European Union

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

Police patrol the Hungarian border fence with Serbia on January 18, 2019 outside Szeged, Hungary. In 2015 thousands of migrants massed on the Hungarian border

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

Julia Conley, staff writer

"This Brexit crisis has now come down to a simple question about whether we live in a democracy: can we allow Boris Johnson to force No Deal on our country, without all of us having our voice heard?"

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

Jon Queally, staff writer

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in Tehran on August 27, 2019. (Photo: president.ir)

"It's possible with PhotoShop—but not in reality. Unless the U.S. removes all...

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Advocates celebrating the announcement noted that, by contrast, "the Trump...

'July Has Re-Written Climate History': Month Could Go Down as Hottest Ever

EU Leaders Denounced for 'New Low' After 'Worst Mediterranean Tragedy' This Year Claims Lives of 150 Migrants

As Amazon Faces Grilling in Congress, EU Launches Antitrust Probe of Online Behemoth

Trump's Drilling Leases on Public Lands Could Release 4.7B Metric Tons of Carbon—More Than All 28 EU Countries Emit in a Year

Increasing Pressure on Europe to Salvage Nuclear Deal, Iran Announces Plans to Exceed Uranium Enrichment Cap

After Aerial Bombing Kills Dozens of Migrants in Libya, 82 More Reported Missing at Sea

'Good News': Austria Poised to Become First EU Nation to Fully Ban Cancer-Linked Weed Killer Glyphosate

As Heat Wave Boils Europe, Lackluster Bonn Talks Marred by US and Saudi-Led Obstruction of Climate Science

'Industry Front Group' Claims to Promote Public Health While Fighting Chemical and Food Safety Regulations, Study Finds

In 'Shockingly Cruel' Move, Israel to Auction Off Classrooms It Dismantled in West Bank

'A Green Wave Has Swept the European Parliament': In Show of Demand for Climate Action, Green Parties Surge

Leaving 'One Hell of a Mess Behind,' British PM Theresa May Finally Resigns

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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...