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Terrassenhaus in Berlin
Mies van der Rohe prize: My time on the road as a judge visiting the finalists

If there’s a recurrent theme in this year’s Mies van der Rohe European Prize for Contemporary Architecture, it is surely imaginative renovation and tr(...)

The National History Museum in Tirana, Albania, a city full of socialist realist art. Photograph: Getty Images
Welcome to my place . . . Tirana, Albania
  • Abroad
  • January 27, 2019, 06:00

Elizabeth Gowing has been living in Tirana for more than five years. She moved there because of her partner’s job and now runs a monthly environmental(...)

People enjoy a winter afternoon on the ice of the frozen Lake of Joux in Le Pont, Switzerland. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters
Several dead as ‘Beast from the East’ hits Europe

Persistent snow and freezing conditions from a Siberian cold snap has badly affected transport and caused a handful of deaths across a swathe of Europ(...)

A Rohingya refugee man pulls a child as they walk to the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. Photograph: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui
Myanmar dismisses ceasefire declared by Muslim Rohingya insurgents

Myanmar on Sunday rebuffed a ceasefire declared by Muslim Rohingya insurgents to enable the delivery of aid to thousands of displaced people in the vi(...)

Archbishop Charles Brown: “We’ve a lot of priests in Ireland who are in their 70s, who are working right now. Some are in their 80s. In 10 years they’re not going to be working”
‘Very serious’ decline in number becoming priests in Ireland

Papal nuncio Archbishop Charles Brown has expressed alarm at the lack of vocations in Ireland, and at the age profile of existing priests. “We’ve a (...)

Weapons, explosives and ammunition seized during an police action near the northwestern Serbian town of Apatin. Photograph: /AFP/Getty Images
Balkan arms fears grow amid major security alerts

Serbia is urgently checking state arms depots after scores of guns were found to be missing from a military warehouse, fuelling concern over Balkan w(...)

Our Wedding Story: Finding love in the world of European politics

Colm Lauder and Margherita Saltini Colm and Margherita were both national delegates to a pan-European political party – he the organisation’s secre(...)