Europe has more newspapers per head than any other continent and no shared press to speak of. Every country reads its own titles in its own language, and the few publications that genuinely cover the continent as one story are mostly written in English, from Brussels, for an audience of people who already work on Europe.
So this page works in two halves. The country cards below lead to each nation's own press — national dailies, business and sports papers, regional titles, broadcasters. The shelf further down is the thin but real layer above them: the wires, the EU-affairs press and the cross-border investigative networks that treat Europe as a single beat.
Browse by country
Grouped by sub-region, then alphabetically. The number on each card is how many newspapers, news sites and TV channels that country's page lists.
British Isles & Crown Dependencies
4 countriesOne English-language reading market: the London nationals circulate throughout, alongside Dublin's separate press and a paid-for daily on each Channel Island.
The Nordics
5 countriesSome of the highest newspaper readership per head anywhere, in five languages plus Finland's Swedish-language press, and further into paid digital subscription than the rest of Europe.
The Baltics
3 countriesThree small markets each carrying a national-language press and a substantial Russian-language one, mostly back under domestic owners after the Nordic groups that bought in during the 1990s sold out.
German-speaking Europe
4 countriesOne language across four presses — Germany's dense regional dailies and mass-market Bild, Austria's dominant Kronen Zeitung, Switzerland's parallel German, French and Italian titles, and Liechtenstein's single daily.
Western Europe
5 countriesFrench- and Dutch-language publishing, with Belgium running two entirely separate Flemish and francophone markets, France's regional dailies outselling the Paris nationals, and cross-border owners holding titles in several of these countries at once.
Central Europe
5 countriesFive separate language markets whose post-1989 dailies were largely rebuilt by German and Swiss publishers, most of whom have since sold to domestic owners.
Southern Europe
10 countriesRomance-language markets where regional dailies and daily sports papers carry much of the circulation, joined by Catalan-language Andorra, English-language Gibraltar, bilingual Malta, Greek-and-English Cyprus and the Vatican's own paper of record.
The Balkans
9 countriesBosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian are close enough that titles are read across all four borders; Albanian-language dailies publish in Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia, with separate Macedonian, Bulgarian and Romanian presses alongside.
Eastern Europe
5 countriesRussian- and Ukrainian-language dailies and news portals alongside Belarusian, Romanian-language Moldovan and Chechen titles — a number of the independent ones now edited from outside the countries they cover.
Europe-wide news & broadcasters
Pan-European news channel, broadcasting and publishing in a dozen European languages
The wire's Europe desk — politics, conflict, business and markets across the continent
The Associated Press's Europe hub, updated continuously
Publishes in 24 languages across eastern Europe and Eurasia, often where the domestic press cannot
Daily review of press commentary from more than 500 media in over 30 countries
Translates and republishes reporting and commentary from newspapers across Europe
Daily briefing written by correspondents in every part of the continent
Franco-German public broadcaster — current affairs and documentary, subtitled in several languages
EU affairs & the Brussels press
Independent Brussels daily on the EU institutions, rule of law and enlargement
Subscription wire reporting the EU institutions daily since 1953, in French and English
Covers the European Parliament and EU policy, in print and online
Cross-border investigations & regional reporting
Europe hub of the cross-border network investigating corruption and organised crime
Journalist-owned cooperative running one investigation across several countries at once
BIRN's regional service, reporting across the Balkans from newsrooms in each country
Business and politics across central, eastern and southeast Europe
Investigative reporting on Central Europe, published jointly by national newsrooms
Data-driven stories on European issues, produced and translated by member newsrooms
Frequently asked questions
- Which European countries have the most newspapers?
- Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany have the largest listings here, each with dozens of national dailies plus business, sports and regional titles. Per head of population the Nordic countries are far ahead of everyone — Norway, Finland and Sweden have long had the highest newspaper readership in the world, which is why their small populations support so many papers.
- Is there a European newspaper that covers the whole continent?
- Not in the way a national daily covers its own country. The closest things are the outlets on the shelf above: Euronews broadcasts in a dozen European languages, Politico Europe and Euractiv cover the EU as a single political story from Brussels, and cross-border networks like OCCRP and Investigate Europe run investigations across many countries at once. Most Europeans still read their national press for everything else.
- Where can I read European news in English?
- Beyond the British and Irish papers, most European countries have at least one English-language outlet — often aimed at expatriates and international readers. The Local publishes national editions across eight countries, Brussels Times covers Belgium and the EU, Kyiv Independent covers Ukraine, and Baltic Times covers Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Each country page lists its own English-language section where one exists.
- Are Russia, Belarus and Ukraine included?
- Yes — all three have pages here, listed under Eastern Europe. Their entries include independent titles now published from outside the country, such as Meduza and Novaya Gazeta Europe, alongside the domestic press. The directory records what a country publishes without ranking it.
- Does this cover Turkey and the Caucasus?
- No. Turkey is listed under the Middle East on this site, and Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan under Asia, so none of them appear on this page. They each have their own country page reachable from the homepage directory.
European newspapers were the first to be hit by the web and the first to find a way through it. Scandinavian and Dutch publishers built working digital-subscription businesses while much of the world was still giving news away, and the region now has some of the highest paid-digital penetration anywhere. That is why so many of the titles listed here ask for a subscription after a few articles — the links go to the paper's own site, paywall and all.
The pressure has moved elsewhere. Ownership concentration in Central Europe, the exile of independent Russian and Belarusian newsrooms, and the steady closure of local and regional titles across the continent have all narrowed what gets covered. Where a title's website has gone offline, its entry stays on the country page as a retired listing rather than being deleted, so the record of what a country once published survives.