When pastry chef Tino Gierig is asked what the famous Dresden stollen tastes like, his eyes sparkle and his voice rises to an enthusiastic sing-song as as he describes the rich delicacy filled with raisins and other dried fruits.
Tensions between Lithuania and Belarus have escalated after meteorological balloons from Belarus forced Lithuania to repeatedly shut down its main airport in the past weeks, leaving thousands of people stranded.
Bulgaria's government said Tuesday it is withdrawing a controversial budget proposal after an evening demonstration drew tens of thousands of peaceful participants but was later marred by clashes between a much smaller group of masked men and police.
The right to trial by jury will be pared back in Britain in an attempt to clear a backlog of cases clogging up the justice system, the government announced Tuesday.
Authorities in Belgium arrested three people on Tuesday after raiding the offices of the European Union's diplomatic service in Brussels and a college in Bruges as part of a fraud investigation, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.
White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, are expected to meet Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war with Ukraine.
A Libyan man accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes at a Tripoli prison appeared before judges at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, sitting impassively as a court official read out charges including murder, rape and torture.
Canada has joined a major European Union defense fund, Prime Minister Mark Carney's office said Monday, as the country looks to diversify its military spending away from the United States.
In August, North Korean state media released photos of Kim Jong-un bowing before the portraits of soldiers killed in Ukraine, hugging grieving families and pinning medals on returning troops. In a rare display of public mourning, the North Korean leader described the fallen as "great heroes" and "martyrs," his "heart aching" at their loss.
Swiss voters on Sunday decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams or other forms, as men must already do.
Thousands of people on Sunday joined protest marches in Croatia against a surging far right following a spate of incidents that have fueled both ethnic and political tensions in the European Union country.
President Trump's Ukraine-Russia peace plan will have one of two outcomes if it's ultimately signed by the two warring parties.
Analysts who have been tracking Russia's widespread and increasingly elaborate hybrid war campaign against Europe -- including espionage plots, sabotage attacks and waves of drone incursions over sensitive sites -- are warning that Moscow is working on another weapon to deploy against adversaries: the weather itself.
Talks on the U.K. joining a major European Union defense fund have ended without agreement, the British government said Friday, in a blow to its post-Brexit reset with the 27-nation bloc.
A Ukrainian man suspected of setting off explosions that damaged Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany more than three years ago has been placed in custody in Germany.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Friday, once again shunning efforts by his European Union partners to isolate Moscow over its invasion of neighboring Ukraine nearly four years ago.
Paris' Louvre museum has approved a ticket hike from 22 to 32 euros ($25 to 37) for non-European visitors from January to help finance an overhaul of the building whose degradation has been exposed by the Oct. 19 crown jewels heist.
The British government welcomed the news Thursday that net migration in the U.K., the difference between those moving to the country long-term and those leaving, fell by more than two-thirds in the year to June, but insisted that the figure must fall further in order to ease tensions within communities.
The European Space Agency said Thursday it would increase its budget for the next three years to almost 22.1 billion euros ($25.6 billion).
President Emmanuel Macron announced thousands of volunteers aged 18 and 19 will start serving in the military next year as he unveiled a new program meant to bolster France's armed forces to address growing concerns over Russia's threat to European nations beyond the war in Ukraine.
