Tag: Europe

The eurozone's new permanent fund to bail out struggling economies and banks has been formally launched at a meeting of finance ministers in Luxembourg. The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) will ...

The European Union has announced that it is running out of funds for its biggest educational program, Erasmus. The program, which ensures reciprocal student exchange between EU member countries and ...

French police have arrested 10 suspects over the killing of two students lynched by a mob armed with hammers. French police have arrested 10 suspects over the killing of two ...

Catalonia’s parliament voted Sept. 27 to hold a public consultation on greater self-determination for the rich but indebted Spanish region. Eighty-four of the 131 regional lawmakers voting backed the call ...

A senior Government minister has accused the European Union of squandering Britain’s international aid budget on schemes that often have nothing to do with alleviating world poverty. Alan Duncan, the ...

Liberal and conservative Roman Catholic activists have criticized the country’s bishops for declaring that believers who refuse to pay religious taxes will not be able to receive the sacrament, become ...

Riot police went into action in a sleepy Dutch town late yesterday to contain thousands of party-goers who turned up after a teenager's birthday invite on Facebook went viral. Dutch ...

Portugal is looking for EU aid as the country's firefighters fight to stop forest blazes blamed on high temperatures and strong winds. Dozens of fires are ramping in the centre ...

A 15-year-old Dutch boy has been condemned to a year in juvenile custody after he conceded to killing a schoolgirl over a row that looks to have started on Facebook, ...

Breivik will be held in closing off inside Ila Prison on the outskirts of Oslo inside comparatively spacious quarters which include a separate exercising room, a computer and a television. ...