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1. Trump is driving American scientists into Europe’s arms
2. A fight over a cloister in tourist-filled Florence
3. The prospect of war has turned Europe into a continent of preppers
4. Ukrainian refugees may be in Europe for good
5. Russia plays for time in Ukraine ceasefire talks
6. Protests are the last thing keeping Turkey’s democracy alive
7. President Erdogan jails his rival, and endangers Turkey’s democracy
8. Armin Papperger: the German arms boss Russia wants dead
9. Europe needs to spend more on defence, not just pretend to
10. The Bundestag approves the biggest fiscal expansion in post-war history
11. Europe’s armsmakers have ramped up capacity
12. Erdogan arrests the candidate who could beat him
13. Putin woos Trump with a partial ceasefire and big geopolitical deal
15. Ukraine’s army escapes from Kursk by the skin of its teeth
16. The struggle to defeat Russian censorship and propaganda
17. Donald Trump has pushed Europe back into “whatever it takes” mode
18. Spain’s terrible record on defence spending
19. Europe’s other front: peaceniks vs hawks
20. Is Zelensky a disliked dictator or a popular hero?
21. Is Putin ready to accept a truce with Ukraine?
22. America and Ukraine prepare for brutal negotiations
23. Romania is caught between Putin, Trump and Europe
24. Kurdish rebels in Turkey declare a ceasefire
25. Europe sounds increasingly French
26. The dangerous tension in Europe’s response to Trump
27. Can Friedrich Merz get Europe out of its funk?
28. Can Europe keep Ukraine in the fight if America really has bailed?
29. The War Room newsletter: After the White House debacle, what next?
30. Donald Trump’s chokehold on Ukraine
31. Europe vows to defend Ukraine, but prays for Trump’s support
32. Ukraine confronts a future without America, and perhaps Zelensky
33. A disaster in the White House for Volodymyr Zelensky—and for Ukraine
34. One of the world’s longest conflicts may be ending
35. Swedish businesses are being bombed
36. John Parker, one of The Economist’s finest correspondents, was a polymath journalist
37. Europe will need to pull all the levers to up its defence spending
38. Ukraine has fended off Donald Trump, for the moment
39. Ukraine is scrambling to find fresh fighters
40. Which European should face off against Trump and Putin?
41. Has Emmanuel Macron managed to reason with Donald Trump?
43. Merz wins a messy election then calls for independence from America
44. Donald Trump makes Ukraine an offer it can’t refuse
45. Amid turmoil, a fearful Germany goes to the polls
46. From Wall Street banker to Vladimir Putin’s point man
47. Germany’s mind-bending electoral maths
48. Can Europe withstand four years of Trumpian assault?
49. Team Trump wants to get rid of Volodymyr Zelensky
50. How Vladimir Putin plans to play Donald Trump
51. The nightmare of a Trump-Putin deal leaves Europe in shock
52. America has just tried to grab Ukraine’s vast mineral wealth
53. Alice Weidel, Germany’s most vilified—and powerful—female politician
54. Le Chat, the cat-bot France has pinned its AI hopes on
55. Robert Fico’s pleas for cheap Russian gas bring Slovaks onto the street
56. A new crackdown is gathering strength in Turkey
57. How India became an unexpected role model for Europe
58. Ukraine’s fears are becoming reality, after Trump talks to Putin
59. Ukraine fears being cut out of talks between America and Russia
60. Transcript: An interview with Volodymyr Zelensky
61. Germany’s “business model is gone”, warns Friedrich Merz
62. Can Europe afford to be the world’s last free-trader?
63. Turkey is building a spaceport in Somalia
64. Can Georgia’s shadowy despot survive?
65. The added dangers of fighting in Ukraine when everything is visible
66. Germany’s election campaign is creating a security risk
67. Europe races to confront America’s trade war
68. Meet Europe’s Gaullists, Atlanticists, denialists and Putinists
69. Inside Europe, border checks are creeping back
70. The EU is worried about sensitive exports to competitors and foes
71. A day of drama in the Bundestag
72. Amid talk of a ceasefire, Ukraine’s front line is crumbling
73. The French government’s survival is now in Socialist hands
74. Europe faces a new age of gunboat digital diplomacy
75. The pope and Italy’s prime minister tussle over Donald Trump
76. Ukrainian scientists are studying downed Russian missiles
79. Russian pilots appear to be hunting Ukrainian civilians
80. A French-sponsored Ukrainian army brigade has been badly botched
81. Can the good ship Europe weather the Trumpnado?
82. Spain’s proposed house tax on foreigners will not fix its shortage
83. How the AfD got its swagger back
84. France’s new prime minister is trying to court the left
85. A TV dramatisation of Mussolini’s life inflames Italy
86. Russia is being set aflame by hundreds of arson attacks
87. Herbert Kickl, Austria’s hard-right ideologue who played the long game
88. A dispute over old war crimes strains Polish-Ukrainian relations
89. Spain’s government marks 50 years since Franco died
90. Europe has lots of lithium, but struggles to get it out of the ground
92. Austria could soon have a first far-right leader since 1945
93. How extremist politics became mainstream in France
94. Why Canada should join the EU
95. Serbia and its neighbours are still far from joining the EU
96. Elon Musk’s praise for the far right infuriates most of Germany
97. Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare
98. A Prague-Berlin train loses its old-world dining cars
99. Inside Ukraine’s secret missile programme
100. A horrific Christmas attack in Germany is weirder than first thought
101. We need to talk about Europe’s Kevins
102. Police brutality is not stopping Georgia’s protests
103. France’s new prime minister faces a looming mess
104. German politicians are talking tough, but offering little
105. The killing of a Russian general shows Ukraine’s spies remain lethal
106. Ukrainian troops celebrate a grim Christmas in Kursk
107. Protests threaten Georgia’s Kremlin-friendly government
108. Emmanuel Macron has yet another stab at finding a prime minister
109. Why Romania cancelled a pro-Russian presidential candidate
110. Europeans are hoping they can buy more guns but keep their butter
111. Amid Russian bombing, Ukraine is planning more nuclear reactors
112. Spain shows Europe how to keep up with America’s economy
113. Syrian refugees in Europe are not about to flock home
114. The Polish restaurants that dare to be dairy
115. Syrian rebels have dealt a blow to Vladimir Putin’s naval ambitions
116. Will Giorgia Meloni turn out to be Europe’s Trump card?
117. The hard-right Vox party is winning over Spain’s youth
118. If you’ve got it, don’t flaunt it in Sweden
119. Emmanuel Macron loses another prime minister
120. Huge anti-Russian protests in Tbilisi echo Ukraine’s Maidan
121. France’s government faces the imminent loss of a vote of confidence
122. How Ukraine uses cheap AI-guided drones to deadly effect against Russia
123. Emmanuel Macron shows off the gloriously restored Notre Dame
124. Ursula von der Leyen has a new doctrine for handling the hard right
125. Marine Le Pen spooks the bond markets
126. The maths of Europe’s military black hole
127. Ukraine’s warriors brace for a Kremlin surge in the south
128. Vladimir Putin fires a new missile to amplify his nuclear threats
129. A rise in antisemitism puts Europe’s liberal values to the test
130. Once dominant, Germany is now desperate
131. Who is ahead in the race for Germany’s next parliament?
132. Ukraine can, at last, use its Western missiles inside Russia
133. Ukraine’s secret army in France
134. How older French women are redefining the aesthetics of ageing
135. Italy’s oddest political party is splitting
136. Elon Musk threatens to widen the rift between Europe and America
137. The war in Ukraine has rattled both sides of Cyprus
138. The sun begins to set on Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship
139. Volodymyr Zelensky faces a power struggle in 2025
140. Kremlin-occupied Ukraine is now a totalitarian hell
141. A flailing economy has left the EU exposed to Trumpian outbursts
142. Spain’s flood poses far-reaching political questions
143. Why Volodymyr Zelensky may welcome Donald Trump’s victory
144. Germany’s fractious coalition falls apart—and how!
145. Moldova’s pro-EU president has won re-election
146. Hell, horror and heroism in Ukraine’s battlefield hospitals
147. The immigrants Europe quietly wants more of
148. The power and limits of Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic charm
149. Floods in Spain cause death and devastation
150. Turkey could soon strike a historic peace deal with the Kurds
151. Ukraine is now struggling to cling on, not to win
152. Georgia’s ruling party crushes the country’s European dream
153. Angela who? Merkel’s legacy looks increasingly terrible
154. The world’s most improbable smash-hit cooking show
155. Germany’s populist superstar demands peace with Russia
156. North Korea is sending thousands of soldiers to help Vladimir Putin
157. Giorgia Meloni would make Machiavelli proud
158. The foreigners fighting and dying for Vladimir Putin
159. Maia Sandu, Moldova’s president, dares to stand up to Russia
160. Poland’s new modern-art museum wants to give the capital a fresh look
161. Hopes for religious harmony come to life in the Muslim Vatican
162. This tiny country is a laboratory for Russia’s dirty tricks
163. The limits of Turkey’s strategic autonomy
164. Italy starts outsourcing its migrant crisis to Albania
165. Why Russia is trying to seize a vital Ukrainian coal mine
166. Europe could become Trump’s geopolitical roadkill
167. The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors
168. Russia continues to advance in eastern Ukraine
169. Delays on Italy’s spruced-up trains have got worse
170. Turkey’s long hard struggle with inflation
171. France stares into a “colossal” budgetary abyss
172. How the wolf went from folktale villain to culture-war scapegoat
173. A harrowing rape trial in France has revived debate about consent
174. The Netherlands’ new hard-right government is a mess
175. Ukraine’s Roma have suffered worse than most in the war
176. Pedro Sanchez clings to office at a cost to Spain’s democracy
177. Why the hard-right Herbert Kickl is unlikely to be Austria’s next chancellor
178. A banking raid in Europe kicks up an unseemly nationalist defence
179. Turkey wants the EU to regulate the doner kebab
180. Turkey and Central Asia are riding together again
181. Austria’s xenophobic right edges towards victory
182. American long-range missiles are coming back to Europe
183. France’s new coalition yanks the country a step to the right
184. Germany’s Social Democrats narrowly escape disaster in Brandenburg
185. Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting?
186. Europe is bidding a steady farewell to passport-free travel
187. Aland is lovely, weapon-free and too close to Russia
188. Near-shoring is turning eastern Europe into the new China
189. Ukraine is a booming market for Balkan arms makers
190. Can a new crew of European commissioners revive the continent?
191. Germany’s conservatives choose the country’s probable next leader
192. America keeps Ukraine fighting with its hands tied
193. Why Israel has not yet lost Europe
194. A northern Italian town bans cricket
195. Nice ideas, Mr Draghi—now who will pay for them?
196. Poland’s ruling coalition divides over women’s rights
197. Squeaky-clean Europe is more corrupt than you think
198. Michel Barnier’s burden
199. Danger in Donbas as Ukraine’s front line falters
200. Turmoil awaits Michel Barnier, France’s new prime minister
201. Europe must beware the temptations of technocracy
202. The West still needs Russian gas that comes through Ukraine
203. The obstacles faced by Turkey’s winemakers
204. Abuse by priests in Italy can no longer be tolerated by the Vatican
205. Germany’s party system is coming under unprecedented strain
206. As his popularity fades Volodymyr Zelensky culls his cabinet
207. American restrictions on hitting Russia are hurting Ukraine
208. The hard right takes Germany into dangerous territory
209. Sahra Wagenknecht is Germany’s rising political star
210. Europe’s lefties bash migrants (nearly) as well as the hard right
211. Azerbaijan’s government turns on its critics at home
212. France seeks a new government
213. Why east Germany is such fertile ground for extremists
214. Even as it humiliates Russia, Ukraine’s line is crumbling in the Donbas
215. What Europe’s comeback politicians can teach American voters
216. The rebuilding of Berlin’s Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule
217. Turkey’s asset-price boom is good for some but terrible for most
218. How Italy’s Mezzogiorno is benefiting from a flood of EU aid
219. After decades of decline, Poland’s population seems to be increasing
220. The Kremlin is close to crushing Pokrovsk, a vital Ukrainian town
221. The mysterious middlemen helping Russia’s war machine
222. Russia’s double-punch back against Ukraine’s shock raid
223. Ukraine’s convicts take the fight inside Russia
224. Anti-war parties are set to clean up in eastern German elections
225. How a Spanish province became the world’s truffle leader
226. The great cover-up: Europe is losing its penchant for public nudity
227. What next after Ukraine’s shock invasion of Russia?
228. Ukraine’s shock raid deep inside Russia rages on
229. Paris’s stunning vision for the Olympics wins a gold medal
230. Ukraine surprises with a high-stakes raid into Russia
231. Turkey’s president refuses to let sleeping dogs lie
232. The siesta is still a serious business in Europe’s south
233. Can anything rouse Germany from its economic slumber?
234. Russia’s bloody summer offensive is hurting Ukraine
235. How much of a difference will Ukraine’s new F-16s make?
236. Some Germans think the hostage exchange with Russia was a dirty deal
237. The deal that freed Evan Gershkovich was more than a prisoner swap
238. Humiliated by Azerbaijan, Armenia tacks towards the West
239. The Olympics are teaching the French to cheer again
240. Vienna’s social housing, lauded by progressives, pushes out the poor
241. Will a new “pact” of ten laws help Europe ease its migrant woes?
242. Amid the bombs, Ukrainians rediscover the beach
243. Who was behind the arson attacks on railways before the Olympics?
244. Italian right-wingers have renamed Milan’s airport after Silvio Berlusconi
245. European countries are banding together on missile defence
246. Peter Magyar is reinvigorating Hungary’s struggling opposition
247. To understand the perils of AI, look to a Czech novel—from 1936
248. Vadym Sukharevsky, the man in charge of Ukraine’s drones
249. The Germany-shaped void at Europe’s heart
250. Russia sentences Evan Gershkovich to 16 years on bogus spying charges
251. J.D. Vance, an honorary Frenchman, sends Europe into panic mode
252. The division of Cyprus looks indefinite
253. Romania is now a magnet for the world’s medical students
254. Russia’s vast stocks of Soviet-era weaponry are running out
255. Half Ukraine’s power is knocked out; winter is coming
256. France is desperately searching for a government
257. A Russian missile hits a children’s hospital in central Kyiv
258. Viktor Orban solidifies his credentials as the EU’s pantomime villain
259. Germany’s debt brake and the art of fantasy budgeting
260. When will Ukraine join NATO?
261. The Kremlin is rewriting Wikipedia
262. After a deadlocked election, can anyone govern France?
263. A shock election result in France puts the left in the lead
264. Europe faces a new age of shrunken French influence
265. The EU should be the world’s heat-pump pioneer
266. Turkish tourists can now easily visit nearby Greek islands
267. Le Pen’s hard right looks set to dominate the French parliament
268. Ukraine’s war has created millions of broken families
269. A crushing blow for Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance
270. France heads to the polls in a critical parliamentary vote
271. Emmanuel Macron’s centrists are facing a disastrous first-round vote
272. European gangs are getting better at making their own illegal drugs
273. Finland’s shrinking high schools are importing pupils from abroad
274. Can Antonio Costa make a success of the world’s hardest political gig?
275. The alarming foreign policies of France’s hard right and hard left
276. Death and destruction in a Russian city
277. The economic recklessness of both France’s hard left and hard right
278. Kaja Kallas, the plain-talking Estonian tipped to be the EU’s top diplomat
279. French election tracker: Marine Le Pen’s hard-right falters
280. Why southern Europeans will soon be the longest-lived people in the world
281. Europe today is a case of lots of presidents yet nobody leading
282. Hard-right parties are entering government across Europe
283. Emmanuel Macron faces heavy losses after a short campaign
284. Russia’s latest crime in Mariupol: stealing property
285. A hard-right 28-year-old could soon be France’s prime minister
286. France is being thrown into uncharted territory
287. Beyond France, the European elections will deliver more of the same
288. A peace conference over Ukraine is unlikely to silence the guns
289. The tiny statelet of Transnistria is squeezed on all sides
290. No wonder Macron’s gambling: Europe is home to the high-roller
291. Politics overshadows a conference to raise money for Ukraine
292. Why France’s president called a snap election
293. As the French hard right triumphs in EU elections, Macron calls snap vote
294. A D-Day commemoration that was not just about beating Hitler
295. Peak Europe turns 25: why June 1999 marked the continent’s zenith
296. Remembering the Normandy landings
297. The Dutch are getting a half-populist, half-pragmatist government
298. Germany is thinking about bringing back conscription
299. Russia’s explosion of a huge Ukrainian dam had surprising effects
300. In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
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