US stocks held steady on Wall Street and bond prices gave back some of their big gains from Wednesday as a rally fuelled by the Federal Reserve's announcement on interest rates faded.

The Netherlands election has energised traditional parties across Europe from left and right, with Dutch voters showing Europe that populism is not always inevitable, suggest Raf Casert and Angela Charlton. 

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People in the Netherlands are voting today in the country's general election.

A major row has broken out between Turkey and the Netherlands.

Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant has an agenda that goes way beyond allowing users share a few pictures. Leonid Bershidsky explains why we should be worried.

Political polling, at least the kind made public, was once thought of as a science but recent, contrary-to-predictions results have made a reappraisal of polling methodology necessary.

Brexit, the Donald Trump presidency and a rise in isolated terrorist attacks were some of the shocks that investors faced in 2016, writes Ryan McGrath.

A Dutch court has convicted populist anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders of hate speech charges at the end of a trial he branded a politically motivated "charade" that endangered freedom of speech.

Politicians in the lower house of the Dutch parliament have approved a limited ban on "face-covering clothing" including Islamic veils and robes such as the burqa and niqab.

Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has boycotted the opening of his hate speech trial in the Netherlands.

The UK’s vote to leave the EU reflects a global trend in which people left behind by globalisation embrace a murky blend of nostalgia and nationalism, writes British historian Owen Matthews.

Banning Donald Trump from the UK would allow the US presidential hopeful to be portrayed as a martyr, an MP has warned.

A British withdrawal from the EU would play into the hands of criminals, right-wing extremists and Vladimir Putin, former Irish taoiseach John Bruton has warned.

Far-right parties in Europe have called refugees streaming into the region “terrorists”, a “ticking time bomb”, and a Muslim “invasion” that will bankrupt nations and undermine Europe’s Christian roots.

Two gunmen were killed after opening fire on a security officer outside a contest for cartoon depictions of Prophet Muhammad and a bomb squad was called in to search their vehicle as a precaution, authorities said.

The world outpouring of sympathy after the deadly Charlie Hebdo attack has touched many in France but some either detect a note of hypocrisy or feel squeamish about supporting a satirical weekly that antagonised many.

The rise in the number of far-right MEPs who say the people should decide everything, not the EU, poses a serious threat to the work of the institution, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill

As heads rolled over the European Parliament election results in several countries, French president François Hollande went on TV to respond to the shock victory of far-right Front National.

Far-right and Eurosceptic parties have made sweeping gains in European Parliament elections, triggering what one prime minister called a political "earthquake" by those seeking to slash the EU's powers or abolish it altogether.

Exit polls from the Netherlands suggest anti-EU sentiment might be levelling off as decidedly pro-EU parties came out on top, but the message from Britain appears to be very different with Ukip clear winners.

France’s far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen told a Sunday paper that she expects her party to get enough votes in the May 22 to 25 European elections to form a bloc with other Eurosceptics that can stop the EU’s progress.

A prominent Danish critic of Islam has escaped an attempt to shoot him dead on his own doorstep.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte looks likely to form a coalition between his Conservatives and the Labour party after a major election victory seen as confirmation of voters’ support for the European Union.

Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has claimed victory for his conservative VVD party in national elections widely seen as a referendum on the Netherlands’ commitment to Europe.

Dutch voters are going to the polls to elect a new parliament in a test of whether they have the stomach to continue with stringent austerity measures.

The Netherlands has long been a source of inspiration for closer European integration — and a bellwether of European discontent.

Growth the buzzword in PMs’ graveyard

The Dutch caretaker government and several opposition parties said today that they have done in a matter of days what the Cabinet failed to do in seven weeks: craft a provisional 2013 austerity budget.

The Dutch government, one of the most vocal critics of European countries failing to rein in their budgets, quit after failing to agree on a plan to bring its own deficit in line with EU rules.

Politics is, as we have been assured so very often, the art of the possible.

The Dutch government, one of the biggest critics of European countries failing to rein in their budgets, has resigned after disagreeing on a plan to bring its own deficit in line with EU rules.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has tendered his government's resignation to Queen Beatrix after the collapse of a parliamentary agreement with a far-right party.

Migrants will be vital for the future EU economy but the issue has attracted misinformation and rhetoric. Ignoring it any longer would be disastrous, writes Peter Sutherland

Against the backdrop of a declared ‘war’ on Islam and Muslim immigration by Norwegian Christian nationalist Anders Behring Breivik, Cormac O’Keeffe looks at the Muslim community in Ireland and examines issues of identity, integration, extremism and discrimination

RAPID developments and profound events across Europe could have an impact on Ireland.

THE BOUNDARIES of free speech in Europe have widened after a Dutch court acquitted politician Geert Wilders of inciting hatred against Muslims when he compared Islam with Nazism and called for a ban on the Koran.

Right-wing politician Geert Wilders was cleared by a Dutch court of hate speech and discrimination today.

THE Dutch government is to ban tourists from buying cannabis from “coffee shops” and impose restrictions on Dutch customers by the end of the year.