Ulf Kristersson asked to be relieved of office so the speaker can start building a new government. Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats are the largest party with 99 seats, but her four-party bloc disagrees on taxes, nuclear power and who gets a cabinet seat.
Magdalena Andersson's four-party opposition holds a hair-thin lead over Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's right-wing bloc. In 2022 an exit poll showed the same thing, and the right won.
Speaking at the BRICS summit in India, the Russian president drew a red line around a European peacekeeping force while insisting Moscow poses 'no such threat' to Europe. Overnight attacks hit Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih and Kramatorsk.
Ulrich Siegmund's party more than doubled its 2021 result and left Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats at 18.5% after 24 years running the state. Every other party still refuses to govern with it.
Health Minister Stephanie Rist gave the figure Friday, covering the period through late July. The 2003 summer that shocked France had 22 heatwave days.
Twenty-five cities were already at the health ministry's maximum warning level this week, with Messina and Reggio Calabria projected to join by Thursday. Nights that never drop below 25°C are what makes this wave dangerous.
WatchAbout 60,000 people breached the border of the Spanish enclave in North Africa over two days. By Saturday the government said most had returned to Morocco, and it began building a 500-meter barrier into the sea.
Two were trapped driving between fire fronts on Crete; a third died in the Peloponnese. EU fire weather is running 43% more severe than the late-July average of the past two decades.
A blaze in southwestern France claimed two firefighters’ lives while a fire in Spain’s Guadalajara province burned uncontrolled for a sixth day, forcing more than 1,200 people from their homes as extreme heat gripped the continent.
Nearly 7,600 troops, hundreds of European soldiers and dozens of aircraft filed down the Champs-Elysees in a display Paris cast as proof of 'Europe's strategic awakening' — Macron's final military parade as president.
Meeting in Paris, ten countries pledged a shared ballistic-missile defense drawing on Ukraine's battlefield experience, as Moscow denounced 'a coalition of warmongers.'
Two fast-breeding mantis species from Asia have been formally declared invasive as they push northward across the continent, preying on pollinators, small vertebrates and even native mantises.
Victims were found in burnt-out cars as they tried to outrun flames that swept through the Andalusian countryside during a punishing heatwave.
Under heavy pressure from President Trump, alliance leaders unveiled more than $50 billion in new weapons purchases and reaffirmed a path toward 5% of GDP on defense by 2035.
Genetic analysis of 132 skeletons in a megalithic tomb near Paris shows the community that built it collapsed — and centuries later, unrelated newcomers from the south were burying their dead in the same graves.
Paris hit 40.9°C and the U.K. logged its hottest June day on record near 38°C as a Saharan heat dome pushed Spain and Portugal toward 44°C.
In Brussels, the defense secretary lashed allies for denying basing rights during the Iran war and warned that 'some countries will fail' his assessment of the alliance.
Trump administration document reveals plan to withdraw a third of American fighter aircraft provided to NATO forces in Europe, signaling reduced U.S. commitment to alliance.
Unidentified aircraft are setting off security concerns across European airspace while immigration policies create World Cup complications.
Citing falling literacy, Stockholm will bar phones for the coming academic year, joining Finland and Denmark in a broad Nordic reversal on classroom technology.
President Zelensky meets with Britain, Germany, and France leaders who could serve as negotiators in future talks with Russia.
President Zelensky travels to London to meet with British, German, and French leaders who could serve as negotiators in future talks with Russia.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used language echoing European far-right parties while commemorating the 82nd anniversary of the Normandy landings, reflecting Trump administration immigration rhetoric.
The country's largest union federation walked out against a government plan to ease dismissals and loosen working-hour limits, disrupting trains, metros and hospitals nationwide.
President's surprise social media announcement reverses Defense Department decision from last week, catching military officials off guard.
Scientists study rare non-cremated graves to uncover how Late Bronze Age people lived, moved, and adapted to cultural changes.
A 37-year-old man was arrested at the scene; the centrist D66 youth wing was meeting inside when the firework device exploded shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday.
Trump's decision to launch the Iran war without consulting NATO — followed by his 'naughty and nice' list punishing Spain and the U.K. — is driving Brussels and Berlin toward independent defense planning, including a revived Franco-German nuclear umbrella.
Similar incidents across Europe claimed by shadowy Islamist group suggest coordinated campaign using low-cost methods to sow fear in Jewish communities.
Five years out of college, Samuel Samson has become the face of the Trump administration's push to upend America's postwar relationship with Europe.
Hungary's longtime authoritarian leader acknowledges electoral loss after 16 years in power, as opposition candidate rides wave of anti-corruption sentiment to victory.
President cites European reluctance to back U.S. military action as justification for scaling back NATO commitments while pursuing Greenland acquisition.
Britain, France and the European Union condemned Israel's strikes targeting Hezbollah, saying these threatened the fragile truce between the U.S. and Iran.
The high-profile diplomatic visit underscores America's investment in Viktor Orban's political survival amid growing international isolation.
Military analysts identify markings consistent with squadron stationed at R.A.F. Lakenheath, one of Europe's largest U.S. fighter operations.
After decades of prioritizing domestic over military spending, European leaders struggle to pivot as war threatens to anger voters and strain national budgets.
With Ras Laffan halted by a drone attack, Ras Tanura hit by Iranian missiles, and Maersk suspending all Hormuz transits, Europe is drawing down gas reserves at emergency rates while fertilizer prices threaten to spike food inflation across the continent by summer.
In all-caps social media posts and public statements, President Trump demanded NATO members dispatch warships to the Strait of Hormuz and branded the alliance's refusal to join the US-Israel campaign against Iran a test of loyalty it had categorically failed.
Intelligence sources report improved versions of weapons previously sent from Iran to Russia for Ukraine war now flowing in reverse direction.
European politicians risk voter anger if they join America's war, but face potential domestic upheaval if they fail to reopen blocked shipping routes.
FBI investigation reveals resurgence of online hate group 'the Base' despite previous law enforcement efforts to dismantle the organization.
Germany, France, and most NATO members have refused to deploy forces to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, prompting the sharpest rupture in transatlantic relations in decades and raising urgent questions about the future of the alliance.