After another lackluster election, Polish liberals should stop attacking the government and start taking a hard look in the mirror.

Although official results are not yet in, exit polls suggested that the governing Law and Justice party had not expanded its appeal to the moderates in Poland’s urban areas.

The official results of the local and regional elections in Poland are now in, and the biggest story is what did not happen.

The European Union has not learnt the lessons of Brexit and could force Italy to reconsider its membership of the bloc, a senior government adviser has told The Telegraph. Ignazio Corrao, adviser to Luigi Di Maio, the deputy prime minister and leader of the Five Star Movement, attacked the arrogance of the European Commission and EU leaders for making no changes since Britain’s vote to leave the bloc.

As the Hungarian prime minister built an “illiberal state,” creating a template for the far right, center-right leaders in Brussels did little to stop him.

President of Kosovo says his country would open an embassy in Jerusalem if Israel recognizes it as an independent state.

Europe’s highest court told Poland to reinstate more than two dozen judges ousted by the ruling party, escalating a clash between Warsaw and the European Union.

President Donald Trump, during a freewheeling speech to Republican donors in Florida on Saturday, attacked his former presidential rival Hillary Clinton, one of his predecessors in President George W. Bush, and praised China's President Xi Jinping for his recent move eliminating term limits.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used legal means and emergency powers to turn Turkey into an authoritarian system. A new law to rein in the web is next on his agenda.

Rex W. Tillerson, a former chief executive of Exxon Mobil, had been among President Trump’s most well-regarded cabinet choices. He is replaced by Mike Pompeo, currently the C.I.A. director.

In Hungary and Poland, the liberal West used to be the promised land. Not anymore.

The party of populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a resounding victory in Hungary's parliamentary elections on Sunday, drawing cheers among fellow nationalists in Poland while renewing fears of creeping authoritarianism among other EU members.

Europe’s biggest challenge in resisting US sanctions on Iran is not legal or even geopolitical. It is psychological: European leaders act as if the US still cares about a trans-Atlantic alliance of shared interests, values, and approaches.

As Italy’s new government prepares to challenge the European Union, Poland has a timely lesson for how quickly a particular brand of politics can change a country.

Thousands of Polish nurses, caregivers and workmen leave the country for employment. That has consequences: Many Polish children grow up without parents, who are gone for months or even years at a time.

Role would be a ‘great opportunity’ for the country, Mateusz Morawiecki says.

Critics call it a "dark day" as an EU committee adopts two controversial changes to copyright law.

Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn calls for Hungary to be suspended or expelled from the EU because of its

The question remains: why is the US Treasury carrying on with this transparent charade about how ISIS was equipped with hundreds of Toyota vehicles?

The head of Poland's Supreme Court has vowed to defy a controversial new law forcing her and dozens of senior judges to retire early. Chief Justice Prof Malgorzata Gersdorf has been told she must step down at midnight in line with new legislation. But a spokesman for the Supreme Court said she would go to work as normal on Wednesday. Prof Gersdorf earlier branded the reforms, which require judges to retire at 65 instead of 70, a "purge".

US President Donald Trump's closeness with totalitarian leaders and indifference towards traditional liberal allies could be a strategy to reposition America against a rising China.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t his long history of diplomatic gaffes that brought down the U.K. foreign secretary.

With its attempt to purge the country's courts of 40 percent of its judges, Poland's right-wing ruling party passed another milestone on the path towards establishment of a one-party state.

A foreign diplomat has got away with skipping out on paying $20,000 to her former landlord after using diplomatic immunity to dodge the cost. Eva Tvarozkova​, deputy chief of mission for the European Union (EU) Delegation to New Zealand, found herself before the Wellington Tenancy Tribunal for $14,314 in unpaid rent and incidentals, plus $6000 bond for her former house at Karaka Bays above Wellington harbour.

Norway is the most socialist country in the world. It's also a much better place to live than the United States.

Behind closed doors in DC, a well-regarded analyst spooked a high-level gathering.

Find out what President Trump has said about where you live since he became US president.

Japan and the European Union have signed a massive trade deal that creates an open-trade zone for more than 600 million people. The EU and Japan account for about one-third of GDP worldwide. The deal has been in the works for years, but the parties reached an agreement in principle a year ago, several months after President Trump pulled the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a major trade deal with Japan and 10 other nations.

France voted to outlaw sexual harassment on the streets, leaving cat-callers and aggressively lecherous individuals facing potential on-the-spot fines of up to 750 euros as part of tougher legislation to fight sexual violence.

Poland belongs in the European Union but should be careful not to be “infected by social diseases” that dominate the bloc, ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Sunday. Speaking at a party convention ahead of local elections in October, Poland’s most influential decision-maker laid out the broad campaign priorities of the PiS. He defended his party’s democratic record and accused critics of serving “powerful interests and making deals with the mighty of the world”, in an apparent jab at the close ties between the liberal opposition in Poland and Brussels.

Warsaw’s changes to the judicial system prompt a reaction from one of the EU’s leading legal bodies.

Former Polish President Lech Walesa played a key role in the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. At 75, he told DW that retirement is far from his mind and warned against the path Poland's leaders are taking.

Lech Wałęsa, the former Polish president, has told Deutsche Welle that the current Polish government, lead by the Law and Justice Party (PiS) is unfit for office. “These people came to power by coincidence and are unsuited for the job; they have not been medically vetted and they suffer from complexes and are narrow-minded,” said the Nobel Prize winner in an explosive interview.

In an ongoing effort to crack down on tax evasion, the UK government today published a Flickr page of the "top tax cheats" of 2012. The profiles break down the crimes of 32 criminals that Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sentenced to a combined total of more than 150 years in prison last year in a demonstration...

Europeans, take note: The U.S. government has granted itself authority to secretly snoop on you.