Europe

At the heart of Grünheide, a small town in Brandenburg, two places define daily life. First, the Marktplatz, or market square, at the crossroads of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels…

France’s annual agriculture show, Le Salon d’Agriculture, will open its doors on Saturday with more than 600,000 visitors expected at the south-east Paris exhibition space at Porte de Versailles, where…

German police said on Friday that a man was badly wounded in an assault, “possibly with a sharp object”, at central Berlin’s Holocaust memorial near the US embassy. “A man…

Entrepreneur Sebastian Kürten moved to Forst, a small town in eastern Germany, just before the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlike the rest of the Brandenburg state, which is experiencing a boom in…

The Baltic Sea region is on alert and the NATO alliance has boosted its presence after a series of power cable, telecom and gas pipeline outages since Russia invaded Ukraine…

Volodymyr Zelensky called for “strong” ties with Washington on Thursday, as he met US envoy Keith Kellogg in Kyiv a day after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian leader a “dictator.” …

7.15am: At the Barabashovo market, hit by a drone The Barabashovo market in Kharkiv, hit by a Russian drone strike overnight February 5 – 6, 2025. © David Gormezano, FRANCE…

France‘s parliament on Thursday voted to limit the production and sale of some items containing polluting and health-threatening “forever chemicals” including cosmetics, most clothing and ski wax in the Alpine…

The Kremlin said it “absolutely” agreed with the US administration after President Donald Trump urged his Ukrainian counterpart to “move fast” to end the conflict. Trump has made repeated diplomatic…

France’s pensions system will steadily sink deeper in the red in the coming decades despite a 2023 overhaul to keep it afloat, adding nearly half a trillion euros to the…