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