Europe

Russian gas exports via Soviet-era pipelines running through Ukraine came to a halt on New Year’s Day, marking the end of decades of Moscow’s dominance over Europe’s ...

Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union’s Schengen free-travel area on Wednesday, joining an expanded bloc of countries whose residents can ...

The breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria cut heating and hot water supplies to households on Wednesday after Russia stopped supplying gas via Ukraine. “There is no heating or hot water,” ...

Greece on Tuesday successfully raised €600 million through a three-month treasury bill auction, according to the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA). The bills were sold at a yield of 3.00 per cent, ...

Tourists in Barcelona’s historic centre were enjoying the last days of gas-powered patio heaters before their use is banned in 2025 because of their carbon emissions. The ban will come ...

Prosecutors in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad filed an indictment on Monday against 13 people in connection with the collapse of a railway station awning last month that killed 15 ...

US billionaire Elon Musk drew criticism from German politicians from the government and opposition on Sunday for an opinion piece he wrote backing the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) which ...

Croats are voting to elect a new president on Sunday in a race that incumbent President Zoran Milanovic is leading in the polls. Around 3.8 million Croats are eligible to cast ...

Mikheil Kavelashvili, a hardline critic of the West, was sworn in as president of Georgia on Sunday amid a political crisis after the government froze European Union application talks in ...

The Greek government will hold an auction of three-month treasury bills (T-bills) on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, according to an announcement by the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA). The auction aims to ...

Greece’s former royal family has been granted Greek citizenship and pledged loyalty to the republic in a landmark move 50 years after the country abolished the monarchy. Ten members of ...

France unveiled a new government on Monday composed of former ministers and senior civil servants that Prime Minister Francois Bayrou will hope can oversee the passage of a 2025 budget and ...

Social Democrat Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu’s new coalition government won a parliamentary confidence vote on Monday and it now faces the difficult task of steering the country out of ...

A man suspected of driving a car into a German Christmas market in an attack that killed at least five people and injured scores of others faces charges of murder ...

Authorities investigated a Saudi doctor with a history of anti-Islam rhetoric as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg that ...

Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month that raised fears over the influence of social ...

German authorities are investigating a Saudi man with a history of anti-Islam rhetoric as the suspected driver in a car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg ...

An Italian court on Friday acquitted Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini over allegations of kidnapping in a case involving a migrant rescue boat that he prevented from docking in Italy 2019. ...

Spain’s minority government and the two largest trade unions agreed on Friday to implement a shorter work week with the same pay, although the change still needs to be ...

Greece has recovered the bodies of eight migrants who fell into the sea after their speedboat collided with a coastguard boat that was pursuing it off the island of Rhodes ...

Hungary has granted political asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski, who is under investigation in Poland over accusations of misuse of public funds, drawing an angry reaction ...

A Paris court convicted a brother of French international footballer Paul Pogba and five others on Thursday of attempting to extort the World Cup winner, French media reported. Mathias Pogba ...

A French court found Dominique Pelicot guilty on Thursday of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade, and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious body ...

France said on Wednesday it would host an international meeting on Syria in January and that the lifting of sanctions and reconstruction aid would be conditional on clear political and ...