The intelligence services assessment has sparked alarming headlines in Italy but an IOM spokesperson cautioned against the figure.
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European finance ministers and the EU’s economics commissioner played down the contagion risk of the collapse of US Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) while European bank shares saw their biggest rout since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Russia consented on Monday to prolong an ongoing Black Sea grain deal for 60 days following its second-term expiration date on March 18. The original deal was brokered by the UN and Turkey in July 2022 to ensure safe transportation of grain and other food products to prevent a food crisis amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).
The BBC was forced to scrap much of its weekend sports programming as presenters walked out in support of football host Gary Lineker, who was suspended for sending a tweet criticising the British government’s new asylum policy.
The BBC was forced to scrap much of its weekend sports programming as the network scrambled to stem an escalating crisis over its suspension of soccer host Gary Lineker for comments criticizing the British government’s new asylum policy.
The BBC faces an escalating crisis over its suspension of soccer host Gary Lineker for comments criticizing the British government’s new asylum policy.
As Russia’s Wagner group has made unverified claims of gains in Bakhmut, “one thing is for sure: the situation is very, very difficult for Ukrainian troops,” says FRANCE 24’s Emmanuel Chaze.
On one of the darkest days in English rugby history, France put on a clinic by running in seven tries in a record 53-10 humiliation of its cross-channel rival at Twickenham in the Six Nations on Saturday.
Three boats overcrowded with migrants were brought safely to Italian ports on Saturday, the coastguard said, as thousands of marchers remembered the victims of last month’s deadly shipwreck off Calabria’s coast.
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Moscow on Friday accused foreign countries of fomenting days of mass protests in Georgia, likening them to an attempted coup designed to sow tension on Russia’s borders.
Whether they’re islands, mountains or territories far from the mainland, such areas are considered by the EU to be regions with a strong natural geographical handicap. The EU’s cohesion policy, with its powerful budget, gives these regions substantial resources to help them try to catch up with metropolitan areas. The Europe Now team travels to the French overseas department of Guadeloupe to take a closer look.
“Our seas are of strategic importance,” Commissioner Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius said.
The Dutch decision will directly affect ASML, Europe’s largest technology company in terms of market capitalisation.
The new rules will make it easier for member states to inject subsidies into key green tech products such as solar panels, heat pumps and wind turbines.
Live Video from the shooting in Hamburg Germany. The shooting occurred at a Jehovah’s Witnesses hall in Hamburg
Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak want to ‘fortify’ Nato.
Shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening, and an unspecified number of people were killed or wounded, police said.
Greek prosecutors on Thursday charged three more railway officials in connection with the country’s worst train crash, as the prime minister vowed “absolute transparency” in the probe into the tragedy.
Businesses can buy so-called carbon credits to balance out their own emissions.
Thousands of people staged a second straight day of protests in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Wednesday, rallying outside parliament against a “foreign agents” law which critics say signals an authoritarian shift.
Who did sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines? Without much proof to go on, pundits could only root for the version that would suit their cause. But German investigators have now revealed they have found traces of explosives aboard a yacht that may have carried the charge that last September knocked out the undersea conduit that supplies Russian gas to Europe via the Baltic Sea.
Under the proposed reforms, a simple majority of Israeli lawmakers will be able to override rulings issued by the country’s Supreme Court.
Tens of thousands of people marched in Greece on Wednesday to protest over the country’s deadliest train disaster on record, as workers staged a nationwide, day-long walkout.
Under current fiscal rules, member states are bound to keep their deficit levels under 3%, a figure that many currently exceed.
