A European River Cruise is a delightful way to tour several countries in Europe in one trip. From Bulgaria to Nuremberg, here ...

For one Virginia family, a trip to Europe offered better prices, bigger mountains, and an unexpectedly serious week of ski ...

There’s a special kind of travel anxiety that shows up right after you book a flight to a country where you don’t speak the ...

As Bulgaria prepares to welcome the euro on January 1, 2026, we look back at a year that saw our readers grapple with ...

Europe is home to an extraordinary array of regional and minority languages, spoken by an estimated 40 to 50 million people.

The domains of the Habsburgs formed a political and cultural patchwork that would come under increasing strain.

Explore Europe before the rise of Rome, when Latin was a minor language and the continent buzzed with Greek, Celtic, Punic, and Etruscan. Discover how linguistic diversity shaped cultures and politics ...

Living abroad while at university allowed me to become almost fluent in two other languages and have experiences that would never have been possible in Scotland. While studying at the University of ...

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor and a foreign affairs columnist at POLITICO Europe. “It must be a policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed ...

Ever since eighteenth-century scholars recognized that Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit all descended from a common language, researchers have been consumed with determining who first spoke this ancient ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ancestry, according to a study published in Nature Communications. Researchers ...

Three years after OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT and brought artificial intelligence (AI) to the mainstream, several European countries are making their own sovereign systems. Sovereign AI is a country’s ...