French President Emmanuel Macron is facing calls for a parliamentary inquiry, after the "Uber files" exposed his extraordinary efforts to help the company lobby against the taxi industry.

Amid the Russia-Ukraine war, COVID-induced supply chain issues and supplier price gouging, inflation is rising in Europe. Consumer price inflation in the Euro zone hit a record high last month.

France's ruling center-right coalition lost its absolute majority in parliamentary elections Sunday, presenting President Emmanuel Macron with the likelihood of a difficult second term in office.

French President Emmanuel Macron was expecting next year's presidential election to be a repeat of his victorious fight with the leader of the far right in 2017 — but new challengers are emerging.

French law says only sparkling wine produced in the Champagne region can use the name. A new Russian law reserves the name for bubbly produced and sold in Russia.

More than 200,000 protesters gathered across France for a third weekend of demonstrations against the country's new "health pass" requirements.

In Liège, Belgium's third-largest city, water from the Meuse river overflowed into parts of the city center, prompting city officials to call for residents to evacuate the area or seek higher ground.

Activists in France say the lack of a clear definition of consent means few rapes are reported, and few prosecutions for the offense are successful.

The European Commission has proposed creating Digital Green Certificates to let people prove their vaccine status, and allow them to travel freely across the European Union by this summer.

Controversy over the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in France has health experts worried doses are going unused and could lead to "vaccine shopping."

When Britain left the European Union, it also dropped out of Erasmus, an exchange program that helped students study, work and volunteer across the European Union.

Vendors at a giant produce market south of Paris say sending their produce to post-Brexit Britain is an expensive bureaucratic nightmare. British consumer who will suffer cutbacks in these imports.

New Year's Day marks the start of the new relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, which will make the borders harder to cross.

Britain is now well and truly out of the European Union, and the border between the U.K. and its former partners in the EU will be very different,

"We have spent the last three years preparing for this moment," says an official in Calais, France, one of the world's busiest ports.

France has closed ski slopes because of the pandemic. Switzerland, on the other hand, is keeping its resorts open, enticing French skiers to avoid the restrictions by crossing the border.

Famous English-language Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company has lost nearly 80% of its revenue since the first pandemic shutdown in France. The owner of the shop is pleading for help.

The tiny country of Luxembourg is one of the few winners to emerge from Brexit. Analysts say Brexit has been pretty good for business and has already led to around 3,000 new jobs for Luxembourg.

Recent attacks in Paris linked to cartoons published by the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have intensified the debate among comedians in France about freedom of expression.

Even before the pandemic, it was relatively uncommon in Morocco to keep house pets. ADAN was founded 16 years ago by Ahmed Tazi and his sister Habiba, who also largely fund and run it, to help strays.