Europe

  • A line of French riot police with shields during the 2019 Gilet Jaunes protest

    Gilets Jaunes and the security state

    Olly Haynes reports on the violent crackdown on protesters on the streets of France

  • A man at a pro-EU protest holding a European Union flag photographed against a blue sky, with Big Ben in the background

    The migration system isn’t ready for Brexit – and EU citizens will suffer

    The future is uncertain for the three million EU nationals living in the UK, writes Jack Gevertz

  • A group photo of people waving, with children in the foreground and adults in the background wearing fluorescent yellow vests

    Christmas with the gilets jaunes

    The ‘yellow vests’ revolt in France has targeted centrist president Macron, but left wing opinion has been divided over its unclear politics. Paul Cudenec reports from the protests – and finds a community spirit that bears little resemblance to the media’s depictions

  • Croatia: against modern football?

    Andrew Hodges examines football fan activism and organising in Croatia – a powerful, politicised and unpredictable battle between the left and the far right

  • A figure in a brown hoodie walks through a green field holing a eco-anarchist green and black flag with a skull and cross bones on it

    The battle of Hambacher Forest

    Activists have occupied Hambacher Forest for six years to prevent environmental destruction through coal mining. Now, state, police and corporate forces are combining to oust them for good, writes Andrea Brock

  • Up all night

    Christophe Aguiton looks at the dynamics behind Nuit Debout, the movement of public assemblies taking place across France. Anastasia Kavada interviews participants at the Place de la République

  • Former UKIP leader and current Reform UK leader Nigel Farage delivering a speech at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland

    The Brexit nightmare: a scenario

    Tom Walker imagines waking up screaming imagining how a hard-right ascendancy might follow a vote to leave the European Union