Europe

The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange deals a blow to the “hacktivist” organization he founded—the influence of which had already dwindled significantly in recent years.

The European Union agreed to launch talks for a trade agreement with the U.S., seeking to preserve a truce with President Trump despite competing demands over agriculture.

Another Brexit delay takes the pressure off the U.K.’s warring politicians to come to swift agreement on the terms of the country’s withdrawal from the European Union, extending a spell of uncertainty plaguing businesses and hobbling the wider economy.

The European Research Group, a small group of anti-EU lawmakers, worries that the latest delay threatens their desire to make a sharp break. Some think they may end up with no exit at all.

European Union leaders agreed to postpone Brexit until Oct. 31 to allow British Prime Minister Theresa May more time to try to get the U.K.’s Parliament to approve the country’s divorce deal with the bloc.

Italy’s populist government conceded it won’t hit the budget-deficit target agreed on with European Union authorities, setting the stage for renewed tensions with Brussels.

European Union leaders are preparing to grant British Prime Minister Theresa May more time to win backing in Parliament for an agreement to leave the bloc.

Dispute-settlement courts are hearing more cases against the 11 ex-communist countries that joined the European Union after 2004.

Britain’s two main political parties are pushing to reach a new Brexit deal this week ahead of an EU summit that will consider a request from Prime Minister May to further postpone the country’s departure from the bloc.

The British government requested an additional delay to Brexit until June 30 to buy more time to get a divorce deal through parliament, as the EU debated its own timetable for the U.K.’s departure.

Eurozone governments approved the release of $1.1 billion of funds for Greece, after a monthslong spat over whether the country is reneging on the economic overhauls that it promised when its bailout ended.

U.K. manufacturers have built supply chains and export markets around free trade with Europe. A sudden end would rupture one of the world’s most advanced, cross-border assembly lines. The resulting stockpiling of supplies risks crimping growth—a problem that will continue even if there is an orderly exit from the EU.

With Europe’s economy stumbling and its traditional political alliances threatened by left- and right-wing populism, France and Germany are zeroing in on a possible deal in which Berlin clinches the ECB job.

British Prime Minister Theresa May and the leader of the opposition Labour Party set off on a path fraught with political risk as they met to start trying to hash out a compromise Brexit deal.

One of China’s biggest investments in Europe suffered a major setback after Greek bureaucrats declared much of a port a Chinese state-run company has bought into to be of archaeological interest, likely delaying a key Chinese infrastructure project.

The vaulting of a popular TV comic to the top of Ukraine’s presidential race presents a quandary for the West by threatening to a displace a leader and ally who for five years has led his country’s costly war against Russia.

Italy’s ruling populists pushed ahead this week with efforts to seize control of the central bank and its gold reserves, stepping up their confrontation with a symbol of the country’s establishment.

Theresa May made an about-face by saying she would pursue a different Brexit deal with the opposition Labour Party, an approach that could keep the country more closely bound to the bloc than envisioned.

The Turkish ruling party’s apparent loss of the country’s two biggest cities risks disrupting its well-honed system of political patronage and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ability to fix an ailing economy.

The House of Commons failed for a second time to find a majority for any alternative to the deal British Prime Minister Theresa May negotiated with the European Union, deepening the uncertainty less than two weeks before Britain is scheduled to leave the bloc.

The clash between environmental concerns and a yearning for jobs is seen across much of Europe, particularly in the south, where unemployment is in the double digits.

A comedian with no political experience was poised to win the first round of Ukraine’s presidential elections Sunday as disillusionment with the political elite simmers ahead of a likely runoff on April 21.

Slovakia elected its first female president, a liberal and pro-European anticorruption candidate whose rise is seen as a rebuke of the conservative nationalism remaking its larger neighbors.

At the helm of Turkey since 2003, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is resorting to increasingly forceful actions to keep the nation of 82 million in check.

An alliance of election officials, tech firms and social-media researchers are trying to thwart attempts at interference by hackers in European elections this spring.