Europe

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 ...

Greece’s dependent transmission system operator Admie’s decision to temporarily suspend payments to French technology company Nexans for the manufacture and installation of submarine cables for the Great Sea ...

Russia warned French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday not to threaten it with nuclear rhetoric and, mocking his height by calling him ‘Micron’, ruled out European proposals to send peacekeeping ...

European leaders on Thursday said they would stand by Ukraine and spend more on defence in a world upended by Donald Trump’s reversal of U.S. policies. “Europe must ...

A Spanish prosecutor has asked for a retrial after the High Court sentence convicting the former head of the country’s football federation, Luis Rubiales, for kissing national team player ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday announced a 25 basis point cut to its three key interest rates, marking a shift in its monetary policy stance. The decision, taken by ...

Russian officials and lawmakers on Thursday poured scorn on French President Emmanuel Macron for saying that Russia threatened Europe, and cautioned that such talk could lead the West towards the ...

Greece’s centre-right government faces a no-confidence vote this week over a deadly 2023 train disaster, days after protesters brought the country to a standstill to press their demands for political ...

Greece’s top court has ordered the release of Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz, setting aside a lower court ruling for his extradition to Romania on an arrest warrant, his ...

The Greek parliament voted on Tuesday to set up a committee to investigate how a minister handled the aftermath of a deadly 2023 train crash, days after violent protests over a ...