Ryanair fights off European squeeze on its ticket prices
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 ...
EU migration ministers address militant Islamist attacks, risks from Israel-Hamas war
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 reinstates border controls with Slovenia, cites attack risk
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 ...
EU leaders vow tighter borders, more repatriations after Brussels attack
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 hit by security alerts
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 ...
EU climate divisions give foretaste of fight looming at COP28
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.
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EU countries break deadlock on power market subsidies
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 ...
Poland’s Tusk calls for quick decision on appointing government
Poland’s president should move swiftly to allow the formation of a new government, Donald Tusk, leader of the Civic Coalition (KO), said on Tuesday, after official election results showed ...
Brussels gunman who killed two Swedes dies after being shot by police
A 45-year-old Tunisian gunman suspected of killing two Swedish football fans in Brussels died on Tuesday after being shot by police in a cafe, Belgium authorities said, while Sweden’s ...
EU leaders to focus on fallout from Hamas attack on Israel
European Union leaders aim on Tuesday to settle on a united approach to the crisis triggered by the Hamas attack on Israel after days of confusion, infighting and mixed messaging.
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Belgium hunts shooter of Swedes as Brussels put on maximum alert
Belgium was searching on Tuesday for a gunman who killed two Swedish citizens and wounded a third person on Monday in Brussels in what Prime Minister Alexander De Croo called ...
Polish opposition poised to oust ruling nationalists in major political shift
Poland’s ruling nationalists appeared on Monday to have lost their parliamentary majority in the nation’s most pivotal election in decades, potentially opening the way for opposition parties to ...
Polish police cordon off Warsaw square due to bomb threat
Police have cordoned off Pilsudski Square in central Warsaw due to a bomb threat, according to a Reuters witness, just a day before high-stakes elections in the European Union and ...
The digital euro’s communication gap
By Maria Demertzis
The digital euro will likely be a reality in the not-so-distant future. For the European consumer, however, is still unclear what difference it will make to her ...
Teacher fatally stabbed in school attack in northern France
A knifeman fatally stabbed a teacher and wounded two other people in an attack at a school in the northern France city of Arras on Friday and the investigation was ...
Seven dead after police pursue suspected human smugglers on German motorway
At least seven people were killed and more than a dozen others injured when a suspected human smuggler lost control of a van carrying migrants, German police said on Friday.
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France uses teargas on banned pro-Palestinian rally as Macron calls for calm
French police used teargas and water cannon to break up a banned rally in support of the Palestinian people in Paris on Thursday, as President Emmanuel Macron urged the French ...
16-year-olds can become mayors and officiate marriages in Malta, but need parental consent for themselves to marry
Maltese government plans to allow 16-year-olds to serve as mayors have drawn humour, revulsion and little apparent support on the Mediterranean island.
The plans were announced on Wednesday by local ...
Finland can’t rule out ‘state actor’ involvement in pipeline damage
Finland can’t rule out the possibility that a “state actor” was involved in damaging a Baltic Sea gas pipeline and a parallel telecoms cable, the Finnish Security Intelligence Service ...
Ukraine needs $42 bln budget support this year and next -PM Shmyhal
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Wednesday the country would need budget support of about $42 billion (€39.6 billion) this year and next year to plug a massive deficit and aid ...
EU backtracks on aid freeze, reflects longstanding division within bloc over the Israel-Palestinian conflict
The European Union backtracked in disarray on an announcement that aid to Palestinians had been suspended in response to the attack on Israel by Hamas after EU countries complained the ...
Europe’s new fiscal framework
By Ioannis Tirkides
Europe’s fiscal rules were suspended in 2020 in the wake of the Covid crisis, the outbreak of war in Ukraine and the energy crisis it triggered. A ...
German government to review aid for Palestinians following Hamas attack
The German government said on Sunday it was reviewing its hundreds of millions of euros of aid for Palestinians following the biggest attack on Israel in years by Palestinian Islamist ...
Azerbaijan’s president says France will be to blame if new conflict starts with Armenia
Azerbaijan’s president scolded the European Union and warned that France’s decision to send military aid to Armenia could trigger a new conflict in the South Caucasus after a ...