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A Child in Time: Surviving Auschwitz
Seventy years ago this month a Nazi train was stopped by resisters as it travelled from Flanders to Auschwitz. Althea Williams tells the story of a survivor. Kazerne Dossin, a former infantry barracks,...
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Media: British tabloids and their Euromyths
The EU has ruled on the curves of cucumbers, forbidden hairdressers from wearing heels, and even financed a porn film. These urban legends about decisions taken in Brussels are as endless as they are...
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Queen Beatrix reopens Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum | News | DW.DE | 13.04.2013
Visitors can once again see Rembrandt’s "The Night Watch" in all its glory following the reopening of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. Queen Beatrix has reopened her country’s national museum after a 10-year...
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Chinese Investment in Europe Hits Record High - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Europe has become the world's largest recipient of foreign investment by Chinese firms. While North America largely views them with suspicion, China's state-owned corporations have been largely...
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EU court condemns Belgian Flanders for language bias
The European Court of Justice has handed down a judgement against the Belgian Flemish community for infringing EU freedom of movement by only drafting workers’ contracts in Dutch. Under the Flemish law...
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Unemployed youth turn their backs on Spain | Europe | DW.DE | 01.04.2013
Frustrated by a lack of opportunities at home, Spanish youth are leaving in droves. More than 280,000 left last year alone in the hope of finding jobs in countries such as Germany, Britain, Argentina...
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'Like 1930s Germany': Greek Far Right Gains Ground - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Nowhere else in Europe are neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists profiting as greatly from the financial crisis as in Athens. As they terrorize the country with violence, the police stand back and...
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Spanish unemployment tops 6 million
MADRID, April 24 (Reuters) - More than six million Spaniards were out of work in the first quarter of this year, raising the jobless rate in the euro zone's fourth biggest economy to 27.2 percent, the...
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Spain’s population falls for first time since civil war
Spain's population fell last year for the first time since the 1940s as immigrants fled a five-year on-and-off recession that has sent unemployment soaring. The number of residents fell by 206,000 to...
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Britain and EU close to point of no return
There's no knowing how and where it will all end. But it is clear with every week that passes in Europe's biggest crisis that Britain and the rest of the EU are heading in starkly different directions....
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France-Germany: 'The big chill'
Tensions between France and Germany rose yet another notch on Friday, after months of clashing over which policies to adopt in order to end the economic crisis. The most recent conflict concerns a...
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Anti-establishment parties defy EU
Major gains by the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in England's local elections appear to be part of a wider revolt against the political establishment in much of Europe. Europe's traditional...
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Germany's Westerwelle says Europe needs more appropriate powers to fight racism
BUDAPEST, May 6 (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told Jewish leaders on Monday that the European Union needed better legal means to fight racism in member states. Speaking amid...
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Germany sees surge in immigration from crisis-hit Europe
FRANKFURT, May 7 (Reuters) - An influx of people from crisis-hit southern European countries like Spain, Italy and Greece has led to the biggest surge in German immigration in nearly 20 years. The...
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After austerity, what? The backlash against Europe’s austerity is intensifying.
LIKE France’s François Hollande a year ago, Italy’s Enrico Letta rushed to Berlin immediately after taking power, and with a similar message: Italy would respect fiscal discipline, but Europe must do...
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Family ties: study finds all Europeans are related
Scientists have uncovered what, for some couples, may be an uncomfortable truth: all people of European descent are related. Go back a few generations and even people from opposite ends of the European...
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The State of Europe (1/2): The Old Continent is still fit, thank you
Pessimists around the world repeat that the European Union is doomed because of structural weaknesses and the economic crisis. But in many fields, the EU holds its own against world powers like the...
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France's Hollande urges euro zone government, common debt
PARIS, May 16 (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande called on Thursday for an economic government in the euro zone that would have its own budget, the right to issue debt, a harmonised tax...
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Alliance with waning influence | World | DW.DE | 14.05.2013
The US and UK are still counting on talks rather than military action to solve the civil war in Syria. But their talks in Washington highlighted the diminishing influence of the US-British alliance on...
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Statewatch News Online: EU: Field testing: CLOSEYE project puts drones over...
CLOSEYE will run for 38 months, after which it is expected that a working system will be in place that can be "homogenised to the entire European Union."With Frontex in the process of preparing aerial...
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Poland: A new promised land
The tables have now turned for job seekers in Europe. As austerity and unemployment drives young people from Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece in search of work, Poland is rapidly becoming an...
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France sets Google deadline on privacy improvements | News | DW.DE | 20.06.2013
Internet giant Google has been told to improve privacy for its clients by France's data protection agency, CNIL, or face fines. The agency says Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain plan...
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Automated emergency call for road accidents mandatory in cars from 2015 - The...
To help mitigate the consequences of serious road accidents across the EU, the European Commission has this week adopted two proposals to ensure that, by October 2015, cars will automatically call...
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EU-France: Sparks fly
... the French political class, right and left, has little enthusiasm for the economic liberalism that remains the credo of most of its neighbours, including Germany. This is the major reason for the...
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The real power behind the throne in Brussels: Catherine Day - Public Service...
Controversy over the resignation a European commissioner has thrown a spotlight on one of the most influential yet unknown figures in the European Union Day is said to be the most influential...
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US friends don't like to be spied on
People accept that spies spy on terrorists and many would accept that they try to uncover Russia's and China's military secrets. But snooping on friends to find out their negotiating positions? ... It...
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Echoes of 1914: are today's conflicts a case of history repeating itself?
Historian Christopher Clark on drawing parallels with 1914. ... At the very least, 1914 remains ... a cautionary tale about how very wrong international politics can go, and how fast, and with what...
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Brussels acts to stem flow of EU's radicalised 'foreign fighters'
Terrorism acts like the one perpetrated by Anders Behring Breivik in Norway, or by Mohamed Merah in France, have shocked European societies over the past few years. The EU’s efforts address domestic...
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Schäuble advocates separate eurozone parliament
Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble said yesterday (27 January) he was open to the creation of a separate European parliament for countries using the euro, a step that could deepen divisions...
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Is Germany after a stronger military role?
Germany’s new Defense Minister, Ursula von der Leyen, believes a European army is a logical eventual step according to an interview she gave Spiegel magazine. Her comments come just days before this...
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