Tag: Europe

A chill has settled over the Rhine seven months after the election of Socialist French President Francois Hollande, reshuffling the cards in Europe's perpetual power game. The cooling of traditionally ...

A letter written in 1812 by Napoleon Bonaparte in which he vows to blow up the Kremlin has been sold at auction for 187,000 euros. Written in code at the ...

A French appeals court has cleared US airline Continental of criminal blame for the July 2000 crash of a Concorde jet shortly after take-off from Paris. The ruling comes two ...

A French court has delayed a ruling on whether former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn will stand trial on pimping charges. Prosecutors said the appeals court in French town ...

Voters in the Spanish region of Catalonia have given their backing to nationalist parties but have punished the regional president who called an early election. The governing centre-right CiU led ...

Disagreements a-plenty are filtering out of the EU Budget Summit, which is struggling to set a coherent financial course for the EU for the seven years from 2014 until 2020. ...

EU leaders are to begin talks on the bloc's seven-year budget, with many of them calling for cuts in line with the savings they are making nationally. Countries that rely ...

Acease-fire between Israel and Hamas has begun as part of an internationally mediated effort to end a week of deadly violence in and around Gaza.  Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel ...

Both candidates have claimed victory in the race to become France's next opposition leader, in a contest marred by allegations of vote-rigging. Hundreds of votes are said to separate right-wing ...

Foreign and defence ministers from five EU states have backed a proposed European mission to train Malian forces struggling against Islamist fighters. Germany, Italy, Spain, Poland and France issued a statement in ...