Category: Europe

Portugal held a tense runoff presidential election on Sunday, as voters chose between a moderate center-left candidate and a hard-right populist in a contest seen as a test of the country’s political direction, according to The Frontier Post. António José Seguro, a longtime Socialist politician, was widely expected to defeat André Ventura, the leader of […]

The numbers tell a story of fear, alliances, and the reshaping of European security. Germany shipped 2 billion euros ($2.35 billion) worth of weapons to Ukraine last year, cementing its position as Kyiv’s most crucial European partner in the grinding war against Russia, according to AFP. But Ukraine wasn’t buying alone, two Scandinavian nations nervously […]

In the grim shadow of a war now stretching into its fourth year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has disclosed a heavy toll; 55,000 of his nation’s soldiers have fallen on the battlefield since Russia’s full scale invasion began in February 2022, according to BBC News. Speaking candidly in a pre recorded interview with France 2 […]

Budapest, Feb 4 — A Hungarian court has sentenced a German anti-fascist activist to eight years in prison for her role in violent attacks during a far-right rally in Budapest, in a case that has drawn strong political and human rights reactions across Europe, according to Al Jazeera News. Maja T, 25, was convicted on […]

Brussels, Feb 4 — Hospitals across the European Union discharged nearly five million patients diagnosed with cancer in 2023, according to the latest European health data, according to APP. The figures reveal both the scale of cancer care across the region and the major types of cancer affecting people today. In total, about 4.9 million […]

As temperatures plunged to a bone chilling minus twenty degrees Celsius, more than a thousand apartment buildings across Kyiv sat shrouded in darkness Wednesday night, victims of Russia’s relentless bombardment of Ukraine’s power infrastructure, according to BBC News. President Volodymyr Zelensky painted a grim picture of his nation’s struggle, revealing that over two hundred repair […]

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged European nations to become more independent and united as the world faces growing political uncertainty and major global changes. Speaking at the New Year’s reception of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Eschborn on Monday, Merz said that the world is entering one of its most unstable and unpredictable periods in […]

After months of bitter political deadlock, France finally has a budget for 2026. But the way it arrived speaks volumes about the country’s deepening divisions, according to Euro News. On Monday evening, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s government survived two no confidence votes in parliament, automatically adopting the controversial budget without lawmakers ever actually voting on […]

The European Central Bank faces an unwelcome challenge this week as the surging euro threatens to disrupt the fragile economic recovery across its 21-nation currency union, acccording to Hurriyet Daily News. When policymakers gather in Frankfurt on February 5, they’re widely expected to hold interest rates steady for the fifth consecutive meeting. With inflation hovering […]

At least twelve people were killed in a Russian drone strike near a company shuttle bus in eastern Ukraine, according to regional officials, in one of the deadliest attacks in recent days. The strike took place in the Dnipropetrovsk region, where the bus was transporting workers from a local mine after their shift. Oleksandr Ganzha, […]