Parents whose children struggle with Italian will also be ordered to attend free language courses, with fines of up to €1,000 ...

Italy has opened the way back to nuclear energy, almost 40 years after it turned its back on atomic power. The Senate gave ...

France wants public money kept for factories inside the bloc while Germany, Italy and Spain would let trusted partners such ...

Athens has refused any deal that would recognise the London museum’s ownership of the sculptures after reports that five years of negotiations had broken down.

The European Commission put €10 million into a UN Women scheme targeting 500,000 jobs outside the bloc while 13.5 million people were out of work within it.

Brussels funds jobs drive for women in Middle East and North Africa as EU unemployment rises • Eight far-left activists arrested over the killing of Quentin Deranque in Lyon ...

The accusations were “very serious”, she said, and the police had to be allowed to work in peace. She added that the Left had just taken half a million votes and one of its best results ever.

The US coffee chain is to shut some 250 outlets in the US and Canada as its chief executive presses on with a costly overhaul of the business.

He wants a Europe “on a credible path to reform, a Europe of nation states, a Europe capable of being a genuine global power”.

Firefighters have said their preliminary findings point to deliberate ignition, but an electrical fault has not been ruled out.

A citizens’ dossier of 41 cases from Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands accuses the European Green Party of failing to act against anti-Jewish rhetoric in its ranks.

The governing CDU-Green coalition would still have a majority. No other two-party deal without AfD would work.