This is the first of two stories on the rise of nationalism in Europe. By Giulia Morpurgo Europe’s debt and refugee crises have exposed fault lines in the world’s biggest trading bloc. Was it utopian to think that Slovenia, Estonia or Latvia could sustain...
I was in Nice on Bastille Day and am lucky to be alive. I have a byline. But the 84 dead, they have no byline. French flags at half mast on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France, 16 July 2016. (EPA/Ian Langsdon) News-Decoder Editor Robert Holloway was in Nice on...
“The truck plowed into the crowd, and then we heard screaming. It was really a horrible experience.” Robert Holloway saw the attack in Nice last night. Bodies at the scene of a truck attack in Nice, France, 15 July 2016. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) “We saw...
By John Mehaffey Thugs masquerading as soccer fans have disfigured the 2016 European championships in France in an ugly reminder of the street violence that erupted in Marseille before a match between England and Tunisia at the 1998 World Cup. This year round, English...
This is the first in a series of decoders by our summer intern, Emma Bapt. For more decoders explaining big events, click here. By Emma Bapt Britain votes on June 23 whether to remain in the European Union in a referendum with potentially momentous consequences for...