European election 2024: When it is and key issues you need to know

European Union citizens will vote on June 6-9 in elections to choose 720 new members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for the next five years. Read More

Will Spain’s prime minister suddenly quit?

When he was clobbered at last May’s regional and local elections, Spain’s prime minister promptly called national ones. To bet it all at his weakest moment might have seemed crazy, yet Mr Sánchez ... Read More

Explainer-Why you should care about the European Parliament election

European Union citizens will vote on June 6-9 in elections to choose 720 new members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for the next five years. The European Parliament is one of the three main EU ... Read More

Why Britain’s membership of the ECHR has become a political issue

In the speech that followed, Britain’s former prime minister set out his vision of a “united Europe” that would stand against tyranny. Central to it, he said, was the declaration of human rights by ... Read More

Roberta Metsola appeals to voters ahead of European Elections: ‘You have a choice’

Millions of people are expected to vote in the European elections in six weeks time and collectively decide on the future of the European Union.  Roberta Metsola, the President of the European ... Read More

France European Elections

European Parliament members attend the last session before the upcoming European elections, Thursday April 25, 2024 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. Read More

Hungary's Orbán urges European conservatives, and Trump, toward election victories at CPAC event

Hungary’s nationalist prime minister has called for right-wing forces to take power in upcoming European and U.S. elections, and expressed support for former President Donald Trump in his ongoing crim ... Read More

Greece’s Prime Minister Wants His Nation to be the Comeback Story of the Decade

I loved it,” echoes Mitsotakis, 56, after the two of us sit down in March in his wood-paneled office at the pale pink and white Maximos Mansion in Athens, which has served as the neoclassical ... Read More

Spain’s Political Tactician Sanchez Leaves His Country Guessing

Spain’s Pedro Sanchez is giving the country five days to think about what life would be like without him.Most Read from BloombergUS Economy Slows and Inflation Jumps, Damping Soft-Landing HopesJavier ... Read More

UK politics: Tory HQ resists calls to refer Menzies allegations to police – as it happened

Internal investigation under way but party has not announced that police have been called in ... Read More

UN report says 282 million people faced acute hunger in 2023

Palestinians line up for a meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 16, 2024. According to the Global Report on Food Crises released Wednesday, April 24, nearly 282 million people in 59 countries ... Read More

News updates from April 23: Tesla to speed up launch of ‘affordable’ models; US regulator bans non-compete agreements

Russia’s deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov has been detained on suspicion of receiving a bribe, the country’s top investigative police agency has said. “Corresponding investigative actions are ... Read More