European Union

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

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Americans have been kept in the dark" about the effects of Trump's drilling leases on public lands, says the Wilderness Society

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Iran's Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi and government spokesman Ali Rabiei

The Iranian foreign minister accused the Trump administration of "economic...

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

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

The separate incidents, less than two days apart, have sparked calls from U.N...

'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

'You Cannot Ignore Science': In Emotional Plea, Greta Thunberg Begs EU to Take Urgent Climate Action

Greenlighting 'Censorship Machine,' EU Adopts Controversial Copyright Rules

Xenophobic Far-Right Parties Form Alliance Aiming to 'Win and Change Europe'

EU and UN Security Council Members Rebuke Trump's Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty Over Golan Heights

'Dark Day for Internet Freedom': EU Approves Rules to Create Online Censorship Machine

To Defeat the Far-Right and the 'Inane Establishment,' Progressives Launch 'Citizen Takeover of the EU'

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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...