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Lee HockstaderWashington Post |
BARCELONA — Oh, to be young, footloose and lucky enough to live in Barcelona, Europe’s vibrant, lovely “it” city. It also helps to be highly...
PARIS — Many of Donald Trump’s pronouncements on foreign affairs are off-kilter, but he is right that Europe needs huge increases in military...
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron last week handed a noose to the nation’s hard right, a movement animated by bigotry, and empowered it to...
LEIPZIG, Germany — This broad-minded university town in eastern Germany was the cradle of a “peaceful revolution” that toppled the Berlin Wall...
Los Angeles’s problems of crime and homelessness far outweigh the challenges Paris faced. Actor Tom Cruise accepts the Olympic flag from Los...
A Ukrainian breakdancer rallied for the Olympics as her country did after Russia’s invasion. Ukraine's Kateryna Pavlenko competes in the...
In the 2024 Olympics, a transformed Paris is the main event, not just a backdrop. People celebrate Olympic medal-winners near the Eiffel...
After the war in Ukraine ends, the Kremlin might seek revenge against the United States and Europe. Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at...
Pageantry, history and risk combine for what might be an indelible new chapter in the city’s history. The Eiffel Tower on Thursday, ahead of...
France and President Macron, beset by political paralysis, turn their attention to the Olympics. French President Emmanuel Macron meets with...
Post-pandemic ‘revenge tourism’ keeps surging in European hotspots, and the problem may soon worsen. Demonstrators outside a restaurant...
The center and left celebrated, but their triumph might be short-lived. Celebrations after the release of early results in the second round of...
Brits punish the Tories, who brought them Brexit and stagnation. Will France be deaf to the lesson? Labour Party leader Keir Starmer and his...
His failures in the areas of collaboration, focus and follow-through have proved fatal. France's President Emmanuel Macron casts his vote in...
The Danish plan has drawn criticism as ethnic discrimination. Others in Europe may be watching. A woman holding a child enters a residential...
France’s hard-right National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen, might grasp reins of power next month. Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, leaders...
For Vladimir Putin, the right-wing surge in France and Germany is a gift. In this photo distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik,...
His humiliation in E.U. elections might not be the last. French President Emmanuel Macron attends an event commemorating World War II in...
Europeans are voting for a Parliament to represent 450 million people in 27 countries. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the...
Until now, the West has ruled out sending troops to Ukraine. France’s Emmanuel Macron has other ideas. French President Emmanuel Macron...
With European parliamentary elections coming in June, Moscow has jumped into action. Russian President Vladimir Putin during a Kremlin...
For decades conscription has been shrinking in Europe. That might now be changing as the threat from Moscow mounts. Spanish, German and Dutch...
The French leader is wisely warning about Europe’s vulnerabilities, but is anyone listening? French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez speaks during a media conference at an E.U. summit in Brussels on July 2, 2019. (Virginia Mayo/AP) ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday. (Gavriil Grigorov/AP) Listen 5 min Share ...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a news conference in Brussels on April 3. (Omar Havana/Getty...
As a form of protest, farmers unload potatoes outside the European Council building in Brussels on Tuesday. (Harry Nakos/AP) Listen 4...
Dmitry Muratov, then-editor of Novaya Gazeta, sits in Moscow City Court during an appeal of a ruling against the newspaper on Feb. 7, 2023. (AP) (AP) ...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Guyana President Irfaan Ali at an emergency meeting on Haiti in Kingston, Jamaica, on Monday. (Andrew...
French President Emmanuel Macron, next to Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, speaks at a conference on Ukraine in Paris on Feb. 26. (Gonzalo...
Opinion France’s lionized, and reviled, guillotine terminator By Lee Hockstader Columnist, European Affairs | Follow...
The Olympic flag is seen at the Élysée Palace on Monday in Paris. (Aurelien Morissard/AP) Listen 5 min Share ...
A journalist works in a newsroom of TV Rain in Moscow in 2021. (Denis Kaminev/AP) Listen 4 min Share Comment on this...
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo at the Hotel des Invalides on Jan. 5. (Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images) Listen 5 min Share ...
Firefighters work in a destroyed building hit by recent shelling in a residential area in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, Jan. 29. (AFP via Getty...
British soldiers on a Jackal 2 high-mobility weapons platform on Jan. 26 near Oakham, England. (Leon Neal/Getty Images) Listen 5 min ...
Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands during a session at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 17. (Fabrice...
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks in Gdansk on Jan. 13. (Lukasz Glowala/REUTERS) Listen 4 min Share Comment...
Newly appointed French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal arrives for his first weekly cabinet meeting at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Friday following a...
Protesters urge the German government to supply Ukraine with Taurus missiles in Berlin on Saturday. (Omer Messinger/Getty Images) ...
French President Emmanuel Macron is seen on a television screen during an interview on Dec. 20. (Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images) Listen...