Category: Europe

It’s unlikely to dominate the streaming charts, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has become the subject of a unique diss track. And the man behind the song is no up-and-coming artist or future festival headliner. It’s a member of European Parliament from Germany, Daniel Freund – a fierce critic of Mr Orban. The lyrics […]

Athens, Greece – Anastasia Adamidi’s fellow students describe her as a brilliant young woman. The 24-year-old dentistry postgraduate student from Cyprus was heading to the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki late on February 28. She was to start her second semester on March 6. But her family held her funeral on that day instead, and the […]

LONDON: London’s Metropolitan Police is institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic and could still be employing rapists and murderers, a scathing independent review of Britain’s largest force concluded Tuesday. The report, written by government official Louise Casey, was commissioned after the kidnap, rape and murder two years ago of a London woman, Sarah Everard, by serving […]

European Union ministers on Monday will look to sign off on a 2-billion-euro plan to raid their stockpiles and jointly purchase desperately needed artillery shells for Ukraine. Kyiv has complained that its forces are having to ration their firepower as Russia’s year-long invasion has turned into a grinding war of attrition. Ukraine has told the […]

The French government has narrowly survived a vote of no-confidence, which was triggered when it forced through an increase in the pension age to 64. The vote, tabled by centrist MPs, had 278 MPs vote in favour, falling short of the 287 votes needed. If it had been successful, Emmanuel Macron would have had to […]

Thousands of protesters filled downtown Lisbon on March 18 to demand higher wages and pensions, as well as government intervention to cap soaring food prices they say are strangling already tight budgets. Portugal is one of Western Europe’s poorest countries and official data shows that more than 50 percent of Portuguese workers earned less than […]

The UK’s central bank has said banks are “safe” after regulators agreed a rescue deal for Credit Suisse aimed at preventing fears over banks spreading. The bank was bought by rival UBS in a Swiss government-backed deal on Sunday after regulators worked frantically round the clock to secure a deal. It comes amid fears over […]

French President Emmanuel Macron’s government on Friday faced no-confidence motions in parliament and intensified protests after imposing a contentious pension reform without a vote in the lower house. The situation presents Macron, who has only made occasional public comments on the matter, with one of his biggest challenges less than one year into his second […]

Protesters blocked a key highway around the French capital and escalated strikes at refineries on Friday in a new show of anger after President Emmanuel Macron pushed through a contentious pension reform without a parliamentary vote. Macron’s move sparked protests across the country on Thursday night, with more than 300 people arrested nationwide, according to […]

Türkiye has announced its decision to ratify Finland’s bid to join NATO as a result of the latter’s concrete and sincere measures against terror organizations while delaying the bid of Sweden. “We have observed concrete and sincere steps from Finland in recent times. As a result of Finland’s sensitivities towards our legitimate security concerns, we […]