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Officials from nine southern European Union countries pledged this week to work together to develop more water-saving technologies in agriculture. Farmers are feeling the strain of worsening droughts, which in turn threaten food security.

In an unprecedented joint statement, Sir Richard Moore and Bill Burns highlighted the growing threats facing the UK and the US

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Letters: To mitigate the damage done by Brexit, any new deal would have to be deep and wide-ranging, says Dr Peter Holmes. Also letter from Scott McDonald

Surging anti-Semitism since Hamas's October 7 attack sparked the war in Gaza recalls the run-up to World War II, with fear spreading through Jewish communities worldwide, top European and US envoys warned this week.

The small-boats ‘summit’ is doomed – there will be smugglers as long as there are people as desperate as I was

Water reserves at the artificial Lake Mornos in central Greece have hit their lowest level in 16 years as a drought induced by climate change rampages across much of southern Europe this summer

We know about Romanian, Hungarian and Greek wines, but there’s a whole bevy of well-established wines in Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland to explore

The nomination of Michel Barnier, a veteran of both French and EU politics, to the post of French prime minister, is “a surprise and a delicate gamble” by French president Emmanuel Macron. That’s according to our guest in Talking Europe, economist and political analyst Jean Pisani-Ferry. He tells Armen Georgian…

It hasn’t been smooth sailing this summer for Ursula von der Leyen, who was voted in as EU Commission president for a second term in July. She had asked national capitals to put forward two candidates for her new Commission, one female and one male, so that she could ensure…

What can we expect from the 19th edition of the Solheim Cup?