Murder in paradiseThe death of a crusading journalist rocks MaltaDaphne Caruana Galizia wrote fearlessly about corruptionprint-edition iconOct 18th 2017
Of nationalists and nutsGeorgia and Abkhazia are making Nutella’s job harderA decades-old war may keep hazelnuts from reaching Europe’s breakfast tablesprint-edition iconOct 19th 2017
Just a trimEmmanuel Macron’s employment reforms may not go far enoughWill apprenticeships and looser rules for businesses cut France’s jobless rate?print-edition iconOct 19th 2017
Partisan campaignAlexei Navalny tells Russians they have a choiceThe Kremlin says he cannot run for president, but he is running anywayprint-edition iconOct 19th 2017
CharlemagneSebastian Kurz is flirting with the far-right Freedom PartyWill Austria’s political wunderkind bring xenophobes into government?print-edition iconOct 19th 2017
Grappling on the brinkSpain faces a constitutional crisis over CataloniaPrime Minister Mariano Rajoy may have to set up a parallel government to stop secessionprint-edition iconOct 19th 2017
CharlemagneThe EU will not help the Catalan secessionists’ causeEmbracing Catalonia holds no appeal for Europe’s leadersprint-edition iconOct 12th 2017
The WunderwuzziThe 31-year-old who looks set to be Austria’s next chancellorA scandal-mired election could produce a new right-wing coalition in Austriaprint-edition iconOct 12th 2017
Hostage gamesTies between Turkey and America are near breaking pointA visa ban poisons relations between two NATO alliesprint-edition iconOct 9th 2017
Luckier with Wauquiez?France’s centre-right offers no serious opposition to Emmanuel MacronThe centre-right is offering no serious opposition to Emmanuel Macronprint-edition iconOct 12th 2017
Palace insidersMany eastern Europeans feel nostalgia for the communist eraThough few really want the dictators backprint-edition iconOct 12th 2017
Duda’s defiancePoland’s president turns on his former bossThe ruling Law and Justice Party’s plan to nobble Polish institutions hits a roadblockprint-edition iconOct 12th 2017
Touching the voidThe Spanish government calls the Catalans’ bluffThe independence dream dissolves on contact with realityprint-edition iconOct 12th 2017
Yes, but no, or not yetThe Catalan leader puts independence on hold for talksA declaration of independence, of sortsOct 10th 2017