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Military
NATO launches largest military exercises since the Cold War
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A silent movie cinema thrives in Brussels
A man is shown hugging a woman who is looking into the camera with empty stadium seats in the distance.
Extremism
Post-9/11, Europe’s weak spots make it a target for extremists
Two women are shown hugging each other with the entrance and red-lettered sign of the Bataclan concert hall in the background.
Justice
Emotions raw before Paris trial for ISIS carnage
European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson arrives for a meeting of EU justice and interior ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021.
Afghanistan
EU’s top migration official calls for global response to help Afghans in order to avoid migration crisis in Europe
A man wearing a reflective orange vest is shown kneeling next to another man laying down on his back.
Migration
Migrant hunger strike puts pressure on Belgian government
Woman in orange outfit walks in dry climate with girl in pink dress and boy in beige outfit
The Big Fix
NATO agrees to study how climate change impacts global security threats
Joe Biden, Charles Michel and Ursula von der Leyen are shown walking side-by-side on a red carpet with several national flags in the background.
Top of The World
US-EU reach deal on trade dispute ahead of Biden’s meeting with Putin
People stand in front of a church door with protest signs on it.
Migration
‘We cannot continue to live like this’: Migrants desperate to work occupy Brussels church
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is shown wearing a suit and walking with a red folder under his arm and a large Christmas tree in the background.
Brexit
UK, EU leaders to meet Wednesday amid Brexit no-deal signals
Stelios Panagos sits at his cafe in Kastanies. On a typical day, the cafe is filled with local Greeks as well as Turks. 
Migration
Cross-border tensions wreak havoc on bucolic Greek village
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is shown wearing a dark suit and standing in front of several microphones.
Nuclear
Fearing nuclear proliferation, Europe scrambles to calm Iran tensions
Protesters wear yellow jackets and sign that speak of climate emergency in Spanish language
Climate Change
Activists enraged by slow pace of climate diplomacy in Madrid
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is shown walking past the EU and UK flags.
Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal: What’s in it and how is it different to Theresa May’s version?
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Global Politics
With far-right topping Dutch polls, EU elections could see Eurosceptics take the lead
Delegates seated in the European Parliament
Elections
How the EU will vote and why it matters
A man and a woman with pro-Brexit signs stand next to a banner of political caricatures.
Global Politics
Rebels hope to kill off May’s Brexit deal in ‘last-chance’ vote
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May is shown in the middle of a group of three men, all wearing dark suits.
Business, Economics and Jobs
No deal beckons: EU presses May on Brexit deal
kids climate march
Climate Change
How European kids are schooling politicians on climate change
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May is shown in a blue jacket and scarf walking out of 10 Downing Street to a car.
British Prime Minister Theresa May asks lawmakers to send a message to Brussels on Brexit deal
US President Donald Trump is shown out of focus in the near ground with Russia's President Vladimir Putin seen in focus in the background.
Putin says Russia will make banned missiles if US exits arms treaty
European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager stands at a podium with a screen behind her reading "Antitrust: Google Android."
Google hit with record $5 billion EU antitrust fine
French President Emmanuel Macron, smiles as he warmly greets Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel — the two holding hands.
EU cuts migration deal after marathon talks, differences remain
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen in a blue dress next to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in a blue suit with several flags behind them.
Before summit, Merkel calls migration ‘make or break’ for Europe
President Donald Trump in the White House East Room.
Economics
Trump promises US friends ‘flexibility’ as trade war warnings rise
Brexit
Global Politics
Officials: Brexit process likely to go into overtime
A court artist drawing shows Salah Abdeslam, one of the suspects in the 2015 ISIS attacks in Paris, in court during his trial in Brussels, Belgium.
Conflict
‘Judge me’: Paris suspect refuses to answer Belgian court
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May wearing a dark blue jacket is picture between two EU flags in the foreground.
Economics
EU launches the next phase of Brexit
Demonstrators gather outside the Catalan regional parliament in Barcelona, Oct. 27, 2017.
Global Politics
Catalonia’s lawmakers vote for independence from Spain
European Parliament member Terry Reintke (C) holds a placard with the hashtag "MeToo" during a debate
Global Politics
EU institutions face scrutiny for how they deal with sexual assault
Election campaign posters for the leader billionaire politician Andrej Babis in Prague, Czech Republic, reading: "Stand up against corruption and stop babbling."
Global Politics
The populist tide has spread to one of Central Europe’s last liberal democracies
Leader of the People's Party Sebastian Kurz addresses the media after formally being asked to form a government by Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen in Vienna.
Global Politics
Conservative Austrian ‘whiz-kid’ tapped to form government
The leader of ANO party Andrej Babis signs books for a supporter during an election campaign rally in Prague, Czech Republic September 28, 2017.
Global Politics
The Czech Republic’s Trump is in the lead for prime minister
A pro-union demonstration organised by the Catalan Civil Society organisation makes its way through the streets of Barcelona, Spain October 8, 2017.
Global Politics
As Spain sinks further into instability, the EU remains mute
Brussels train station
Conflict
Brussels train station rocked by explosion, one suspect shot
President Donald Trump speaks beside NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the start of the NATO summit.
Economics
Trump berates NATO allies for not doing enough on terror, immigration and Russia
Nigel Farage moved the UK Independence Party from the fringes of British politics to victory in the Brexit referendum
Global Politics
My work here is done: Britain’s Brexit champion Nigel Farage quits
The leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, Nigel Farage, in Brussels
Global Politics
Brexiteer to Brussels: ‘You’re not laughing now, are you?’
A placard reading Molenbeek with a "peace and love sign" is seen in a shopping street in the suburb of Molenbeek, after security was tightened in Belgium following the attacks in Paris in November.
Culture
It’s not a den of terrorists. Here’s a different picture of Molenbeek
Right-wing demonstrators protest against terrorism in front of the old stock exchange in Brussels, Belgium, March 27. 2016.
Conflict
Anti-Muslim searches spike again after Brussels attacks
People gather at the Place de la Bourse to pay tribute to the victims of bomb attacks in Brussels.
Conflict
A Belgian father from Morocco talks to his sons about the Brussels attacks
A woman places carnations at the scene of a suicide bombing at Istiklal Street, a major shopping and tourist district, in central Istanbul, Turkey.
Conflict
By the numbers: The terror attacks we paid attention to
Abaaoud ordered fighters to shoot into crowds of civilians
Conflict
The hunt for ISIS’s European mastermind
Geraldine Henneghien
Conflict
‘It’s the whole family that is destroyed’
Ismaël Saidi
Conflict
‘We were just waiting for the storm to come’
Parisians observe a moment of silence in front of City Hall in honor of the Belgian victims and their own.
Conflict
For many in Paris, the attacks in Brussels brings up recent memories of their own tragedy
Belgian flags seen at a street memorial service near the old stock exchange in Brussels following Tuesday's bomb attacks
Conflict
How terrorists exploit family ties to recruit and retain members
The Eiffel Tower is seen with the black, yellow and red colors of the Belgian flag in tribute to the victims of Tuesday's Brussels bomb attacks, in Paris, France, March 22, 2016.
Conflict
Thoughts of Brussels — from across the world
People observe a minute of silence outside the EU Commission Headquarters in Brussels following Tuesday's bomb attacks.
Conflict
Police identify two brothers behind Belgium bombings and are searching for a third suspect
Ismaël Saidi
Conflict
‘For the non-Muslims, it was like I opened a door for them’
Youssef Kamand
Conflict
He’s just the kind of new citizen Europe wants — but Europe isn’t making it easy for him
VUB campus Etterbeek
Education
A Belgian campus puts out a welcome mat for refugees
Michaela Bauer and Richard Bishop and their sons
Conflict
One family’s decision to take in refugees: ‘We’re all in the same boat’
Imad Karkotli in his shop in Brussels
Conflict
He imports the most amazing product from Damascus, but worries ‘Syrian’ on his shopfront scares away customers
Habib, 57, and his daughter Rama, 12, live in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels.
Conflict
Terrorists in their midst: Residents of a Brussels neighborhood now know
Children attend a candlelight vigil in the town square in Molenbeek, a neighborhood in Brussels with ties to the alleged perpetrators of the Paris attacks.
Conflict
At a vigil in a Brussels neighborhood, residents proclaim ‘We are not all terrorists here’
This Nov. 16, 2015 photo shows Christmas lights in the municipality of Sint-Jans-Molenbeek (also known as Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, or just Molenbeek) in Brussels. Multiple people were arrested there during weekend searches to find suspects in the Nov. 13 ter
Conflict
Inside Molenbeek, the troubled Brussels neighborhood linked to terror in Paris
Belgian soldiers patrolling outside the US Embassy in Brussels, near the Belgian Parliament. Belgium has deployed hundreds of troops to guard potential targets of terrorism, including Jewish sites and diplomatic missions.
Justice
Terrorism fears mean Belgian troops now have a license to kill
The Kouachi brothers gesture after shooting up the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris last week.
Justice
Where did the Paris attackers get their guns?
A woman holds a sign during a demonstration organised by anti-immigration group PEGIDA, a German abbreviation for "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West", in Dresden December 22, 2014.
Global Politics
Why other European cities might be frightened by the events in France this week