Europe
The cash flows south
How Italy’s Mezzogiorno is benefiting from a flood of EU aid
It can’t spend it fast enough
Turning round
After decades of decline, Poland’s population seems to be increasing
Immigration and the war are the reasons
Charlemagne
What Europe’s comeback politicians can teach American voters
A second shot at power can mean too much of the same
Gold rush
Turkey’s asset-price boom is good for some but terrible for most
The rich are getting richer
Not very Teutonic
The rebuilding of Berlin’s Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule
It’s yet another German construction debacle
On the edge
The Kremlin is close to crushing Pokrovsk, a vital Ukrainian town
Even as Ukraine raids Russia, it is losing another key battle
The Russian economy
The mysterious middlemen helping Russia’s war machine
Sanctions are as watertight as a sieve
Now for the response
Russia’s double-punch back against Ukraine’s shock raid
It is bombing Ukrainians in Kursk and advancing in Pokrovsk
Freedom on the line
Ukraine’s convicts take the fight inside Russia
A hard-bitten officer commands a unit of felons—and dreams of kebabs in Moscow
Stop the war
Anti-war parties are set to clean up in eastern German elections
Scepticism about support for Ukraine runs deep in parts of the former communist republic
The fungus is just starting
How a Spanish province became the world’s truffle leader
Teruel has replaced France’s Périgord atop the tuber charts
Charlemagne
The great cover-up: Europe is losing its penchant for public nudity
A columnist bares all in pursuit of the naked truth