What Are the Best European News Sources?

[H. Ross Peron]

I've been torn recently over which news sources to consult for European news.

For Britain, the obvious choice would have been the Times, but that particular paper has hidden itself behind a paywall for years. Since then I've been torn between the Daily Telegraph which seems to be the most substantive newspaper around albeit with a strong right-wing tilt and the Guardian whose politics are rather more palatable but whose articles seem more like those in Huffington Post than the New York Times. As for magazines, New Statesman seems to be the best choice.

In France I'm going with Le Monde.

As for Germany, I've heard good thing about FAZ and Der Spiegel.

[H. Ross Peron]

I've been torn recently over which news sources to consult for European news.

You left out one obvious piece of info: Which languages are you able to read and on what level?

Essentially just English. Reading news in French and German is just as much for practicing those languages as for getting news content. Der Spiegel seems to have good articles in translation however.