Politics, economies, and society across the European continent and the EU.
The biggest fashion story to come out of Venice this week wasn’t on the runway — it was on the red carpet, where Polish designer Dorota Goldpoint dressed an unusually varied roster of women for the 8…
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Defense spending across Europe is growing at a pace not seen in decades, and officials are hoping to repeat a trick NASA perfected long ago, turning taxpayer funded military research into products ordinary people actually notice.
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A former senior Ukrainian official has broken his silence on the corruption scandal that has convulsed Kyiv's wartime government, telling the BBC that President Volodymyr Zelensky himself should be p…
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The Brandmauer was built to keep the far right out of power and to protect German democracy. A decade on, it is distorting the very system it was meant to defend, and the party it was designed to contain has never been stronger.
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Royal Gentlemen Gala Dinner & Congress Awards | La Dolce Vita | Venice, 11 September 2026 Venice's September calendar is defined by cinema, but some of its most memorable encounters take pl…
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Tradition becomes most interesting when it continues to evolve. This idea lies at the heart of Noura Elmassaoudi's approach to the traditional Bavarian dirndl. As Founder and Creative Director…
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Cheap Ukrainian drones are destroying tanks worth millions, and the images are hard to look away from. The danger is that Europe reads them as permission to arm on a budget, when the real lesson is almost the opposite.
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The European Commission president wants an age limit for social media across the bloc. Behind the slogans lies a harder fight over how to enforce it, and whether Brussels should try.
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A year after NATO's leaders promised to lift military budgets toward 5 percent of GDP, the gap between grand commitments and actual spending is widening, held back by debt, politics and public resistance.
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The continent has long treated air conditioning as a wasteful foreign habit. As heatwaves grow longer and deadlier, that proud reluctance is becoming harder, and more dangerous, to justify.
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The mayor of Greater Manchester is the most talked about leader in waiting in British politics. Yet the road from city hall to Downing Street is narrower than his admirers like to think.
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Meeting in France, the club of rich democracies offered just enough common ground to revive talk of a settlement. Whether that opening leads anywhere depends on Moscow, Washington, and a wary Europe.
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