Europe Today
Top stories from across Europe: breaking news, analysis and what matters today.
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France sets presidential election date as Macron finishes final term
France will hold the first round of its next presidential election on April 18, 2027, with a run-off set for May 2, an executive s…
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US and European diplomats continue standoff over top Bosnia and Herzegovina post
European powers resist Trump administration’s pick for high representative after incumbent pushed out Diplomats from the US and Eu…
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Death toll from Venezuela earthquakes climbs to 1,943
UNICEF has estimated that around 1.8 million people, including 680,000 children, require humanitarian assistance following the qua…
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Brent posts biggest monthly decline since March 2020 as traders monitor U.S.-Iran talks
The moves come as oil traders monitor the prospect for U.S.-Iran talks in Doha on Tuesday.
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Firefighters struggle to contain deadly Greek wildfire
More than 100 firefighters are fighting a fire near Thessaloniki which has claimed at least two lives.
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France's Emmanuel Macron speaks out against global rise in executions
"The death penalty has never made a society safer," Macron said during a speech at the ninth World Congress against the death pena…
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'Putin doesn't care about Russians' quality of life', expert says as pessimism reaches 20-yr high
Russians are more pessimistic about the state of their economy than at any time in the past 20 years, and a majority say living…
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Prosecutors conduct Europe-wide raids over alleged misuse of funds by defunct far-right EU group
Raids were underway in France, Spain, Italy and Belgium as part of a probe into the alleged misuse of European parliament funds by…
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'Absolute madness': Row over plan to demolish Nazi bunker under Berlin
City officials want to build flats on the city centre site but others say it should be preserved as part of Germany's history.
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Manhunt launched after Monaco blast targets Ukrainian-born oligarch
Police in Monaco and France were searching for a suspected bomber on Tuesday after three people were wounded by an explosion in th…
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More than 1 million migrants apply for Spain's mass regularisation
More than one million undocumented migrants in Spain have sought legal status under a scheme that has defied a European crackdown …
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Crimea back in play? Russia feels pain of Ukraine long-range strikes
A couple of weeks back, we asked if the tide was turning in Ukraine. The short answer: a little, but it's hard to cut through the …
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WhatsApp to replace phone numbers with usernames - what does this change mean for users?
WhatsApp says the new feature will be released over the coming months and that it will notify users when it is available in their …
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Euroclear launches lawsuit to block €220 billion Russian frozen assets ruling
A Moscow arbitration court ruled Euroclear had to pay damages worth about €220 billion for the freezing of the assets
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France's National Assembly approves assisted dying bill after Senate rejection
The French National Assembly has passed the assisted dying bill — a law that has sparked controversy across the country — followin…
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Supreme Court strikes down Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship
The 14th Amendment says that "all persons born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are c…
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Manhunt under way after Ukrainian-born tycoon injured by Monaco bomb
Normally safe principality left reeling from apartment blast that also injured Vadym Iermolaiev’s wife and child ‘He isn’t politic…
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Almost 60,000 far-right extremists in Germany, intelligence agency says
More than a quarter of those identified are believed to be violent, Germany's domestic intelligence agency says.
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France's Greens urge no-confidence vote over heatwave response
France's Green party said on Tuesday it planned to put forward a vote of no confidence in the government over its handling of a he…
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‘But we’re just 1% of emissions’: do smaller countries’ climate efforts matter?
Past and present leaders of wealthy nations such as UK and Germany have argued their actions are insignificant On first hearing, i…
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Italian police arrest four over bomb attack targeting journalist
They have been accused of carrying and using an explosive device in a public place, as well as criminal damage and issuing threats…
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Lawyer says Orbán should have been detained over Ukrainian cash convoy raid
A lawyer for seven Ukrainians detained in Hungary after a cash convoy raid says ex-PM Viktor Orbán and three other officials shoul…
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Italian MEP suggests government wants to ‘hide truth’ about Albania migrant centre
Cristina Guarda says delegation was denied access to cells in offshore detention facility, at which six people have attempted suic…
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‘No MiGs for Ukraine’: Polish defence minister claims Kyiv backed out of deal with Warsaw
As relations between Ukraine and Poland remain at their worst state in years, the Polish defence minister claimed that Kyiv backed…