It’s hard not to see the political parallels between Cottbus, a city of 100,000 about 75 miles south of Berlin, and Rust Belt ...

Ukraine. It also opened a new phase in America’s trans-Atlantic relations. We shall soon discover whether it also means the ...

Every time there is an election in Germany, starkly coloured polling maps make the rounds, tracing the old dividing line between East and West Germany during the Cold War with astonishing precision.

This is despite all mainstream parties in Germany ruling out any cooperation with AfD after Sunday’s ballot, meaning its ...

The feud began after White House and Kremlin officials in Saudi Arabia began peace talks that excluded Ukraine. After that ...

The remoteness of urban centres is also a penalising factor: the only town classed as big on French territory within easy ...

Instead, I visited the country’s fourth largest city, set in the southwestern province of Occitanie: Toulouse, France. There are plenty of other historic marvels to see, such as the gothic ...