Europe

Pope Francis has ordered a review of the Church’s handling of the case of an internationally known religious artist who was expelled from the Jesuit religious order after being ...

A seismic swarm has hit the Reykjanes peninsula in southwest Iceland with more than 5,500 small earthquakes in the last three days, raising the prospect of a volcanic eruption, the country’...

Sweden’s migration agency said on Thursday it had decided to deport an Iraqi man who burned copies of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, but that the order would ...

From a sample of her hair to a blue velvet dress she wore after the memorable 1955 performance of Verdi’s La Traviata in Milan’s La Scala, visitors to Athens ...

Euro zone business activity took a surprise turn for the worse this month as demand fell in a broad-based downturn across the region, a survey showed, entering the fourth quarter ...

Several people are missing after two freighters collided near the German North Sea island of Heligoland, the central command for maritime emergencies said on Tuesday. The Polesie and Verity vessels ...

Tens of thousands of Icelandic women, including the prime minister, are expected to strike from paid and unpaid jobs on Tuesday in a protest against gender inequality, according to labour ...

The European Union faces the risk of a sudden influx of migrants fleeing the Israel-Hamas war, Greece’s Migration Minister Dimitris Kairidis said on Monday, as he called for vigilance ...

A Greek Super League match between rivals Panathinaikos and Olympiakos had to be abandoned on Sunday after a player was hit by a firework. Panathinaikos left back Juan ‘Juankar’ Carlos ...

German police gave the all-clear after evacuating several buildings in the German city of Mainz due to a bomb threat against public broadcaster ZDF, they said on Monday. Authorities had ...

The European Union’s data protection watchdog this week called for stronger privacy safeguards in EU draft legislation to underpin a digital euro. The European Central Bank (ECB) is due ...

Belgian Justice Minister Vincent van Quickenborne said on Friday he has decided to step down, following pressure over how Belgium had handled the case of a Tunisian gunman who had ...

U.S. and European Union trade negotiators failed to reach deals to settle longstanding trade disputes in the run-up to a summit at the White House on Friday, but Washington ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday she had separated from her television journalist partner Andrea Giambruno, who has drawn criticism in recent weeks for sexist comments. Meloni told ...

Coordinated action is needed to deal with possible new flows of refugees because of the Hamas-Israel war, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said at the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council ...

Estonia said on Thursday it would probe the damage on a Baltic Sea telecoms cable connecting the country to Sweden as part of its ongoing investigation about the rupture caused ...

Ministers from across the European Union said on Thursday that member states must screen migrants and asylum seekers better and expel those deemed a security risk more quickly, after Islamist ...

Ryanair is facing challenges at both ends of its price range, with Europe’s largest airline taking aim at proposed minimum fares in France after fending off a cap on ...

The European Union’s migration ministers meet on Thursday to discuss improving security in the bloc after deadly attacks in France and Belgium, as well as worries whether the war ...

Italy reinstated border controls with Slovenia as part of its strategy to improve home security against threats of terrorist attacks in Europe, the government said on Wednesday. “The intensification of ...

The leaders of Belgium and Sweden and the European Union’s chief executive promised on Wednesday to tighten border security and step up repatriations after a failed asylum seeker from ...

Six French airports faced security alerts on Wednesday and several were evacuated for checks, the DGAC aviation authority said on Wednesday. The airports affected were Toulouse in the southwest, Nice ...

A hard-won deal on the European Union’s negotiating stance for this year’s U.N. climate talks has revealed regional rifts that anticipate global tensions at the COP28 summit. ...

European Union countries’ energy ministers struck a deal to reform power market subsidies, Spain’s energy minister said defusing a stand-off between France and Germany over the future competitiveness of ...