Europe News

In a landmark verdict in Germany, a former Syrian secret police officer has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of crimes Read more

Europe is once again seeing a surge of COVID-19 cases — here is our summary of the measures being taken across the continent. Several nations Read more

French-Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah has been re-imprisoned in Iran, her support committee said in a statement as Paris warned that her incarceration will have “reduce Read more

Italy will mark the 10th anniversary of the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster on Thursday with a daylong commemoration. Thirty-two people died when the ship Read more

France has detained a suspect over the unsolved murders of a British-Iraqi family and a French cyclist near Annecy. Saad al-Hilli, his wife Ikbal, and Read more

Bulgaria’s new government on Wednesday passed a bill aimed at getting rid of “golden passports”, a programme that allows people to become citizens in exchange Read more

Two people have been arrested as part of a wide investigation into suspected gang sexual assaults in Milan. Nine women said they were assaulted by Read more

Russia should make the “smart choice” to prevent a military incursion into Ukraine and embrace “diplomacy as opposed to deterrence”, Wendy Sherman, the United States Read more

Spanish medical workers have been awarded compensation for having to work without personal protection equipment (PPE) at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. A court Read more

A majority of France’s education unions are urging teachers and school personnel to go on strike on Thursday in protest of the government’s changing COVID-19 Read more

While countries in Western Europe have some of the highest vaccination rates in the world, they are still pushing to convince the final chunk of Read more

Sweden announced on Wednesday it had earmarked some 6 billion kronor (€590 million) for a temporary scheme to help the most affected households across the Read more

Anti-vaccine protesters have clashed with police in Bulgaria as they tried to storm the parliament building. The violence erupted at a protest rally on Wednesday Read more

NATO and Russia have agreed to continue high-level talks, according to the military alliance’s secretary-general, as tensions persist over Moscow’s military buildup at the Ukrainian Read more

France is to allow LGBT citizens to donate blood without “discriminatory” conditions, the country’s health ministry has announced. From 16 March, blood donation will be Read more

A year after new Brexit rules took effect following the UK’s departure from the EU, the powerful City of London remains Europe’s top financial sector Read more

A former Olympic sailing coach has gone on trial in Greece for allegedly raping a child in a case that was driven by the country’s Read more

Germany’s new climate minister, Robert Habeck, said on Tuesday the country faces a “gigantic” task if it wants to achieve its goals for reducing greenhouse Read more

Despite a flurry of summits this week aimed at defusing tensions, the fear of a Russian invasion remains real in Ukraine. That has seen Ukrainians Read more

Boris Johnson faces a torrid session at Prime Minister’s Questions in parliament on Wednesday, amid public and political fury over the latest allegations that his Read more

France is one of several European countries reporting record numbers of coronavirus infections driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant, as the World Health Organization Read more

Poland on Tuesday became the latest European nation to record 100,000 deaths related to COVID-19, a number that was surpassed as the country is bracing Read more

Moscow and Washington both took uncompromising stands Tuesday ahead of more talks amid a Russian troop buildup near Ukraine — with the US rebuffing a Read more

French president Emmanuel Macron said people spreading fake news online should be held accountable and possibly brought to justice, an issue that is becoming even Read more

An Italian nurse has been arrested on suspicion of giving fake COVID vaccines to at least 45 people. The suspect allegedly threw the vaccines away Read more

Voters in Finland will later this month cast their ballots in the country’s first regional elections that will revolutionise the way the Nordic nation provides Read more

The Catholic Church in Rome on Tuesday strongly condemned as “offensive and unacceptable” a funeral procession outside a church in the Italian capital in which Read more

Police in western Germany have raided several offices and homes as part of an investigation into last summer’s deadly floods. The searches focused on the Read more

Poland’s government has announced it will introduce new financial aid for public institutions affected by the rising gas prices as the country struggles with its Read more

A Polish court has dismissed charges against a well-known writer who called President Andrzej Duda a “moron”. Jakub Żulczyk had faced a potential three-year prison Read more