Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis was elected Thursday as president of the Eurogroup - a move that would have been unthinkable just 10 years ago, when the country was in the throes of a deep financial crisis that almost saw it tossed out of the eurozone altogether.
The European Union on Thursday handed Ukraine a long list of reforms needed to join the bloc, determined to push the process forward despite the ongoing war and objections from EU member Hungary.
Workers at the Louvre Museum voted Monday for strikes to protest their work conditions, a ticket-price hike for non-European visitors and security weaknesses that a brazen daylight theft of France's Crown Jewels highlighted in October.
One mural, "No Poverty," shows a Black woman tenderly braiding the hair of a white woman - a snapshot of family bonds that grew out of difficult times. Another, called "No Hunger," depicts a local woman showing children her vegetable garden so they know where their food comes from.
