German prosecutors said yesterday they intend to take action against an 88-year-old US resident for suspected involvement in the mass murder of 29,000 Jews, setting the stage for what could be the last major Nazi war crimes trial - in Adolf Hitler's former stronghold. The trial in Munich of John Dem...

US secretary of state hosts 'town hall meeting' with 1,000 people at European parliament She might have been forgiven for looking a bit worn-out after a week of meetings from Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt to Nato's charmless headquarters in Brussels. But Hillary Clinton positively glowed this morning at ...

France paralysed by a wave of strike action, the boulevards of Paris resembling a debris-strewn battle�eld. The Hungarian currency sinks to its lowest level ever against the euro, as the unemployment �gure rises. Greek farmers block the road into Bulgaria in protest at low prices for their produ...

The Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has returned to his old haunts as a KGB agent in eastern Germany to attend the Dresden Opera ball and receive an 18-carat gold award in the middle of an energy crisis triggered by his decision to deny Siberian gas to half of Europe. Putin's visit to Dresde...

Guardian: The EU, Russia and Ukraine will today hold top-levels talks in a last-ditch effort to resolve the increasingly angry political dispute that has cut off all Russian gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. Russia accused Ukraine of "blackmail" and Kiev blamed Moscow for halting sup...

Guardian: The EU, Russia and Ukraine will today hold top-levels talks in a last-ditch effort to resolve the increasingly angry political dispute that has cut off all Russian gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. Russia accused Ukraine of "blackmail" and Kiev blamed Moscow for halting sup...

The Czech Republic becomes the first former Soviet satellite to run the European Union today, as it takes over the EU presidency from President Nicolas Sarkozy after six months of dynamic crisis management. With its centre-right government weak and unstable and the country's head of state, President...

Political leaders in the European parliament have awarded their parties millions of euros in extra funding only weeks before the deadline for the money to be spent because of a large budget surplus. Leaders of the main groupings in the parliament found last month that this year's parliament budget w...

The climate change package details how European industries, energy generators, governments, and transport sectors are to effect a "triple 20" deal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020 compared with 1990 levels, cutting energy consumption by 20% by the same deadline, and ensuring that ...

European leaders have agreed a deal relaxing new rules to cut car pollution and reduce the penalties for the automotive industry if their vehicles continue to spew out high levels of carbon dioxide, while setting a more ambitious longer-term target for slashing emissions from new cars. Under the dea...