Europe

Cyprus borrowed heavily with low-cost bond issues to finance their excessive current expenditures Economic and financial crises in the euro area are fast developing. With supply-side problems most strikingly reflected ...

Ukraine expects to receive 5 billion euros ($4.98 billion) in macro-financial aid from the European Union this coming week to support the economy and army, and to prepare for the looming winter, ...

European gas buyers already grappling with record-high prices face further pain when the markets open on Monday after Russia said one of its main supply pipelines to Europe would remain ...

In a rare instance of criticism among their own, European Council President Charles Michel has said the European Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen has been late in responding ...

A critical nuclear power plant in Ukraine again lost external power, international energy officials said on Saturday, heightening concerns as the energy battle between Moscow and the West ramped up ...

Germany will provide Ukraine with an additional 200 million euros ($199.02 million) to fund aid programs for those internally displaced as a result of Russia’s invasion, Development Minister Svenja Schulze told ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused Greece on Saturday of occupying islands in the Aegean Sea that have a demilitarised status, and said Turkey was prepared to “do what is necessary” ...

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has received a response from Iran in the talks over a revival of the nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic and ...

Russia has scrapped a Saturday deadline to resume flows via a major gas supply route to Germany, deepening Europe’s difficulties in securing winter fuel, after saying it had found ...

Hacking group BlackCat was behind a recent attack on Italy’s state-owned energy services firm GSE, stole a massive amount of data and threatened to publish if their demands were ...

Group of Seven finance ministers agreed on Friday to impose a price cap on Russian oil aimed at slashing revenues for Moscow’s war in Ukraine while keeping oil flowing ...

French government support for gasoline prices has led to long queues of cars from Belgium queuing at gas stations just over the border with France where gas can be more ...

Vaccination gaps in EU populations must be closed as a “matter of top priority”, the EU’s Cypriot Commissioner for Health Stella Kyriakides said on Friday, with Brussels recommending that ...

Angelica Bourgoin strokes the shell of Janus the tortoise, whispering to him quietly as he scuttles in his pen and – his two heads rubbing together – prepares to celebrate his 25th ...

Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over each others’ actions around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Friday as a team of inspectors from the UN nuclear watchdog tried to check ...

Pilots at Lufthansa went on strike on Friday, forcing the German airline to cancel hundreds of flights, stranding holidaymakers. The airline said it had cancelled about 800 flights at its main ...

Operator data on requests for gas on the Nord Stream 1 pipeline from Russia to Europe suggest flows should resume from Saturday morning when Gazprom said maintenance work will be completed. ...

A cargo vessel carrying more than 3,000 tonnes (3,307 tons) of corn from Ukraine was towed to anchorage in Istanbul on Friday after it briefly ran aground, a shipping agency said, the ...

Poland estimates its World War Two losses caused by Germany at 6.2 trillion zlotys ($1.32 trillion), the leader of the country’s ruling nationalists said on Thursday, and he said Warsaw would ...

Euro zone inflation jumped to another record high and will soon hit double-digit territory, heralding a string of big interest rate hikes even as a painful recession appears increasingly certain. ...

United Nations inspectors arrived on Wednesday in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on a mission to prevent a nuclear accident at a Russian-occupied power plant where nearby shelling has ...

The island’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday clarified that the decision in principle by EU Foreign Ministers to suspend the Visa Facilitation Agreement does not mean abrogation or ban on ...

Cyprus and Spain’s Health Ministers met on Wednesday in Nicosia to discuss issues related to a bilateral cooperation in organ transplantation and the set up of a committee to ...

Gazprom Chief Executive Alexei Miller on Wednesday said Western sanctions mean Siemens Energy ENR1n.DE is unable to carry out regular maintenance on equipment for the Nord Stream 1 natural ...