BRUSSELS: The elections to the European Parliament have never been so hotly anticipated, with many predicting that this year’s ballot, which starts Thursday,...
PARIS: It’s a thin line where the patina of age on Europe’s countless monuments gives way to the onset of neglect. Like with so many loved ones,...
TERVUREN, Belgium: For decades, Belgian schoolchildren had come to the Africa Museum near Brussels to marvel at the stuffed animals, drums, ritual masks and...
VRIGNE-MEUSE, France: Augustin Trebuchon is buried beneath a white lie.His tiny plot is almost on the front line where the guns finally fell silent at 11 a.m....
BRUSSELS: For four centuries, Peter Paul Rubens’ exuberant nudes have been known to shock and delight in sometimes equal measure. The Baroque painter’s works...
ROME: There was no escaping it. Try as one might, there was no way out but to go with the dense flow of sweaty humanity. This was the Vatican Museum with its...
BRUSSELS: If Angela Merkel has shown the European Union one thing over the past dozen years, it is never to underestimate her political skills. The German...
BRUSSELS: Tuesday is Europe Day, and this year European Union leaders got to unwrap their awaited present a bit early. French voters elected as president...
BRUSSELS: The European Union Friday raised the possibility of starting general talks on Britain’s future relationship with the bloc as early as the fall if...
PABRADE, Lithuania: Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite gazed imperiously over snow-covered woodlands, the stage for NATO’s “Iron Sword” exercise. One of...
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia: If Britain long felt like a sore festering at the heart of European unity, its planned departure has made one thing clear: It’s far from...
BRUSSELS: The tipping point might have been three years ago, when the European Union wanted to ban open bottles of olive oil – that staple of easygoing...
BRUSSELS: Belgian prosecutors announced early Monday that police had detained 16 people in 22 raids but that Paris fugitive Salah Abdeslam was not among them....
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: The European Union’s decision Wednesday to start labeling Israeli products made in the occupied West Bank delivered a resounding show of...
BRUSSELS: The European Union is demanding that U.S. coffee chain Starbucks and carmaker Fiat repay up to 30 million euros ($34 million) each in tax breaks...
BRUSSELS: Never waste a crisis, the political adage goes. The European Union and Turkey may be doing so right now, failing to build a closer partnership while...
ATHENS: High-level talks between Greece and its European creditors on a third bailout for the cash-strapped country have been delayed until logistical matters...
BRUSSELS: Greece and its creditors moved closer to clinching a deal this weekend that would keep the country from defaulting on its debts and falling out of...
BRUSSELS: Greece has finally offered economic reforms that creditors consider potentially acceptable, giving Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras a couple days to...
BRUSSELS: The European Union will next week activate the first phase of a plan to disrupt the business of human traffickers in the Mediterranean and destroy...
BRUSSELS: The prospect that economic and diplomatic heavyweight Britain might leave the European Union within two years has pushed EU leaders to consider...
RIGA, Latvia: The European Union offered more money and the promise of visa-free travel to some post-communist nations Friday in an East-West partnership that...
BRUSSELS: European Union nations Monday approved plans for a naval operation to go after the trafficking networks that send thousands of migrants across the...
BRUSSELS: It might seem logical that triumph for David Cameron’s traditionally Euroskeptic Tories would boost the likelihood of Britain splitting from the...
BRUSSELS: Greece made progress with its creditors over the weekend on how to stave off bankruptcy, official said Monday, despite complaints in Athens that the...