The Economist Europe

A weekly dispatch from the race for the Bundestag

Conservative Bavarians and left-wing Berliners agree on beer but little else

New barriers have been erected on the frontier with Belarus

Emmanuel Macron argued the US could not be relied upon. He may have had a point

There’s an election coming

Its candidate is a cop suspended for protesting against covid lockdowns

The party’s militant base wants to fight climate change without nuclear power

A weekly dispatch from the race for the Bundestag

But the recovery still has some way to go

Some fear the police are abetting them

Many European voters don’t want a big Muslim nation in their club, even if it becomes more democratic

It might even see the Christian Democrats leave power

A study finds that such events are still rare, but getting less so

A Croatian island is rent in twain

By fighting fraud, the EPPO may help unify Europe

The German chancellor deeply distrusts her Russian counterpart

Our occasional series finds hopes for rebirth in what was once the Milan of the south

Saint-Pierre described a union of nations in clunky prose to make Brussels proud

But their owners are nowhere to be seen

An Iraqi plane and an Austrian one show both sides of Europe’s asylum system