Europe

Top Stories

Turkey vows to follow up IS strikes

Turkish soldiers patrol near the border with Syria, ouside the village of Elbeyli, east of the town of Kilis, southeastern Turkey, Friday, July 24, 2015

Turkey vows to maintain a crackdown on Islamic State (IS) militants, after launching its first air strikes against their positions in Syria.

  • 24 July 2015
  • From the section Europe

Related content

Life in jail for Russian nationalist

A Russian nationalist leader is sentenced to to life in jail for his role in hate crimes, including the murder of a prominent human rights lawyer.

  • 24 July 2015
  • From the section Europe

Related content

Germanwings families attend memorial

A ceremony to commemorate the passengers who died in the Germanwings plane crash is held at the scene of the disaster in the French Alps.

  • 24 July 2015
  • From the section Europe

Italy fireworks blast 'kills seven'

  • 24 July 2015
  • From the section Europe

Sport Blatter is a victim, says 2018 chief

  • 24 July 2015
  • From the section Football

Romania jails ex-prison chief

  • 24 July 2015
  • From the section Europe

Features

Black Sea bombers

Why would Russia send heavy warplanes to Crimea?

  • 24 July 2015
  • From the section Europe

Raw recruits

Why Russian students are targets for Islamic State

  • 24 July 2015
  • From the section Europe

Gone but not forgotten

How did Greece's Varoufakis do?

  • 23 July 2015
  • From the section Europe

Musical afterlife

How do you finish an album when your co-writer dies?

Young faces

The photos that came to symbolise a deadly attack in Turkey

  • 23 July 2015

Frozen with fear

My disastrous attempt to climb a 52m chimney

  • 22 July 2015
  • From the section Magazine

Our Expert

Greece debt crisis: Yawning rifts between European superpowers

Far from an impression of EU solidarity in thrashing out a deal for Greece, what was on public display were yawning rifts between European superpowers.

13 July 2015

Katya Adler

Europe editor

 Katya Adler

Business

Lavazza buys Carte Noire 'for €800m'

  • 22 July 2015
  • From the section Business

Greek MPs to vote on crucial reforms

  • 22 July 2015
  • From the section Europe

Greek bailout talks given go-ahead

  • 17 July 2015
  • From the section Europe

Elsewhere on the BBC

Brutal Beauty

10 facts about life and death on coral reefs

Radio 1 in Ibiza

20 years of hedonism