Europe

European Union leaders will commit on Thursday to do more to make the bloc more competitive with more military muscle in the face of US tariffs and other economic challenges, ...

Germany’s outgoing government has agreed to release additional 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) in military aid for Ukraine this year after lawmakers passed plans for a fiscal overhaul, a finance ministry ...

Hungary’s president has signed a law proposed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling party that will ban LGBTQ+ communities from holding their annual Pride march, defying criticism by ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who in two weeks will learn her fate in an embezzlement trial, says prosecutors demanding she face an instant five-year public office ban have ...

Greek opposition figures on Monday reacted with fury after the country’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appointed as his Deputy Energy Minister Nikos Tsafos, who had previously referred to northern ...

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said that it was important for Canada to strengthen ties with “reliable allies” in Europe, as he met French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday ...

If Germany is to quickly revive its flagging industrial economy, businesses say the country’s new leadership must make drastic reductions to bureaucracy alongside their radical plans to boost public ...

Fire ripped through a packed nightclub early on Sunday in the North Macedonian town of Kocani, killing 59 people and injuring more than 100, after sparks ignited the roof over a live ...

Talk of Cyprus joining Nato or an affiliated organisation has fizzled out in recent weeks – no surprise there, as the future of Nato itself seems to hang in the balance. ...

Credit rating agency Moody’s has upgraded Greece to investment grade, raising its credit rating to Baa3 with a stable outlook from Ba1 with a positive outlook. “The upgrade reflects ...

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was “abducted” before being taken to The Hague to face murder allegations and is too ill to give evidence, his lawyer told International Criminal Court ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday named new finance and transport ministers and handed other key portfolios to younger officials in a reshuffle designed to shore up support for ...

U.S. President Donald Trumpon Thursday threatened to slap a 200% tariff on all wines and other alcoholic products coming out of Europe if the European Uniondoes not scrap its planned ...

The European Union’s “white paper on the future of European defence”, which aims to forge a plan for the bloc and the continent at large to bolster its defensive ...

Greece will spend more than 25 billion euros in arms procurements by 2036, including new submarines, drones, satellites and fighter jets, under a 12-year plan to be submitted to parliament in the ...

A trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of Greece, Cyprus and Israel will take place on Thursday in Athens. According to a statement from the Greek foreign ministry, Greek Foreign ...

Greenland’s pro-business opposition Demokraatit party won Tuesday’s closely watched parliamentary election, beating the incumbent left-wing coalition in a vote dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge ...

Greenland residents vote on Tuesday in a closely watched election brought into the international spotlight by a pledge from US President Donald Trump to take control of the mineral-rich island. ...

By Miranda Xafa Despite the headwinds caused by the major turmoil and rapid changes in the international environment, Greece’s macroeconomic outlook for 2025 remains more positive than that of the ...

France will use interest from Russian assets to fund another €195 million in arms for Ukraine, Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu said a newspaper interview. France also plans to hand over ...

European Union member states must strengthen cooperation between each other on the matter of defence, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday. He was asked about his position on the joint ...

Three weeks to the day after being admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis is still struggling to shake off the double pneumonia that has battered his already fragile ...

European football’s governing body UEFA on Friday lost its bid to throw out lawsuits brought by hundreds of Liverpool fans who attended the 2022 Champions League final in Paris for ...

The discovery of an unexploded bomb dating back to World War Two has disrupted morning traffic to and from Paris’ bustling Gare du Nord train station, the French national railway ...