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The Sporting Scene

The Euros Are Like Europe, Only Better

Something is afoot in this tournament, a spectacle that has been explosively enjoyable and peppered with surprises.
Daily Comment

Heat Waves and the Sweep of History

This burning summer is taking us out of human time.
The New Yorker Documentary

“Naya” Reconstructs a Celebrity Wolf’s Journey Through Europe

In Sebastian Mulder’s short documentary, a wild animal finds new territory that’s rife with prey and with human conflict.
Shouts & Murmurs

What I Imagine Every European Will Say to Me, an American, When I Explore Europe

“Holland is not the Netherlands,” “Sausages are an always food,” “Your houses are too big,” and other insights from the Continent.
Daily Comment

A “New Era” of NATO Expansion Deepens the Divide Between Russia and the West

Finland and Sweden will join the alliance, spurring debate about the move’s long-term consequences.
News Desk

What the U.S. Could Learn from Abortion Without Borders

A coalition across Europe is resisting Poland’s abortion ban. Its strategy could foreshadow activism in a post-Roe America.
Screening Room

International Coöperation in a Bakery, in “Refuge”

Two filmmakers who set out to make a film about refugees put aside the harrowing in favor of a slice of life.
Books

How Putin’s Oligarchs Bought London

From banking to boarding schools, the British establishment has long been at their service, discretion guaranteed.
Comment

Volodymyr Zelensky Leads the Defense of Ukraine with His Voice

At the most consequential hour in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a comedian has assumed the role of Winston Churchill.
Daily Comment

Pope Francis Is Still Trying to Call Attention to the Migrant Crisis

World leaders have drawn together to combat climate change and COVID, Francis noted, but little has been done to help migrants.
Daily Comment

What Angela Merkel Left Behind

She was the first woman to hold the office of Chancellor—and the first postwar Chancellor to leave the office on her own terms.
A Reporter at Large

The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe

Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.
Letter from Europe

The Uncertain Fate of an Alpine Mountain Lodge

Because of melting glaciers, the Rifugio Guide del Cervino, a rustic hangout for skiers and mountaineers, may be located in Italy, Switzerland, or both.
A Reporter at Large

How a Syrian War Criminal and Double Agent Disappeared in Europe

In the bloody civil war, Khaled al-Halabi switched sides. But what country does he really serve?
Q. & A.

Why Conservatives Around the World Have Embraced Hungary’s Viktor Orbán

A sociologist explains why the country’s Prime Minister is “the ultimate twenty-first-century dictator.”
Letter from the U.K.

Enjoying the Plotless Fever Dream of Euro 2020

With COVID on the rise again in Europe, fans pack the stands for shockingly good soccer matches.
Letter from Biden’s Washington

For Biden, Trump Is an Easy Act to Follow in Europe

But no amount of rallying the allies is going to make it easy to meet with Vladimir Putin.
The Sporting Scene

The Audacity and Greed of the Super League

The point of the European Super League was clear: to enshrine a permanent, immovable ruling class of soccer clubs based not on performance but on brand recognition.
Q. & A.

How the Pandemic Changed Europe

The historian Adam Tooze discusses the vaccine rollout and shifting politics in the E.U.
Dispatch

Sweden’s Pandemic Experiment

When the coronavirus arrived, the country decided not to implement lockdowns or recommend masks. How has it fared?