Europe

Asylum applications in the European Union jumped 18% to 1.14 million in 2023, the highest level since the 2015-2016 migrant crisis, data from the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) showed on Wednesday. ...

The two-day official visit of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella to Cyprus ends on Tuesday. According to the agenda, the Italian president will meet House Speaker Annita ...

French President Emmanuel Macron opened the door to European nations sending troops to Ukraine, although he cautioned that there was no consensus at this stage as allies agreed to ramp ...

Hungary‘s parliament approved Sweden’s NATO accession on Monday, clearing the last hurdle before the historic step by the Nordic country whose neutrality lasted through two world wars and ...

Farmers on Monday blocked a border crossing between Poland and Germany, threw bottles at police in Brussels and gathered in Madrid to demand action on cheap supermarket prices and what ...

By Maria Demertzis The second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine took place on February 24. The energy shock that came with the war has forced a total rethink of ...

Police found a 10th body in an apartment block devastated by a huge fire in Spain’s third largest city of Valencia, authorities said on Saturday. The blaze, fanned by ...

A group of French farmers stormed into a major Paris farm fair on Saturday ahead of a planned visit by President Emmanuel Macron amid anger over costs, red tape and ...

By Miranda Xafa The public debate on the recent Greek debt crisis is characterized by inaccuracies and misconceptions that draw the wrong conclusions. Nikos Garganas’ book points out many of ...

A Vienna court on Friday found Austria’s conservative former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz guilty of perjury and handed him an eight-month suspended prison sentence, dealing a serious blow to any ...

Germany’s parliament is expected to pass a law on Friday legalising the cultivation and consumption of a limited amount of cannabis, regularising the behaviour of the 4.5 million Germans estimated ...

Germany’s parliament is expected to pass a law on Friday legalising the cultivation and consumption of a limited amount of cannabis, regularising the behaviour of the 4.5 million Germans estimated ...

At least four people were killed in a fire that engulfed an apartment building in Valencia in eastern Spain, local authorities said on Friday, while at least 19 people remained missing. ...

Italian pornographic film star Rocco Siffredi says seeing his life story told in new Netflix NFLX.O series “Supersex” made him feel emotional. “I cried a lot,” Siffredi, 59, said as ...

Poland’s prime minister said on Thursday the Polish and Ukrainian governments would meet in Warsaw on March 28, but did not accept a request by Ukraine’s president for urgent ...

Guinness World Records (GWR) has revoked the title of the “world’s oldest dog” it awarded a now-deceased Portuguese canine named Bobi last year, as it found no conclusive evidence ...

Catalonia’s top court on Thursday found former Brazil footballer Dani Alves guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in a Barcelona nightclub in 2022, sentencing him to four and a half ...

Lawmakers from Poland’s ruling coalition will submit a preliminary motion to put central bank chief Adam Glapinski before a state tribunal by the end of March, state news agency ...

Greek farmers honked their tractor horns in front of parliament on Wednesday after spending the night in central Athens as their protest against rising fuel and production costs stretched into ...

The Greek-flagged bulk cargo vessel Sea Champion arrived in the southern Yemeni port of Aden on Tuesday after being attacked in the Red Sea in what appeared to have been ...

Thousands of farmers from across Greece descended on Athens’ central square on Tuesday, parking tractors in front of parliament in their biggest protest yet over rising costs. Police estimate at ...

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson will travel to Budapest on Friday to meet his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban before Hungary’s parliament takes a long-delayed vote on Sweden’s bid ...

Ground staff at German airline Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) walked off the job at major airports on Tuesday in their second strike this month, raising pressure in wage talks due to ...

The European Union moved closer to new sanctions against Moscow over its war on Ukraine, as Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russia’s top opposition leader who died in prison ...