In July 799 Charles, king of the Franks, had set up camp at Paderborn, in the heart of vanquished Saxony, and it was bustling with bricklayers and carpenters. Convoys of carts loaded with bricks and ...

9 May 2025 marked the 75th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration, the proposal by French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman (1886-1963) to pool the production of coal and steel – vital raw materials for ...

In September 1914, less than a month into the First World War, the military destiny of the Habsburg Empire hung in the balance. Only weeks after Vienna had declared war on Russia on Aug. 23, the ...

Prussia’s greatest statesman, Prince Otto von Bismarck, often maintained that the squabbling states of Germany would never be united except by blood and iron, but lived to acknowledge that coal and ...

Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the European Council on Foreign Relations organised an online debate with the European Union’s High Representative on Europe’s geopolitical response.

This 3 episode series details the epic story of the origin of Europe a place with a surprisingly diverse nature stretching from the snowy far north to the coast of Africa Defined by volcanoes ice ages ...