Italy’s coalition government frayed further on Friday over the stalled high-speed rail line to France, with the League insisting it go ahead and the 5-Star Movement refusing to fund the next phase until the whole deal is renegotiated. With a Monday deadline looming for contract bids to go...

Demonstrations in France, sit-ins near the Eiffel Tower and a flashmob at Charles de Gaulle airport: the Yellow Vests are organising a weekend of new types of protest for their act 17 to try to combat falling numbers. This comes before what protestors are calling the Ultimatum on March 16,...

British Prime Minister Theresa May was battling Friday to stave off another defeat for her Brexit divorce deal, imploring the European Union to make concessions to help her win approval from Parliament. In a speech just three weeks before Britain is due to leave the EU, May planned to tell...

Far-right and racist crime rose sharply last year in eastern Germany's ex-communist state of Saxony, new data showed on Thursday. Reported offences -- including mainly assaults but also threats and arson attacks -- increased by 38 percent to 317, with a total of 481 victims, said victim's...

European Union and British negotiators conceded Wednesday that talks aimed at getting their Brexit agreement through parliament in London have been "difficult" as a solution remained elusive three weeks before Britain's exit. EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier reported the continued...

The UN human rights chief called Wednesday for a "full investigation" into the possible excessive use of force by French police during the "yellow vest" demonstrations. "The 'Gilets Jaunes' (yellow vests) have been protesting what they see as exclusion from economic rights and participation...

Eighty-seven migrants in a wooden boat have been rescued off the Italian island of Lampedusa and are due to arrive in Malta on Wednesday, officials said. Malta's armed forces said one of its patrol boats took in the migrants late on Tuesday after an Italian vessel sent to rescue them broke...

Turkey cannot become a member of the European Union, said Manfred Weber, the European Peoples Party’s (EPP) lead candidate for the upcoming European elections, adding that he would end accession talks if he becomes European Commission president. Turkey says EU membership remains one of its...

A senior Tory peer accused the Conservative party of being “institutionally Islamophobic” after the reinstatement of an MP who had Islamophobic remarks. In a letter to Sir Mick Davis, the party’s chief executive, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi asked him to show leadership on the matter after Prime...

A call by French President Emmanuel Macron for reforms of the European Union to pave the way to a “European renaissance” won mainly just polite support on Tuesday from other European leaders. Some officials portrayed Macron’s reform plan as part of a bid to become the new leader of...

Prime Minister Theresa May's top government lawyer heads to Brussels on Tuesday in a last-ditch bid to secure changes to get her Brexit deal through parliament and smooth Britain's departure from the European Union. Britain is due to leave the EU in 24 days, but parliament's rejection of...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday proposed a series of reforms within the European Union ahead of EU elections in May. “In a few weeks’ time, the European elections will be decisive for the future of our continent," Macron wrote in an opinion piece published across Europe....

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau voiced strong concern Monday after Chinese state media reported that a former Canadian diplomat detained in the country was suspected of spying and stealing state secrets. "We are obviously very concerned with the position that China has taken," Trudeau told...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday outlined his vision for Europe's future, urging reform of its passport-free Schengen area and for a new agency "for the protection of democracies" against cyber-attacks and fake news. In an opinion piece, to be published by several European Union...

A committee at the European Parliament on Monday gave the thumbs up to scrapping the twice-yearly clock change in the European Union but with a two-year delay to 2021. Last year, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker kicked off the debate with his proposal to halt the...

French President Emmanuel Macron has made an impassioned defense of a new Europe in a newspaper column published in each of the 28 member states in which he laid out his ideas for a "European renaissance" ahead of elections across the bloc in May. Calling the vote "decisive" and warning of...

President Vladimir Putin on Monday suspended Russia's participation in a key nuclear arms treaty, in response to Washington's decision to withdraw. In a decree, Putin suspended Russia's obligations under the terms of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty and said it will...

Senior European Union and British officials are set to hold more Brexit talks less than a month before the United Kingdom is scheduled to leave the bloc, as U.K. officials denied Monday that attempts to seal a divorce deal are deadlocked. EU and U.K. officials said the bloc's chief...

French President Emmanuel Macron has launched a call for reconciliation with Italy following a diplomatic spat between the neighbours that saw Paris briefly recall its ambassador. Relations between the two countries have fractured due to repeated clashes between centrist Macron and Italy's...

Canada must prepare for the return of a dozen or more of its citizens who fought for Daesh, now that the terror organization is near collapse, authorities said Wednesday. Canada said the fighters captured in Syria would probably be released and cross into Turkey, and officials are working...