Ideas The EU’s vaccine debacle shows how far it is from being a state Europe continues to lack not only the powers of a modern state but the democratic legitimacy needed to acquire them. By Donald Sassoon
The love affair at the centre of Europe’s cultural explosion The romantically entwined trio who helped spread cosmopolitan culture from Moscow to London. By Donald Sassoon
When production went mass: how factories changed the world Invented in Britain, perfected in America and super-sized by the Soviet Union and China, the factory has shaped modern… By Donald Sassoon
Is Italy flirting with fascism? Silvio Berlusconi is back in power. Rome's mayor won on an anti-immigration platform. The right is n By Donald Sassoon