Europe

Spanish Transport Minister Oscar Puente will face questions from lawmakers on Tuesday over his handling of Europe’s worst train crash since 2013, as the government readies an emergency aid package ...

Greece finalised a deal worth up to €600 million ($671 million) to buy three Brazilian-made Embraer EMBJ3.SA KC-390 military planes on Monday, with an option for three more of the aircraft ...

Spain has returned to Morocco more than a dozen sub-Saharan African and Asian migrants who reached the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and were turned down for asylum, the first deportation ...

A Wizz Air flight from London to Sofia was diverted to Budapest airport on Monday after receiving a bomb threat, Hungarian Defence Minister Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi said in a Facebook post. ...

The temperature of freezers at several Swedish grocery stores rose sharply overnight, operators ICA and Coop said on Monday, with at least one store blaming the incident on a cyberattack. ...

Bulgaria’s acting President Iliana Iotova won the presidential runoff election, near-final results from the Central Election Commission showed on Monday, becoming the country’s first elected female head of ...

French high school student protests resumed on Monday on a much smaller scale than in past weeks as pupils returned from a two-week break, with youngsters trying to blockade a ...

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever was set to hand in his resignation on Monday, following late-night coalition talks that failed to reach a compromise on budget cuts, Belgian media ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany, founded more than a decade ago in opposition to the EU’s handling of the euro crisis, is recalibrating its vision for Europe as it ...

Hooded rioters looted stores in Frankfurt late on Saturday after tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Germany’s biggest cities to demand better education and lower ...

Cyprus’ recent economic expansion and strong fiscal performance come against a backdrop of moderating growth across the European Union, where gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.5 per cent in the ...

Starved and exhausted residents from the Russian-controlled town of Oleshky crossed into Ukraine on Saturday in a major return of civilians under the first humanitarian truce of its kind in ...

Popes have received heads of state, royalty and pilgrims by the busload in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall. On Saturday, Pope Leo received his old college basketball team ...

France is not facing an immediate risk of a public debt crisis comparable to the eurozone turmoil of the 2010s, but persistent deficits, weak economic growth and rising borrowing costs ...

Two men were found dead aboard a migrant boat that reached Spain’s Canary Islands early on Friday after departing from Gambia, and a baby was airlifted to hospital in ...

Infighting has broken out among centrist candidates for France’s presidential race, splitting the mainstream vote and making a runoff between far-right Marine Le Pen and hard-left Jean-Luc Melenchon more ...

Greece has arrested two Greek men and an Albanian national suspected of stealing copper gas pipes from a building, causing a leak that led to a deadly explosion in central ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that the recently signed maritime deal between Libya’s eastern ‌parliament and Turkey was “blatantly illegal, null and void,” adding that it “completely disregards ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday the EU and Canada continue to explore Canada becoming the union’s first “associate member,” a term so divisive among ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) kept its three key interest rates unchanged on Thursday, as rising energy prices threaten to push inflation higher and weaken economic growth, hours after President ...

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde resigned on Thursday, ending months of speculation about her future just ​as Europe enters a period of rising economic volatility and divisive electoral politics, ...

Italy’s government will allow motorists to personalise the number plates of their vehicles, in a revenue-raising move that follows the example of the Unites States, Britain and other countries. ...

A Greek container ship has sunk after being hit by naval drones off Bulgaria on Wednesday, the Bulgarian government said, in the latest of a series of strikes on ships ...

Christine Lagarde is stepping down as president of the European Central Bank (ECB) nine months earlier than expected, bringing forward a leadership contest at a time when renewed inflationary pressures ...