Before the European elections next May, Germany's grand coalition wants to introduce a 2% threshold to prevent small political parties from entering the European Parliament. The German Federal Constitutional Court has, however, repeatedly ruled out such a…

The Council of Europe said Friday it has urged Croatia to investigate alleged police abuse of migrants trying to cross its borders.

Tonnes of human body parts, including amputated limbs, have been piling up in NHS hospitals, due to failures of a private health company. A criminal investigation has been launched.

Madrid and Rabat are in talks to repatriate thousands of Moroccan minors who arrived in Spain alone without their parents, a Spanish interior ministry spokesman said Friday.

Populist politicians have long warned that Europe’s open-door migrant policy is likely to expose the continent to a new wave of extremists and terrorists, urging Brussels to stem the flow of refugees into the continent.

European Union Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker warned on Friday (5 October) of a possible new war in the Balkans if Bosnia, Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Kosovo do not feel the EU is serious about offering them future membership.

The Helsinki District Court ruled on Friday that the women were guilty of slander and ordered them to pay fines and cover the singer’s 7,400-euro legal fees.

Two border police employees at the Sofia Airport border checkpoint are facing disciplinary punishment as a result of an incident that once again highlighted security flaws at Bulgaria’s large…

From France, where seduction is treated as a high art, to Sweden, a trailblazer for gender equality, the #MeToo movement has had a mixed impact in Europe, stirring debate about consent and the banality of street harassment.

A charter for Italian journalists demands writers stop using the term "clandestine migrant" and use terms like "irregular migrant" instead.

George Soros’ Open Society Foundations has completed its move from Budapest to Berlin and will boost staff numbers from 80 to 150.

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Thousands of acres of green belt land is being released for developers to concrete over as mass immigration drives demand for more housing.

The immigrant population of Spain is set to grow by up to ten million by 2050 -- 15 percent of the total populace.

Chief Minister Fabian Picardo says he is preparing for a no deal and is not prepared to 'blink at five to midnight'

French police said on Friday they have dismantled a Nigerian prostitution and trafficking network suspected of collecting and laundering tens of millions of euros across the country.

France will renew for another six months the border controls it re-established with its neighbours on the night of the November 2015 Paris attacks, according to a document seen by AFP.

Two years after a devastating earthquake, the town of Visso still looks as if the disaster happened yesterday. Bureaucratic chaos has forced many to move away, and reconstruction has yet to begin. Ylenia Gostoli reports.

A pensioner has been honoured by the Church of Scotland for 102 years of service.