European Union

Europe Wraps Up Warmest Winter on Record With Massive Youth #ClimateStrike in Brussels

Exxon Lobbyists Pushed European Officials to Water Down Green Deal With Carbon Pricing Plan for Vehicles

Julia Conley, staff writer

Climate activist Greta Thunberg called the deal, in which officials are still determining whether to apply the lobbyists' advice, a "surrender" to fossil fuel interests.

Amplifying Urgent Need to Slash Emissions, New Map Series Shows How Climate Crisis Could Impact Europe

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

An E.U. agency's new project illustrates how heatwaves, droughts, forest fires...

'Majority of Mine Victims Are Children': EU Condemns Trump Rollback of Landmine Restrictions

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Their use anywhere, anytime, and by any actor remains completely unacceptable...

After Spain Declares Climate Emergency, Activists Demand 'Concrete and Immediate' Action

'Stop Escalation': World Leaders Call on Trump to End Warmongering and Resume Diplomacy With Iran

After Scotland Decisively Rejects Brexit and the Tories in General Election, SNP's Sturgeon Calls for Second Independence Referendum

Decrying EU Proposal to Address Climate Crisis by 2050 as 'Too Little Too Late,' Greenpeace Activists Stage #HouseOnFire Demonstration

'People Here Will Start Dying': Dire Warnings as Stranded Refugees Freeze in Hellish Conditions Near Bosnia-Croatia Border

EU Lawmakers Declare 'Climate Emergency,' But Campaigners Say Only 'Emergency Action' Will Prove They Mean It

'Not Enough to Declare Climate Emergency': Ahead of EU Vote, Demand for Action Not Just Words

Ex-Republican Justin Amash Says There's Not a Jury in Country That Wouldn't Indict Trump Based on Impeachment Testimony So Far

'The Business of Building Walls': New Report Shows Companies Cashing In on Europe's Expanding Anti-Migrant Barriers

'This Is Incredible,' Says Corbyn, as Voter Registration Surges Amid Boris Johnson's Chaotic Lurch Towards UK General Election

Rejecting Idea of 'Photo Op' Diplomacy With Trump, Iran's Rouhani Says No Talks Unless US Sanctions Lifted

European Regulators Praised for Declaring There Is 'No Safe Exposure Level' for Pesticide Tied to Brain Damage in Children

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Never Forget: Grandson of Auschwitz Commandant Fights For A Nazi-Free Europe

With upcoming elections in a Europe beset by rising neo-Nazism, a new campaign by Swedish Social Democrats against the resurgence has a high-profile leader: Rainer Hoess, 48, the grandson of infamous Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess, who presided over the murder of a million Jews and thousands of others. Hoess has spent years speaking to German schoolchildren about a Nazi influence growing now, as then, because "the social safety nets have been torn, and people are left behind...Hopelessness...