Europe

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Europe still lacks a foreign policy

Yet in matters of currency it has hung together better than predicted

Muddying the waters
Turkey and Greece avoid coming to blows, for now

But a dispute over drilling rights is far from settled

The queen is dead
Turkey mourns a revered drag artist

But the government is more censorious than it was

Attic views
A hotel developer in Athens obstructs the Acropolis

Locals are protesting, and the government has taken their side

Correspondent’s diary
The Greece of dreams—and nightmares

Hellenophiles have long bemoaned the influx of mass tourism. With covid-19, Greece faces the opposite problem

A tarnished crown
Spain’s King Felipe is distancing himself from his father

Headlines about ex-king Juan Carlos’s finances and lovers embarrass the monarchy

Bullies on a beach
A seaside-villa scandal sparks huge protests in Bulgaria

Bodyguards who shoved an opposition politician could cost Boyko Borisov, the prime minister, his job

Germany’s wurst jobs
After spreading covid-19, a huge European abattoir vows reforms

An outbreak forces German meat wholesaler Tönnies to promise its workers better conditions

Keep pedalling the tandem
The founding partnership behind this week’s EU deal

Macron and Merkel defy those who had written off the Franco-German relationship

Charlemagne
Why the EU is becoming more like a Chekhov play

Legal guns that once gathered dust may soon be fired