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SUMMER GUIDE 2025: From a former military airfield to a stage suspended over a lake, many of Europe’s best festivals offer spectacular scenery along with the biggest and best lineups. The Independent’s culture team share their favourites

Thousands of protesters gathered in Freedom Square in the capital, Bratislava, to voice their objection to PM Fico and oppose his anti-Europe, pro-Russian policies.

Josep Borrell also criticises EU response to what he calls largest ethnic cleansing operation since second world war

The leaders of France, Britain, Germany and Poland will make an unprecedented joint visit to Ukraine on Saturday for talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky, vowing to ratchet up pressure on Russia until it agrees a ceasefire.

Thousands of people have gathered in Romania’s capital for a pro-European Union march

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: For all the praise that has greeted the government’s new trade arrangements with India and the United States, it is the promise of closer ties – both economic and defensive – with our nearest neighbours that will prove the most valuable and enduring

Visiting Paris and Warsaw, Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke about defence and European unity, marking a shift from his predecessor's policies and aiming for a stronger EU.

The Prime Minister was in Norway on Friday for a series of meetings.

Homer’s Iliad is one of the foundational stories of European civilisation. The Iliad is a long poem – an epic – thought to have first been put down in writing in the eighth century BC, though the story is set several hundred years before, perhaps as early as the 12th…

The striker was signed to replace Harry Kane and led his team to the Europa League final on Thursday

The UK, France and a group of northern European nations said Friday they supported a US proposal for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine.