European media groups have warned that the independence of the Czech public broadcaster is under mounting pressure, ahead of a parliamentary election in the central European...
Armin Laschet won a key victory in his campaign to succeed Angela Merkel when the party he leads, the Christian Democratic Union, backed him as their...
The UK and the EU are making progress in talks on how to apply post-Brexit trade rules in Northern Ireland, raising hopes of an agreement that...
France has become the second country after Germany to recommend that younger people who have had a first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine be given a...
Severe frosts across France this week have badly damaged buds and flowers in vineyards and fruit orchards and will cut grape harvests in some areas by...
Angela Merkel is to strengthen the central government’s powers to battle coronavirus, as it struggles to stem a third wave of the pandemic that is putting...
President Emmanuel Macron is moving ahead with a plan to close Ecole Nationale d’Administration (Ena) — the elite postgraduate school that has trained the politicians and...
Politics throws up two sorts of leader. There are those forever reaching for an umbrella and others, far fewer in number, who set out to change...
Italy drew robust demand for its first new 50-year bond in five years after the country cautiously priced the deal during a time when ultra-long term...
This is the fourth part of an FT series asking whether the UK is heading for break-up. Dawn had barely broken on the morning after the...