Europe

The European Union’s executive stepped up its battle with Hungary and Poland over the rights of LGBTIQ people on Thursday, launching legal cases that could land the two eastern ...

Companies may ban Muslim employees from wearing a headscarf under certain conditions, the European Union’s top court said on Thursday in a ruling on two cases brought by women ...

French retailers have expressed concern over how a new government proposal requiring them to block people not vaccinated against Covid-19 from shopping malls could possibly work out in practice. Ahead ...

German car manufacturer Volkswagen and Chinese company Gotion High-tech have concluded a strategic cooperation agreement on the construction of a battery cell factory at Volkswagen Group Components’ site in Salzgitter, ...

More than 5,000 anti-vaccine protesters, some them waving Greek flags and wooden crosses, rallied in Athens on Wednesday to oppose Greece’s coronavirus vaccinations programme. Shouting “take your vaccines and get ...

Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that strict home confinement included in a national state of emergency to curb the first wave of COVID-19 infections last year was unconstitutional. ...

Travellers returning to England from the Spanish islands of Ibiza, Mallorca and Menorca will have to self-isolate at home unless they have had two Covid vaccine shots, following a change ...

European Union policymakers on Wednesday unveiled their most ambitious plan yet to tackle climate change, aiming to turn green goals into concrete action this decade and set an example for ...

Britain’s top domestic spymaster cautioned the population on Wednesday to treat the threat of spying from Russia and China as vigilantly as terrorism, warning that foreign spies were seeking ...

Italian team players overrode police objections in taking an open bus tour through the streets of Rome after their Euro 2020 victory, even though this had been forbidden for fear of ...

Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Wednesday, 11 days after surgery to remove part of his colon, starting a period of near-total rest and rehabilitation expected to last at least ...

Tourism is not to blame for a surge of COVID-19 infections in Greece, the tourism minister said on Wednesday after the government reintroduced restrictions aimed at saving the summer season. ...

– Italy on Tuesday banned cruise liners from Venice lagoon to defend its ecosystem and heritage, moving to end years of hesitation and putting the demands of residents and culture bodies ...

By Elizabeth Lewis, Edouard Davin and Ronny Meier “Plant more trees” is often the first idea that comes to mind when we think about how to prevent further climate change ...

The European Union will try to reassure Bosnians of its readiness to admit their country one day, according to an internal document seen by Reuters, after an unofficial EU diplomatic ...

Hundreds of thousands of people in France rushed to set up appointments to get vaccinated against the coronavirus after the president warned that the unvaccinated would face restrictions aimed at ...

By Michael Holden and Mitch Phillips Black players in the England soccer team have been subjected to a storm of online racist abuse after their defeat in the final of ...

British police have so far arrested a total of 86 people during and following Sunday’s Euro 2020 soccer final between Italy and England, they said on Monday. The Metropolitan Police said ...

By Gabriela Baczynska The European Union’s executive missed its own deadline to sign off on billions of euros in economic recovery aid to Hungary, delaying its decision in an ...

By Ingrid Melander and Geert De Clercq COVID-19 jabs will be mandatory for France’s health workers and anyone wanting to get into a cinema or board a train will ...

Jamaica plans to ask Britain for compensation for the Atlantic slave trade in the former British colony, a senior government official said, under a petition that could seek billions of ...

Greece has made vaccinations against COVID-19 mandatory for certain workers and announced restrictions to contain the spread of the virus as infections have kept rising during the vital summer tourism ...

By Costas Pitas and Alistair Smout British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged people on Monday to show caution when nearly all remaining COVID-19 restrictions are lifted in England next week, ...

Hungary has offered to buy Budapest Airport from its foreign shareholders, part of an effort to take it back into state hands and protect what the government says are national ...