Europe

The European Commission this week said it had given Amazon (AMZN.O) until Dec. 6 to provide more information on measures the online retailer takes to protect customers against illegal products. ...

Hungary’s government has submitted the outlines of a new “golden visa” programme to parliament as part of a draft bill regulating immigration from third countries to Hungary. The bill, ...

Energean plc, a prominent gas-focused independent exploration and production company operating in the Mediterranean and UK North Sea, on Thursday released an update for the nine months ending September 30, 2023, reporting ...

French judges have issued arrest warrants for Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad, and two other senior officials over the use of banned chemical weapons against civilians ...

Facing pressure from the U.S. government and the European Union, the Dutch government on Tuesday gave up on a plan to cap the maximum number of flights at Amsterdam’...

Former Barcelona and Brazil defender Dani Alves will face trial in Spain on charges of sexual assault of a woman in a Barcelona nightclub last December, a Spanish court said ...

By Francesco Guerrera The eurozone is a tale of two interest rates: the official one set by the central bank, and the ones earned by companies and individuals on their ...

Greece on Monday announced plans to sell a 20 per cent stake in National Bank of Greece (NBG) after concluding the sale of a 9 per cent stake in Alpha Bank to ...

Greece’s state-controlled bank bailout fund HFSF said on Monday it sold its 9 per cent stake in Alpha Bank (ACBr.AT) to UniCredit for 293.5 million euros ($314 million) after an improved ...

Pope Francis on Sunday reiterated his plea for an end to hostilities between Israelis and Palestinians, and called for “much more” humanitarian aid for Gaza. “Enough, enough brothers, enough”, Francis ...

A US military aircraft conducting training operations in the east Mediterranean has crashed, US Command Europe (EUCOM) said on Sunday. The incident, which happened in an undisclosed location on Friday ...

Ukraine will have enough energy resources to get through the coming winter, but an expected surge in Russian attacks may disrupt the supply networks, Ukraine’s Energy Minister German Galushchenko ...

By Maria Demertzis On 20 October, S&P Global Ratings raised the Greek economy’s credit rating back to investment grade. That was seen by many, in Greece and beyond, ...

The precious metal’s role as far back as antiquity offers a window into the rise and fall of past civilisations. By Gareth Willmer Vikings, traditionally depicted as primitive bearded ...

Ukraine’s capital Kyiv came under air attack on Saturday and big explosions were heard, Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said, but there was no immediate information on if there were ...

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Keve) announced this week that, according to a statement based on the 31st edition of the annual Economic Survey by the Association of ...

Days of heavy rains in northern France have caused local rivers to overflow and flood houses and fields, prompting the evacuation of residents. More than 100 towns are on red alert, ...

The first Cyprus-Greece intergovernmental summit is being held in Athens on Friday aimed at bilateral cooperation and coordination between the two countries and the exchange of best practices. Nine ministers ...

Portugal will hold a snap parliamentary election on March 10, its second in as many years, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Thursday, following Tuesday’s abrupt resignation of the ...

The former head of Spain’s centre-right People’s Party in the Catalonia region was shot in the face in the Spanish capital Madrid on Thursday, police said. Alejo Vidal-Quadras ...

The European Commission’s annual report on Turkey’s long-stalled EU membership bid is “unjust and biased”, the Turkish foreign ministry said. The report by the European Union’s executive ...

The largest internally flawless fancy vivid blue diamond ever put up for auction sold for a staggering $43.8 million at a Christie’s sale of rare jewels in Geneva on Tuesday, ...

South Korea is ramping up pest control measures and inspections to prevent a spread of bedbugs after reports of suspected infestations at some saunas and residential facilities, officials said on ...

The downturn in eurozone business activity accelerated last month as demand in the dominant services industry weakened further, a survey showed on Monday, suggesting there is a growing chance of ...