Europe

Turkey’s parliament has voted to rescind immunity for a quarter of the nation’s lawmakers in a step that will likely destabilize this key North Atlantic Treaty Organization member and fuel the simmering Kurdish insurgency.

The International Monetary Fund believes Greece’s debt will rise toward 300% of gross domestic product in the long term unless the country’s loans are deeply restructured.

A Spanish region has banned the killing of bulls in a notorious ritual in which thousands of people each year chase a bull from village streets into a field to be stabbed or speared to death.

The Middle East refugee crisis and Turkey’s slide toward authoritarianism have put the European Union in front of a moral dilemma: protecting its borders or promoting civil rights, Yaroslav Trofimov writes.

Europe’s plan for deterring refugees and migrants from crossing the Aegean Sea has hit a snag: Greece is struggling to return recent arrivals to Turkey as the policy requires, early data show.

Turkey’s ruling party tapped a stalwart ally of Recep Tayyip Erdogan to become its leader on Thursday, paving the way for a new prime minister who will champion the Turkish president’s priorities.

Women brought into European Union countries for sexual exploitation represent over half the registered human-trafficking victims in the bloc, while child trafficking is on the rise, according to an EU report.

Marco Pannella, a maverick radical politician who was crucial to Italian postwar campaigns to legalize abortion, divorce and other social change, died Thursday aged 86.

EU countries again delayed a vote on whether to renew the sales authorization of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s popular weedkiller Roundup, because of cancer worries.

Some 18 people and an entity the European Union says is involved in the Pyongyang’s weapons programs have been added to the bloc’s blacklist following recent missile tests by the rogue nation.

Recon Group, a holding company owned by businessman Tony Jiantong Xia, has bought newly relegated Birmingham soccer club Aston Villa for $109 million.

Ukraine secured preliminary approval for a long-delayed emergency payout from the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday after Kiev’s new government promised to bolster its anticorruption efforts and further tighten its budget.

French officials said they are withholding their approval for NATO to take control of the U.S.-built European missile-defense system.

The euro area slipped back into deflation in April despite a stabilization in energy prices, a setback that underlines the difficulty of the challenge facing the European Central Bank as it struggles to boost consumer prices.