World / Europe

From Bundeswehr to Brussels: EU nominee Von der Leyen has steep learning curve 02 Jul 2019 - 11:15 pm

BERLIN: Polyglot Ursula von der Leyen's nomination as European Commission chief aims to prevent the European Union from splintering, but her patchy record...

Full results of Ukraine reforms to take years to be seen: finance minister 02 Jul 2019 - 11:15 pm

TORONTO: It will take years for the full effects of reforms to be seen in Ukraine, where the government is trying to cast...

Charles Michel, Belgium's compromise craftsman 02 Jul 2019 - 08:47 pm

Brussels: Charles Michel, named on Tuesday to succeed Donald Tusk as head of the European Council, has been Prime Minister of Belgium since...

EU's Tusk says of top jobs deal: "After all, Europe is a woman" 02 Jul 2019 - 08:47 pm

BRUSSELS: European Union leaders agreed on Tuesday to name France's Christine Lagarde as the new head of the European Central Bank and sealed...

$Leaders hope the decision to nominate two women, Lagarde and German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, (pictured) to the top of EU decision-making for the first time will send a positive message and repair damage wrought by such a fractious summit, di$

France's June heatwave at least '5 times more likely' with climate change 02 Jul 2019 - 06:32 pm

Paris: The record-breaking heatwave that gripped France last week was made at least five times more likely by climate change, scientists said Tuesday...

Paris says tourist buses no longer welcome in city centre 02 Jul 2019 - 04:24 pm

PARIS: Paris aims to ban tourist buses from the city centre to spur visitors to walk, cycle or take public transport, tackling complaints...

Macron proposes Lagarde to head ECB in push to end EU jobs deadlock 02 Jul 2019 - 04:07 pm

Brussels: President Emmanuel Macron sought to break a deadlock on Tuesday over assigning the EU's top jobs by proposing France's Christine Lagarde, now...

Thousands battle large blaze in parched northern Germany 02 Jul 2019 - 12:41 pm

BERLIN, Thousands of firefighters, soldiers and civil defense personnel are battling a large wildfire at an area used for military exercises in northern...

Rising heat stress could cost 80 mln jobs by 2030: UN 02 Jul 2019 - 12:25 pm

London: Rising heat due to climate change could lead to the loss of 80 million jobs by 2030, with poor countries worst hit,...

Body of plane stowaway 'landed near London sunbather' 02 Jul 2019 - 10:54 am

London: The body of a suspected stowaway who fell to his death from a Kenya Airways plane landed next to a man sunbathing...

UK PM candidate Johnson will demand EU talks free trade - campaign chairman 02 Jul 2019 - 10:14 am

LONDON: Boris Johnson will make an offer to the European Union over post-Brexit free trade but if it rejects that gambit then Britain...

EU leaders leader fail again to share out top jobs 01 Jul 2019 - 06:47 pm

BRUSSELS: European Union leaders let their people down Monday. And now they're hoping some sleep will help them save face and wrap up...

German armed forces helicopter has crashed in northern Germany - police 01 Jul 2019 - 04:01 pm

BERLIN: A German armed forces helicopter crashed in northern Germany on Monday, a police spokesman said, but he could not confirm a report...

How Merkel’s half-baked plan to confer EU’s top job hit a snag 01 Jul 2019 - 02:34 pm

If there was one thing Angela Merkel didn’t factor into her plan to make Socialist Frans Timmermans the European Union’s next chief executive,...

Argentine cartoonist Guillermo Mordillo dies aged 86 01 Jul 2019 - 01:07 pm

Madrid, Argentinian cartoonist Guillermo Mordillo, known for drawing characters with bulbous noses, has died in Spain aged 86, his representatives said Monday. Mordillo's...

EU leaders close to agreeing on Timmermans to lead European Commission: two diplomats 01 Jul 2019 - 11:01 am

BRUSSELS: European Union leaders are close to awarding socialist Dutchman Frans Timmermans the job of European Commission president, with the centre-right Kristalina Georgieva...