Britons will enjoy another day of unseasonably warm weather after temperatures reached a new record. Monday was the warmest 26 March on record - wi...
Up until the 1980s aviation in Europe was high on regulation and short on competition, resulting in a market that struggled to take off.
French police have reportedly stormed the house of Mohammed Merah, the suspect in a series of shootings in the south-west region of France, which left...
The Eurovision Song Contest demonstrates not that "Europe hates us" but that "we", the inventors of pop music, are way behind the rest of Europe when it comes to the Grand Prix de Chanson. And, perhaps significantly, that we simply don't understand our near neighbours.
Terrified neighbours of suspected Toulouse gunman Mohammed Merah "begged" police to be evacuated during an armed stand-off after they were told to shu...
LIVEBLOG: Click here to read the latest updates from the stand-off. A suspected gunman at the centre of a 13-hour stand-off with armed police outsi...
LIVEBLOG: Click here to read the latest updates from the stand-off. French police hunting a gunman suspected of killing seven people in a series of...
The suspect in France’s school and paratrooper shootings has claimed al Qaida connections, the French Interior Minister confirmed on Wednesday. T...
A man who is believed to have filmed himself shooting dead four people outside a Jewish school in France may have been inspired to do so by the Norweg...
A man who shot dead four people outside a Jewish school in France was seen wearing a video camera around his neck as he pumped bullets into a boy on a...
France is awash with illegal firearms transported into the country across porous European borders, it was claimed. While gun laws are strict, it is...
The fatal shootings of a rabbi and three children outside a French school have been condemned by the British government as an "appalling" act of calcu...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared a day of "national tragedy" in France and schools and religious groups held services of solidarity after a g...
Europe’s cities have been defined by their turbulent history, but it’s difficult to imagine what life was like when you’re enjoying a mini-break...
While the Liberal leadership struggled to head off grass root opposition to the coalition's plans for the national health service at its party conference, the SNP leadership, at its own conference in Glasgow, was able to talk about a renaissance in Scottish industry.
Distraught parents and pupils have told of their horror following the school shooting in Toulouse, France, which has left at least four dead. A gu...
A gunman on a motorbike opened fire outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, and shot dead three children and a rabbi. At least three other chi...
British people generally have a higher regard for the Germans than the Germans have of the British; but people in both countries admire Sweden most of all.
Belgium's prime minister has declared a national day of mourning after a coach crash claimed the lives of 28 people, including 22 school children. ...
Despite German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s stipulations on austerity for the rest of Europe, it appears that her own country has been less than stric...
At least 28 people have died, 22 of them children, after a bus carrying Belgian children crashed in a Swiss tunnel, police confirmed on Wednesday. ...
Few Europeans in northern countries understand that to keep Greece economically alive (for now) is in their own interest. A domino effect unleashed by a chaotic Greek default will have devastating consequences.
There's a lot of tough talk on immigration but not enough is being done to bring down immigrant numbers from the hundreds of thousands experienced under the last Labour government, to the tens of thousands, promised by the Conservatives at the last general election.
Europe may have averted imminent disaster last month with its €130 billion bailout of Greece. But in this latest stopgap, European officials are repeating many of the mistakes their forebears made more than a century ago in their handling of debt crises in southern neighbours.
There are many questions and much political and social discontent to come as the EU struggles to emerge from this crisis in any positive way. Europe's leaders will need a lot more energy and some much bigger and better ideas on growth - and on the EU's role in the world - if future summits are to convince anyone that Europe is rebounding rather than staggering on.
