ anger, look at their rent bills

Rent-control policies are making Europe’s housing shortage worse

6 min read

Sound checking at Open Ground.

Europe

The world’s best-sounding nightclub is in an unexpected place

Why DJs are flocking to an obscure town in west Germany

2 min read

Illustration of a statue holding up a Euro sign buried in cardboard boxes with China flags on

Europe

The EU and China are stumbling into a trade war

Swamped by Chinese exports, Europe nears a point of no return

5 min read

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Europe’s battle for growth

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

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A fibre optic drone armed with a warhead is tested in Ukraine

Europe

The War Room newsletter: Drones are rewiring warfare. Literally

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, looks at a pivotal weapon on the battlefield: the fibre-optic drone

6 min read

A lone soldier stands in front of apartment buildings damaged in Ukraine.

Europe

Russia is stumbling on the battlefield  

As casualties soar in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin looks ever more beleaguered at home

7 min read