Europe

Ursula von der Leyen won a second term as president of the European Commission on Thursday after pledging to create a continental “defence union” and to stay the course on ...

A Milan court has ordered a journalist to pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni damages of 5,000 euros for making fun of her in a social media post, news agency ANSA ...

EU’s border management Incumbent European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen pledged on Thursday to revamp border management, strengthen Frontex and Europol, and to put forward a new approach ...

Ursula von der Leyen’s political fate will be decided on Thursday, when the European Parliament chooses whether to elect or reject her for another five-year term as president of ...

A car drove into the terrace of a cafe in the 20th arrondissement in northern Paris on Wednesday evening, leaving one dead and six injured, including three in a critical ...

The temporary jetty constructed to facilitate the transfer of humanitarian aid arriving into Gaza from Cyprus will never be used again, after United States Central Command spokesman Major General Pat ...

The Netherlands commemorated the 298 victims of flight MH17 that was shot down over Ukraine 10 years ago with a ceremony attended by the bereaved and representatives from Malaysia, Australia, the UK, ...

Greece has ordered some businesses not to let their employees perform heavy outdoor duties during afternoon hours this week as the country sizzles in yet another heat wave. Builders, food ...

Spanish authorities confirmed on Tuesday that a body found in a remote area of the island of Tenerife a day earlier was that of missing British teenager Jay Slater and ...

A group of 63 European Parliament lawmakers has asked the EU to withdraw Hungary’s voting rights in the bloc, in response to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s recent visits ...

Roberta Metsola secured broad backing for a new term as president of the European Parliament on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to win a second term as head of the ...

France’s left-wing parties fought bitterly on Tuesday over who to put forward as prime minister, leading Communist party leader Fabien Roussel to warn they were risking a “shipwreck” despite ...

Hungary on Monday accused the EU Commission of cherry picking after it said it would not send its commissioners to informal meetings organised by the Hungarian EU presidency, effectively downgrading ...

Ethnic Greek politician Fredi Beleri left an Albanian jail on Monday to travel to Strasbourg to take the oath as a European Parliament lawmaker but will return to serve his ...

By Maria Demertzis  When the extreme right party National Rally won first place in the European elections earlier this June, President Emmanuel Macron felt that confidence in the governing coalition ...

Adolf Hitler was not there that day but Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess were in the crowd as England’s players raised their arms to give the ‘Heil ...

Greek airline Aegean on Friday announced that it carried 4.4 million passengers during the second quarter of 2024, recording an 8 per cent increase in passenger traffic. Furthermore, it reached a total of 7.3 ...

A Greek court has handed a five-year prison sentence to three civilian men who took vigilante action and held 13 migrants and refugees in a trailer, believing they were involved in ...

The spire of the gothic cathedral of the French city of Rouen in Normandy caught fire on Thursday during renovation works, television images showed. The cathedral, one of France’s ...

French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen on Wednesday drew parallels between a hard-left politician’s call for a march towards the prime minister’s office and the assault on ...

European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen discussed the philosophy underpinning the European Union’s strategy for international development, known as the Global Gateway, during an interview with the Cyprus ...

The biggest reservoir on the Greek island of Naxos has dried up, useful only to the turtles that cruise its muddy shallows. Downstream, sea water has seeped into empty irrigation ...

The towering firebrand of France’s hard-left, Melenchon’s France Unbowed (LFI) party won the most seats of the leftist alliance that scored a shock victory over the far right ...

France faced a hung parliament and difficult negotiations starting Monday to form a government, after a surprise left-wing surge blocked Marine Le Pen’s quest to bring the far right ...