Europe
Digging for victory
Why Russia is trying to seize a vital Ukrainian coal mine
Without it, the country’s remaining steel industry will be crippled
Alive or dead?
The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors
The families of missing loved ones are trying to find them, alive or dead
Charlemagne
Europe could become Trump’s geopolitical roadkill
A second dose of MAGA will put the EU in a pickle
A tale of a nail
Delays on Italy’s spruced-up trains have got worse
Matteo Salvini is making feeble excuses
Struggling back
Turkey’s long hard struggle with inflation
High interest rates are starting to do the trick
The French budget
France stares into a “colossal” budgetary abyss
A fragile new government must try to plug the hole. Fast
In the Wildersness
The Netherlands’ new hard-right government is a mess
Conflicts over asylum, farms and the constitution could bring it down
Not wholly in power
Pedro Sánchez clings to office at a cost to Spain’s democracy
His opponents accuse him of subverting the constitution
Sexual violence
A harrowing rape trial in France has revived debate about consent
Anything less than yes is no
Charlemagne
How the wolf went from folktale villain to culture-war scapegoat
The startling return of wolves in Europe raises hackles