Europe

Devil and the deep blue sea

Will a new “pact” of ten laws help Europe ease its migrant woes?

It will require an extraordinary number of institutions to work together

The water’s mostly demined

Amid the bombs, Ukrainians rediscover the beach

Odessa gives itself permission to tan again

Blown signals

Who was behind the arson attacks on railways before the Olympics?

With thousands stranded, suspicion falls on Russia or Iran

Bumpy landing

Italian right-wingers have renamed Milan’s airport after Silvio Berlusconi

A finger in the eye of those who detested the late populist leader

Fixing the roof

European countries are banding together on missile defence

The Ukraine war shows how dangerously few interceptors they have

The bricklayer

Peter Magyar is reinvigorating Hungary’s struggling opposition

Attacking Viktor Orban’s corruption wins votes for a political newcomer

Charlemagne

To understand the perils of AI, look to a Czech novel—from 1936

“War with the Newts” offers a satirical allegory of life under the spell of machines

Robocommander

Vadym Sukharevsky, the man in charge of Ukraine’s drones

Ukraine hopes its new drone command will help it regain the upper hand

Europe’s bantamweight

The Germany-shaped void at Europe’s heart

Olaf Scholz’s government is punching below its weight in Brussels

Hostage racket

Russia sentences Evan Gershkovich to 16 years on bogus spying charges

The Kremlin wants to barter the American reporter for its spies

Fifty years on

The division of Cyprus looks indefinite

The island’s Greeks and Turks seem contented, for the moment, to stay apart

Romanian doctor training

Romania is now a magnet for the world’s medical students

But Romanian doctors are leaving