If you don?t pay for professional journalism it will cease to happen eventually. I?ve paid for The Economist for over 30 years, but rarely do so for others.
There are a number of European papers you can read online, most of which of superior to papers like the Guardian and Telegraph which are both very tabloidly and have gone a bit bonkers in their own way in recent years. European papers lose the plot sometimes and all are nationally biased, but it is at least useful to see what other people are reading.
If you want a paper with a highly evolved sense of it?s own importance I can recommend the New York Times. It?s more like what the Times was like many decades ago.
For political daily gossip around Europe, this is free with adverts:
https://www.politico.eu/