Luke Baker

Major EU member states vote on Sunday to elect the 751 deputies to sit in the European Parliament until 2019.

EU leaders have frozen assets belonging to deposed Ukraine leaders, and have warned Russia of sanctions if they do not pull troops out of Crimea.

European finance officials are working on urgent measures to ease financial market pressure on Spain and Italy, which are too big to bail out.

TS Eliot said that April was the cruellest month, but for Europe’s leaders, it may prove to be June.

Europe’s leaders will try to breathe life into their stricken economies but disagreement over plans to alleviate debt chaos has been laid bare.

The eurozone won verbal support but no new money at a G20 summit for its tortured efforts to overcome a sovereign debt crisis.

A double-notch downgrade of Spain’s credit rating has piled pressure on Europe’s leaders to make progress on solving the region’s debt crisis.

Nato says it will hand over security in Afghanistan by the end of 2014 but would not abandon the country in its fight against the Taliban.

Nato will invite Russia to take part in a missile defence shield, a move that would herald the closest cooperation since the end of the Cold War.

European leaders promised on Friday to provide developing countries with €7,3-billion to try to win their support for a climate-change deal.

The rescue of a British journalist from the Taliban has provoked anger about the risks reporters take in war zones.

Zimbabwe’s economy has turned around in the past four months, the minister for economic planning said on Tuesday.

Britain’s House of Lords on Wednesday ruled against the use of secret evidence to keep terrorism suspects under surveillance without charge.

Embarrassing disclosures about the vast expenses claims of British MPs amount to a ”McCarthy-style witch-hunt”, a lawmaker said on Friday.

Two of UK’s major broadcasters faced down criticism on Monday and refused to air a charity appeal for the victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza.