Europe

'Not going to wait': Sweden's parties discuss gang crime

Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer called the country's parliamentary part...

UK set to rejoin EU's Erasmus scheme from 2027

Britain is set to rejoin the European Union's Erasmus student exchange programme...

Reparations for Ukraine: new European body set up

Top European officials including President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed Tuesday to ...

EU scraps 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars to boo...

The EU on Tuesday walked back a 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars seen as a...

Driver who rammed into Liverpool fans' victory parade s...

Paul Doyle, the driver who ploughed into a crowd of Liverpool fans celebrating t...

France demands ‘robust security guarantees’ for Ukraine...

Ukraine must have "robust security guarantees" before any talks on whether Kyiv ...

Mercosur free trade deal is likely to be delayed amid F...

French farmers are driving opposition to the massive transatlantic Mercosur trad...

Defence of Europe's eastern flank an 'immediate' priori...

Defending Europe's eastern flank should be an "immediate" priority for the Europ...

Workers dismissed from Sweden's Northvolt to get EU aid

The EU has voted to compensate the more than 5,000 people who lost their jobs wh...

Germany's youth opposed to return of military service

The war in Ukraine has pushed defence issues to the top of the agenda in Germany...

Live: France demands ‘robust security guarantees’ for U...

Ukraine must have "robust security guarantees" before any talks on whether Kyiv ...

Europe to launch international commission for Ukraine w...

Ukraine and 34 other countries approved compensation body for damages from Russi...

Trump files $10 billion defamation lawsuit against BBC ...

President Donald Trump on Monday sued the BBC for defamation, accusing the Briti...

EU set to scrap 2035 ban on new petrol and diesel cars ...

The EU looks set to scrap a ban on petrol and diesel cars that was supposed to c...

How and when do you buy a Christmas tree in Sweden?

Three million households in Sweden buy a Christmas tree every year, either from ...

Swedish greenhouse gas emissions rise 7 percent

Greenhouse gas emissions in Sweden rose by seven percent in 2024, the largest ri...

Stockholm on track for darkest December since 1934

The Swedish capital has recorded just a half-hour of sunlight in the first half ...

European leaders agree Ukraine security guarantees must...

European leaders meeting in Berlin on Monday agreed that Ukraine required robust...

Tsarist warriors revival: Putin sends Cossacks to Ukrai...

Once prized fighters under the Tsars, Russia’s Cossack population was ostracised...

US offers 'NATO&like' security to Ukraine, expects Russ...

The U.S. has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as par...

US dangles security guarantees for Ukraine but no deal ...

The European leaders in a joint statement at the Berlin talks proposed a force a...

Zelensky to meet US negotiators in Berlin

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US negotiators are meeting in Ber...

Trump sues BBC over edited US Capitol speech, seeks $5 ...

President Donald Trump sued the BBC on Monday for defamation, accusing the Briti...

Ukraine ceasefire conceivable for first time since war ...

Two days of US-Ukraine talks in Berlin have produced a "chance" for a "real peac...

What’s changing for international train travel from Swe...

The big news for international train travel from Sweden next year is the decisio...

How strong will the Swedish krona be in 2026?

The Swedish krona is the best-performing currency among the G10 countries, which...

Zelensky offers to drop NATO bid for security guarantee...

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US negotiators are meeting in Ber...

Live: EU faces a ‘very important’ week for Ukraine funding

The EU must take "very important" decisions on funding Ukraine at a crunch summi...

Louvre goes on strike in fresh blow to Paris museum aft...

Louvre workers went on strike on Monday in a fresh blow to the world's most-visi...

Vatican goes digital as influencer priests spread gospe...

During his papacy, Pope Francis encouraged the clergy to use the "digital contin...

MAP: The local tax you will have to pay in Sweden in 2026

Residents of 16 Swedish municipalities will pay more local tax in 2026, while 45...

The Swedish origins of the Christmas song Fairytale of ...

The Pogues' Fairytale of New York, the gritty tale of love gone wrong many consi...

Ukraine's Zelensky offers to drop NATO bid as Trump env...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered to drop Kyiv's aspirations to joi...

Zelensky and US envoys to push on with Ukraine talks in...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his co...

Thousands march in Budapest to protest Orban's governme...

Thousands of Hungarians marched to Prime Minister Viktor Orban's offices on Satu...

Belarus frees Nobel Prize laureate Bialiatski, oppositi...

Belarus freed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, key opposition figure ...

Live: US envoy to meet Ukraine's Zelensky, European all...

US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet with Ukrainian...

Zelensky visits troops as Ukraine claims gained ground ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday he had visited troops fending...

Belarus frees opposition figure Kolesnikova, Nobel laur...

Belarus on Saturday released 123 political prisoners, including protest leader M...

Ukraine says it received 114 prisoners from Belarus und...

Kyiv received 114 prisoners released by Belarus under a US-brokered deal on Satu...

Belarus frees 123 prisoners in exchange for lifting of ...

In exchange for the lifting of US sanctions on certain exports, Belarusian Presi...

EU agrees to indefinitely freeze Russian central bank a...

The European Union agreed on Friday to indefinitely freeze Russian central bank ...

'I feel alienated': American dual nationals in Europe r...

Dual-national American readers across Europe say they would give up their US pas...

The little&known agreement that sets Europe's citizensh...

An important but hardly-known international agreement signed by 29 European coun...

Lessons from a Skåne julbord on how we oversimplify Sweden

The Local's Nordic Editor Richard Orange rounds up the biggest stories of the we...

Live: US envoy Witkoff to meet Zelensky, European leade...

US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Ukraine’s Pres...

'They have no border': Ukraine's integration into EU by...

The US plan to end the war in Ukraine allows for Kyiv to join the EU in 2027, a ...

EU freezes Russian assets to prevent Hungary and Slovak...

The EU on Friday indefinitely froze Russian assets in Europe so that Hungary and...

How can Sweden get better at integrating immigrants?

In this week's podcast: How Sweden can get beyond immigrant stereotypes, Indians...

Political instability: What's next for Bulgaria after t...

After weeks of protests across Bulgaria, PM Rosen Zhelyazkov's government resign...