Europe

It may have started to snow in Milan on Sunday afternoon, but at Dolce & Gabbana’s show HQ the climate was anything but cold. This season, design duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana made a declaration of...

When Chi magazine published a photograph of Matteo Salvini’sfiancée Elisa Isoardi passionately kissing another man in Ibiza last year – the cover was emblazoned with the words “She loves another!” – it could have been shrugged off...

Merkel was addressing the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, a day before an informal meeting of the 27 European Union national leaders in Brussels. But the backdrop was the coalition agreement drawn up between her conservatives and the Social Democrats,...

A Russian football hooligan wanted by French authorities over an attack on an English fan ahead of a Euro 2016 match in Marseille between Russia and England has been arrested at the airport in the southern...

The British government is seeking an open-ended transition period after Brexit, according to a Whitehall position paper shared with EU member states, which is likely to inflame tensions in the Conservative party. The EU’s suggestion that the period...

David Davis will tell business leaders in Austria that fears the Conservatives will plunge Britain into a “Mad Max-style world borrowed from dystopian fiction” after leaving the EU are unfounded. The Brexit secretary will claim that Theresa May’s government wants...

Latvia’s ABLV Bank on Monday was ordered by the European Central Bank (ECB) to stop all payments as its liquidity position had deteriorated sharply since the US Treasury accused it of allowing clients to conduct business with North...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has nominated Saarland State Premier Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to be the CDU’s next secretary general. She will take over from Peter Tauber, who is stepping down due to health reasons. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, premier...

Italy’s far-right Northern League has promised to introduce mass deportations of asylum seekers to Africa as part of a radical reshaping of migration policies if it wins next month’s elections. The party, led by Matteo Salvini,...

At a public toilet in a shopping centre in Gothenburg, a struggle is taking place between old and new Sweden. Last year, the the shopping centre installed cash-free toilets, forcing customers to pay with their mobile phones...