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Charlotte McDonald-Gibson

Charlotte McDonald-Gibson is based in Brussels and covers the EU and general European news

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I’m an expert on extremism. Here’s the hard truth about Payton Gendron

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The woman whose fight for justice has inspired generation in Pakistan

Robert Mercer's firm Cambridge Analytica said to have advised Leave.eu by harvesting data from people's social media profiles to decide how to target them with individualised advertisements
UK Politics

Why the EU's Article 50 process is deliberately vague

The Italian Prime Minister has been asked to delay his departure until after the 2017 budget has been approved
Europe

Does Renzi’s exit spell disaster for the EU project?

David Cameron with European Council president Donald Tusk this week
UK Politics

Why the EU's Article 50 process is deliberately vague

The EU referendum result dealt a huge blow which threatens to unravel the union
Europe

Brussels awakes in disbelief after UK votes for Brexit

Europe

Brussels airport staff ‘didn’t know what to do’ after deadly blasts

Asylum-seekers and migrants express relief as they go ashore at Lesbos
Europe

Human traffickers 'netted up to £4bn last year'

A Hungarian police officer stands in front of migrants wishing to leave a collection point in the village of Roszke, Hungary
Europe

Refugees not welcome: in parts of Europe, old prejudices are stirring

Europe

EU risks regression to xenophobia, warns human rights chief

Flowers and candles are placed at the site where a refrigerated truck with decomposing bodies was found by an Austrian motorway
Comment

The 71 people found dead in a lorry should have reached sanctuary

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg
Voices

Greek debt crisis: Alexis Tsipras attacks austerity programme at

Pablo Iglesias, the leader of Spain’s anti-austerity party Podemos
Comment

Greece debt crisis: Trouble is, if you help the Greeks, everyone will

Comment

Greece debt crisis: Trouble is, if you help the Greeks, everyone will

Pablo Iglesias, the leader of Spain’s anti-austerity party Podemos
Migrants on the Belgian Navy vessel Godetia after they were saved during a search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast on Wednesday
Europe

Migrant crisis: Humanitarian groups urge leaders to put human lives

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras puts on a brave face
Europe

Greece crisis: Creditors still demanding concessions as last chance

Ensaf Haidar holds a placard after her speech as a guest at the annual meeting of the German section of Amnesty International in Dresden last week
Middle East

Raif Badawi: Wife pleads for fresh EU help as Saudi blogger's health

Ensaf Haidar holds a placard after her speech as a guest at the annual meeting of the German section of Amnesty International in Dresden last week
Middle East

Raif Badawi: Wife pleads for fresh EU help as Saudi blogger's health

Ensaf Haidar holds a placard after her speech as a guest at the annual meeting of the German section of Amnesty International in Dresden last week
Middle East

Raif Badawi: Wife pleads for fresh EU help as Saudi blogger's health

World

Postcard from... Brussels

World

Postcard from... Brussels

The Belgian Foreign Minister, Didier Reynders
Europe

Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders criticised for wearing black

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addresses parliament in Athens
Europe

Greek bailout crisis: Greece and IMF trade insults over lack of

Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission
Europe

European Commission's new plan to expose 'sweetheart' tax deals for

Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission
Europe

European Commission's new plan to expose 'sweetheart' tax deals for

World

Postcard from... Brussels

European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos, wants to set up centres in Africa
Europe

EU ministers fail to reach agreement on proposals for asylum-seekers

Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission
Europe

European Commission's new plan to expose 'sweetheart' tax deals for

World

Postcard from... Brussels

European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos, wants to set up centres in Africa
Europe

EU ministers fail to reach agreement on proposals for asylum-seekers

World

Postcard from... Charleroi

World

Postcard from... Charleroi

World

Postcard from... Charleroi

CCTV shows the three girls at Gatwick airport
Europe

Europol head: treat jihadi runaways like trafficking victims

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis
Business News

Greece bailout: Time is running out to avoid 'catastrophic' Greek exit

The Ukrainian National Guard unit engaged in battles around Lohvynove
Europe

At least 25 dead as rebels seize more territory

The Ukrainian National Guard unit engaged in battles around Lohvynove
Europe

At least 25 dead as rebels seize more territory

Angela Merkel and François Hollande emerge from their marathon talks in Minsk yesterday
Europe

Ukraine crisis: Leaders hammer out new truce after all night talks

Anti-austerity protesters outside the Greek parliament in Athens make their feelings clear as the country’s new government attempts to renegotiate bailout terms with EU finance ministers
Business News

Greece eurozone talks fail to reach consensus on renegotiation of

A protester displays his sign during an anti-austerity, pro-government demonstration outside the Greek parliament in Athens on Wednesday
Europe

Greek debt: Combative start to crunch talks between Greece and its

A migrant who survived a shipwreck is helped as he arrives with others at the Lampedusa harbour on Wednesday. An Italian tug boat rescued nine people who had been on two different boats on Monday
Europe

Hundreds of migrants feared dead in latest Mediterranean tragedy:

World

Postcard from... Brussels

A young Syrian Kurdish refugee at a UNHCR camp in Suruc, Turkey
Middle East

Syrian refugees: With four million people languishing in camps in

An armoured vehicle pulls a Ukrainian tank in the village of Horlivka, Donetsk region, on February 4, 2015, after it was damaged during combat between the Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists.
Europe

Hollande and Merkel to make new proposals for peace

George Osborne with the Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, outside 11 Downing Street on Monday (Reuters)
Europe

George Osborne’s appeal to Greece: Act responsibly

A demonstrator holds a placard reading 'Stop Russian aggression', at Independence Square in Kiev, during a rally for people who died as a result of shelling in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol
Europe

EU threatens Russia with new economic sanctions

The leader of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic Alexander Zakharchenko (on left) next to kneeling captive Ukrainian soldiers at a bus stop where 13 people were killed
Europe

Ukraine: Ceasefire on the brink of breaking down

Voices

Greece's election marks the start of a momentous year

Voices

Greece's election marks the start of a momentous year

A Belgian paratrooper guards a Jewish school in Antwerp at the weekend, as security was tightened in major Belgium towns following the foiled terror plot in Verviers
Europe

Terror attacks: EU foreign ministers push for data-sharing laws in

A police officer in front of Antwerp cathedral yesterday
Europe

Young Muslims 'easy targets' in Belgium for radicalisation

World

Postcard from... Riga

Monaco's government has failed to trademark its own name
Europe

Monaco fails to trademark its own name at EU's General Court

Monaco's government has failed to trademark its own name
Europe

Monaco fails to trademark its own name at EU's General Court

Police block a street in Vervier, eastern Belgium, following an anti terror operation. (EPA)
Europe

Belgium: Two dead in raid on suspected jihadist terror cell

Tech

Battle in cyberspace: Nato plans to help the West win the information

Geert Wilders is unrepentant and insists he was only saying ‘what millions of people think’
Europe

Wilders faces new racial hatred charges over victory speech

Bedouin people overlook Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which have multiplied over 40 years
Middle East

Diplomats water down proposals on ending Israel's West Bank occupation

World

Postcard from... Germany

A roll of protective wire runs atop a fence in the maximum security Camp 5 at the Guantanamo Bay detention center
Europe

European nations called to investigate CIA torture acts

Former President Aleskander Kwasniewski, left, and former Prime Minister Leszek Mille were in power when the CIA ran a secret prison in Poland
Europe

CIA torture report: Poland admits US used black site on its territory

MEPs have failed in their attempt to restrict the number of experts and lobbyists – such as for the fossil fuel industry – who advise the European Union on policy
Europe

Corporate lobbyists celebrate as EU budget clampdown collapses

Jean-Claude Juncker was the Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013
Europe

Juncker rides out more 'LuxLeaks' revelations

European Commissioner for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Jyrki Katainen (left), Portuguese Finance Minister Maria Luis Albuquerque and Spanish Finance Minister Luis de Guindos talk before the start of the Ecofin meeting at the European Counc
Europe

EU agrees budget after months of wrangling

World

Postcard from... Brussels

World

Postcard from... Brussels

Middle East

War with Isis: US hails 'significant impact' of bombing raids but

Europe

UN expert slams UK’s 'b*******' attitude to immigration

Europe

Former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk faces challenge at the

Europe

European Parliament considers initiative to recognize Palestine

Europe

European Parliament considers initiative to recognize Palestine

Europe

Christmas comes early for the EU with €315bn investment plan, claims

World

Postcard from... Brussels

Monique sees her daughter as a normal teenager – rather than a terrorist threat
Middle East

The teenager who ran away to join Isis – and the mother who rescued

Questions over the tax regime when Jean-Claude Juncker was prime minister of Luxembourg will not go away
Business Analysis & Features

Jean-Claude Juncker’s Luxembourg tax haven problem

Cheers! Kazematten brewery in Ypres
Europe

Ypres toasts the men who raised a smile in the trenches

Osborne headed to Brussels under intense pressure from eurosceptic Tory backbenchers to negotiate a lower payment
Europe

Osborne accused of accounting trick to claim cut in EU bill

Teresa Romero after her discharge from hospital in Madrid. She was treated with the blood of a survivor
Europe

Ebola outbreak: The scientist heading for Guinea who thinks he may

Members of a local electoral commission empty a ballot box at a polling station after voting day in Kiev on 26th October. 36 million Ukrainian people were registered to vote
Europe

Ukraine elections: pro-Europe parties take the lead

Prime Minister David Cameron leaving a summit at the European Union Council building in Brussels yesterday, when he reacted angrily to a request for an additional £1.7bn to the EU budget
UK Politics

David Cameron vows to defy European Union on 'unacceptable' £1.7bn

President Vladimir Putin at the end of a meeting on the Ukraine crisis with President Petro Poroshenko and other European leaders yesterday
Europe

Putin in Italy to get EU sanctions lifted, but no progress on Ukraine

Testing for the virus in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Europe

EU calls for review of screening in West African airports

Parliamentarians voted 40 to 38 in favour of the new legislation
Europe

Estonia passes 'historic' same-sex marriage bill

Europe

British EU Commissioner nominee Lord Hill given a second grilling by

Latvia fears it will suffer the same fate as Ukraine
Europe

Ukraine crisis: Is Latvia next on Putin’s hit list?

UK Politics

Lord Hill takes ‘Hugh Grant approach’ to EU hearing

Frank Van Den Bleeken, who has already served 30 years for murder, doesn’t want to rot in jail
Europe

Murderer and rapist Frank Van Den Bleeken granted right to euthanasia

Latvia fears it will suffer the same fate as Ukraine
Europe

Ukraine crisis: Is Latvia next on Putin’s hit list?

UK Politics

Lord Hill takes ‘Hugh Grant approach’ to EU hearing

Frank Van Den Bleeken, who has already served 30 years for murder, doesn’t want to rot in jail
Europe

Murderer and rapist Frank Van Den Bleeken granted right to euthanasia

World

Postcard from... Brussels

Europe

Russia threatens to retaliate for new sanctions

Lord Hill will be responsible for financial stability
UK Politics

EU olive branch for David Cameron as Lord Hill appointed to senior

A Malaysian air crash investigator inspecting the crash site
Europe

MH17 crash report: Clues mounting into cause, but answers are few

Eston Kohver, right, was decorated by the President in 2010
Europe

2,000 Nato troops send message to Russia as tensions mount

A Vladimir Putin T-shirt for sale in St Petersburg. The Russian President said yesterday that Moscow could not stand aside when people were being shot at in Ukraine
Europe

Ukraine: Putin pushes boundaries as EU threatens more sanctions

A pro-Russian rebel watches Ukrainian troops retreat from the rebel-held town of Starobesheve yesterday
Europe

Ukraine crisis: Russia in a 'state of war' with our continent,

Donald Tusk, the Polish Prime Minister, was named new President of the European Council at yesterday’s EU summit
Europe

New European Council President 'determined' to keep Britain in EU

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