Europe

The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday announced a reduction in its three key interest rates by 0.25 per cent. This brings the deposit facility rate to 2.75 per cent, the main ...

An Iraqi refugee and anti-Islam campaigner was shot dead in Sweden hours before he was due to receive a court verdict following a trial over burning the Koran, and five ...

Cypriot representatives at the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Wednesday expressed their support for the ceasefire found in Gaza after over a year of violence in ...

An opinion poll indicated on Tuesday that 85% of Greenlanders do not wish their Arctic island – a semi-autonomous Danish territory – to become a part of the United States, Danish daily Berlingske ...

French police have opened an investigation into death threats against a judge and two prosecutors involved in a corruption trial of far-right leader Marine Le Pen in which she could ...

Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic resigned on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking official to step down amid a wave of anti-corruption protests that have spread across the Balkan country. The anti-government ...

Greek airline Aegean this week announced the launch of its Aircraft Engineer Training Scholarship Programme, providing young individuals with the opportunity to train for a career in civil aviation. Accorrding ...

Britain and the European Union go to court for the first time on Tuesday to resolve a dispute over post-Brexit fishing rights, a case that could complicate Britain’s planned “...

Tens of thousands of Greeks protested outside parliament in Athens on Sunday to demand justice for the 57 people who died nearly two years ago in the country’s worst railway ...

Auschwitz survivors were being joined by world leaders on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp by Soviet troops, one of the ...

Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule on Monday after electoral officials declared him the winner of a presidential election that Western governments rejected as a ...

A demonstration was held in Nicosia’s central Eleftheria square on Sunday over the train crash which killed 57 people between the Greek villages of Tempi and Evangelismos on the mainline ...

Greek lawmakers failed to elect a new president in a first round of voting on Saturday. A majority of 200 votes in the 300-seat parliament was needed for one of the ...

Record high winds from Storm Eowyn battered Ireland and Northern Ireland on Friday, leaving 560,000 homes and businesses without power and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the closure ...

The latest target prices for shares of Greece’s major banks from leading international investment firms indicate a promising outlook for investors, according to a report from Stockwatch. Despite significant ...

A vote due on Wednesday in the Irish parliament to elect a new prime minister was delayed by a day after opposition protests over speaking rights for independent lawmakers supporting ...

Social media owners should be held responsible for “poisoning society” and eroding democracy with their algorithms, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. ...

Greece successfully raised €600 million in a 26-week treasury bill auction conducted on Wednesday, according to an announcement by the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA). The auction yielded a return of 2.45 ...

U.S. President Donald Trumpon Tuesday vowed to hit the European Union with tariffs and said his administration was discussing a 10% punitive duty on Chinese imports because fentanyl is being ...

Greece’s current account deficit shrank slightly in November compared to the same month in 2023, helped by robust tourism revenues, the Bank of Greece said on Monday. Central bank data ...

A Russian disinformation campaign is seeking to boost the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), undermine mainstream German parties and sow worries about the economy ahead of the country’s Feb. 23 ...

When Agnes Darvas was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz in 1944, she escaped being sent straight to the gas chambers with other children largely because her coat had been stolen in ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis nominated parliament speaker Constantine Tassoulas from his centre-right New Democracy party for the Greek presidency on Wednesday. President Katerina Sakellaropoulou’s five-year term expires in ...

European Council President Antonio Costa will invite Lebanon’s new President Joseph Aoun to Brussels, Cypriot government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. Letymbiotis said President Nikos Christodoulides had encouraged ...