Europe

Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza said his mother was in hospital in Berlin on Tuesday, while German police said they were investigating a case of attempted homicide. Kara-Murza said suspicions that ...

Germany’s main political parties presented their competing plans on Tuesday for lifting Europe’s largest economy out of the doldrums as campaigning kicked off for asnap election on Feb. 23. ...

The German parliament accepted Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s invitation to withdraw its confidence in him and his government on Monday, clearing the way for an early election on February 23 necessitated ...

Israel will close its Dublin embassy due to the “extreme anti-Israel policies of the Irish government”, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Sunday, citing its recognition of a Palestinian state ...

When veteran centrist Francois Bayrou, France’s new prime minister, was education minister in the 1990s, his plan to increase subsidies for private schools led to nationwide protests. He quickly ...

Greece is in advanced talks to buy 36 PULS rocket artillery systems from Israel as it pushes to modernise its armed forces, two officials said on Friday. The discussions on the 600...

French President Emmanuel Macron named key ally Francois Bayrou as his fourth prime minister of 2024 on Friday, but the scale of the challenge facing the veteran centrist was immediately clear ...

The ECB has cut interest rates by a quarter point. It also kept the door open to further easing ahead as inflation closes in on its goal and the economy ...

The leaders of France and Poland will hold talks on Ukraine on Thursday, including the possibility of sending European troops there as a security guarantee in the event of a ...

An 11-year-old girl from Sierra Leone was rescued overnight after three days at sea as the sole survivor of a shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa island, a rescue charity said ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday picked Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host turned political fundraiser, as the next U.S. ambassador to Greece and Tom Barrack, the ...

The Italian government has scrapped fines on people who refused to get mandatory COVID-19 jabs, it said in a statement late on Monday, after they were introduced to boost vaccinations ...

France and Germany’s political crises are a setback for efforts to modernise Europe’s struggling economy and are already making it harder for companies to take the investment decisions ...

By Alicia García-Herrero and Juan Mejino Lopez The European Union needs to adapt its emergency funding mechanisms to the increasing number and severity of climate catastrophes.  Devastating flooding in ...

By John Irish U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called on Sunday for an immediate ceasefire and negotiations between Ukraine and Russia to end “the madness”, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy ...

French borrowing costs rose above those of Greece for the first time on December 2, as Michel Barnier’s government teetered on the brink of collapse, underlining a dramatic shift in ...

One person died, three were injured and an unknown number of people were missing after a building in The Hague collapsed on Saturday following explosions and a fire, the mayor ...

Milan’s famed La Scala opera house kicks off its new season on Saturday with a Giuseppe Verdi drama adapted to the modern day to tell the tragedy of war, ...

Paris’ Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens its doors on Saturday, five-and-a-half years after it was ravaged by a devastating fire that destroyed its spire and roof and brought the entire Gothic masterpiece ...

Romania’s top court annulled the result of the first round of the country’s presidential election after accusations of Russian meddling and said on Friday the entire process, which ...

French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is expected to resign on Thursday after far-right and leftist lawmakers voted to topple his government, plunging France into its second major political crisis in ...

French opposition lawmakers brought the government down on Wednesday, throwing the European Union’s second-biggest economic power deeper into a political crisis that threatens its capacity to legislate and rein ...

Greece has dismantled a criminal group that trafficked Colombian women to Greece and forced them to perform sex work at apartments and strip clubs, police said. Police this week arrested ...

French lawmakers will vote on Wednesday on no-confidence motions which are all but certain to oust the government, throwing the euro zone’s second-biggest economy deeper into a lingering political ...