European Union

A group of people crowded onto a small open boat in the deep blue sea
Migration
Europe makes another move to outsource border control with Mauritania deal
Protesters wave a Georgian national and EU flags as they rally against a draft law
Foreign policy
Georgia faces a rocky road to EU membership
Hungarian PM Viktor Orban arrives for the an extraordinary meeting of EU leaders to discuss Ukraine, energy and food security in Brussels
Energy
Hungary’s Orban wins exemption in EU Russian oil embargo
A train passes by Republika Power Plant in town of Pernik, Bulgaria, April 21, 2022. The only nuclear power plant, generating over a third of Bulgaria’s electricity, runs on uranium from Russia.
Ukraine
EU proposes oil ban after bloc’s largest economy drops opposition
A row of umbrells are shown standing upright in the sand with the blue Aegean sea in the distance.
EU takes big step toward relaxing travel for vaccinated
A passenger shows his PCR test result on his phone as he boards a plane at an airport
Borders
As Europe plans to reopen, travelers must read the fine print
A shellfish export truck with a protest sign written across the trailer "Incompetent Government Destroying Shellfish Industry" drives past the Palace of Westminster in London
Scottish fishermen say their industry is in crisis after Brexit  
Luke DeBoer, left, and fiancée Ida Marie Rygg on a trip to Kjerag mountain in Norway. Closed borders during the coronavirus pandemic separated them for months.
COVID-19
‘Love is essential’: Some EU countries relax rules for separated cross-border couples
Several cafe tables are shown in St. Mark's Square with the St. Mark's Basilica in the distance.
COVID-19
EU travel recommendations may impede Americans and Russians
A man waves a British flag on Brexit day in London, Britain, on Jan. 31, 2020.
Brexit
Brexit? It’s still a thing.
European Union flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium
COVID-19
Top scientist says he quit research council over poor European response to COVID-19
A protester stands with a sign reading "NHS NOT FOR SALE"
Health & Medicine
The NHS is ‘not for sale.’ But is it a victim of Brexit woes?
A woman stands by stocked shelfs in a shop
Brexit
With Brexit looming, Berlin’s ‘Broken English’ shop looks to Ireland
People crossing the street.
Brexit
With Brexit looming, calls for Scottish independence grow
British Prime Minister Theresa May is shown standing at a wooden podium and wearing a red suit.
Britain’s Theresa May resigns, paving way for Brexit confrontation with EU
voting in holland
Global Politics
In upset, Dutch Labor party trumps populists in European vote
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
A man in overalls is shown looking down at the sea bed on his cockling board.
Global Politics
Tea, bingo and cockles — my journey to Brexit-on-Sea
A close-up photograph of Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May who is wearing dark-rimmed glasses.
Global Politics
May looks for a way out of Brexit maelstrom as EU says no-deal exit looms
Pro- and anti-Brexit signs
Global Politics
Britain’s May says she will quit if her Brexit deal passes
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
Rock of Gibraltar at dusk
Global Politics
Gibraltar after Brexit: Why Spain, not Ireland will decide the UK’s fate
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May shown leaving Downing Street wearing a blue jacket and scarf while carrying a red binder.
Global Politics
Momentum gathers behind British lawmakers’ bid to stop no-deal Brexit
A man with a top hat and UK flag draped around his shoulders holds anti-Brexit protest signs
Global Politics
5 reasons Americans ought to care about Brexit
several hundred members of parliament in a room
Brexit: An ‘escape room’ with no escape
British Prime Minister Theresa May are seen sitting across from Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in Parliament.
Global Politics
Search on for Brexit consensus after May’s crushing defeat
Prime Minister Theresa May sits down in Parliament with a grimace on her face
British lawmakers reject Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May is shown wearing a grey scarf and blue overcoat with a binder in her left hand.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Britain’s May faces defeat in parliament over Brexit plan
Demonstrators hold EU and Union flags shown in this photograph back lit by the sun with the Houses of Parliament in the background.
100 days to Brexit, businesses and EU ramp up no-deal planning
British flags wave against a dark sky outside the Parliament building in Long. People stand behind iron barricades holding the flags.
British PM May survives vote but more than 117 dissent
Tourist binoculars with option to pay in pounds or euros.
EU struggles to agree on Gibraltar before Brexit summit
Theresa May is shown with a folder in her left hand walking out of 10 Downing Street, in London.
Global Politics
British Prime Minister Theresa May tries to sell Brexit deal to ministers
ireland
Global Politics
Brexit: ‘Compromise possible’ on Irish border rules
A woman in red turns around next to a line of men all in suits.
Britain to EU: ‘Engage with us now in seriousness’ on Brexit proposals
US President Donald Trump is show sitting next to British Prime Minister Theresa May at the end of a table with flags behind them.
Trump says May’s Brexit plan kills hope of a US trade deal
At Mountainoak Cheese in rural Ontario, their Gouda is winning awards. The owners support Canada's tariffs on cheese imports.
Economics
What turns some law-abiding Canadians into smugglers? The high price of imported cheese.
Brexit
Global Politics
Officials: Brexit process likely to go into overtime
Anti-Brexit protesters wave EU and Union flags outside the Houses of Parliament
Global Politics
Britain and Ireland remain at odds over Brexit and the border with Northern Ireland
An Albanian state police officer holds a piece of freshly cut cannabis near the town of Kruja. Most of the pot produced in Albania is grown outdoors, on public land. Growers take advantage of the country’s Mediterranean climate and mountainous terrain.
Economics
Riding along with Albania’s pot police
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
Spain unemployment Malaga
Economics
Why far-right populism hasn’t caught on in Spain
Supporters of Austrian far right Freedom Party (FPOe) presidential candidate Norbert Hofer hold images of his face in Vienna, Austria.
Economics
The European Union may be fragile, but it’s not cracking up just yet
Brexit-EU
Rule Britannia
Full Episode
Who are ‘we’?
Full Episode
Turkey Refugee Camp
Conflict
Refugees in Turkey will get EU-funded debit cards
Brexit-EU
Global Politics
After the UK, which nations are more vulnerable to an anti-EU revolt? These 5 charts may tell you.
Brexit beer
Virtual beer and Brexit chat with European friends
Full Episode
A workers counts ballots after polling stations closed in the Referendum on the European Union in Islington, London.
Global Politics
The geography of Brexit: What the vote reveals about the Disunited Kingdom
Tributes in memory of murdered Labour Party MP Jo Cox, who was shot dead in Birstall, are left at Parliament Square in London,
Global Politics
Will the murder of an idealistic, young British MP swing the EU membership vote?
London Mayor Boris Johnson and Prime Minister David Cameron have been schoolmates, political colleagues, and are now rivals in a battle of Britain's future in Europe.
Global Politics
How Britain’s debate over Europe has opened an old rivalry between former schoolmates
German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses after recording her New Year's speech in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, December 30, 2015.
Conflict
The refugee crisis was the story of the year in 2015. And that story is far from over.
A mother embraces her child next to the Tiburtina train station in Rome.
Conflict
Migrants are sleeping on cardboard outside Italian train stations after EU halts their journey north
Simon Vaut
Europe and the World Stage
Full Episode
The new, young, leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wants debt forgiveness and an end to European austerity measures but as you can see, if he exits through the window it's a long way down.
Global Politics
A Greek tragedy or comedy: Cartoonists aren’t yet sure when it comes to Alexis Tsipras
President Barack Obama addresses the Climate Summit at UN headquarters in New York on September 23, 2014. Obama touted American commitments to cut greenhouse pollution, but international agreements have been undercut by sharp internal divisions in the US
Environment
Here’s why the US and Europe are so far apart on climate policy
Russian-owned VTB Bank will be impacted by EU sanctions against Russia's economy. A monument of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin stands on the top of a building.
Global Politics
With new sanctions, the EU launches a broad economic attack on Russia
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde prepares to host a news conference at the Treasury, in London June 6, 2014. IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde ruled herself out of the running for the job of European Commission president on Friday.
Global Politics
IMF chief Christine Lagarde is a powerful force on the global stage
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (left) gestures during a statement on the violence in Ukraine before a meeting with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in Paris February 19, 2014.
Global Politics
Can the US and Europe do anything to stop the violence in Ukraine?
A poster against the "mass immigration initiative" of the Swiss Socalist Party SPS is seen on the Federal Square before a campaign in Bern.
Global Politics
Could the European Union punish the Swiss for their decision to limit immigration?