Europe

By Miranda Xafa In an international environment of great turmoil and rapid change over the past year, Greece has stood out as a pole of political and economic stability in ...

Gas flows from Azerbaijan to Serbia have been halted and it is unclear when they will resume, news agency Tanjug quoted Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic as saying. “I got information ...

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday presided over the first in a year-long series of events to mark 50 years since the death of dictator Francisco Franco, with a warning ...

France urged the European Union to use its laws more robustly to defend itself against outside interference and Spain’s prime minister lambasted Elon Musk on Wednesday, as the U....

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has accused neighbouring Armenia of posing a “fascist” threat that needs to be destroyed, in comments that Armenia’s leader called a possible attempt to justify ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the far-right National Front party who tapped into working class concerns over immigration and globalisation and built a career on provocative rhetoric that many ...

France on Tuesday commemorated the victims of the deadly assault on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine 10 years ago that began a spate of Islamist militant attacks on the country and ...

For Athens restaurant owner Christos Kapetanakis, rent has always been high, but now he faces what he calls “a second rent” as soaring electricity bills slash profits and force him ...

More than 51,000 households were left without gas and 1,500 apartment buildings had no winter heat in Moldova’s pro-Russian separatist enclave, authorities said on Monday, after Ukraine refused to extend a ...

France’s President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he was still waiting for Africa’s Sahel states to thank Paris for stopping them falling into the hands of militants and ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial on Monday, on charges of having received millions of euros in illegal financing from Libya’s late strongman Muammar Gaddafi for his ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made a surprise trip to Florida to meet with Donald Trump late on Saturday, as the key European leader sought to buttress ties with the ...

By Francois Murphy The leadership of Austria’s ruling conservatives held a crisis meeting on Sunday to pick a successor to Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who announced his resignation on Saturday ...

At least 70 flights have been cancelled and several others delayed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport due to wintery weather, a spokesperson said on Sunday. He said snow plows started clearing ...

Former Prime Minister Costas Simitis passed away at dawn in Greece at the age of 88. Simitis was transferred, without a pulse, at dawn to the Corinth Hospital, from his cottage ...

The Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Greece with marks of war – one with a head scar, another with both legs amputated above the knee, some with invisible mental wounds from a ...

Poland launched its presidency of the Council of the European Union on Friday mired in a diplomatic row with Hungary that underscored a deepening sense of political disunity across Europe ...

A gunman who killed at least 10 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro died from self-inflicted injuries on Thursday after attempting suicide, the country’s interior minister, ...

Russian gas exports via Soviet-era pipelines running through Ukraine came to a halt on New Year’s Day, marking the end of decades of Moscow’s dominance over Europe’s ...

Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union’s Schengen free-travel area on Wednesday, joining an expanded bloc of countries whose residents can ...

The breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria cut heating and hot water supplies to households on Wednesday after Russia stopped supplying gas via Ukraine. “There is no heating or hot water,” ...

Greece on Tuesday successfully raised €600 million through a three-month treasury bill auction, according to the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA). The bills were sold at a yield of 3.00 per cent, ...

Tourists in Barcelona’s historic centre were enjoying the last days of gas-powered patio heaters before their use is banned in 2025 because of their carbon emissions. The ban will come ...

Prosecutors in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad filed an indictment on Monday against 13 people in connection with the collapse of a railway station awning last month that killed 15 ...