Category: Europe
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Close to 1,000 people sat Sweden’s first civics test for citizenship on 15 August in Älvsjö. Sixty questions, ninety minutes, Swedish only — and a pass mark that has not been set yet. What the test is, and what is still undecided.
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A new study of the 2025 Norwegian parliamentary election finds voters shifted right on tax, immigration and climate measures between 2021 and 2025 — even though Labour won the most seats. What an election survey can and cannot tell you.
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Norwegian goods entering the United States now carry an extra 12.5 per cent duty, while most EU goods face 10 per cent. The reason given is forced labour rules — but the gap says more about who has a trade agreement with Washington and who does not.
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Italy’s longest river has fallen to historically low levels during the fourth heatwave of the summer. Why the Po matters more than any other river in the country, and what has changed to bring it to this repeatedly.
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Ukrainian drones are producing power outages, fuel shortages and phone cuts across Crimea, twelve years after Russia’s seizure of the peninsula. What Crimea depends on, and what Ukraine’s campaign is calculated to change.
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Hundreds of migrants tried to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta this weekend. Moroccan authorities fended them off this time — raising the same question as before about how much these events are decided at the fence.
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Seven to ten million Coptic Christians live in Egypt — the largest Christian community in the Middle East and one of the oldest anywhere. Where they come from, what makes them theologically distinct, and why coverage in English skips them.
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Ukraine sent drones against Moscow as Russia bombarded Kyiv, after strikes on a Baltic export terminal and a space-launch plant in Samara. Six negotiating venues have produced no result.
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A Spanish NATO jet shot down a drone over Romania overnight — the second spillover into alliance territory in two days. What Article 5 actually requires, and why the ambiguity is the danger.
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Six hundred drones hit the Moscow region overnight while Russian missiles and 106 drones struck Kyiv, Kremenchuk and Kryvyi Rih, burning a city book market for the second time in the war.