Europe

A gunman killed three people in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Thursday, shooting a local woman and her daughter in their home then storming into a classroom of Rotterdam’...

More than a third of Italy’s population will be over 65 by 2050, up from about a quarter last year, the country’s statistics office ISTAT said on Thursday, offering more ...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, on an unannounced visit to Kyiv, said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces were “gradually gaining ground” in their counteroffensive against Russian forces. Speaking at a ...

The European Union’s migration ministers meet in Brussels on Thursday to discuss how to handle migrants arriving by sea as Italy and Germany worry over increased immigration, with Berlin ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve) on Wednesday shared the findings of a recent business study which shed light on the significant bureaucratic hurdles faced by small and ...

President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola, will be in Cyprus on October 1 to mark the 63rd anniversary of the Republic of Cyprus’s declaration of independence. Alongside her, Greece’...

Irish budget airline Ryanair’s RYA.I boss Michael O’Leary said on Wednesday the UK air travel industry was weaker than Europe’s as British consumers grapple with high ...

In the mud and debris of the flooded village of Metamorfosi in central Greece, 60-year-old farmer Athanasios Kostis is throwing out the memories of a lifetime. “All my memories are ...

German authorities raided dozens of locations nationwide on Wednesday after interior minister Nancy Faeser banned a right-wing extremist group accused of spreading Nazi ideology. The headquarters of the group, dubbed “...

Foreigners who live legally in Italy could in future be kicked out of the country if they pose a threat to public order or national security, according to a draft ...

Spain’s rightwing opposition leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo on Tuesday launched a likely fruitless bid to form a government following a July election in which no party won a majority. ...

St. Bernard dogs, one of Switzerland’s national symbols that were internationally renowned for helping in alpine rescues, are now saving people in other ways. The Barry Foundation – a non-profit ...

Italy is under growing market scrutiny as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni prepares a difficult 2024 budget, with investors dismayed by government moves affecting sectors from banks to airlines. The Treasury will ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has written to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz telling him she learned with “astonishment” of a German government initiative to finance migrant charity groups operating in ...

Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who was convicted of multiple murders and was arrested in January after spending 30 years on the run, has died of cancer, officials said on ...

Former Goldman Sachs associate and political novice Stefanos Kasselakis was elected leader of Greece’s leftist Syriza party, the country’s main opposition, which is hoping for a comeback after ...

Ethnic Serb gunmen in armoured vehicles stormed a village in north Kosovo on Sunday, battling police and barricading themselves in a monastery in a resurgence of violence in the restive ...

A German plan to finance charities helping migrants in the Mediterranean causes difficulties for Italy, defence minister Guido Crosetto said on Sunday, as Rome tries to enforce tougher measures to ...

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday portrayed the United States and Europe as “looking down” on the rest of the world amid a battle to win over developing ...

A large chunk of a motorway in southwest Sweden collapsed overnight, causing three people to be taken to hospital with light injuries, police said on Saturday. The landslide damaged the ...

By Maria Demertzis At the heart of the EU’s legitimacy as an institution is its treaties. These agreements on what Europeans need to do together to achieve common goals ...

Pope Francis said on Friday that migrants who risk drowning at sea “must be rescued” because doing so was “a duty of humanity” and that those who impede rescues commit “...

Asylum seekers in Italy will have to pay 4,938 euros ($5,259) to avoid detention while their request for protection is being processed, the government said on Friday, in a measure apparently aimed ...

Two people were killed and two injured in a shooting at a restaurant in eastern Sweden late on Thursday that police said appeared to be part of an escalating spiral ...