Europe

Biggest sales jump in 18 months as shoppers return to the high street, but underlying trend still weak. Retailers enjoyed the biggest jump in sales in 18 months during April as shoppers, forced to stay home...

Professor Brian Scott-Quinn, director of Banking Programmes at Henley Business School, suggests Deutsche Bank is trapped in a ‘spiral of decline’. Scott-Quinn says that Deutsche should accept that the game is up. “We really no longer need Deutsche Bank. There are...

A refugee NGO in Italy is hoping that the country’s new populist government will fail to implement the hardline immigration reforms promised during the election campaign. DW’s Bernd Riegert reports from Rome. “Sometimes, we take the...

The European Parliament has embarrassed itself by letting Mark Zuckerberg off the hook so easily. The Facebook CEO apologized again, but only clear regulations can contain the internet giant, says DW’s Barbara Wesel. This was the...

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer says the Bremen branch of the Migration Office won’t decide any more asylum cases. The move is an attempt to counter accusations that the office wrongly approved hundreds of applications. The German...

The EU has leapt ahead of the UK in the pursuit of free trade deals with Australia and New Zealand after member states gave the green light for talks to start within weeks. With Theresa May insistent that...

Mike Pompeo’s claim that the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is carrying out “assassination operations in the heart of Europe” has bewildered security experts and Iranian exiles, who say they are not aware of any evidence for the...

The Turkish embassy in Sarajevo said the possible reason why BIRN and other journalists were not accredited for the Turkish president’s showpiece Bosnian campaign event was that the media area was too small. The Turkish embassy...

Italian financial markets have been in turmoil as the country awaits news about whether an unknown law professor without any political experience will be named as the next prime minister. The country’s two populist parties –...

A second select committee of MPs is expected to examine how Russian companies use the City of London after the foreign affairs committee singled out the corporate law firm Linklaters for its role in advising on...