Europe
Between BRICS and a hard place
The limits of Turkey’s strategic autonomy
Choosing between autocrats and democracies
Maia Sandu takes a stand
This tiny country is a laboratory for Russia’s dirty tricks
The Kremlin wants to rig Moldova’s election. The country is fighting back
Charlemagne
Hopes for religious harmony come to life in the Muslim Vatican
Albania wants to put the “state” in “Islamic state”
Out of sight, out of mind?
Italy starts outsourcing its migrant crisis to Albania
As European governments grapple with irregular migration, some are looking outward
Digging for victory
Why Russia is trying to seize a vital Ukrainian coal mine
Without it, the country’s remaining steel industry will be crippled
Alive or dead?
The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors
The families of missing loved ones are trying to find them, alive or dead
A tale of a nail
Delays on Italy’s spruced-up trains have got worse
Matteo Salvini is making feeble excuses
Charlemagne
Europe could become Trump’s geopolitical roadkill
A second dose of MAGA will put the EU in a pickle
Struggling back
Turkey’s long hard struggle with inflation
High interest rates are starting to do the trick
The French budget
France stares into a “colossal” budgetary abyss
A fragile new government must try to plug the hole. Fast
In the Wildersness
The Netherlands’ new hard-right government is a mess
Conflicts over asylum, farms and the constitution could bring it down