Europe

ATHENS—Christa Pappa quit her job as a research biologist last year to concentrate on her real career ambition: selling marijuana. When Ms. Pappa and her husband opened a shop in Athens in 2002, offering clothes and other products...

The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials at Trump Tower in 2016 has been charged with obstruction of justice stemming from her role in a federal money-laundering case, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday...

The ways of the European Parliament in Strasbourg are inscrutable to the American visitor. Political parties bearing maddeningly similar names—the Sweden Social Democrats and the Sweden Democrats; the German Social Democrats, the German Free Democrats, and...

The French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has announced plans to toughen up laws in response to the ongoing Yellow Vest protests. It follows the eighth straight weekend of violent demonstrations across France. On Saturday, protestors in...

A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the massive online attack on politicians and celebrities last week, the BKA federal criminal police said on Tuesday. The German Press Agency learned from security circles that...

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday the United States had detained a Russian citizen, a day after Moscow arrested the former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan on suspicion of spying. Whelan was taken into custody by...

The average number of job seekers in Germany was lower in 2018 than at any time since reunification in 1991, the Federal Labor Agency has said. Welfare numbers have also dropped, though the system is still...

The number of police officers in the EU has slowly been decreasing in recent years. The EU had a total of 1.6 million police officers in 2016, a reduction of 3.4 % since 2009. Overall, there...

Exclusive: State department has ceased to respond to complaints from special rapporteurs in move that sends ‘dangerous message’ to other countries. The Trump administration has stopped cooperating with UN investigators over potential human rights violations occurring inside America, in...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior politicians were reportedly hit by a data hack, with some of their letters, contact details and party memos leaked on Twitter. Germany’s digital defense body is “intensively” investigating the...