Europe

The European Union hailed on Monday the result of Moldova’s parliamentary election, saying it showed that the small eastern European country was firmly on track to join the European ...

Fewer than 100 days remain for Cyprus to iron out the remaining logistical challenges as it prepares to assume the six-month rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union in ...

An international aid flotilla was set to leave Greek waters and head towards Gaza on Friday, organisers said, defying warnings from Israel that it would use any means to block ...

Greece recorded a surplus of €1.96 billion in its state budget for the period January–August 2025, according to execution data on a modified cash basis. The result contrasts with the €1.38 billion ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in jail on Thursday for criminal conspiracy over attempts to raise campaign funds from Libya, a spectacular downfall for the ...

Denmark said on Thursday that drone incursions that briefly shut two of its airports and affected military installations overnight were hybrid attacks intended to spread fear, but said it did ...

Denmark’s Aalborg airport, used for commercial and military flights, was closed due to drones in its airspace, police said early on Thursday, two days after the country’s main ...

When Greek firefighters investigated the cause of a deadly wildfire near the Athens Riviera in August, they found a familiar culprit: a loose power cable whose sparks were blown across ...

Italy urged an international flotilla to hand over its aid supplies for Gaza on Wednesday and allow them to be distributed by the local Catholic Church, as a way to ...

Denmark said drones that halted flights at its main airport on Monday were the most serious attack yet on its critical infrastructure and linked them to a series of suspected ...

A cyberattack on a provider of check-in and boarding systems has disrupted operations at several major European airports including London’s Heathrow, the continent’s busiest, causing flight delays and ...

Britain has returned the first migrant to France under a ‘one in, one out’ agreement to remove people who arrive on small boats, the interior ministry said on Thursday. British ...

Greece has suspended the extradition to Moldova of business magnate and former politicianGreece has suspended the extradition to Moldova of business magnate and former politician Vladimir Plahotniuc who is sought ...

Teachers, train drivers, pharmacists and hospital staff went on strike and teenagers blocked their high schools in France on Thursday, part of a day of protests against looming budget cuts. ...

The main suspect in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann was released from a German prison on Wednesday after serving a seven-year sentence for an unrelated sex crime. German ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday accused Russia’s Vladimir Putin of murder and trying to destabilise the West by testing its limits and sabotage, speaking at a parliamentary debate ...

Farmers in Greece face the risk of a nationwide ban on the movement of goat and sheep if veterinarians and stockbreeders don’t step up health checks and hygiene measures ...

Spanish state broadcaster RTVE’s board voted on Tuesday to withdraw from the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in May in Vienna if Israel takes part in the event. ...

Football players are lining up for a fiery kick – not on the pitch, but in the form of a searing shot of olive oil from Cyprus. The peppery, throat-burning liquid ...

Ireland will not take part in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest if Israel is allowed to participate, Irish broadcaster RTE said on Thursday, arguing that doing so would be “...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday that this week’s drone incursions into his country’s airspace were not a mistake by Russia, despite U.S. President Donald ...

Poland said on Thursday the U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting to discuss drone incursions into its airspace which its president portrayed as an attempt by Russia ...

The United States wants to expand its energy ties with Greece, U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said during a visit to Athens on Thursday, as the Trump administration works ...

Poland has banned drone flights and introduced restrictions affecting mostly small, non-commercial air traffic along its eastern borders with Belarus and Ukraine following this week’s drone incursions into its ...