European Union

Facebook and Microsoft's grievances over how their gaming apps appear on Apple's App Store may feed into an EU investigation into the iPhone maker's business as EU antitrust regulators said such concerns are on their radar.

Europeans are uncomfortable talking about structural racism. But it is the lived reality of millions of people of colour on the continent, and needs to be addressed honestly, writes Amelie Glauber.

The US Secret Service abruptly escorted President Donald Trump out of the White House press room in the middle of a briefing on Monday (10 August) because of a shooting outside the White House.

Slovakia said on Monday (10 August) it has expelled three staff at the Russian embassy in Bratislava whilst citing an abuse of Slovak visas, which local media said was linked with a murder of a Georgian man in Berlin last year.

Algeria's president has requested the country's trade minister reassess a deal with the EU, ahead of a free trade agreement due to come into effect on 1 September.

British border agents brought ashore migrants in the port of Dover on Monday (10 August) after picking them up from an inflatable boat as they crossed the Channel, the latest in a surge of crossings that is causing political tensions with France.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Monday (10 August) he had expressed "displeasure" to his US counterpart Mike Pompeo about Washington's threat of sanctions against a German port over a gas pipeline from Russia.

EU leaders have to make up their minds and understand that they only have two options - to act on the side of Bulgarian citizens in their fight for a decent and modern European country, or to passively watch the failure of a member state, writes Radan Kanev.

At a donor conference on Sunday attended by more than 30 heads of state and government representatives, around 200 million euros in emergency aid was pledged for the reconstruction of Lebanon after the devastating explosion in Beirut. The aid money is to be channelled through the UN, bypassing authorities suspected of corruption. Lebanon needs more than money now, commentators stress.

Protests broke out in cities across Belarus on Sunday after the announcement of a landslide victory for Viktor Lukashenko in Belarus's presidential election. According to the authorities the president won 80 percent of the vote while his main opponent Svetlana Tikhanovskaya received only 9.9 percent. However independent exit polls carried out with the help of foreign embassies give the opposition candidate 71 percent. Is the country's future on a knife edge?

In most European countries the school summer holidays don't end until September but in some the new school year is already beginning. School life is to go back to normal in as far as possible and the risk of infection minimised with masks, extensive ventilation and distancing. Most commentators welcome this approach but some also have their doubts.