2018 in Europe

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

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)

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.

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.