Category: Europe

Scores of protesters on Friday occupied the central campus building of Sciences Po and dozens of others blocked its entrance. Students in Paris – inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States – blocked access to a campus building at a prestigious French university on Friday. The pro-Palestinian protest at the Paris […]

According to BBC reports Greece has rejected pressure from European allies to help Ukraine boost its air defences, arguing that Athens needs the systems for itself. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has appealed for at least seven more Patriots or similar defence batteries to protect its cities and power plants from Russian attack. But Greece has said […]

Europe must escape from its self-imposed naivety or face the risk of dying. That was the stark warning at the heart of a major speech on the EU by French President Emmanuel Macron Thursday in Paris. Over two hours in the historic auditorium of Sorbonne university, the French president said Europe must react fast if […]

The European Commission launched a probe into China’s public procurement of medical devices on Wednesday, the latest in a series of moves that ratchet up trade tensions ahead of President Xi Jinping’s visit to Europe next month. The investigation – which Beijing swiftly criticized – is meant to determine if European suppliers of devices ranging […]

Euro News reports on April 23: The swoop is the latest move in a widely criticised strategy to prepare the French capital for the upcoming Olympic Games. Paris police evicted underage migrants from a makeshift camp on Tuesday morning as part of what aid groups are calling a campaign of “social cleansing” in advance of […]

The U.N. called Tuesday on Britain to reconsider plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, warning it threatened the rule of law and set “a perilous precedent globally”. The U.K. government’s controversial Rwanda scheme has been beset by legal challenges since 2022, but was passed by parliament late on Monday after a marathon tussle between […]

Euro News reports on 22 April: European Union countries who own air defence systems are under pressure to step up their assistance for Ukraine. The matter of assistance has acquired a greater sense of urgency after Russia renewed its attacks with drones and missiles against the war-battered nation, destroying critical infrastructure and residential buildings, and […]

Germany has arrested three people suspected of supplying sensitive technologies to China and the United Kingdom has arrested two. Prosecutors in Berlin said on Monday that the trio of German nationals had handed technologies with potential military purposes to Chinese intelligence, with whom they have been working since at least June 2022. The UK said […]

A crowd of around 2,000 people protested in Paris against racism, Islamophobia and violence against children on Sunday after a court allowed their demonstration to go ahead. Bans on protests have been more frequent in France in recent months amid tensions stirred by Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza. In a country that is home […]

Tens of thousands of people in Spain’s Canary Islands have rallied against a model of mass tourism they say is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago. The protesters want limits on tourist numbers and curbs on what they describe as uncontrolled development harmful for the environment and residents. They stress they are not against the tourism industry, […]