World news about “Europe” published by euronews.
Europe’s big freeze to continue until end of February The freezing weather gripping much of Europe could last until the end of the month according to meteorologists. That’s not good news for the homeless, the… 09/02/2012
Europe’s frozen February may last until month’s end Europe’s big freeze may last until the end of February. That is the chilling warning from leading meteorologists. Italy is already mourning some 40 victims… 08/02/2012
Europe’s frozen February may last until month’s end Europe’s big freeze may last until the end of February. That is the chilling warning from leading meteorologists. Italy is already mourning some 40 victims… 08/02/2012
Winter freeze boosts food prices The severe winter weather battering Europe is pushing up the cost of food, creating difficulties for growers. European wheat prices hit an almost eight… 08/02/2012
Internet users plan protests against anti-piracy accord Opposition is building to controversial measures to combat internet piracy ahead of planned demonstrations across Europe at the weekend. Campaigners who… 08/02/2012
Austrian activists proclaim Facebook climbdown Facebook has agreed to release more information about the data it collects from millions of users, according to Austrian activists. The… 07/02/2012
Freeze in Europe to last at least one more week The extreme cold in Europe has claimed close to 400 lives over the past ten days. There have been heart attacks from exertion, victims of slippery roads… 07/02/2012
Big chill boosts European energy prices European energy prices have shot up on a combination of bitterly cold weather across the region and Iran’s talk of banning oil exports to some European… 07/02/2012
That Was the Week A selection of the most striking pictures from around the world during the last seven days. 06/02/2012
Europe slows down as big freeze takes hold The first snowfall in over 20 years in Italy’s capital has left the city eerily quiet. Iconic tourist attractions the Colosseum and Roman Forum have been… 05/02/2012
Ukraine’s big freeze claims more lives Officials in Ukraine said 122 people have now died in the country’s coldest winter for six years. Temperatures have dropped as low as minus 33 degrees… 04/02/2012
Big freeze tightens its grip on Europe The big freeze has tightened its grip on Europe. The death toll has risen as temperatures have dropped and snow has swept across the continent from the… 04/02/2012
The high cost of poor insulation in Ukraine With temperatures falling as low as -30 at night in Ukraine during the cold spell, experts claim gas vital for keeping warm is being wasted. Poor… 04/02/2012
More than 200 dead in Europe’s big chill At least 220 people have died in the past week throughout Europe, victims of widespread severe winter weather. Worst hit have been Ukraine and Poland which… 03/02/2012
Deadly cold Europe Shattering Siberian cold rolling over Europe banished what had been a mild winter. Ukraine got the worst of it, the temperature sliding fatally low. More than… 03/02/2012
Europe Weekly: Brussels feels the freeze In Europe Weekly this week we look back at the latest EU summit in Brussels to save the euro and efforts by the bloc’s leaders to impose stricter budget… 03/02/2012
Europe’s homeless dying in arctic conditions Officials in Ukraine say 38 more people have died in severe winter weather over the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of dead in the past week to… 03/02/2012
Over 100 killed by cold snap in Ukraine Officials in Ukraine say 38 more people have died in severe winter weather over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of dead in the past week to… 03/02/2012
More than 120 die as eastern Europe bears brunt of cold spell Freezing weather continues to grip Europe, with countries in the eastern part of the continent hit especially hard, causing more than 120 deaths. Snow has… 03/02/2012
Homeless facing cold all over EuropeThe cold scouring Europe, down to a bone crunching 30 degrees Celsius in some places - is killing people who have no homes. Many of the more than 100 recent… 02/02/2012
Big freeze claims more lives in Poland and Ukraine At least 29 people have died overnight in Ukraine and Poland as a result of extremely low temperatures in Europe. The total number of deaths across the two… 02/02/2012
Europe’s silver workforce Tsunami Europe’s workforce is ageing rapidly. By 2060 around 40 per cent of the EU’s population will be 55 or over. Faced with such a ticking demographic timebomb the… 02/02/2012
No end to big freeze in Europe The big freeze continues throughout many parts of Europe with at least 79 deaths since Saturday. Emergency airlifts are being organised in Bosnia and Serbia… 02/02/2012
Temperatures plummet as Europe’s big freeze spreads Turkey’s biggest city Istanbul has failed to escape the arctic temperatures and blizzard conditions that are wreaking havoc across parts of Europe. Flights… 01/02/2012
Dassault is top gun in Indian order dog-fight The French and Indian government have confirmed that France’s Dassault is to enter into “exclusive negotiations” on selling Rafale fighter planes to the… 31/01/2012
Cold snap hits eastern Europe – nocomment A deadly cold snap is spreading across eastern Europe. Dozens of people have been killed by the freezing weather as temperatures have plummeted. 31/01/2012
EU leaders in key Brussels debt summit European leaders arrived in Brussels on Monday for a key summit which they said would help bring about a return to growth but which economists predicted would… 30/01/2012
First appearance of animal virus in UK Scientists have discovered the first ever outbreak in the UK of a disease that causes birth defects and miscarriages in animals. The Schmallenberg virus was… 26/01/2012
Generation Y wants change and now In this edition of The Network with Chris Burns — Generation Y, how are Europeans born in the 1980’s and 90’s facing the financial crisis? How would they like… 20/01/2012
Sorry we are closed!A sign is displayed on the door of the European Commission offices in Dublin on January 19, 2012. Teams from the European Commission (EC), European Central… 20/01/2012
Denmark not ‘daunted’ by debt crisis, says Danish PM Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt has outlined her government’s EU presidency priorities to the European Parliament. Addressing MEPs in… 18/01/2012
Grim growth forecast from World Bank The World Bank has sharply cut its global economic growth expectations to just 2.5 percent this year and said Europe is probably already in recession. In… 18/01/2012
Airbus announces record year Airbus outsold its rival Boeing almost two-to-one in 2011 and delivered more aircraft than the US planemaker for the ninth year running. However the… 17/01/2012
Shares steady after S&P downgrades It was choppy session for European stock markets on the first trading day after Friday’s mass downgrade by Standard & Poor’s of credit ratings for nine of the… 16/01/2012
Germany encourages Greece ahead of crucial talks Germany’s foreign minister arrived in Athens late Sunday evening with a message of encouragement for the Greek government. During talks with Prime Minister… 16/01/2012
Slovenia rejects election winner as PM Slovenia’s parliament has rejected Zoran Jankovic as its new prime minister despite his party winning the most votes in last December’s election. Jankovic… 12/01/2012
France and Germany push controversial Tobin tax The idea of taxing financial transactions has resurfaced with both Paris and Berlin agreeing such a levy in the EU should be imposed. France, in… 09/01/2012
Perspectives: jobs in Europe Spain’s economy continues to lose jobs. Unemployment there has risen for the fifth month in a row, and last year ended with nearly eight percent more people… 06/01/2012
‘The Network’ tackles Europe’s pensions crisis Europe faces a pensions timebomb as the active population shrinks and societies get older. The financial crisis has made things worse, but also opened a… 05/01/2012
Cops vs crime in Europe In this edition of U talk, Gaetano Notari asks: “What duties and operations does the European police agency Europol carry out in fighting cross-border… 23/12/2011
Europe on the move in the search for work Europe is on the move as the search intensifies for work. With unemployment figures soaring tens of thousands are abandoning their homelands. While many… 23/12/2011
Europe banks take advantage of ECB cheap loans The European Central Bank put nearly half a trillion euros on offer, and euro zone banks fell over themselves to grab as much of the cheap finance as… 21/12/2011
Fitch downgrades top banks The rating agency Fitch has downgraded a total of seven major banks on both sides of the Atlantic. In Europe the effected lenders are BNP Paribas, Deutsche… 16/12/2011
Champions League: last 16 learn their fate The draw has taken place for the knockout phase of the Champions League – as the last 16 clubs find out who they will play in the first leg. Title holders… 16/12/2011
The European Book Prize The European Book Prize was founded in 2007 by the Esprit d’Europe association as a way of promoting European values, and contributing to Europeans’… 08/12/2011
United and City crash out of Champions LeagueItalian side Napoli reached the knockout stages of the Champions League with a convincing 2-0 away win over bottom side Villareal while Manchester City… 08/12/2011
Close up: the rise of Europe’s far-right Is Europe taking the threat of right-wing extremism seriously enough? Anders Breivik’s killing spree in Norway in July and the recent discovery that neo-Nazis… 08/12/2011
HIV kittens, progress and ignorance HIV experts around the world are increasingly optimistic that progress is being made against the virus. As in all of subsaharan Africa, the AIDS infection… 02/12/2011
China on road to Europe with new car China’s Chery Quantam auto has unveiled the design of its first car which it hopes will break new ground in Europe. The model, Qoros, is the result of a joint… 29/11/2011
China considers UK infrastructure investment China has said it is interested in pumping money into Britain’s railways as part of major plans to invest in the crumbling infrastructure of developed… 28/11/2011
Europe Weekly: Papademos and Monti come to town Brussels saw Greece and Italy’s new Prime Ministers’, Lucas Papademos and Mario Monti, come to town. Amid the on-going financial turmoil both leaders arrived… 25/11/2011
Europe and separatism Josep, in Catalonia, asks: “According most of surveys, independentism is growing up in some stateless nations of the EU, like Scotland, Catalonia, the Basque… 24/11/2011
The threat of antibiotic resistance Retired teacher Lill-Karin Skaret counts herself lucky, after having a close call with a bacterium resistant to many antibiotics. The Norwegian grandmother… 15/11/2011
Europe Weekly: Have Europe’s leaders done enough to save the euro? EU heads held two emergency summits this week aimed at saving the euro. Slicing Greece’s debt in half, increasing the EU’s bail-out fund and protecting… 04/11/2011
Catherine Ashton: time to put pressure on Syria Fariba Mavaddat, euronews: Over the past year, Middle East and North Africa have seen monumental change sin their histories. As citizens across the region… 02/11/2011
Sony warns of another annual loss Sony has surprised investors by warning it is heading for its fourth straight annual net loss; previously it had forecast a profit. Its TV business alone is… 02/11/2011
Propaganda or lessons for the future? The European Parliament is backing a programme to teach European identity in schools. How do we teach such a subject? Is it propaganda or as one critic… 28/10/2011
Europe’s trillion-euro debt safeguard Relief for Italy… relief for Greece… for Spain… the whole euro zone in fact: EU leaders pulled back from the brink of potential disaster at their euro summit… 27/10/2011
MEPs call for tougher EU wide anti-mafia lawsEurope needs stricter rules to stop organised crime, particularly the mafia, gaining access to public funds, the European Parliament says. The abolition… 27/10/2011
Crisis misses luxury groups You would not know much of the world is going through hard times by looking at the profits and statements of the makers of luxury goods. LVMH, the world’s… 18/10/2011
European banks on the brink The troubled European banking sector moved to the center of attention of the debt crisis this past week, as the French-Belgian Dexia group is on the brink of… 07/10/2011
More European bank downgrades In what is being seen as a warning to European governments to better support the region’s weakened banks, the debt rating agencies have slashed their ratings… 07/10/2011
Four countries urged to act against choosing babies’ gender Parents actively selecting their baby’s sex in some countries has raised serious concern in the human rights defence body the Council of Europe. Prenatal… 05/10/2011
EU debates flight security measures Air travel security in Europe is under the spotlight, with EU experts looking into the best measures to adopt for the future. One of the main solutions… 05/10/2011
Ukraine and Belarus top Eastern Partnership summit EU leaders head to Poland today faced with the tricky task of re-energising relations with the bloc’s eastern neighbours. Democracy and human rights abuses… 29/09/2011
MEP’s take ‘Six Pack’ rules off ice Tougher rules are to be introduced for the EU’s most profligate states. After months of delay the European Parliament has finally taken the so called ‘Six… 28/09/2011
German animators shine at Cartoon d’Or awards German directors Johannes Weiland and Uwe Heidschötter won the top award, presented in the Polish city of Sopot at a gathering of the European Cartoon Forum… 20/09/2011
Eurobasket champions Spain arrive homeThousands of fans packed into Madrid’s Callao Square on Monday as Spain arrived home to a hero’s welcome after winning the Eurobasket title for the second… 20/09/2011
Brussels seeks to resolve GM honey trap A recent ruling in the European Court of Justice stated honey contaminated by Genetically Modified crops must be clearly labelled. The decision also paved the… 19/09/2011
Abduction likely to capture teen fans’ imagination The pitch for new movie Abduction reads like a recipe for teen success, with hearthrob actor Taylor Lautner playing a young man who discovers a photo of… 19/09/2011
The Frankfurt Car Show – resisting the crisis As the euro debt crisis seems to be moving into another economic downturn – some say recession -, the international car industry is putting on an optimistic… 16/09/2011
European growth ‘coming to a standstill’ A stark warning from the EU Commission that growth in the second half of the year will grind to a “standstill”. The commission’s prediction comes in its… 15/09/2011
Europe border controls row brewing A row is brewing in Brussels over how members of the Schengen zone should be able to reintroduce border controls. The European Commission’s planned reform… 15/09/2011
ECB’s Stark quits revealing rifts European Central Bank Executive Board member Juergen Stark is quitting his post. According to the bank ,the German policymaker is stepping down for… 09/09/2011
Recession fears keep euro zone rates on hold With economic growth in the euro zone forecast to weaken the European Central Bank has changed tack on interest rates. Having previously raised rates to… 08/09/2011
OECD warns of worsening growth outlook The latest forecast for global growth from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is much more downbeat than its May prediction. The… 08/09/2011
Mount Etna wakes up again Mount Etna erupted for the twelfth time since 2011. (filmed in Catania/Sicily by Andrew Azzopardi) 30/08/2011
Mount Etna volcano erupts for twelfth time this year – nocomment Mount Etna erupted for the twelfth time in 2011. The Sicilian volcano spat out lava and produced a dense ash plume. 30/08/2011
Trichet calls for rapid implementation of Greek bailout European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet has urged eurozone governments to quickly implement the second bailout agreed on July 2 to help Greece… 29/08/2011
Euro zone services and manufacturing weaken The euro zone’s dominant service sector was effectively stagnant this month after two years of growth. A survey of purchasing managers measuring activity of… 23/08/2011
U-talk tackles sexism “I am Ana from Lisbon. I would like to know how can we put an end to sexism and to the prevailing social differences between men and women which is an ongoing… 20/08/2011
Shares plunge on Wall Street and around Europe The turmoil continues on the world’s financial markets. Wall Street plunged in early trading; at one stage in the first hour the Dow Jones Industrial… 10/08/2011
Meltdown worries send shares sliding on Monday The world’s financial markets remain extremely volatile with investors sending a message to politicians worldwide that they are not doing enough to address… 08/08/2011
Everybody’s talking, nobody’s listeningAn analyst has placed three figurines next to the German share trading DAX index during early morning trading at Frankfurt’s stock exchange August 8, 2011… 08/08/2011
Ashoka’s Bill Drayton believes you can make a difference Aurora Velez, Euronews: You’ve studied at Harvard, Oxford and Yale, how did you come up with the idea of creating this huge web of social… 08/08/2011
Gdansk Arena ready and waiting Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland officially opened the PGE Arena in Gdansk on Saturday easing some fears that the country won’t be ready in time for next year’s… 06/08/2011
Military manoeuvres in Ukraine – nocomment The ‘Rapid Trident’ joint Ukraine-NATO military exercise in western Ukraine involves 1,600 personnel from the US, Ukraine, Canada and neighbouring CIS and… 04/08/2011
Turkish Passport WWII Jews’ salvation The film “The Turkish Passport” combines dramatic reenactments with documentary testimony to tell a little-known tale from more than 60 years ago, of how… 01/08/2011
Europe Weekly: action against terrorists The tragic events in Norway and the wider risk of far right extremists is this week’s big story on Europe Weekly. In the search for answers the EU Council… 29/07/2011
Janusz Lewandowski on EU spending In the latest edition of I talk, euronews’ programme where you ask the questions, the guest is Janusz Lewandowski, EU Commissioner for Financial Programming… 28/07/2011
Where to protest in BrusselsIf you ever feel the need to express yourself to Europe’s leaders, Schuman Square, near the EU Council and the Commission buildings, is a favourite gathering… 27/07/2011
Nano foils smart-coat surfaces to work with light Picking up the phone these days means holding nanotechnology in your hand. Now that phones do so much more than carry voices, and we look at the things… 26/07/2011
Close up: have euro zone leaders saved the euro? Europe’s big guns have been quick to say the latest bail out for Greece and the steps taken to end the debt crisis are robust and decisive. Germany’s… 23/07/2011
Belgium’s highly developed sense of divisionI am from Spain so I know a bit about regional divisions, different languages in the same country and separatist movements. But nothing compared to what… 15/07/2011
Europe Weekly: round up For those of you who couldn’t follow the news during the week, Europe Weekly has a round up of the main events. We look at the eurozone crisis. Who is to… 15/07/2011
Euro zone: crisis & chaos It has been another business and finance week dominated by the increasingly chaotic debt crisis in the euro zone – and the United States. This week’s… 15/07/2011
‘Magic realism’ receives mixed reviews at Czech Film festival Two films featured at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival have polarised critics.“Dormir al sol’” from Argentinian director Alejandro Chomski has receieved mostly… 15/07/2011
Euro zone trade in balance in May Euro zone export growth in May reached its best level in four months while imports slowed sharply. The latest figures from the European Union statistical… 15/07/2011
EU and Mexico to step up fight against drugs The European Union and Mexico have begun their first security dialogue, which among other things will look at the ways the EU can help with a drug war that… 15/07/2011
Fitch downgrades five Greek banks to CCC The debt the crisis rattling the eurozone has deepened, after ratings agency Fitch downgraded Greece further into junk territory and the brink of… 15/07/2011
