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Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters A Tiny Island Exposes Europe’s Failures
The investigation into the murder of Malta’s most famous journalist has done more than plunge the country into crisis.
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Musée du Louvre Leonardo da Vinci’s Unexamined Life as a Painter
A new show marks the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death, and reveals some of his innermost thoughts.
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Adam Nurkiewicz / Stringer / Getty France’s Growing Pushback Against Roman Polanski
Despite the director’s history of sexual assault, the country has long supported his artistic freedom. But with the debut of his latest film, the tide may be changing.
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Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP via Getty ‘Welcome to Europe. Now Go Home.’
The overcrowded Moria refugee camp in Greece is where Europe’s ideals—solidarity, human rights, a haven for victims of war and violence—dissolve in a tangle of bureaucracy, indifference, and lack of political will.
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Luca Bruno / AP Italy Has an Intolerance Problem. Does It Still Have a Moderate Right?
The anti-Semitic attacks on the Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre have spurred a national debate about intolerance.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters Pope Francis, the Revolutionary, Takes On the Traditionalists
A three-week conference that prioritized the environment highlights a culture war in the Catholic Church.
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Bloomsbury Deborah Levy’s Disorienting, Captivating Fiction
The British novelist’s wry books veer from concrete realism to fractured blends of dream and memory.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters The Unending Disquiet After Attacks in Paris
The French capital suffered a wave of violence in 2015 and 2016, and while the years since have been more peaceful, a recent attack resurfaced unease.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters Why IVF Has Divided France
The country is forever caught between tradition and innovation, universalism and individual rights.
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP The Disparate Reactions to a New Woody Allen Film
The Paris premiere of A Rainy Day in New York highlighted the tension between American morality and France’s high-minded belief that the art transcends the artist.
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Yara Nardi / Reuters Italy’s Populists Lost Power—And Now the Press
Much of the Italian press gushed over the far-right leader Matteo Salvini as he rose. Now that he is in opposition, it feels free to be more critical.
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Pool / Reuters Europe Marvels as Britain Convulses Over Brexit
Onlookers in Paris, Rome, Berlin, and elsewhere across Europe have been stupefied by the internecine battles in London.
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Gianni Cipriano The New Populist Playbook
Matteo Salvini is not merely a Donald Trump facsimile—the Italian politician has been testing whether Facebook likes translate into votes, and is remaking his country along the way.
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Tristan Reynaud / SIPA / AP The Joys of a Quiet Paris
The French capital empties out in August, but still has energy—just a different sort.
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Yara Nardi / Reuters Italy’s Transition From One Weak Government to Another
The pact between the populist Five Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party, engineered to keep Matteo Salvini from power, may have its days numbered.
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Remo Casilli / Reuters Italy’s Leaders Are Divided on Policy, United in Fear of One Man
The far-right politician Matteo Salvini has triggered a government crisis, forcing parties that despise one another to contemplate alliances, if only to block his rise.
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Pool / Reuters Emmanuel Macron Expounds as the World Burns
The French president has an answer for every problem, but is anyone listening?
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Remo Casilli / Reuters Salvini Puts Italy on a Collision Course With Europe
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s interior minister and the country’s most powerful politician, has called for early elections, but will have to deflect a poor economy and allegations of links to Moscow.
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Guglielmo Mangiapane / Reuters Teflon Salvini: Italy’s Untouchable Politician
The Italian interior minister has been linked to Russian money. It’s just the latest crisis he’s brushing off.
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Yannis Behrakis / Reuters Greece Is Over Its Crisis, but Europe Isn’t
In Greece, a cycle is ending, and the country is returning to political normality. But across Europe, the legacy of its crisis is still a factor.
