Innocence lostGermany becomes the last big Western power to buy killer robotsFor now, the drones will not be armedprint-edition iconJun 21st 2018
Charlemagne: save our SchengenEurope’s passport-free zone faces a grim futureGovernments routinely flout the EU’s Schengen rulesprint-edition iconJun 21st 2018
From solidarity to solitaryThe incredible disappearing French Socialist PartySqueezed between the far left and the radical centre, France’s socialists are in troubleprint-edition iconJun 21st 2018
The man from Milan with an ominous planHow Matteo Salvini is dominating Italian politicsThe interior minister who wants to deport Roma is setting the agendaprint-edition iconJun 21st 2018
Merkel’s moment of perilThe politics of migration in GermanyA Bavarian uprising threatens the chancellor’s hold on powerprint-edition iconJun 21st 2018
Ending the ErdoganateTurkey’s President Erdogan may yet be defeatedOpposition leaders have a chance of ending, or at least crimping, his increasingly autocratic ruleprint-edition iconJun 21st 2018
If you want something done...Which European cabinets have the most women?Spain leads the way; Hungary has only oneprint-edition iconJun 14th 2018
CharlemagneEurope struggles to respond to Donald TrumpTo uphold its cherished rules, Europe must learn when to bend themprint-edition iconJun 14th 2018
Pillow talkSurrender your dollars, urges Turkey’s President ErdoganAhead of elections, he wants patriotic Turks to rescue the currency he underminedprint-edition iconJun 14th 2018
Where’s Jaroslaw?Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Poland’s real leader, has vanishedIf he is seriously ill, who could take over as chairman of Poland’s ruling party?print-edition iconJun 14th 2018
What’s in a name?Meet a new country: “Northern Macedonia”Greece and the Republic of Macedonia agree on a new name for the latterprint-edition iconJun 14th 2018
In bad OderGermany’s troubled relations with the Visegrad states show the limits to its powerPoland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary don’t much care what Angela Merkel thinksprint-edition iconJun 14th 2018
Beautiful game, ugly RussiaRussia prepares to welcome 1m visitors for the World CupVladimir Putin hopes that football fans ignore politicsprint-edition iconJun 13th 2018
The voyage of the AquariusItaly’s Matteo Salvini refuses to let a boat full of migrants landBut Spain steps inJun 12th 2018