2018 in Europe

This is a list of events that took place in Europe in 2018.

Incumbents

Albania

Andorra

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Czech Republic

Cyprus

Denmark

Estonia

European Union

• President of the European Commission: Jean-Claude Juncker
• President of the Parliament: Antonio Tajani
• President of the European Council: Donald Tusk
• Presidency of the Council of the EU:
• Bulgaria (January–July)
• Austria (July–December)

Finland

France

Germany

Georgia

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Malta

Moldova

Monaco

Montenegro

Netherlands

North Macedonia

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

San Marino

Serbia

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

Vatican City

Events

January

• January 1 – Bulgaria assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Estonia.
• January 9 – The Church of St. Lambertus in Immerath, Germany is demolished.
• January 15 – Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Tudose resigns after his Social Democratic Party leaders lost their support.
• January 28 – Presidential elections were held in Finland.

February

• February 9 to 25 – Albania participated at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea.
• February 12 – Niklasdorf train collision took place in Austria, resulting in 1 death and 22 injuries.
• February 21 – Ján Kuciak was murdered in Slovakia.

March

• March 8 – The 2018 Spanish women's strike occurred in Spain.
• March 13 – Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov is found dead at his home in London, United Kingdom.

April

• April 11 – Ilham Aliyev wins the 2018 presidential elections in Azerbaijan.
• April 21 – Sweden hosted the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.
• April 28 – Switzerland won the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

May

• May 4 – Beginning of the 2018 Giro d'Italia.
• May 12 – 2018 Paris knife attack occurred in Paris, France.
• May 26 – The Icelandic municipal elections took place.
• May 27 – End of the 2018 Giro d'Italia.
• May 28 – Kremlin warns that the United States put military pressure in the European Union security at risk.
• May 31 – Denmark bans the full Islamic face veil in public. Becoming the latest European country to ban it.

June

• June 1 – The Met Office confirms that May 2018 was the warmest May since 1910 in the UK and was also likely to be the sunniest since 1929.
• June 10 – Human Chain for Basque Self-determination, 2018 took place in Spain.
• June 24 – Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wins the 2018 presidential elections in Turkey.
• June 27 – The British Medical Association (BMA) voted to oppose Brexit "as a whole".

July

• July 1 – Austria assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Bulgaria.

September

• September 10 to 30 – The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship will be co-hosted in Bulgaria and Italy.

October

• October 7 – The 2018 Bosnian general election is scheduled to take place.

Deaths

See also

• 2018 in the European Union

References