Europe

MUNICH—The United States led a rise in Western defense spending in 2018 as it moved to keep ahead of Chinese and Russian pushes into advanced military technology, a report said ...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Slovakia on Feb. 12 during his five-nation European tour. During his visit, ...

Align with the United States, or prepare to risk the security threats that come with accepting the Chinese ...

The European Parliament has given the green light to tough new rules designed to stop the Chinese state ...

LONDON—More than 40 former British ambassadors have written to UK Prime Minister Theresa May urging her to delay ...

MADRID—Former Catalan deputy leader Oriol Junqueras, standing trial in Madrid for rebellion, said Feb. 14 he was a ...

STRASBOURG, France—EU lawmakers overwhelmingly backed a far-reaching system on Feb. 14 to coordinate scrutiny of foreign investments, notably ...

STOCKHOLM— Sweden said on Feb. 14 it had replaced its ambassador to China after her "incorrect" handling of ...

A woman who fled London to join ISIS at the age of 15 said she has no regrets ...

WARSAW—U.S. Vice President Mike Pence praised Poland on Feb. 13 for its commitment to "protecting the telecoms sector ...

A U.S. Army employee living in Germany said that an attack by three men was not a "simple ...

MADRID—Spain's parliament rejected a draft 2019 budget on Feb. 13 after Catalan separatists turned their backs on the ...

BERLIN—Police have arrested two Syrian citizens in Germany on suspicion of crimes against humanity, including torturing prisoners, while ...

An animal rescue group in Portugal posted a video showing the moment a desperate dog was rescued after ...

BRUSSELS/COPENHAGEN—The European Union reached a provisional deal on Feb. 13, on new rules governing import gas pipelines including ...

After a Czech cyber watchdog identified Chinese tech giant Huawei as a security threat, the company is threatening ...

Twelve Catalan leaders have gone on trial in Spain over their role in a 2017 independence bid that ...

PARIS—Italy has formally asked France to extradite a former leftist militant believed to have been active during the ...

MADRID/BARCELONA—Twelve Catalan politicians go on trial on Tuesday for their role in Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid, putting ...

BERLIN—The new leader of Germany's ruling Christian Democrats, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, unveiled plans for a tightening of immigration rules, ...

French Singer and competitor in the Eurovision Song Contest, Bilal Hassani, is the target of controversy after a ...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has announced that women who have four or more babies will not have ...

SOFIA—Bulgaria is investigating a possible link between a nerve-agent attack on a former Russian spy in England in ...

GENOA, Italy—Heavy machinery began winching down a huge slab of concrete in the northern Italian city of Genoa ...

BUDAPEST—U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Feb. 11 that America might be forced to scale back ...

HELSINKI—An Israeli Holocaust historian praised authorities in Finland on Sunday, Feb. 10, for publishing a report that concluded ...

The European Union’s foreign ministry recently warned EU diplomats and military officers about the threat of “about 250 ...