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Inflation Hits Record 8.6% for 19 Countries Using the Euro
By KELVIN CHAN / AP
E.U. Proposes Ban on Flavored Heated Tobacco Products
By Associated Press
Summers Are Becoming Unbearably Hot Before They Even Start
By Emily Barone
Heat Wave Spreads Across Europe as High Summer Temperatures Arrive Early
By WILL MATHIS, LAURA MILLAN LOMBRANA, AND ALAN KATZ/BLOOMBERG
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Key EU Parliament Groups Reject Plans to Label Gas and Nuclear as Green Energy
“We need massive investment in the expansion of renewable energies, not the energies of the past”
By JOHN AINGER/BLOOMBERG
June 14, 2022
European Union Working to Forge Gas and Power Ties With Israel
The block is working to reduce its reliance on Russian fossil fuels
By Daniel Avis, Chiara Albanese and Gwen Ackerman / Bloomberg
June 14, 2022
Inside the Mind of Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen is determined to lead the E.U. through yet another crisis.
By Naina Bajekal/Davos, Switzerland
June 9, 2022
Crowds Honor WWII Veterans at Normandy D-Day Celebrations
After ceremonies were reduced to a minimum in the past two years amid COVID-19 restrictions, crowds were back
By SYLVIE CORBET and JEFF SCHAEFFER / AP
June 6, 2022
Denmark Just Reversed 30 Years of Defense Policy
Danes voted in a referendum to overturn the country's opt-out of the E.U.’s common defense policy, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
By Charlie Campbell / London
June 1, 2022
Russia's War Could Cause Environmental Disasters in Ukraine
A chemical spill or nuclear accident could be catastrophic
By Alejandro de la Garza
March 18, 2022
Heat Pumps Are a Weapon in the E.U.’s Face-Off With Russia
The high efficiency heating systems have suddenly become crucial to the E.U. cutting its dependence on Russian gas
By Alejandro de la Garza
March 16, 2022
Germany Rolls Back Environmental Rules To Boost Domestic Crops Threatened by Russia's War in Ukraine
Germany will allow farmers to sow crops for feed in previously ecologically protected areas as Russia's war in Ukraine impacts supply
By IRINA ANGHEL/BLOOMBERG
March 11, 2022
E.U. Parliament Told to Fix Illegal Export of COVID-19 Data to U.S.
Amid fears of U.S. surveillance, the bloc's top court in 2020 struck down a tool for companies like Facebook to transfer data across the Atlantic.
By Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg
January 11, 2022
Europe’s Energy Crisis Is About to Get Worse
A super price spike in the U.K. last month forced some industrial companies to cut production and seek state aid
By Rachel Morison / Bloomberg
November 28, 2021
How the Belarus-Poland Dispute Became a Geopolitical Crisis
With thousands of lives at stake, can Brussels de-escalate the situation on the Polish border?
By Madeline Roache
November 17, 2021
Putin Denies Stoking Migrant Crisis at Belarus-Poland Border
Belarus estimates some 2,000 migrants are currently camped in the border area
By Evgenia Pismennaya and Aliaksandr Kudrytski / Bloomberg
November 14, 2021
E.U.’s Ambitious New Tech Rules to Be Delayed Further Into 2022
E.U. countries originally envisioned an agreement by spring 2022 but in a more recent draft of the communique that E.U. leaders plan to issue, that target was made more ambiguous.
By Jillian Deutsch and Nikos Chrysoloras / Bloomberg
October 20, 2021
Dutch PM Challenges Hungary to Leave E.U.
The furor comes after Hungary’s parliament approved legislation last week outlawing content for children that can be deemed to “promote homosexuality”
By Maria Tadeo and Chiara Albanese / Bloomberg
June 25, 2021
What Europe's Activists Want From Joe Biden
When Tamas Dombos heard that the Hungarian Parliament passed a series of laws on Dec. 15 effectively barring same-sex couples from adopting and making LGBTQI school education programs impossible, he was not surprised. “This is...
By Suyin Haynes
December 18, 2020
U.S. Christian Right Funding Conservative Agenda in Europe: Report
Twenty-eight U.S. Christian right groups have spent millions of dollars pursuing conservative agendas that threaten LGBTQ and women’s rights in Europe, a new investigation by British news website openDemocracy found Tuesday. The investigation by openDemocracy...
By Suyin Haynes
October 27, 2020
How Artists and Curators Think We Can Repatriate Colonial Artifacts
Grace Ndiritu has always thought of her work as both spiritual and political. The British-Kenyan artist uses video installations, paintings and performance practices with different communities, working with groups including refugees in Brussels and Indigenous...
By Suyin Haynes
October 20, 2020
Why Central Europe Is Seeing a Rise in COVID-19
Central Europe in the past week has seen a spike in daily confirmed coronavirus cases, a major setback for a region that largely avoided the first wave of the virus in the spring. The Czech...
By Madeline Roache
September 15, 2020
Europe Tests New Strategy as COVID-19 Surges
Public health experts poring over the data are now warning that Europe could be on the brink of a second wave of COVID-19
By Billy Perrigo
August 7, 2020
Rolling Back Some Coronavirus Lockdown Restrictions, Denmark Opens Salons and Barbershops. A Haircut Booking Site Crashed Due to Demand
The development shows how desperate people are to return to normal life
By Morten Buttler and Christian Wienberg / Bloomberg
April 17, 2020
Why Valentine's Day in These European Countries Is All About Friendship
Five days before Valentine's Day, Taru Jäntti, 27, made her way to the local post office in Helsinki to send cards to her four closest friends. "For me, friends are the most important people in...
By Mélissa Godin
February 12, 2020
Central And Eastern Europeans Believe Democracy Is Under Threat, Poll Finds
30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
By Madeline Roache
November 4, 2019
Researchers Discover What Became of a Lost Continent, Now Hidden Under the Adriatic Sea
Researchers say you can see a "bite" from where the continent broke off
By Madeleine Carlisle
September 25, 2019
The Best Way to Save Nature? More Nature
Avocets, terns and gulls swoop down onto Wallasea Island on England’s eastern coast, searching for food between blades of grass ruffled by the summer sea breeze. Aside from the wind, and the odd chirp or...
By By Ciara Nugent / Wallasea Island, U.K.
September 12, 2019
In Europe, the Movement to Give Up Air Travel Is Taking Off. Could the U.S. Be Next?
As a fairly reserved group, Scandinavians tend to be generally disinclined to chat to people they don’t know. But as the train for Berlin pulls out of Malmo station in southern Sweden late on a...
By Lisa Abend
August 1, 2019
Trump's Visit Is a Reminder That Europe Is Being Bullied by America — And It Is Working
As President Trump landed in the U.K. on June 3 for a visit that also includes Ireland and France, we have yet another opportunity to reflect on the health of the transatlantic relationship. The situation...
By Robin Niblett
June 3, 2019
Europe's Greens Hope E.U. Election Triumph Will Be Turning Point for Climate Policy
The federation of national parties that focus on environmental policies surpassed all expectations in the Europe-wide vote
By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson / The Hague
May 28, 2019
The E.U.'s Far Right Struggles to Govern
It's a big moment for Europe's most ambitious populists. They hope that elections for the European Parliament will give them the boost they need to extend their political momentum across the E.U. But in Austria...
By Ian Bremmer
May 23, 2019
Spain Is Going To the Polls for the Third Time In Four Years
Spain goes to the polls Sunday for its third general election in four years, as socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez tries to break the political deadlock that has gripped his country and left him unable...
By Ciara Nugent
April 26, 2019
How Nationalists Are Joining Together to Tear Europe Apart
Elections in May could finally allow populists and nationalists to remake the e.U. from within
By Vivienne Walt/Brussels
April 11, 2019
It's Complicated: From the Roman Empire to Brexit, Britain Has Always Struggled to Define Its Relationship With Europe
For centuries, Britain has alternated moving closer to and pulling away from Europe
By Ciara Nugent
April 11, 2019
The Rift Between the U.S. and Europe Brings Nuclear Risks
It's been the stuff of nightmares ever since the Cold War: U.S. officers detect a Russian missile taking flight, and they have just a few minutes to counsel the President on how to react. Under...
By Simon Shuster/Munich
February 21, 2019
Russia and China Are Widening the Rift Between U.S. and Europe
“If a wedge opens up, you exploit it. You drive it as deep as you can.”
By Simon Shuster / Munich
February 18, 2019
Macedonia’s Name Change Deal Is a Triumph for the E.U., But Worrying for Democracy
The E.U.’s support for Macedonia's name change flows from ideals of European integration — but ignores political realities on the ground
By Angelos Chryssogelos
January 22, 2019
British Public Were 'Lied' to on Brexit, Says French President Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron attacked the integrity of the 2016 Brexit referendum Tuesday, claiming the British people had been manipulated into voting for something "which doesn't actually exist". The referendum, he said, had been "manipulated...
By George Steer
January 17, 2019
'Enough is Enough.' How European Media Responded to the Brexit Deal Defeat
On Tuesday night, U.K. lawmakers resoundingly rejected the Brexit agreement Prime Minister Theresa May has spent a year and a half negotiating with the European Union. It was the biggest parliamentary defeat for a government...
By Ciara Nugent
January 16, 2019
A 71-Year-Old French Man Is Making His Way Across the Atlantic Ocean in a Barrel
A Frenchman has set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in a bright orange barrel. Jean-Jacques Savin, 71, embarked on his journey from the Canary Islands on Wednesday with the aim of reaching the Caribbean by...
By Mahita Gajanan
December 27, 2018
How Europe Turned Compassion Into a Crime
A Swiss pastor is one of many Europeans who has been charged for helping asylum-seekers
By Maria Serrano
October 25, 2018
Brexit Is a Threat to Ireland, the U.K., the Rest of Europe — and the U.S. Too.
In the seventy-five years before 1945, Europe was devastated by three major land wars. The last and most destructive, the Second World War, resulted in the deaths of 63 million people, in a world with...
By George J. Mitchell
October 18, 2018
Why the E.U. Is Planning a 10,000-Strong Armed Border Force
Migration has been a divisive issue within the E.U. since a major influx of refugees in 2015
By Billy Perrigo
September 11, 2018
Europe Made Billions from Tourists. Now It’s Turning Them Away
As vacationers threaten to turn europe into a theme park, the continent is pushing back
By Lisa Abend/Venice
July 26, 2018
Trump Is Trying to Dismantle the World Order. Is NATO Next on His List?
"Friends and allies of the United States are wondering, who is the leader of the democratic world?”
By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson / Brussels
June 22, 2018
At Home and in Europe, Angela Merkel Is in Trouble
German Chancellor Angela Merkel hasn't had much chance to enjoy her fourth term. In September elections, her party took its lowest vote share since 1949, partly because of an open-arms approach to Europe's migrant crisis...
By Ian Bremmer
June 21, 2018
Can Better Policies Solve the West's Population Crisis?
The EU's average birth rate is well below what's needed to sustain a population
By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson/Brussels
June 5, 2018
Europe's New Privacy Law Takes Effect Today. Here's How the World Is Handling Digital Rights
The European Union's much-vaunted General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force this week. But Europe isn’t the only entity trying to balance digital freedoms with citizens' privacy rights. These five facts look at the...
By Ian Bremmer
May 25, 2018
Ireland's Abortion Debate Is No Longer About the Church
For the first time, Irish women are speaking out about their own experiences
By Siobhan Morrin
May 24, 2018
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