Is Merkel still plotting against Juncker?
Angela Merkel may want France to propose Christine Lagarde as the new European Commission boss. But neither she nor Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker are safe bets for the job.
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In their first meeting since Russia annexed Crimea, at D-Day commemorations in France, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s president-elect Petro Poroshenko call for an end to the bloodshed.
Angela Merkel may want France to propose Christine Lagarde as the new European Commission boss. But neither she nor Luxembourg’s Jean-Claude Juncker are safe bets for the job.
As India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi is the leader of the world’s biggest democracy. Britain hit the diplomatic bull’s-eye with the sometimes controversial figure early on: but what’s next?
Europe’s mainstream parties are beginning to reassert themselves, and urging caution over the dangers of the far right and far left. But complacency is the battered EU’s biggest problem.
Marine Le Pen’s Front National has gripped the French electorate in the Euro elections but offers few solutions for the country’s deep-seated problems.
Far-right and anti-Europe parties claim major victories across the continent – is this the turning of the tide?
Imagine you went to sleep in 1994 and woke up 20 years later as the Euro election results were coming in. What you might make of them can tell us a lot about Europe today.
They may be the most famous or indeed infamous (depending on your view point) dynastic double act in European politics, but it is rare to see Jean Marie and Marine Le Pen together on the stump.
Nigeria’s neighbouring countries are ready to launch a “total war on Boko Haram”, the terrorist group responsible for the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls, the president of Chad says.
The Nigerian government seems to be no closer to finding the missing girls seized in an attack on a school last week. Channel 4 News looks at the questions the crisis raises.
Four French journalists held hostage in Syria since June last year are found blindfolded and with their hands tied, by soldiers on the Turkish border.
What does an association agreement actually mean if Russia can annex part of a country that nearly got one four months ago?
One day before Crimeans vote on whether to join Russia, and two weeks after Russian soldiers occupied the region, a confrontation breaks out on the Ukrainian land bordering Crimea.
The EU has announced an escalating scale of punishments contingent on Russia’s behaviour. But as it escalates, it gets less specific.
Dried off and back on solid ground, David Cameron announced he would return from the flood-hit south west to hold a Downing Street press conference. Is the event making a comeback?