New French minister and government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye has spent almost five years at Emmanuel Macron’s side as his media adviser, earning a reputation for blunt speech and a willingness to put the press in its place. Ndiaye was named to the post on Sunday night in a mini-cabinet...

The European Union will not be held “hostage” by the political crisis in the UK over Brexit, French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. "The EU cannot be held hostage to the resolution of a political crisis in the United Kingdom on a long-term basis," Macron said at a news conference...

Speaking during a visit by Irish PM Leo Varadkar, French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday warned that the EU could not be held "hostage" to the Brexit crisis and urged Britain to come up with credible alternative proposals to its exit deal. "The EU cannot be held hostage to the...

The European Central Bank will consider carefully before moving to soothe the effects of negative interest rates on eurozone lenders, board member Sabine Lautenschlaeger told AFP Tuesday. "We need first to better understand if and to which extent banks are affected on a net basis by the...

Bombs at public buildings and holiday villas going up in flames: a spike in attacks on Corsica has led to worries that nationalist violence could return to the tourist destination known as France's "island of beauty". The Mediterranean territory, famed for its beaches and as the birthplace...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s insistence that there is little wrong with how he is handling the worst crisis of his tenure is frustrating lawmakers and senior party figures who believe the approach could cost him re-election this October. Angry legislators are starting to push...

Inflation in the eurozone slowed in March, data showed on Monday, amid worries that the European economy is cooling as the effects of Brexit finally take a toll. The slowdown of inflation comes as signs are multiplying of slower economic growth, especially in powerhouse Germany and the...

Britain’s exit from the European Union was in disarray after the implosion of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy left her under pressure from rival factions to leave without a deal, go for an election or forge a much softer divorce. After one of the most tumultuous weeks in...

The demise of the only U.S.-Russia arms control pact limiting deployed nuclear weapons would make it harder for each to gauge the other’s intentions, giving both incentives to expand their arsenals, according to a study to be released on Monday. The expiration of the New START accord also...

Unbowed France, a French far-left party, on Sunday started a crowdfunding plan to help finance its European Union election campaign. “Become our bank," Unbowed France, or La France Insoumise, said in several tweets, some of which included guidelines on how to pay money into the party’s...

 Britain’s exit from the European Union was in disarray after the implosion of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit strategy left her under pressure from rival factions to leave without a deal, go for an election or forge a much softer divorce. After one of the most tumultuous weeks...

Zuzana Caputova has been elected as Slovakia’s first female president, according to preliminary results. Caputova, 45 won Saturday's presidential runoff with more than 58 percent of the votes. In the first round, Caputova got 40 percent of the votes and her strongest challenger, the...

French "yellow vests" demonstrators Saturday staged their 20th week of anti-government protests despite bans in hotspot areas, as banks called for an end to violence against branches, cash machines and personnel. Police had struggled two weeks earlier to contain violence by highly-organised...

Five people were injured and seven arrested on Saturday as members of Spain's far-right Vox party demonstrating in Barcelona against Catalan independence clashed with separatist activists there, police said. The violence came amid rising tension in the run-up to parliamentary elections next...

French banks called Saturday for an end to violence against branches, cash machines and personnel as the country braced for a 20th day of "yellow vest" protests. Since the "yellow vest" anti-government protests began in November, more than 760 banks have suffered damage. "It is time for...

Canada’s former attorney general on Friday made public a conversation she secretly recorded that she took as a veiled threat that she’d lose her job if she didn’t intervene to avoid criminal prosecution of a Canadian company. The recording shows Trudeau aide Michael Wernick telling the...

Lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal for a third time on Friday, sounding its probable death knell and leaving Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union in turmoil on the very day it was supposed to quit the bloc. The decision to reject a stripped-down version of...

The mayor of the French city of Bordeaux called for residents to remain indoors Saturday and for shopowners to shutter their stores as the authorities braced for another weekend of "yellow vest" violence. Bordeaux, one of the bastions of the four-month-old anti-government protest movement,...

Britain would secure a new Brexit date of May 22 if its Parliament approves the EU divorce deal on Friday, the bloc's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said Friday. "Important vote today in House of Commons. As a reminder, approval of Withdrawal Agreement by 29 March will secure extension...

Jens Stoltenberg will receive two new years as NATO Secretary General until 2022, the bloc announced on Thursday.   “NATO Allies agreed today to extend the mandate of Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg by a further two years, until 30 September 2022”, NATO announced its website....