Emmanuel Macron branded France "a nation of 66 million prosecutors" in a stunning outburst this week. The French president, who appeared rattled during his outburst, was accused of losing it after he bashed his own citizens for daring to criticise him. Opposition...
Medical-grade face masks rather than cloth coverings could become mandatory in a number of European countries to help contain the rapid spread of highly contagious Covid variants first identified in the UK and South Africa. Angela Merkel and the leaders...
The Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has arrived in Moscow nearly five months after a suspected poisoning by Russia’s FSB spy agency left him fighting for his life. Navalny’s plane landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday evening after being diverted from...
Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right party, the CDU, is choosing a new leader this weekend – a decision which will act as curtain raiser for what will be a busy German election year ahead. Mrs Merkel, now 66, has steered Germany, and Europe,...
Italian political leader Matteo Salvini appeared Saturday before a Palermo judge in connection with a 2019 incident during which he blocked migrants at sea while he was the interior minister. Salvini, head of the far-right political party known as the League, is...
Europe is at a tipping point in the course of the pandemic, the World Health Organization has said, warning that the coronavirus is spreading very fast across the continent and the arrival of a new variant has created an “alarming situation”....
Germany and Denmark could follow the UK’s plan to delay giving a second dose of Covid-19 vaccine to people who have already received a first jab, as frustration at the slow progress of European inoculation programmes continues to mount. Britain said last...
Banned from setting off fireworks in much of their city, some Berliners instead tried to launch them from their homes on New Year’s Eve, leading to dozens of fires across the German capital. By six minutes after midnight the Berlin...
Throughout the pandemic, technology has been saving our jobs and our sanity – but in Barcelona the lockdowns have led to the revival of one of humanity’s simplest and most enduring inventions: the book. The city’s booksellers are reporting a boom in...
Four million mink will be dug up from two burial sites, by a bathing lake and by a source of drinking water. Images of bodies, buried as part of the country’s coronavirus cull, went viral on Twitter after they filled...
