Europe
Guess who’s back!
Slovakia gives pro-Russian populist nationalism another win
It could join the EU’s awkward squad if Robert Fico forms a government
One last push
The EU is finally rebooting the enlargement machine
Going from 27 to 36 members will require reform of the bloc
Charlemagne
The definition of Europe has always been both inspiring and incoherent
But that has not stopped it growing
Black and Blue Sea
War has arrived in Crimea
Slowly but methodically, Ukraine is chipping away at Russia’s firepower in the peninsula
Good from evil
Seven years after a terrorist attack, Nice has rebuilt itself
“You have made us stronger,” says the mayor
Attack ‘em
America says it will send long-range missiles to Ukraine
ATACMS will allow Ukraine to keep up its strikes for longer
Geopolitical monster v Brussels effect
Why the EU will not remain the world’s digital über-regulator
It is not a big enough player in AI
A one-day war
Azerbaijan is close to taking control of Nagorno-Karabakh
The ethnic-Armenian enclave has agreed to disarm
Charlemagne
Europe’s conservative populists pit migrants against babies
Viktor Orban and Giorgia Meloni want their citizens to have more children
Back to arms
Azerbaijan wants to “reintegrate” Nagorno-Karabakh through force
How that would happen without a mass exodus of Armenians is unclear
Pencil lines
An interview with the head of Ukraine’s defence intelligence
“Warehouses in the West are not completely empty. No matter what anyone says,” says Kyrylo Budanov