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Germany's new Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said Wednesday there was "no time to lose" to jump-start Europe's beleaguered top economy, even as hardline US trade policies complicate his task.

The European health workforce faces a severe crisis. Rapidly aging EU countries have an estimated shortage of some 1.2 million doctors, nurses and midwives. Lack of nurses is especially significant. Our reporter Julián López Gómez travelled to Bulgaria, one of the countries most affected.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to host heads of states for festivities Friday marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II

Robert Fico is not alone in voicing his discontent. Hungary, the other member state with close ties to Moscow, also hit out at the plan.

Across Europe, far-right parties are making unforeseen breakthroughs – from local councils to national and supranational parliaments. As their presence becomes normalised, these parties promote nationalist rhetoric, challenge democratic institutions, and attempt to reshape a political present rooted in hard-won struggles against authoritarianism.

Hungary earlier released at least 2000 foreign people smugglers from prison, ordering them to leave the country. The European Commission thinks it's a violation of European law.

Merz's trips come the day after his historic defeat in the first round of voting in the German parliament, the Bundestag.

Winners worth £115 million have helped create the garden for Veterans’ Growth in Battle, East Sussex.

Slovakia’s populist leader has rejected a European Union plan to halt imports of Russian natural gas by the end of 2027 to deprive President Vladimir Putin of revenue that helps fuel the war in Ukraine