Europe

'Symbolic power: What's the point of Macron, or the cen...

Campaigning on a platform of bold reform in 2017, is Emmanuel Macron now vying f...

'Something is wrong with us' in France: Ex&EU commissio...

As political and economic turmoil continues in France, we speak to the influenti...

Why is the right thrashing the left in Swedish social m...

Right-wing influencers are increasingly dominating Swedish social media. Is this...

How British people in Sweden can renew their post&Brexi...

The first cards issued to British people to prove their post-Brexit residency st...

Storm 1516: The Russian operation responsible for at le...

Earlier this year, French authorities identified almost 80 disinformation campai...

‘Massive’ Russian missile and drone attack sparks power...

Ukraine reported a large-scale Russian assault on Kyiv early Friday, involving b...

Ten contenders for the Nobel Peace Prize who are not Do...

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded Friday in Oslo, Norway, to one of 338...

Municipal elections in Kosovo: Serbian minority worried...

The first round of local elections in Kosovo are taking place on Sunday, October...

Swedish Liberals 'will vote no to a government includin...

The leader of Sweden's Liberal Party has called for her party to commit once aga...

Who would lose Swedish permanent residency under propos...

It’s not only people with asylum backgrounds who risk losing permanent residence...

Belgium says it foiled suspected drone plot to attack p...

Belgian authorities arrested three men in Antwerp on Thursday over a suspected j...

Ukraine's Zelensky says Russia aims to sow 'chaos' with...

President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of wanting to sow "chaos" in Ukraine...

German MEP Andresen: 'Even people close to Macron don’t...

As France wrestles with an unwieldy political class, spiralling economic crisis ...

What the EU's new biometric border rules mean for non&E...

Non-EU citizens travelling to and from the Schengen area will now have to pass t...

German federal police will in future be allowed to shoo...

Germany will grant police the power to shoot down rogue drones like those that h...

UK synagogue attacker pledged allegiance to Islamic Sta...

Jihad al-Shamie, the man who was shot dead by police during a deadly rampage at ...

Best&selling author Katriona O'Sullivan on her memoir '...

The author of a highly acclaimed book about poverty and how it affects children ...

Lithuania prepares to evacuate thousands if Ukraine war...

Hundreds of people took part in an evacuation exercise in Vilnius, where approxi...

EU votes to ban 'burger' labels from veggie substitutes...

EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to ban the term "veggie burger" and limit food d...

German police to be given power to shoot down drones

German police will soon have the power to shoot down drones, Interior Minister A...

Hind Ziane: Solution to France’s political crisis is to...

Is France's political impasse at a dangerous breaking point? The current parliam...

Russia’s ‘false flag’ claims spark fears of pre&war pos...

In a series of escalating statements, Russia’s foreign intelligence service has ...

'Only people who got a work permit will keep Swedish pe...

For the Sweden Democrats' immigration spokesperson, Ludvig Aspling, the conclusi...

'Born for Sweden': The Local's readers explain what mad...

In a recent survey, we asked The Local’s readers about why they moved to Sweden ...

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M.Yaghi share ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was on Wednesday awarded to scientists Susumu ...

Russian forces seized nearly 5,000 square km of Ukraini...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday Russian forces had captured nea...

Volvo engineer leaves Sweden for Brazil after 'mean dec...

In this week’s episode of Sweden in Focus Extra, The Local's Nordic editor Richa...

'French parliamentary arithmetic points to PM with coal...

Emmanuel Macron now confronts what could very well be an existential crisis of t...

EU set to double tariffs on foreign steel to help strug...

The EU doubled tariffs on foreign steel on Tuesday, hiking levels on imports to ...

The best places in Sweden to see the autumn leaves

It's not just in New England in the US or Canada where going to see the leaves t...

Swedish Moderate youth party members under investigatio...

Members of MUF, the Moderate Party's youth wing, are being investigated after si...

Appeals court overturns verdict for Danish extremist Ra...

An appeals court in Sweden has overturned one of the convictions for hate crime ...

A mess of Macron's making? France in crisis as latest g...

Emmanuel Macron losing his third prime minister, in the 16 months since he disso...

Ukraine drone championship: from the frontline to war g...

On Ukraine’s front lines, drones play an ever more crucial role. This weekend so...

Hundreds of thousands march for Gaza across Europe

Hundreds of thousands of people across several European cities marched Sunday in...

'French politics has always been baroque, but now it's ...

France’s new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned after less than a month i...

Sweden to hike threshold for work permit to 33,390 kron...

Sweden's government has agreed to hike the minimum salary for a work permit to 9...

Q&A: How Swedish Migration Agency's 30&day pledge f...

Sweden's Migration Agency from the start of this month is aiming to process all ...

What do we know about plans to further raise the work p...

A full 18 months after a government inquiry proposed it, Sweden's government has...

Russia says it downed 251 Ukraine drones overnight, inc...

Russia's defence ministry said on Monday that it had intercepted 251 Ukrainian d...

French prosecutors launch war&crimes probe into photojo...

French prosecutors have launched a war-crimes probe into the death of French pho...

Georgian PM vows crackdown on opposition after protests...

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said that up to 7,000 people attended ...

Ukraine says Russia intensifying railway strikes to iso...

The head of Ukraine's railways said Saturday (October 4) that Russia was intensi...

At least five killed in large&scale overnight Russian s...

At lease five civilians were killed after Russian launched a large-scale night-t...

Andrej Babis leads vote count in Czech parliamentary el...

Billionaire Andrej Babis's ANO party cruised to victory in the Czech Republic's ...

'Trumpist' billionaire Andrej Babis wins Czech parliame...

Populist, billionaire and self-proclaimed "Trumpist" Andrej Babis won the Czech ...

Russia strikes hit two passenger trains in northern Ukr...

Dozens were injured and one killed after a Russian drone attack hit a Ukrainian ...

Germany: 35 years after reunification, disparities remain

Germany has been marking the 35th anniversary of reunification between East and ...

Flights resume 'progressively' at Munich airport after ...

Flights resumed "progressively" on Saturday (October 4) at Munich airport, but d...

Czechs head to the polls for final day of general elect...

Czechs began voting for a second and last day Saturday (October 4) in a general ...