Europe

“We were looking at how to support Ukraine—now we are looking at how Ukraine can support us.”

Despite setbacks, the powerful can still be held to account for their crimes.

Russia still has assets to tap for its war, but the political costs are growing.

The economic philosophy of Britain’s latest prime minister.

Mass protests forced Zelensky to reverse course on the firing of a popular minister.

Traveling along the coast, Greenlanders explain what the world misunderstands about their island.

Nolan’s film confronts the betrayal of the West’s own values.

Will Argentina capitalize on growing momentum behind its claim to the islands?

An arms show in Paris shows how global backlash is forcing the country’s booming defense industry to adapt.

Cultural decolonization advances alongside unprecedented Western partnerships.

There is a long history of foreigners idealizing Russia and exaggerating its power.

A predatory opposition, fueled by external support, is gaining influence within the state.

France and Germany again locked into military rivalry is bad news for the rest of Europe.

Far from proving fraud, the declassified intelligence shows analysts doing their jobs carefully.

Keir Starmer allowed his country to be humiliated by Washington. Burnham should learn from his mistakes.

How a Gen Z-led protest movement in Albania is calling out corruption and global oligarchy.

Their teams will face off in the upcoming FIFA Men’s World Cup final.

Ukraine is using the beet-based soup to fortify national identity in the face of Russian aggression.

Kyiv’s language revitalization program seeks to save Ukrainians’ mother tongue through complex state law.

India and other Kremlin customers will benefit from an easing of restrictions.

A Pentagon official’s X thread exposes the cognitive dissonance of Trump’s foreign policy.

NATO’s multinational forces are an unwieldy relic of a more peaceful past.

Geopolitical fragmentation has hamstrung nuclear sanctions regimes. Pyongyang is taking advantage.

A new European coalition is looking to build quicker and cheaper anti-ballistic missile systems—off Ukrainian technology.

Mid-range drone strikes may not be enough to regain Ukrainian territory.

Ukraine’s attacks have unleashed a crisis—but don’t expect repercussions for the regime.

Mark Carney and Mark Rutte offer competing visions for the future of the trans-Atlantic alliance.

Kyiv’s drone offensive against Russian oil facilities has found a sixth gear.

New allies bring powerful assets—whatever Donald Trump thinks.

The Ankara summit only kicked the can down the road.

The Lithuanian curators working to protect paintings from Putin.

Kim Philby, parachute drops, and what really happened in communist Albania.

Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on the White House’s seeming change in tone toward Kyiv.

Election politics give the Israeli leader an incentive to inflate the threat.

Less Trump. More Europe. What’s next?

Kyiv has developed a strategy for winning the war. Now all it needs is time.

The alliance wanted to look united. In walked Trump.

Belief in Kremlin narratives dehumanizes Ukrainians and sustains the will to fight.

The far-right U.K. leader has been hit by multiple scandals.

Extreme heat events are threatening the alliance’s plans.

Read the text outlining agreements at the 2026 NATO summit in Turkey.

The Kremlin is claiming and arming its smuggling fleet. European governments need to respond.

Confidence in the Strait of Hormuz has been shattered. Trust is now among the most important commodities in the energy world.

Alliance members tout defense investments to try to head off Trump’s complaints.

Where is the de-escalation button?

In the ongoing battle of narratives, Kyiv’s supporters have every reason to hold the course.

Iranians in Europe say governments aren’t taking threats from Tehran seriously.

Germany and France are at the center of a clash over the alliance’s future.

No matter what happens at the NATO summit, the Turkish strongman wins.

Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States breaks it down in a new interview.

Can NATO move past a need to keep Trump happy?

Rising human rights violations in Turkey should be called out.

Ukraine’s new offensive on the territory has military stakes far beyond payback.

Reports of NATO’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

A recent spat might be the final nail in the coffin of the trans-Atlantic far right.

The U.S. president’s policies are driving Europe’s push for technological sovereignty.

The newfound bloc has emerged as a potential winner from the Iran war.

Recent scientific reassessments strengthen the case for rapid climate action rather than weaken it.

Poland has been successful partly due to strong personal ties, but history suggests that its luck may not hold forever.

Andy Burnham is on the verge of taking power—and of being confronted with his own limitations.

European countries are hoping that Erdogan can keep Trump from causing chaos.

Europeans are gaming out their future defense, and it’s unthinkable without Kyiv.

But it’s not too late for the continent to claim some technological independence for itself.

A new exhibition examines how Western art and colonial aggression made each other possible.

It became the ideology of the establishment it once existed to attack. That’s why it’s losing.

Trump urges defense manufacturers to speed up weapons production after the Iran war.

Like a struggling swimmer, he may take desperate measures to stay afloat.

An ugly chapter of World War II history is straining relations between Warsaw and Kyiv.

Organized crime and U.S. global influence in the 20th century.

In trying to restore order after World War II, U.S. leaders drew lessons from a dark chapter in their country’s history.

Ukrainian gains on the battlefield may be propelling a mood change among top U.S. officials.

Panicking strongmen will turn to more extreme measures.

The recently deceased Edgar Morin was the last reminder of a bygone phenomenon.

Two new books hint at what’s actually beneath U.K. political and economic malaise.

Literally defenseless, Dublin is outsourcing security to Paris.

The United States is racing ahead where Europe, China, and India struggle.

As an ideology, it’s over. But the relationship is not.

States across the global north are shutting their doors permanently.

They are hardly prepared for the new system.

We may come to miss the hypocrisy.

A new censorship law restricts what Russians were ever allowed to have sung, written, or published.

A new book shows the uses and limits of microhistories in understanding the past.

With progress in Ukraine grinding to a halt, Moscow could seek disruption off the battlefield.

Trump juggles Iran, a World Cup, and a UFC cage fight.

How arrogance and isolation become their own traps in Iran and Ukraine.

Trump and the Iran war gave Russia a boost. Brussels is fed up.

Shared standards on cloud services are urgently needed.

Trump and Putin are backing different players in a contested country.

Plus, a Venezuelan thriller in translation.

Resilience, technology, and European support have put Russia on the back foot.

How Europe has learned to live with great-power politics. 

In a new memoir, Nobel laureate Herta Müller condemns her homeland for failing to reconcile with history.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is weakened. Now is the moment to push him to end the war.

The new import duties are “a solution in search of a problem.”

What history can and cannot explain about today’s unraveling order.

The small Baltic country has refashioned the relationship between citizens and the state for the current moment.

With his war in Ukraine going badly, he may soon face another quagmire in Chechnya.

Mid-range drones that can hit targets almost 100 miles behind Russian lines have changed the game.

Across the world, signals crucial for safe air and sea travel are being disrupted.

A small but influential office will soon announce grants to support Trump administration causes in Europe.