The leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said he was optimistic that he could persuade his party's members to back the coalition deal he sealed with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives Wednesday morning. Martin Schulz said he would step down as leader of the party after the...
Prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan was denied bail in France Tuesday, judicial sources said, four days after he was remanded in custody on charges of rape that have sown divisions in the Muslim community. Two Muslim women have accused Ramadan, a 55-year-old Oxford University...
Paris terror attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has refused to return to his trial in Belgium this week over a shootout with police in Brussels that led to his capture, the court said Tuesday. The fresh show of defiance comes after Abdeslam berated judges for being anti-Muslim,...
Greek Cypriots are gearing up for a presidential runoff on Sunday, barely seven months after the latest failure to reunify the eastern Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus. President Nicos Anastasiades is looking to reprise his triumph over left-leaning Stavros Malas in 2013 when...
At least five people were killed after two army helicopters crashed near a lake in southern France, investigators said Friday. A rescue operation was under way to find the sixth passenger after the crash about 50 kilometres northwest of Saint-Tropez, the circumstances of which...
German police arrested three people Wednesday in a nationwide operation to crack down on a gang accused of trafficking migrants into Germany in trucks last year. The police said they arrested a Turk, aged 44, a 37-year old Pole and a Bulgarian, 53, in raids on seven properties in...
Germany’s Social Democrats approved on Sunday the start of formal coalition negotiations with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, after a heated debate at the party's extraordinary congress in the western city of Bonn. Some 362 delegates voted in favor of entering coalition...
Germany's Angela Merkel welcomed Saturday a Bulgarian plan to host a European Union-Turkey working meeting to try to improve strained ties and clear the ground for an eventual possible summit. Bulgaria, which currently holds the EU presidency, is preparing a meeting between Turkish...
Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron will spend more than five hours together in Paris Friday, putting on a show of Franco-German unity as they try to agree on reforms to the euro zone. At an EU summit in Brussels last month, the two said they hoped to come up with...
Spanish authorities have detained two men allegedly responsible for a boat carrying migrants to the Canary Islands, seven of whom drowned or died from "hypothermia, exhaustion and hunger", a court said Thursday. The inflatable boat was found Monday off a beach at the popular resort of...
The European Union Wednesday accused Russia of pumping out thousands of pieces of disinformation in an "orchestrated strategy" aimed at destabilizing the bloc. Russia faces a barrage of accusations of interfering in a string of seismic political events, including the British vote to...
Seven French prison officers were hurt when an Islamist convict attacked them as he resisted a search, while guards resumed a strike Tuesday demanding better security in jails nationwide. The latest assault, which took place in a prison in southwestern France Monday, came just...
Protesters took to the streets of Vienna on Saturday and called for members of the Austria's new right wing government to be boycotted by the rest of Europe. Around 20,000 people according to police estimates gathered to protest against the new coalition government which includes the...
At least two people were injured in an explosion at a metro station in a southern district of the Swedish capital Stockholm on Sunday. Fire department spokesman Lars-Ake Stevelind said the blast occurred at 11.07. am local time (1007GMT) at the Varby Gard metro station. He added...
Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday dissolved parliament ahead of an election which is expected to produce a period of instability in the euro zone’s third largest economy. Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni’s cabinet began meeting to fix the date of the vote, which political...
A car rammed into the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) headquarters in the early hours of Monday, police in Berlin said. A police statement said a 58-year-old man was the main suspect in the incident, which occurred at 3:20 am local time (0220GMT) on Monday. The man, who was...
France's government is deploying nearly 100,000 police and soldiers for the holiday season as fears of extremist attacks remain high. The additional security will focus on Christmas markets, shopping centers, religious buildings, public transport and tourist sites. Citing "the...
A deal on Brexit divorce terms guarantees there will be "no hard border" between EU member Ireland and British-ruled Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Theresa May said Friday. "In Northern Ireland we will guarantee there will be no hard border," May told a news conference with European...
Members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) gathered Saturday to vote on new leadership after the party's triumphant turnout in September's general election, as thousands staged street protests against the anti-immigrant, anti-Islam party. The AfD captured nearly 13 percent...
About 20 jurisdictions are currently on a draft European Union black list of tax havens, a senior EU official said on Friday, but the final decision on the composition of the list will be made by EU finance ministers in a meeting on Tuesday. EU experts have prepared two lists. One...
