Europe

Charlemagne

J.D. Vance, an honorary Frenchman, sends Europe into panic mode

Millennial, MAGA champion, hillbilly…Gaullist

While stocks last

Russia’s vast stocks of Soviet-era weaponry are running out

It may have to scale back its offensive in Ukraine

Racing against time

Half Ukraine’s power is knocked out; winter is coming

Ingenuity can get you only so far

The French parliamentary election

France is desperately searching for a government

Party rivalry threatens deadlock before compromise

The latest outrage

A Russian missile hits a children’s hospital in central Kyiv

The Kremlin tries to deny responsibility

Charlemagne

Viktor Orban solidifies his credentials as the EU’s pantomime villain

The Hungarian prime minister’s “peace mission” to Russia has peeved Europeans

Houdininomics

Germany’s debt brake and the art of fantasy budgeting

The country is tiring of its self-imposed fiscal straitjacket

A bridge too far?

When will Ukraine join NATO?

Its road to membership could be blocked if Donald Trump becomes president

Ignorance is strength

The Kremlin is rewriting Wikipedia

A new version of history is taking shape

The French parliamentary election

After a deadlocked election, can anyone govern France?

The country is scrambling to find a new prime minister

France’s parliamentary election

A shock election result in France puts the left in the lead

But they are well short of a majority; uncertainty looms

Charlemagne

Europe faces a new age of shrunken French influence

Sharing power will weaken the federalist president’s sway in Brussels