
European efforts to bring Russia to the negotiating table are gathering pace, even as Moscow rolled out the welcome mat this week …

Germany has failed for the first time to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Austria and Portugal prevailed in Ne…

Bill Pulte made his name handing out cash on Twitter before becoming Trump’s housing finance chief. Now the president wants him at…

The European Commission has removed Greece from its list of countries with macroeconomic imbalances, a decision Athens hailed as a…

Colombia faces a defining political choice. After Abelardo de la Espriella, a hard-right lawyer known as “El Tigre”, won the first…

GB News, a British right-wing media company with a large global following, has been defended by a former media regulator after the…

Spain is Goldman Sachs’ favorite to win the World Cup, based on a forecasting model that draws on nearly 20,000 international matc…

A new dispute is straining relations between Warsaw and Kyiv after Ukraine honored the UPA and reburied nationalist leader Andriy …

More wind turbines do not automatically mean more electricity. The expansion of wind and solar power is running into physical, eco…

France wants to count toilets, showers and running water as extra taxable space in millions of homes. Officially, it is a cadastra…

Volkswagen is betting billions on China. But the wager is risky. Its new cars will be developed, built and sold there. For Germany…

Rising unemployment is pushing Germany’s unemployment insurance fund towards a deficit of €5bn–€8bn. The shortfall comes against a…

Markets continue to celebrate record highs, but growing numbers of analysts see a widening gap between asset prices and economic r…

A suspected migrant-linked abuse network in Nuremberg has raised fears that Germany may be facing its own version of Britain’s gro…

Medical arguments are giving new momentum to Britain’s debate over age and identity checks online. The Starmer government wants to…

Pope Leo XIV will travel to Spain and address the country’s Parliament at a moment of extreme political and social tension. His ar…

Sheffield schools have taught children as young as seven about white privilege, while older pupils were told that black people can…

For years, Germany has cultivated the story of a skills shortage. In some professions, the problem is real and severe. Yet three m…

Across Europe, voters look to their politicians and wonder where the great men of history have gone. The answer might lie in voter…

Germany is set to require streaming services and broadcasters to invest a fixed share of their domestic revenues in German and Eur…

Beijing was briefly the center of world politics in May, hosting first Donald Trump and then Vladimir Putin within the space of a …

German media regulators want approved Public Value journalism to receive greater prominence on social platforms. Presented as a wa…

The number of babies born to couples with one or more parents born outside the UK rose sharply to 40% in 2025, as birth rates cont…

The EU’s party watchdog is targeting Europe of Sovereign Nations, the European political party co-founded by Germany’s AfD. At sta…

The Scottish National Party remains the dominant force behind Scotland’s push for independence, but the scandal over missing refer…

Alexis Tsipras is back with a new left-wing party. The former Greek prime minister is offering familiar political remedies, but Gr…