Europe

by Mark Porter Cannes, July 28, 2022 (updated 01/08/22) Viktor Orbán, 59, veteran Hungarian prime minister and Putin cheerleader, is hardly renowned for his restraint. His...

‘It has been like hell’: life under fire in Donbas from Guardian reporter Peter Beaumont, six months in Ukraine “I sleep in my clothes so I...

es Vienna, July 23, 2022 Maybe not. Just after yesterday's supposedly landmark deal in Istanbul to start shipping millions of tons of grain to a...

es Vienna, July 22, 2022 Meduza, banished along with its staff to Lavia, remains one of the best sources of information on Russia. Today it...

es Vienna, July 22, 2022 Russia's clampdown on independent news has been remarkably effective in creating a parallel reality/ unreality. Now the same method is...

London, July 20, 2022 by Anthony Robinson, former FT Eastern Europe and Moscow correspondent Everybody got it wrong. Most Western governments didn’t think Putin was daft...

Budapest/ London, July 20, 2022 In Hungary’s modest-sized domestic market, Magyar Hang (Hungarian Voice) is one of the two top-selling political weeklies, with over...

Vienna, July 14, 2022 In the second episode of Voxeurop's Archipelago Ukraine series, Bosnian writer and poet Faruk Sehic gives his view of the Russian invasion...

es Vienna, 13 July, 2022 Eurotopics today publishes its usual excellent review of the European press, dealing especially with the extreme weather across the world,...

es/wh  Strasbourg, July 11, 2022 The "yes, but not quite yet" resignation of UK prime minister Boris Johnson has left the remains of his assaults...