Europe

Forty people have drowned in France over recent days as they sought to cool down to escape record heat, the prime minister said on Tuesday, as a heatwave swept across ...

A Belgian investigating judge has issued a European arrest warrant against former Greek European Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos, a Greek government official said late on Monday, confirming reports in Belgian and ...

The European Union recorded a significant €186.6 billion trade surplus with the United Kingdom during 2025, according to a report from Eurostat. The latest data indicates that the European Union exported goods ...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s former transport minister, Jose Luis Abalos, was sentenced on Monday to 24 years in prison for a slew of offences involving corruption, the first verdict ...

Three people died in France from health issues caused by extreme heat and almost 2,700 French schools were set to close or modify timetables as authorities across Europe issued heatwave warnings ...

The Bank of Greece has reported a decline in the value of loans managed by domestic credit servicing companies and transferred to specialised financial institutions abroad. The total nominal value ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni accused her one-time close ally Donald Trump of fabricating a story about her on Friday, after the U.S. President told an Italian TV channel ...

European Union leaders headed for a clash over the bloc’s budget on Friday after both net contributors and beneficiaries criticised an initial proposal on what the EU should pay ...

The European Parliament approved on Wednesday an overhaul of migration policy aimed at ramping up deportations and allowing member states to set up detention centres abroad, in what critics describe ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Wednesday visited San Marino and, alongside his Sammarinese counterpart Luca Beccari, said he welcomed progress towards a possible association agreement between the country and the ...

Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has undergone a successful lung transplant and will remain in hospital for several weeks as she begins her recovery, doctors at Oslo University Hospital said ...

The mastermind of Greece’s defunct and most lethal guerrilla group November 17, who was freed from jail last month, will return to prison after the country’s top court overturned ...

Cypriot MEPs Loukas Fourlas and Giorgos Georgiou are set to abstain from Wednesday’s plenary vote on a European Parliament report concerning Turkey, despite both describing elements of the text ...

A 1,000-year-old monastery regarded as one of Ukraine’s most important spiritual and cultural landmarks was badly damaged on Monday during a large-scale Russian attack that killed 10 people across the ...

European Affairs Deputy Minister Marilena Raouna on Monday spoke of a “significant milestone” for both Ukraine and Moldova, with intergovernmental conferences between the European Union and both countries taking place ...

The leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations are due to arrive at a French lakeside resort on Monday amid unease among allies over President Donald Trump’s tariff ...

President Donald Trump on Monday warned that the US will “have no choice” but to apply 100% tariffs on French wine unless Paris eliminates its digital tax on American tech giants. ...

Switzerland on Sunday rejected a proposal to cap its population at 10 million, a projection showed, as voters prioritised economic stability and ties with the European Union over worries immigration was ...

Greek households experienced a quiet but significant erosion of wealth between 2021 and 2025 as inflation significantly outpaced the returns on traditional bank savings, according to a new report from Freedom24. While ...

Some 200 protesters on Saturday tore down metal and razor wire fences surrounding a luxury development site on Albania’s Adriatic coast, in another sign of growing anger against construction in ...

Italy’s finance police said on Friday it uncovered three illegal broadband TV distribution hubs in Crotone, in the southern Calabria region, and reported four suspects, seizing assets worth about €650,000 ($751,900). ...

European Central Bank (ECB) policymakers raised interest rates by 25 basis points on Thursday, citing mounting inflation pressures linked to the war in the Middle East and warning that the conflict ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Wednesday discussed the Cyprus problem when they met on the sidelines of the south-east European cooperation process summit ...

The Greek state secured €3 billion on Wednesday as high investor demand met the reopening of an existing 10-year bond maturing in June 2036. Total bids for the bond reached €36 billion during ...