2018 in Europe

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

• 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)

• 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.^[1]
• January 28 – Presidential elections were held in Finland.^[2]

• 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.^[3]
• February 21 – Ján Kuciak was murdered in Slovakia.^[4]

• March 8 – The 2018 Spanish women's strike occurred in Spain.^[5]
• March 13 – Russian exile Nikolai Glushkov is found dead at his home in London, United Kingdom.

• April 11 – Ilham Aliyev wins the 2018 presidential elections in Azerbaijan.^[6]
• April 21 – Sweden hosted the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.
• April 28 – Switzerland won the 2018 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship.

• May 4 – Beginning of the 2018 Giro d'Italia.^[7]
• May 12 – 2018 Paris knife attack occurred in Paris, France.
• May 26 – The Icelandic municipal elections took place.^[8][9]
• 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.^[10]

• 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.^[11]
• 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”.^[12]

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

• September 10 to 30 – The 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship will be co-hosted in Bulgaria and Italy.^[13]

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

Date of Death	Year of Birth	Location of Birth	Role(s),Action(s), or Achievement(s)	Person
10)January 1	1932	Austria	Classical guitarist	Konrad Ragossnig[14]
11)January 15	1941	Bulgaria	Actress	Mariana Alamancheva[15]
12)February 22	1991	Hungary	Footballer	Bence Lázár[16]
13)February 27	1936	United Kingdom	Shoemaker	Lance Clark[17]
14)February 28	1932	France	Historian	Pierre Milza[18]
15)March 4	1926	Ireland	Actress	Carmel McSharry[19]
16)March 18	1943	Slovakia	Politician	Michal Horský[20]
17)April 23	1926	Albania	Politician and resistance member during World War II	Liri Belishova
18)May 11	1904	United Kingdom	Oldest verified person in the UK	Bessie Camm[21]
19)May 16	1958	Luxembourg	Politician	Camille Gira[20]
20)May 17	1914	Poland	Actor	Maciej Maciejewski[22]
21)May 31	1972	Germany	Musician	Demba Nabé[23]
22)June 8	1968	Germany	Footballer	Jutta Nardenbach[24]
23)June 23	1991	Kosovo	Basketball player	Gazmend Sinani
24)June 26	1947	Slovakia	Rock and jazz bassist	Fedor Frešo[25]
25)July 1	1929	Netherlands	Artist	Armando[26]

• 2018 in the European Union
• List of state leaders in Europe in 2018