1952 - 1953: The Cold War in Europe - ARTE

Oct 24, 2026 | 1952/53: Europe is divided by the Iron Curtain. In the East, Russia determines the development of its satellite states. In the West, the capitalist democracies embark on a difficult path, under pressure from the Americans: they are to show unity against the East. The biggest obstacle in the way is the relationship between West Europeans and West Germany.

Steve Rosenberg: Russia: "What Clues to What Comes Next?"

Oct 1, 2026 | "In the closed world of Russian politics, what clues can we find to what comes next?" Our BBC News report from Moscow on Vladimir Putin's appearance at a foreign policy forum.

Why Are More and More Young People in Europe Getting Cancer? | ARTE Europe Weekly

People in their 20s and 30s are taking to social media to share their expériences with cancer and how the diagnosis turned their lives upside down. Early-onset breast and bowel cancer are on the rise, particularly in Western countries. Researchers point to lifestyle factors and changes in the environment as the cause, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. So just how great is the risk – and what are EU countries doing to tackle it?

Why are more and more young people in Europe getting cancer? | ARTE Europe Weekly Available until 30/12/2026

Pope in France Defends EU Values • FRANCE 24 English

Sep 28, 2026 | There's a new Pope in town and he's got very different ideas on what France's far-right calls the defense of Christian civilization. Leo the 14th concluding his trip to France in the eastern city of Metz, hometown of a founding father of present-day European federalism Maurice Schumann. There, the head of the world's largest organized religion proudly stated fact, that Europe’s roots are Christian, dating back to the Romans, all the while hailing an EU model that transcends 'us versus them' ideology, which brushes aside ‘might is right’ in favor of human rights and international law. We’ll ask how about the schism with the likes of French presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen and the leader of her National Rally Jordan Bardella. How much does Leo's brand of Catholicism clash with the values of a eurosceptic far-right that continues to make inroads in France and just over the border in neighboring Germany? More broadly, how much of a moral authority can this Pope and this church be in 2026? During his four-day tour of France, Leo acknowledged the damage done by systemic abuse within the Church when he met with victims. Beyond that private meeting, he drew huge crowds. How will this moment be remembered?

Le discours de Léon XIV sur l’Europe : "Les relations entre les États sont de plus en plus barbares"

Sep 28, 2026 | Ce lundi 28 septembre 2026, depuis le centre des congrès de Metz, le pape Léon XIV a tenu un discours très attendu sur l’Europe, axé notamment sur la paix sur le continent.

Russia Hits Train in Ukraine after Boris Johnson, Top European Officials Leave Station | BBC News

Sep 14, 2026 | A Russian drone has hit a train near the Ukraine-Poland border shortly after former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and top European security officials had passed through.

No casualties were reported after the strike at Yahodyn, which hit the train's engine. All the passengers had been evacuated, Ukrainian authorities said.

Johnson and other European national security advisers, including the UK's Jonathan Powell, had passed along the same line on a different train on their way back from a conference in Kyiv.

Russia said it had struck "railway infrastructure" in western Ukraine, but Ukraine's state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia said that "quite possibly, the target of this drone could have been the diplomatic train".

Is Europe Facing a "Muslim Takeover"? The Data Says Otherwise | The Economist

Sep 12, 2026 | Panic about Islam in Europe is spreading. In several European countries around half the population believe that Islam is incompatible with Western values. But in reality, Muslims make up only a small percentage of Europe’s people, and their attitudes largely resemble their compatriots. Why, then, are so many Europeans against Islam?

That Islamism nonsense should be put to bed. There is Islam, and that’s it! I have said this time and time again, but I shall repeat myself. An Islamist is merely a devout, fundamentalist Muslim, determined to live according to the strictest tenets of his faith. But he is not an “Islamist”; he is a devout fundamentalist! I know something about this because I was one of the very first people ever to warn of the dangers of the growth of Islam in the West! I was warning of the dangers many years before 9/11! I even wrote a book about it, The Dawning of a New Dark Age. It was popular at the time. I don’t plug it anymore, because the publishers wrongfully do not pay me for any book sales. But the message in that book is absolutely spot on and prescient. — © Mark Alexander

Comment 2: The more I listen to this nonsense, the more convinced I am that these people really don't understand the nature of Islam at all! I hasten to add thhat I am in no way Islamophobic; however, having taught these people—all adults—over very many years, I came to understand their nature and core beliefs. I can assure you that the people talking in this video are totally and utterly CLUELESS! They speak authoritatively about a religion they know next to nothing about!

Yes, there are moderate Muslims. Of course there are. There are even nominal Muslims — people born into the faith, but are in no way convinced by it. However, if one of those Muslims, male or female, starts becoming religious—and many of them do once they have sown their wild oats—what is to stop that person becoming fanatical, devout, and fundamentalist? Islam breeds fanaticism by its very nature, in a way that Christianity does not. Do these people know that a Muslim, for instance, is supposed to love the Prophet Muhammad with all his heart, and with all his soul? In fact, the true Muslim is supposed to love the Prophet more than himself, more than his parents, more than his children, and more than all of mankind! If that doesn't breed fanaticism, I don't know what does! And that's just the start! So, I therefore feel justified in stating categorically that the people talking about Islam and Muslims in this video are talking from a position of ignorance. — © Mark Alexander

German Far-right's Breakthrough Shakes Europe to Its Core • FRANCE 24 English

Sep 7, 2026 | Not enough to win outright but enough to shake Germany and Europe to their core: the far-right Alternative für Deutschland trouncing the ruling conservatives in the impoverished former East German region of Saxony-Anhalt. We’ll ask about the consequences of voting for an anti-immigrant, pro-Russian party that wants schools to teach less about the ills of Hitler and more the glory of Bismarck.

Will Sunday’s result further fuel the momentum of the far-right in places like Sweden which votes next Sunday or here in France where the far-right’s the odds-on favourite in next spring’s presidential election? Here you see the president of Marine Le Pen’s party Jordan Bardella who, after dropping in on Nigel Farage Reform UK party, was invited to speak to Italian business leaders at a weekend forum. A further normalization of a party that once seemed fringe?

As for the mainstream, be it France or Germany, what’s it got to offer to win back voters from MAGA and Putin-backed formations? You might ask who is on shakier ground: Germany’s Friedrich Merz or France’s Emmanuel Macron?

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Europe Swelters in Fifth Heatwave of the Year | BBC News

August 13, 2026 | A high of more than 36C (96F) has been recorded near Gatwick Airport, with temperatures expected to rise further.

The Met Office said parts of England could record 38C and 35C in Wales on Thursday. The last time temperatures rose above 36C in August was 2020.

This latest spell of extreme heat comes after the Met Office warned this summer is on course to be the UK's hottest since records began.

Europe Braces for Another Heat Wave. Here’s What to Know.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: High temperature warnings were in place across western, central and southern Europe on Sunday as a heat dome intensifies across the continent.

Screenshot taken from this NYT article. | Note: Data is as of 8:25 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 9 Central European Time. Forecast is for 24 hours beginning at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 9 C.E.T. Source: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather. William B. Davis and Bea Malsky/The New York Times
Another round of intense heat is expected to sweep across large swaths of Europe this week. Forecasters warned that rapidly rising temperatures, combined with persistently bone-dry conditions, could worsen a severe threat of wildfires.

The latest heat wave will be Europe’s fifth since May, as a broad area of high pressure — also known as a heat dome — intensifies across the continent. The most extreme heat is expected initially across parts of France, Spain and Italy before shifting toward Central Europe, where some of the highest temperatures are forecast across Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.

The European Forest Fire Information System forecasts that parts of southern Britain and northwestern France, along with a stretch of territory from the Alps to the Balkans, will remain under “very extreme” fire conditions — the highest category in its fire danger forecast — through at least Wednesday. Surrounding areas, including much of the Iberian Peninsula, central and southern France and parts of the western Balkans, are also facing extreme fire conditions through midweek. » | Nazaneen Ghaffar | Nazaneen Ghaffar is a reporter on The Times’s weather team. She is based in London. | Sunday, August 9, 2026

Nazi Shipwrecks Emerge from the Depths as Europe’s Danube Dries Up

THE GUARDIAN: Unexploded ordnance and a military motorcycle also recovered following record heat and drought conditions

Record-low water levels in the Danube have exposed remnants of Europe’s Nazi past, with dozens of second world war ships emerging from the riverbed during an intense drought.

In the middle of the river on the Serbian and Romanian border, a broken-up hull was visible on a sandbank that is normally underwater. Other vessels were partly submerged, some still believed to be laden with weapons.

The ships were part of Adolf Hitler’s Black Sea fleet that the German military deliberately sank towards the end of the war to slow down the Soviet advance. Historians say up to 200 German warships were scuttled in this way in September 1944. But Nazi Germany did not surrender until the following year in May 1945. » | Oliver Holmes | Saturday, August 8, 2026

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Europe’s Control of Its Fate Is Tested by Iran and Ukraine Wars, Wildfires and Migration

THE NEW YORK TIMES: A brutal summer has exposed how much Britain, France, Spain and other European countries are under pressure from forces largely out of their control.

Screenshot taken from this NYT article. | Firefighters in Lanton, a town southwest of Bordeaux, France, last week. | Credit: Pierre Crom/Getty Images
Once again in recent days, Europe has seemed to be watching from the sidelines as its destiny is shaped by outside forces.

Would President Trump choose to restart a massive war with Iran and drive up the cost of oil? Would global warming drive wider and worse wildfires, even as several already raged across the continent? Would a sudden, unexplained surge of people across the Moroccan border into a Spanish exclave — almost all of whom were immediately sent back — divide the bloc’s leaders and fuel the far right?

It has already been a brutal summer for Europe: two wars, record heat, rising inflation and deep anxiety about food, energy and security. The back-to-back crises are prompting calls for joint action, urgent Zoom meetings between different groups of presidents and prime ministers, and political hand-wringing in parliaments from Poland to the United Kingdom.

But like so much else that has happened in the past several years, many of Europe’s challenges are out of its control. » | Michael D. Shear | Michael Shear often writes about the challenges facing European countries as they are forced to rely less on support from the United States. | Thursday, August 6, 2026

« Les Allemands ne prennent pas les Français au sérieux » : comment Friedrich Merz veut privilégier son pays face à ses partenaires européens

LE FIGARO : RÉCIT - Malgré un engagement plus visible sur les dossiers de l’Union européenne, le chancelier allemand irrite ses homologues en priorisant ses intérêts nationaux sans vision commune.

L’arrivée de Friedrich Merz à la Chancellerie, le 6 mai 2025, avait suscité beaucoup d’attente en Europe. « En fait, les espoirs n’étaient pas démesurés : ça ne pouvait pas être pire qu’avec son prédécesseur, Olaf Scholz », relativise un diplomate à Bruxelles. Deux mois plus tôt, le chrétien-démocrate allemand avait fixé son cap : « Pour moi, renforcer l’Europe le plus rapidement possible est une priorité absolue, afin que nous parvenions, étape par étape, à notre indépendance vis-à-vis des États-Unis. » Cette belle ambition n’a guère survécu à quelques mois au pouvoir, comme le révèle cette déclaration de Merz à Donald Trump, en décembre dernier : « Si vous n’y arrivez pas avec l’Europe, faites au moins de l’Allemagne votre partenaire. » » | Par Florentin Collomp, correspondant à Bruxelles | lundi 3 août 2026

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Why European Wildfires Are Spreading Faster Than Ever

July 28, 2026 | In France and Spain wildfires have been ripping through communities, forcing 325,000 to flee. And it’s not just mainland Europe feeling the heat. In Britain, wildfires have broken out across the country. So what does the future hold?

France Battles Fire 'Whirlwinds' as Another 55,000 Evacuated | BBC News

July 26, 2026 | A further 55,000 people have been evacuated from six towns in France, as wildfires which have caused devastation across the country pick up pace.

The most recent evacuations took place in towns to the south of Bordeaux, in the Gironde region.

Wildfires have raged across Europe over the past week, primarily France and Spain, where more than 330,000 people have been evacuated.

Impact of MAGA on European Right-wing "Ideologically Close But Interests Not Respected”

July 22, 2026 | Giovanni Orsina, Director of the Political Science Department at Luiss University in Rome, takes a look at transatlantic ties under Trump and the impact of MAGA on European right-wing movements.

Rob Groves: Trump vs Europe: A Strategy That Backfired BIG TIME

July 18, 2026 | Liz Truss just brought CPAC to London and barely anyone showed up. It's the perfect image for where Donald Trump's entire strategy for Europe stands right now.

Seven months after his National Security Strategy laid out the plan to back "patriotic European parties" across the continent, I go through exactly how it's collapsed: Orbán's landslide defeat in Hungary, Romania rejecting a Trump-aligned candidate, Giorgia Meloni's public feud with Trump over a G7 photo, Jordan Bardella refusing to share a CPAC stage with Steve Bannon, and Germany's AfD quietly edging away too.


Excellent, hard hitting, and so very true. — © Mark Alexander

'Europe's Best Days Are Over' | Stig and CPAC Host Debate Whether the Future Is Conservative

Jul 16, 2026 | “What would be so bad about our countries reconnecting with their Christian foundations?” With conservatism reportedly on the rise, Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and Times Radio’s Stig Abell debate whether the future of the democratic world is Christian.

Why shouldn't Iran be allowed to have nuclear weapons? Israel has lots of them. Why the double standards? — © Mark Alexander

MAGA's Meddling in European Politics | DW News

Jul 16, 2026 | Washington’s influence in Europe has shaped political life for nearly a century, and the Trump administration continues that legacy — though not always in familiar ways. While past US governments framed their involvement as support for democracy, that mission now appears less clear, especially since Donald Trump returned to office in January last year. Trump and his allies have openly backed right wing candidates across Europe. DW’s Ben Fajzullin speaks with Majda Ruge from the European Council on Foreign Relations about whether this new five million dollar initiative could reshape European democracy — and who stands to benefit.

I am fast having to come to the conclusion that God cannot possibly exist, for if He did, He would have taken the “Wally in the White House” home long ago in order to save the world! And if He does exist, and allows this wally to ruin the world, then He is not worthy of being worshipped! — © Mark Alexander