Category: Europe

Spain Immigration Officers Call Off Strike After Amnesty Deal MADRID — Immigration officers across Spain have called off a planned strike after reaching an agreement with the government to ease their workload and raise pay, following the country’s bold new amnesty program for undocumented migrants, according to Euro News. The unions representing staff at immigration […]

Europe may have only six weeks of jet fuel left unless new shipments arrive, the International Energy Agency (IEA) warned this week, raising alarm across the continent’s aviation industry, according to BBC News. The crisis stems from Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s main shipping route for jet fuel, in retaliation for […]

Greece faces explosive accusations of hiring migrant “mercenaries” to brutally push fellow migrants back across its tense border with Turkey, according to Hurriyet Daily News. A powerful BBC investigation, released April 14 and backed by the Consolidated Rescue Group, paints a grim picture of violence unfolding in the rugged Evros region since at least 2020. […]

Spain’s immigration offices are heading toward a strike next week as anger grows over Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s sweeping amnesty plan for undocumented migrants, according to Reuters. Officials say the system is not ready to handle what could be as many as half a million applications. The programme, approved by the cabinet on Tuesday, is […]

Hungary’s political transition took a sharp and suspicious turn on Monday, just one day after Péter Magyar’s sweeping election win ended Viktor Orbán’s long grip on power, according to Euro News. At a press conference in Budapest, the incoming prime minister accused outgoing Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó of rushing to destroy confidential files connected to […]

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has sharply condemned Donald Trump’s remarks about Pope Leo XIV, calling them “unacceptable” after the U.S. president launched a public attack on the pontiff’s stance on war and peace, according to BBC News. Trump accused Pope Leo of being “weak on crime” and said he was bad for foreign policy […]

In a twist brought on by new border rules, a London-born woman finds herself stranded abroad, separated from her home, job, and family by a technicality she never saw coming, according to The Nation. Natasha Cochrane De La Rosa, a 26 year old British-Spanish dual national from Islington, was denied boarding on her flight home […]

In the calm corners of Asti, a picturesque city in Italy’s Piedmont region, an international chase ended almost as dramatically as it had begun. Italian police captured an Austrian man accused of pulling off a massive fraud, stealing more than €63 million from the German government. The man, wanted under a European arrest warrant, had […]

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is preparing a major new piece of legislation that could bring the United Kingdom closer to European Union rules, marking one of the most significant shifts in post-Brexit policy since Labour came to power, according to BBC News. The proposed law, expected later this year, would allow ministers to adopt […]

BUDAPEST — In a dramatic shift that sent ripples across Europe, Hungary’s longtime nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceded defeat on Sunday night in parliamentary elections, ending his 16-year grip on power, according to Arab News. Speaking to supporters as partial results showed a clear lead for the opposition, Orban described the outcome as “painful […]