German chancellor Friedrich Merz has sought to cool a bitter diplomatic row between Rome and Paris over Italian premier Giorgia Meloni’s exclusion from a group of European leaders co-ordinating with ...

Talks on a UK-EU deal are in their "final hours" ahead of a major summit with the bloc, the British minister in charge of negotiations has said.

An agreement that would see British travellers able to use e-gates currently reserved for those from the EU or European ...