A crack-up in Europe is coming. In a remarkable speech delivered to the National Assembly before it voted to overthrow his government, French prime minister Francois Bayrou declared that while members ...

Last week, 42 migrants were presumed to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea after their dinghy set sail off the Libyan coast. At least 29 of them were Sudanese refugees who fled the catastrophic ...

The thing about Europe, the sneerers say, is that it is over-regulated. Mounds of red tape and punitive taxes mean there are no trillion-dollar entrepreneurial ventures in France or Germany to match ...

The European Union is talking about shoring up defenses in its eastern airspace. Recent Russian drone incursions have lent urgency to the project. By Jeanna Smialek Reporting from Brussels The ...

Mr. Jäger is a contributing Opinion writer and a lecturer in politics at Oxford University. He wrote from Brussels. Among contemporary European writers, the novelist Michel Houellebecq is not known ...

Every FEW years, some novel (or supposedly timeworn) Nordic concept comes along to seize the imaginations of Europe’s forward-thinking and trendy. Some are practical: think Alfred Nobel’s dynamite, ...

The United States’ about-face on Europe under President Donald Trump has come as a geopolitical and economic shock. Although many European leaders expected his administration to bring more ...

Food prices have surged in recent years across the European Union. In March 2023, food-price inflation hit a record high of 15 percent. In Germany, consumers are paying nearly 30 percent more for food ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Vladimir Putin launched the war in 2022 in order to conquer Ukraine and destroy its democratic government. A ...