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![Football joins leaders in spotlight](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Football joins leaders in spotlight
Swiss police raided the Uefa yesterday about a contract disclosed in the Panama Papers signed by the head of the global football body Fifa.
![Gwynne Dyer: Why deal to stem the flood of refugees will fail dismally](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Gwynne Dyer: Why deal to stem the flood of refugees will fail dismally
COMMENT: The only way to seal a frontier is to kill people who try to cross it illegally. The Iron Curtain worked pretty well, for example.
![Austria: Tracing the Terminator](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Austria: Tracing the Terminator
Mention Arnold Schwarzenegger and almost no one will imagine glow-in-the-dark condoms.
![Bar/fly: Belgian beer in Brussels](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Bar/fly: Belgian beer in Brussels
To the Belgian beer drinker, the term "craft" beer is not the johnny-come-lately preserve of beardy hipsters quaffing the latest microbrew from jam jars.
![Tensions rise on islands as aid workers quit camps](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Tensions rise on islands as aid workers quit camps
Scenes of chaos awaited European Union staff due to start arriving on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios today to begin processing asylum seekers.
![Hunt for terror suspects extends across Europe](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Hunt for terror suspects extends across Europe
The investigation into last week's bombings in Belgium extended farther across Europe after Italian police arrested a new suspect.
![Ghost town home to just one](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Ghost town home to just one
Fausto Mottalini, 65, is out to tell the world that a human being can live with a few simple things: food, shelter and above all, uncontaminated nature.
![Europe on alert over Isis aggression](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Europe on alert over Isis aggression
A top European security official warned yesterday that the threat of Isis (Islamic State) attacks is greater than previous assessments.
![Brussels: Vulnerability in heart of extremism](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Brussels: Vulnerability in heart of extremism
Last week counterterrorism officials and experts gathered in Brussels for a conference on a threat quietly gathering in the city around them.
![Sicily: Offer you can't refuse](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Sicily: Offer you can't refuse
Erme says the locals' united stand has gone some way to alleviate the climate of fear that once existed, and the violence once demonstrated so publicly by the mob.
![Europe puts up 'house full' signs](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Europe puts up 'house full' signs
Hollande urged the people of Britain not to leave. "I don't want to scare you," he said, "but there will be consequences if the UK decides to leave the EU."
![NZ-Europe free trade agreement talks begin](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
NZ-Europe free trade agreement talks begin
The European Parliament's decision to support negotiations on a free trade agreement with New Zealand has been welcomed by Trade Minister Todd McClay.
![Croatia: A non-fan's guide to 'Thrones' sites](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Croatia: A non-fan's guide to 'Thrones' sites
Croatia is to Game of Thrones what a Waikato hillside is to fans of The Hobbit.
![Wales: Dominion of Dylan](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Wales: Dominion of Dylan
There's a certain level of chaos in the small beachside writing shed where Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas spent a good amount of time.
![Drones banned at German castle](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Drones banned at German castle
Tourists packing cheap new camera drones for tours of Germany might want to leave them behind
![Isle of Man looks to self-driving cars](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Isle of Man looks to self-driving cars
Depending on who you ask, it's either the perfect testing site, or a terrible one.
![Plan to keep Britain in EU released](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Plan to keep Britain in EU released
European Council President Donald Tusk has set out a plan for keeping Britain in the European Union to a mixed reception.
![Jewellery seized from refugee families](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Jewellery seized from refugee families
Germany has begun confiscating money and jewellery from refugees to pay for the cost of their stay, in a practice the UN says contributes to xenophobia.
![Feeling the heat](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Feeling the heat
In Europe the daffodils are in bloom and ski fields are bare in the warmest December ever. John Vidal asks how worrying is the world's strange weather.
![Belgium: From the ends of the Earth](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Belgium: From the ends of the Earth
Kate Camp shares her experience of visiting the former battlefields of Ypres in Belgium.
![Bar/fly: Moniack Castle, Inverness](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Bar/fly: Moniack Castle, Inverness
In a castle in Scotland, Kevin Pilley quaffs mead in the search of a new coiffure.
![Manchester: Industrial revelation](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Manchester: Industrial revelation
Mancunian Steve McCabe revisits his hometown and finds a cosmopolitan city has sprung up among the dark satanic mills.
![Does McDonald's deserve an EU tax break?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Does McDonald's deserve an EU tax break?
McDonald's may have unfairly exploited a pact with Luxembourg to avoid tax on hundreds of millions of euros in profits for more than half a decade.
![Scenes from German energy revolution](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Scenes from German energy revolution
For Berliner Anke Seemann, Germany's energy transformation is the chance to exercise her green conscience.
![Italy: Battle for Abruzzo's heart](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Italy: Battle for Abruzzo's heart
In one region in Italy, some are rethinking the future of tourism, writes Venetia Sherson.
![Bar/fly: Ireland](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Bar/fly: Ireland
Paul Rush, a roving hobbit, discovers the true meaning of the 'craic' in the west of Ireland.
![France: King of the castle](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
France: King of the castle
Olly Grant steps into the past at Guedelon, built using strictly medieval methods.