Europe
Austria’s election
Why the hard-right Herbert Kickl is unlikely to be Austria’s next chancellor
In spite of his strong win
Building Fortress Austria
Austria’s xenophobic right edges towards victory
The Freedom Party is favoured to win the election on September 29th
A worrying turn
Turkey wants the EU to regulate the döner kebab
Germans’ version would not qualify, and they are steaming
Charlemagne
A banking raid in Europe kicks up an unseemly nationalist defence
Der Italian banking job goes down badly in Germany
Giant steppes
Turkey and Central Asia are riding together again
The Organisation of Turkic States is a counterweight to Russia
OK boomer
American long-range missiles are coming back to Europe
The German deployment is part of a resurgence of deep-strike weapons
French evolution
France’s new coalition yanks the country a step to the right
Can the prime minister, Michel Barnier, bring stability?
Photo finish
Germany’s Social Democrats narrowly escape disaster in Brandenburg
The SPD just edges the far-right AfD in a regional election
Weekend profile
Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting?
He has strong odds of thrashing Olaf Scholz next year
Bringing it all back home
Near-shoring is turning eastern Europe into the new China
With firms moving production closer to market, CEE is the place to be
Temptation islands
Aland is lovely, weapon-free and too close to Russia
Finland worries the demilitarised islands could fall prey in a conflict
The cogs of war
Ukraine is a booming market for Balkan arms makers
It’s not just gangsters buying Serbian and Bosnian ammo these days