U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that larger tariffs could be placed on the European Union and Canada if they both work together "to do economic harm to the USA."
March 27, 2025
The European Commissioner for trade, Maros Sefcovic, is heading to Washington to meet U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday, a Commission spokesperson said on Monday.
March 24, 2025
European Union leaders said on Thursday that they will continue to support Ukraine, but they did not immediately endorse a call by
March 20, 2025
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged on Thursday to boost Spain's defence spending along with the rest of the EU, though a parliamentary vote
March 20, 2025
The European Union has delayed its first counter-measures against the United States over President Donald Trump's metals tariffs until mid-April, allowing it
March 20, 2025
As one of the European Union's top negotiators, Sabine Weyand has battled Britain over Brexit and driven tough trade talks around the world.
March 19, 2025
ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that illegal migrants denied asylum by Greece should be returned to their country of origin, and he urged the European Union to
March 20, 2025
Europe should further boost military spending, pool resources on joint defence projects and buy more European arms, according to an EU blueprint
March 19, 2025
The European Union on Wednesday outlined that steps that Apple must take to open up its iPhone and iPad operating systems to work better with competing technologies
March 19, 2025
The European Union has announced a new drive to break its security dependency on the United States
March 19, 2025
The European Union should fund Ukraine's access to space services that can be provided by EU-based commercial providers, the European Commission said in its white
March 19, 2025
The European Union will tighten steel import quotas to reduce inflows by a further 15% from April, a senior EU official said on Wednesday, in a
March 19, 2025
Tens of thousands of Italians have joined a pro-Europe rally in the center of Rome, waving blue European Union flags in a sign of support and unity amid a European push for rearmament that has split the country
March 15, 2025
Thousands of Romanians took to the streets of Bucharest on Saturday to show their support for the European Union, amid political disputes
March 15, 2025
On the U.S. trade front, March came in like a lion and won't be going out like a lamb
March 15, 2025
German carmaker BMW said on Friday it expected tariffs to cost it 1 billion euros ($1.09 billion) this year, while
March 14, 2025
European Union authorities are considering an accounting change that would increase Italy's towering public debt, two sources with knowledge of the matter told
March 14, 2025
The European Union is expected to sanction nine individuals in connection with violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, two EU diplomats said on Friday.
March 14, 2025
The European Union agreed on Friday to renew sanctions on Russian individuals and entities but kept Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman on the list
March 14, 2025
The European Union should be prepared to go as far as doubling its military aid to Ukraine this year to 40 billion euros ($43 billion) if necessary,
March 14, 2025
Trump threatens 200% tariff on European alcohol as trade war escalates
March 13, 2025
Armenia and Azerbaijan will not deploy third-country forces along their border after the two sides sign a peace agreement, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday.
March 13, 2025
Olli Rehn, an ECB policymaker, said that the U.S. administration must be encouraged to avoid leveraging "unnecessary and very harmful" tariffs on Europe through a negotiations
March 13, 2025
The new Austrian government says it has decided to immediately stop family reunion procedures for migrants because the country is no longer able to absorb newcomers adequately
March 12, 2025
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March 12, 2025
Syria's foreign minister Asaad al-Shibani is set to attend a donor summit for his country in Brussels on March 17, a European official told Reuters on Wednesday, the first time
March 12, 2025
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March 12, 2025
The European Union is doubling down on its pledge to continue supporting Ukraine against Russia’s illegal invasion and stepping up humanitarian aid when others pull back as the bloc of European countries reconciles with the reality of America's retreat on the global stage
March 11, 2025
Moldova and the French Development Agency signed a 30 million-euro ($32.5 million) deal on Monday to improve the post-Soviet state's energy efficiency, President Maia Sandu said after
March 10, 2025
European Union finance ministers on Monday began discussing how to pay for defence through new joint borrowing, existing EU funds and a greater role for the
March 10, 2025
The Trump administration does not seem to be engaging in talks to avert trade conflict with the European Union, the EU's trade chief said on Monday, two days
March 10, 2025
The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia may need to act to respond to what it called European Union plans to militarise the bloc that cast Russia as its main adversary.
March 07, 2025
European Union leaders have committed to a massive step in defense cooperation following decades of hesitation
March 06, 2025
France is open to discussing extending the protection offered by its nuclear arsenal to its European partners, President Emmanuel Macron said in a
March 05, 2025
European Union leaders will discuss on Thursday how to finance a sharp increase in defence readiness to deter any possible future attack from
February 18, 2025
Indian exports are facing mounting pressure from aggressive trade policies by partners such as the United States and the European Union, a senior trade ministry
March 04, 2025
The European Union will provide Moldova with 60 million euros ($62.95 million) to spend on defence this year, the European Council's president said on Monday, to boost the
March 03, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is ready to start discussions on nuclear deterrence for Europe, hinting France could help to protect other EU countries, given the
March 01, 2025
The European Union is insisting that the 27-nation bloc is not out to undermine the United States as U.S. President Donald Trump put it
February 27, 2025
A trade war is in no-one's interest but the European Union will respond after U.S.
February 27, 2025
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February 27, 2025
The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances
February 27, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration will soon announce a 25% tariff on imports from the European Union.
February 26, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron will dine with Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Wednesday evening, the Elysee said.
February 26, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow could not consider "any options" for European peacekeepers being sent to
February 26, 2025
Big investors are sensing that a fresh joint European borrowing effort is becoming more likely as the region scrambles to ramp up defence spending.
February 26, 2025
Europe should move from freezing Russian assets to seizing them, British foreign minister David Lammy said on Tuesday, hardening Britain's position on how the West
February 25, 2025
Ukraine could join the European Union before 2030 if the country continues its reforms at their current speed and quality, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told
February 24, 2025
The leaders of the 27 European Union countries will hold an emergency summit on March 6 about next steps for Ukraine and Europe’s security
February 23, 2025
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his country will decide whether Ukraine joins the European Union
February 22, 2025
The United States has proposed a draft resolution for the U.N. General Assembly that stops far short of a competing European-backed statement demanding an immediate withdrawal of all of Moscow’s forces from Ukraine
February 22, 2025
Europe can’t count on the US to be its bodyguard. That’s great for its defense companies
February 21, 2025
Defence is a top spending priority for Poland, and the country may use European Union recovery funds to boost its arms industry, Polish cabinet members said on Friday.
February 21, 2025
A top European Union official, who is trying to head off a potential trade conflict, stressed the importance of active engagement and fairness in trade during a four-hour meeting with Trump administration officials on Wednesday
February 20, 2025
China has been "doing its best" to push for negotiations with the European Union over its tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, a commerce ministry spokesperson said on
February 20, 2025
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed the importance of keeping the path open for Ukraine to join the European Union and rejected suggestions that the country was to blame for its
February 20, 2025
The European Union's diplomatic service has proposed boosting the bloc's military aid for Ukraine, aiming to show continued support for Kyiv as the United States and Russia have
February 19, 2025
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it was Ukraine's sovereign right to decide whether it wanted to join the European Union and that Moscow did not intend to dictate to Kyiv how it
February 18, 2025
European leaders have insisted their governments must have a say in talks between the U.S. and Russia to end the war in Ukraine, as both Moscow and Washington said there was no role for Europe in the negotiations that could shape the future of the continent
February 17, 2025
Poland will not send troops to Ukraine, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday, as he set off for an emergency summit in Paris to discuss Europe's role in any ceasefire.
February 17, 2025
A speaker of the Russian parliament said on Sunday that the events at the Munich Security Conference showed that the European Union was incompetent, did not understand what was
February 16, 2025
China considers Germany and the European Union as a whole as strategic partners, and it wants stronger cooperation with them in the spirit of free trade and
February 15, 2025
As Georgia slides into authoritarianism, protesters vow to keep fighting Russian pivot
February 15, 2025
The European Union can negotiate on reciprocal tariffs with the United States but will not give up its right to regulate in areas such as taxation and digital
February 14, 2025
Spain's European Union-harmonised 12-month inflation rate rose to 2.9% in January from 2.8% in the period through December, final data released by the National Statistics Institute, or INE
February 14, 2025
When Svetlana Sarantseva moved to Portugal from Singapore in 2021, she was looking forward to starting a family and working as a nutrition coach on the Azores archipelago.
February 14, 2025
Europe fears Trump-Putin ‘dirty deal’ as Ukraine scrambles for a seat at the table
February 13, 2025Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said on Thursday he expected upcoming data on public finances to be better than officially forecast by the government, despite a darkening
February 13, 2025
Greenpeace International has filed a lawsuit against U.S. pipeline company Energy Transfer in a Dutch court, the environmental group said on Tuesday, adding it was the first test
February 11, 2025
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February 11, 2025
British employers are the most likely among those in major European countries to include salary details when they advertise a job, with 71% doing so compared to
February 11, 2025
European Union authorities overseeing data protection will discuss artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Tuesday, a meeting agenda shows, amid concerns over how the Chinese
February 10, 2025
Romania's outgoing centrist president, Klaus Iohannis, resigned on Monday as opposition hard-right parliamentary parties planned to have him impeached.
February 10, 2025
Europe is prepared to respond "within an hour" if the United States levies tariffs against the European Union, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a pre-election debate with his
February 09, 2025
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a switch from Russia's electricity grid to the EU's system on Sunday, severing Soviet
February 09, 2025
The European Union must act to lower energy prices and curb illegal migration, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday, as he
February 07, 2025
ArcelorMittal on Thursday called on the European Union to tighten trade protections and increase support for green investments, as high costs and cheap
February 06, 2025
France is being inundated by a "white tsunami" of cocaine, the interior minister said on Thursday, with authorities seizing more than double the amount of the drug last year in an
February 06, 2025
Poland supports the idea of creating a "rearmament" bank to help Europe pay for the huge defence investment it needs as result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine,
February 06, 2025
Spain is seeking European approval to repurpose more than a billion euros of post-pandemic recovery funds to make Valencia more resilient against
February 06, 2025
A project to establish a court to prosecute the Russian leaders who orchestrated the invasion of Ukraine has taken a major step forward, with an announcement from a group of international organizations, including the European Union and the Council of Europe, working together with Ukraine
February 05, 2025
Poland will appeal to the EU Court of Justice over European Union fines related to judicial reforms introduced by the previously ruling Law and Justice government, Poland's minister of EU
February 05, 2025
Europe is strong enough to pursue its own interests in trade talks with the United States, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday after a meeting with fellow EU leaders.
February 03, 2025
Investors with 6.6 trillion euros in assets under management have urged the European Union not to weaken its sustainability rules, as Brussels
February 03, 2025
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February 03, 2025
Keir Starmer is heading to Brussels, becoming the first British prime minister to attend a European Union leaders’ meeting since the U.K. left the bloc five years ago
February 03, 2025
Any attempts at waging trade wars are a complete mistake, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday, after U.S.
February 03, 2025
The European Union has warned Pakistan that its status as a duty-free exporter to the bloc will continue to depend on the progress the country makes in addressing concerns about civil and labor rights and freedom of speech
January 31, 2025
Friday marks five years since Britain left the European Union at 11 p.m. on Jan. 31, 2020
January 31, 2025
Spain's European Union-harmonised 12-month inflation rate rose to 2.9% in January, from 2.8% in the period through December, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute (INE)
January 30, 2025
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday sharply criticized Elon Musk's backing of the right-wing parties in the European Union, calling it "really disgusting" and said it was
January 28, 2025
The European Union is "not negotiating" on Greenland, EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday, amid claims by U.S.
January 27, 2025
Belarus’ opposition activists and Western officials have denounced an orchestrated election that extended the over three-decade rule of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko
January 27, 2025
The European Union has agreed to prolong for 6 months a raft of sanctions aimed at depriving Russia of funds to finance its war against Ukraine
January 27, 2025
The European Union has rejected the election in Belarus as illegitimate and threatened new sanctions
January 26, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump could fulfil his promise to end the war in Ukraine, but only if he includes Kyiv in any talks, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday.
January 25, 2025
Tens of thousands of people in Slovakia have gathered at squares and street across the country to voice their opposition to the pro-Russia policies of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico
January 24, 2025
Business leaders in Davos joined calls by U.S.
January 24, 2025
The European Union is open to discussing purchases of energy and arms from the United States to ward off tariffs that President
January 23, 2025
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is launching a crusade against what he sees as the downsides of social media
January 23, 2025
A record 47% of the European Union’s electricity now comes from solar and other renewables, a report Thursday said, in yet another sign of the growing gap between the bloc’s push for clean energy and the new U.S. administration’s pursuit of more fossil fuels
January 22, 2025
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January 21, 2025
German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, tipped to become chancellor in next month's election, said on Tuesday U.S.
January 21, 2025
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January 21, 2025
Poland’s presidency of the European Union is firmly focused on security
January 20, 2025
European Union finance ministers will approve French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's deficit-cutting plan on Tuesday as it complies with the EU's recommendations to bring the
January 20, 2025
Nine out of 10 U.S. firms operating in Europe believe transatlantic economic relations will worsen in coming years, with the expected policies of incoming U.S.
January 20, 2025
Opposition leader Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany's next chancellor, said the second presidency of Donald Trump would bring clarity for the European Union as he
January 18, 2025
The European Union is in talks to revive a civilian mission to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah following the announcement of the ceasefire deal between
January 17, 2025
Greece has received 18 billion euros ($18.5 billion) in grants and loans from the European Union's Recovery Fund since 2021, equivalent to about 8% of its economic output, the
January 16, 2025
Germany has not found any further cases of foot-and-mouth disease, agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on Wednesday, adding that experts were working day and night to establish
January 15, 2025
Italy's public debt rose further in November, exceeding 3 trillion euros ($3.1 trillion) and hitting a record high, the central bank of the euro zone's third-largest
January 15, 2025
German economy, Europe’s largest, shrinks for second straight year
January 15, 2025
China and the European Union have a robust "symbiotic" economic relationship and Beijing hopes the bloc can become "a trustworthy partner for cooperation", President Xi Jinping told
January 14, 2025
The European Union's border agency Frontex says that irregular migration into the European Union fell sharply in 2024
January 14, 2025
Europe’s biggest airline wants a 2-drink limit for passengers at airports
January 14, 2025
The European Union is considering expanding its investigation into whether Elon Musk's social media network X breached its content moderation rulebook, Bloomberg News reported on Monday,
January 13, 2025
The European Union announced on Monday a new humanitarian aid package of 140 million euros ($142.8 million) for Ukraine and a further 8 million euros worth of aid for Moldova.
January 13, 2025
Britain named Michael Ellam to lead official-level discussions with the European Union and in international forums on Monday, as the country aims to reset relationships with the
January 13, 2025Croatia’s opposition-backed President Zoran Milanović, a critic of the European Union and NATO, overwhelmingly won reelection for another five-year term on Sunday, defeating a candidate from the ruling conservative party in a runoff vote
January 12, 2025
Croatia’s President Milanović wins another term after defeating ruling party candidate in runoff
January 12, 2025
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