Europe

Gisele Pelicot publishes memoir of rape trial that shoo...

Gisele Pelicot on Tuesday published a memoir reflecting on the landmark rape tri...

Milano Cortina Olympics: Row over medal quality

????#Medals breaking and falling as athletes celebrate have sparked a growing ro...

EU lawmakers back tougher asylum rules allowing fast&tr...

EU lawmakers on Tuesday approved changes to the bloc’s asylum system that would ...

Norway to set up independent commission over Epstein re...

The release of the cache of new files in the US has revealed a host of new Jeffr...

Sweden's language requirement to be enforced from June ...

The new language and civics requirements for Swedish citizenship will start to a...

What we know about Sweden’s new self&sufficiency requir...

Sweden’s government has revealed more details about its plans to tighten up citi...

'Collective punishment': Reader views on Sweden's stric...

Comments by readers of The Local Sweden ‒ whether opinions, advice, or tales of ...

UN presses for clarity on nearly $4 billion owed by US ...

The United Nations says it is awaiting confirmation from the Trump administratio...

Ukraine war live: Macron aims to reopen Putin dialogue ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he wants to include European partners ...

Russia pummels Ukraine's Odesa and Kharkiv with deadly ...

Russian overnight drone attacks killed at least four people in Ukraine's northea...

Swedish government tells Migration Agency 'limited need...

Sweden's government has asked the Migration Agency to start from the premise tha...

Italy: Armed gang blows up armoured van

On February 9, an armed #gang blew up and set fire to an armoured van on the Lec...

Epstein files: Suspense focused on exposing elite and p...

Angela Diffley is pleased to welcome Dr. Sam Martin, Political Communication Sch...

Q&A: Your questions about Sweden's new citizenship law

Sweden's government announced more details of its new citizenship law on Februar...

Will my Swedish citizenship application be rejected due...

The Swedish government has now confirmed that any citizenship application not co...

'People in Sweden are really raising their voices now a...

Annika Hirvonen, the immigration spokesperson for the Green Party, tells The Loc...

Live: Russia pummels Ukraine's Odesa and Kharkiv with d...

Russian overnight drone attacks killed at least three people in Ukraine's northe...

Centre&left candidate António José Seguro defeats far&r...

Centre-left Socialist António José Seguro scored a landslide victory over far-ri...

British PM Keir Starmer's top aide quits in scandal ove...

Embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff resigned on Sunda...

Protests rock Milan over economic and environmental cos...

Italian police fired tear gas and a water cannon at dozens of protesters who thr...

Suspect in shooting of senior Russian intelligence offi...

A Ukrainian-born Russian man suspected of shooting and seriously wounding Vladim...

France and Canada open consulates in Greenland after US...

Canada and France opened diplomatic consulates on Friday in the capital of Green...

UK PM Starmer’s chief of staff quits over Mandelson lin...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, resigned...

Portugal chooses between centre&left Socialist and far&...

Centre-left Socialist candidate Antonio Jose Seguro is expected to win the secon...

Danish app helps boycott of US goods and recommends EU ...

The makers of mobile apps designed to help shoppers identify and boycott America...

Farmers report 'catastrophic' crop damage as Storm Mart...

More than 11,000 people have been driven from their homes in Spain's southern An...

US wants Ukraine and Russia to end war by June, Zelensk...

The United States wants Kyiv and Moscow to end the nearly four-year war by June,...

Trump pushes for peace in Ukraine ‘by June’, Zelensky says

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday said Washington has proposed ...

US sets deadline for peace deal between Ukraine and Russia

The United States wants Kyiv and Moscow to end the nearly four-year war by June,...

Live: US wants Ukraine and Russia to end war by June, Z...

The United States wants Kyiv and Moscow to end the nearly four-year war by June,...

Russian strike knocks out power in Kyiv

Ukraine’s power grid operator says a massive Russian attack has knocked out elec...

Energy infrastructure severely damaged in Ukraine

In the early hours of Saturday, Russia carried out another series of crippling a...

Tiny Bermudan snail 'back from the brink' of extinction...

A tiny Bermudan snail once threatened by pesticides, habitat loss and the cannib...

Kyiv calls for Polish aid after 'massive' Russian attac...

Ukraine's Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal on Saturday said Kyiv had requested emer...

What do Europeans really think about immigration?

Growing political polarisation means that debate about immigration is boiled dow...

UK confirms ETA price hike for European travellers as r...

The UK government is set to further increase the cost of the Electronic Travel A...

Climate activist group files second lawsuit against Sweden

A group of climate activists said Friday they were filing another lawsuit agains...

Swedish opposition still hopes Social Democrats will jo...

The MPs behind an parliamentary initiative to bring back a law preventing teen d...

Estonia’s border town caught in a diplomatic standoff b...

Estonia's Narva has become a tense microcosm of the NATO-Russia standoff. Since ...

Starlink used by Russian forces deactivated on battlefi...

Ukraine said on Thursday that Starlink internet terminals used by Russian forces...

Greenland crisis further damages transatlantic ties: Ti...

Europe has experienced numerous crises since Donald Trump returned to the White ...

Russian military intel deputy chief wounded in Moscow i...

Russian military intelligence official Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev is ...

EU tells TikTok to change its 'addictive' design or ris...

The European Commission on Friday announced that preliminary conclusions of a tw...

Russia slams France’s ‘pathetic diplomacy’, but Putin r...

President Vladimir Putin is ready for a call from his French counterpart Emmanue...

Milano&Cortina: Venues delivered at the 'final breath'

The 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics open tomorrow following a frantic race t...

'We will not accept to be treated badly': MEP Brando Be...

Shared economic and security interests still bind Europe and the United States, ...

Yodelling taken to new heights: Swiss folk singing adap...

Long confined to tourist clichés, Swiss yodelling is moving on from being a folk...

Swedish inflation falls back to two percent target

Sweden's inflation rate has fallen back to the Riksbank's 2 percent target, acco...

TELL US: What is the best district for foreigners in St...

From upmarket Östermalm and Nacka to more socially mixed areas like Bredäng or K...

Storm disrupts Portugal as presidential run‑off electio...

Calls grew on Thursday for Portugal’s presidential run‑off on 8 February to be p...