The French government has started a process to ban the far-right group Generation Identity, renowned for being hostile to migrants, interior minister Gerald Darmanin has confirmed.The group has tried ...

Hospitals in France have reportedly been asked to enter “crisis” mode to prepare for a potential spike in cases, amid calls for a lockdown in the country’s east.It comes as extra contagious new varian ...

When  the pandemic began to ravage Italy last year, something sinister started happening to those businesses facing an unprecedented crisis due to lockdown. Many started to receive unusual buyout ...

PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron is urging stepped-up international efforts to get vaccines to poor countries and wants China and Russia more involved.While France’s own vaccination program ha ...

Germany on Sunday implemented tighter border controls on its frontiers with the Czech Republic and Austria’s Tyrol province in an effort to stem the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants.The ...

Far-right politician Marine Le Pen could win France’s next presidential election, a minister has said.Bruno Le Maire, the French finance minister, said the possible election of the National Rally lead ...

A father stabbed his wife, two young daughters and mother-in-law to death in western Germany before setting the house on fire and killing himself, police say.The 41-year-old man is believed to have mu ...

It has sun, sea, sand and, more importantly it seems, dentists willing to confirm appointments by email.Irish tourists appear to be getting around the country’s travel ban on holidays by booking denta ...

Voters in Spain’s politically volatile Catalonia go to the polls on Sunday in the first regional election since 2017 when a failed independence bid threatened to tear the country apart. Three years af ...

Sergio Mattarella, the president, asked Mr Draghi to be prime minister after party wrangling brought down the previous administration and, following a week of consultations, almost all the main partie ...