Europe
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Life in containers
Turkey’s sluggish post-earthquake reconstruction
Before elections in the summer, rebuilding was speedy. But it has slowed since then
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Hidden battle
Russia is starting to make its superiority in electronic warfare count
There may not be much the West either can or will do to help Ukraine
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Right turn
Geert Wilders’s election win leaves the Dutch in an awful quandary
Will the cordon sanitaire against the far right hold?
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Charlemagne
Tyrant, liberator, warmonger, bureaucrat: the meaning of Napoleon
It’s his continent, and Europeans are just living in it
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Cross-Rhine rivals
Why German bosses are heaping unexpected praise on France
It is not how things used to be
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The good gadfly
A centre-right maverick, Pieter Omtzigt, could win the Dutch election
Many voters will be looking for integrity in government on November 22nd
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Charlemagne
Fentanyl kills thousands every year in America. Will Europe be next?
The deadly drug may be coming to European shores
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Soft power, then and now
The ancient Eleusinian mysteries get a new incarnation
Athens’s secret weapon reappears as festival
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Braking bad
German judges toss a spanner into the government’s spending plans
The €60bn row will destabilise the coalition
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Gang of rivals
Sweden is suffering a grim wave of gang violence
The country has Scandinavia’s highest rate of shootings and bombings
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Dancer in the dark
As Ukrainian men head off to fight, women take up their jobs
Mining is one big example
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On the verge of a nervous breakdown
Spain’s prime minister secures his job, at a high cost
An amnesty for separatists may calm some Catalans, but it infuriates other Spaniards