The spectacle of an American president breaking trust with NATO allies as he tries to avoid impeachment is hard to grasp. When will it all end? MILAN — Now it’s impeachment. To many of the world’s ordinary citizens, not well versed in American constitutional procedures, it means one thing only: Donald Trump, …
Walk into any café in Porto, Portugal, and you’ll likely see one common thing on the menu: the Francesinha. This indulgent sandwich now has many variations, but they all include a stack of ham, steak, sausage, and cheese, covered in a tangy tomato sauce. It was invented in the 1950s …
RUINERWOLD, Netherlands, Oct 16 – The discovery of six members of a family locked for years in a farmhouse’s secret room came after a scruffy young man walked into a pub, drank five beers and told the barman his secret. The 25-year-old man’s revelation on Sunday that he hadn’t been …
Radical nationalist parties are deeply unreliable coalition partners. Political parties of the far right make unreliable, even disastrous, coalition partners. The history of governments that involve them, the latest of which has just collapsed in Italy, should be a warning to their mainstream rivals. The center-right Christian Democrats in the German …
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – In the small western Belgian fishing village of Oostduinkerke, fishermen use horses, rather than boats, to go shrimp fishing — one of the very few places in the world still using a technique dating back to the 15th century. The method makes use of the horse’s strength …
The Dutch are among Europe’s worst polluters, and industry will bear the brunt of change THE FLAT fields of reclaimed marshland that make up most of the Netherlands’ agricultural landscape are known as “polders”. In recent decades the word has come to designate a Dutch style of governance, the “polder …
GRIMBERGEN, Belgium (Reuters) – Belgian monks at the Grimbergen abbey are on the verge of brewing beer again after a break of more than 200 years. Norbertine Father Karel tastes a Grimbergen beer, symbolised by a phoenix, in the courtyard of the Belgian Abbey of Grimbergen before announcing that the …
1,049-foot building will rise in a town of 7,000 people When you think of tall buildings in Europe, your mind likely jumps to skyscrapers in London, Frankfort, or Madrid. But according to The Guardian, a local company in Brande, Denmark, has announced plans to build a 1,049-foot building that towers over …
Danish builders have found bottles of beer dating back over a century while carrying out renovation work on an old brewery in the Jutland city of Viborg. They raised a set of floorboards to find seven 113-year-old bottles from the Odin Brewery, carefully stowed away in a wooden box, where …
The former king of Belgium, Albert II, has refused to undergo DNA testing in a case aimed at proving he fathered a love-child in the 1960s. A Brussels court ordered the ex-monarch, 84, to provide a saliva sample in three months or risk being presumed to be the father of …
Supporters used a law that bars police from entering a place of worship while a service is in progress to stop them from being deported. AMSTERDAM — A church ended a 96-day-long prayer service to stop an Armenian family being deported from the Netherlands on Wednesday, after the government agreed …
This Christmas bread is formed in the shape of the baby Jesus. In Belgium, northern France, and other parts of the Low Countries, bakers create a Christmas pastry that’s reminiscent of the shape of the baby Jesus himself. This pastry, which is often called cougnou, cougnolle, coquille de Noël, or other regional …