Three quarters of French voters want conservative candidate Francois Fillon to pull out of the presidential race, an opinion poll by Odoxa showed Friday, underscoring how badly his image has been hit by a series of financial scandals. The former prime minister was placed under formal...

French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said Wednesday that security forces would start dismantling another migrant camp on the north coast near the port of Dunkirk "as soon as possible" after clashes there. The number of people staying in the Grande-Synthe camp has swelled to about...

Germany's biggest-selling daily Bild Wednesday lashed out at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, branding him persona non grata and accusing him of "endangering Europe's stability through his lust for power". "Bild tells the truth to Erdogan's face -- you are not a democrat! You are...

Germany's center-left Social Democrats (SPD) remained steady at 32 percent support over the past week, one percentage point behind Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats, according to a poll published on Wednesday. The two parties, now partners in Merkel's 'grand...

Paris's overworked rat-catchers staged a one-day strike Tuesday, protesting outside city hall to demand reinforcements and bonuses two months after carrying out a massive cull in the French capital. Laying a dead rat under a giant banner reading "The staff are angry", some 50 workers –...

Germany's next government must set exact targets for cutting CO2 emissions soon after September's national election to provide clarity for local governments and companies to plan, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday. Merkel said the goal of reducing emissions by 80-95 percent by 2050 from...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will make a major statement to parliament Tuesday, just hours after MPs enabled her to start the withdrawal process from the European Union. After weeks of wrangling, lawmakers Monday finally granted May the right to trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon...

Ground staff at Berlin's two airports have gone on strike for the second time in four days, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights. The ver.di union called on staff at the Tegel and Schoenefeld airports to walk out from 4 a.m. Monday until 5 a.m. Tuesday. The strike follows a...

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Sunday that a Tunisian man wanted in his homeland for his possible involvement in a deadly attack on a Tunis museum in 2015 can be deported. The man was arrested last month on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack in Germany. In 2015...

Ground staff at Berlin's two airports will start a 25-hour strike on Monday, the Verdi union said on Sunday, stepping up action in a pay dispute that has already caused the cancellation of around 1,000 flights. Workers at Berlin's Tegel and Schoenefeld airports will walk out at 4 am local...

Dutch elections on Wednesday set the stage for others in France and Germany that come against a background of eurosceptic or anti-immigrant sentiments boosted by Brexit. - The Netherlands: PVV eyes record score - On Wednesday, 12.9 million Dutch voters will be eligible to cast ballots in...

Nearly all flights were cancelled at Berlin's two airports Friday due to strike action by ground staff, who want an increase in pay to 12 euros ($12.71) from 11 euros an hour. Berlin Airport, which operates Tegel and Schoenefeld, said 455 flights had been cancelled at Tegel and 204 at...

Dozens of migrants are sheltering on a former hospital ship in a Dutch canal, beneficiaries of a "Bed, Bath, Bread" program for asylum seekers. But their hopes of settlement are dimming with the anti-immigrant right poised for a surge at the ballot box. Polls suggest the far-right ticket...

Spain hinted Tuesday it wants to receive fewer refugees from European Union border areas than it had agreed, arguing the number of people needing relocation was far less than thought. The EU in 2015 approved a plan to share out 160,000 refugees already on European soil, mainly in Italy and...

A German court was due to rule Tuesday on a dispute between Facebook and a Syrian refugee whose selfie with Chancellor Angela Merkel made him the target of racist trolls. The image of Anas Modamani, 19, has been repeatedly manipulated to link him to Islamist attacks or violent crimes,...

A four-year-old girl is dead and her eight-year-old sister missing after both were swept out to sea by a large wave in the southern French port of Marseille, a source close to the case said Sunday. The girls' father was also submerged by the stormy seas but survived after quickly being...

Scandal-hit French conservative candidate Francois Fillon this weekend will bid to keep his presidential hopes alive after more allies abandoned him and a possible replacement to him emerged from the shadows. Fillon will mark his 63rd birthday Saturday, but a day that his entourage would...

After his arrest and torture by the government of Bashar al-Assad, dissident Khaled Rawas slipped out of Syria pledging to continue the fight. On Wednesday, he did just that — joining a landmark legal complaint in Germany seeking something that has long proved elusive for the victims of the...

(BBC)- A Syrian national has been arrested in Germany accused of war crimes involving the murder of dozens of civil servants. The man named as Abdalfatah HA is suspected of being part of a unit with an al-Qaeda-linked group formerly known as al-Nusra Front, which killed 36 Syrian government...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker will Wednesday unveil a menu of options for the EU's future in the hope of rebuilding unity after Britain leaves the troubled bloc. Juncker's "White Paper" will be presented to the European Parliament in Brussels, before it is given to...