Europe
Life in containers
Turkey’s sluggish post-earthquake reconstruction
Before elections in the summer, rebuilding was speedy. But it has slowed since then
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
Right turn
Geert Wilders’s election win leaves the Dutch in an awful quandary
Will the cordon sanitaire against the far right hold?
Charlemagne
Tyrant, liberator, warmonger, bureaucrat: the meaning of Napoleon
It’s his continent, and Europeans are just living in it
Cross-Rhine rivals
Why German bosses are heaping unexpected praise on France
It is not how things used to be
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
Charlemagne
Fentanyl kills thousands every year in America. Will Europe be next?
The deadly drug may be coming to European shores
Soft power, then and now
The ancient Eleusinian mysteries get a new incarnation
Athens’s secret weapon reappears as festival
Braking bad
German judges toss a spanner into the government’s spending plans
The €60bn row will destabilise the coalition
Gang of rivals
Sweden is suffering a grim wave of gang violence
The country has Scandinavia’s highest rate of shootings and bombings
Dancer in the dark
As Ukrainian men head off to fight, women take up their jobs
Mining is one big example
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