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
U.S.
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
U.S.
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
U.S.
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, 2025NATO won't heed Donald Trump’s proposal for a massive hike in defence spending but will likely agree to go beyond its current target, according to
January 10, 2025
Ukraine received its first 3 billion euro ($3.09 billion) tranche of the European Union's portion of a loan agreed by the Group of Seven members and backed by the earnings
January 10, 2025
Armenia's government on Thursday gave approval to a bill that calls for the country, once part of the Soviet Union, to launch a bid to join the European Union.
January 09, 2025
Meta says it will allow some Facebook users to view eBay listings on its Marketplace service
January 08, 2025
Sicilian coffee roaster Zicaffe has asked the European Union's Intellectual Property Office (EUIOP) to block fashion giant Inditex's use of the name Zacaffe for its new coffee shops
January 08, 2025
The European Union will not let other nations attack its sovereign borders, France's foreign minister said on Wednesday, responding to comments by U.S.
January 08, 2025
Former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis, who led the country into the European Union's single currency in 2001, died on Sunday aged 88 at his summer house in the Peloponnese.
January 05, 2025
Poland launched its presidency of the Council of the European Union on Friday mired in a diplomatic row with Hungary that
January 03, 2025
Poland launched its presidency of the Council of the European Union on Friday mired in a diplomatic row with Hungary that
January 03, 2025
Ukraine ends supply of Russian gas to Europe
January 01, 2025
Ukraine has halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network, almost three years into Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor
January 01, 2025
Russia’s once-dominant gas supply to Europe via Ukraine, which flowed for decades, is set to end on New Year’s Day with the collapse of a contract between the two warring countries
December 31, 2024
The Parliament in ex-Soviet Moldova, controlled by pro-Western lawmakers, approved a 10-year defence strategy on Thursday calling for increased defence spending
December 26, 2024Romanian lawmakers have voted narrowly in favor of a new pro-European coalition government led by incumbent Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu
December 23, 2024
The value of Portuguese homes that changed hands in the third quarter rose 28% to a record 9.05 billion euros ($1.04 billion), potentially aggravating a shortage of affordable
December 23, 2024
Russia poses a bigger threat to European Union security than just defence as Moscow can use illegal immigration and other issues to undermine the bloc,
December 22, 2024
U.S.
December 20, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is threatening to add the 27 countries that make up the European Union to the list of trade partners he'll place tariffs on — unless the group takes steps to import more U.S. goods
December 20, 2024
Brazil expects the South American trade bloc Mercosur to speed up more free trade negotiations after clinching a deal with the European
December 20, 2024
European Union leaders insist no decisions can be taken about the future of Ukraine without its consent or behind their backs
December 19, 2024
Georgia’s outgoing president wants the European Union to press her country’s pro-Russia government to hold a new election
December 18, 2024
The European Union will establish contacts with Syria's new leadership and reopen its delegation in the country, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and EU Commission
December 17, 2024
European Union regulators are investigating whether TikTok breached the bloc’s digital rulebook by failing to deal with risks to Romania’s presidential election
December 17, 2024
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer will attend a meeting of European Union leaders early next year
December 12, 2024
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić says he isn't like ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad and has no intention of fleeing the country despite spreading protests against his increasingly autocratic rule
December 10, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Warsaw on Thursday to give a rundown on talks with U.S.
December 10, 2024
There are legitimate concerns about the risks of sectarian violence in Syria and a resurgence of extremism in the country, the European Union's new foreign policy
December 10, 2024
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says negotiations over the war in neighboring Ukraine could start “in the winter” as his country prepares to take over the rotating presidency of the European Union on Jan. 1
December 10, 2024
Croatia said it had temporarily suspended asylum applications from Syrians, following the lead of other European governments, after rebels ousted President Bashar al-Assad after 13 years
December 10, 2024
The European Union needs common instruments to fund defence spending amid a protracted war in Ukraine and calls from Washington for NATO members to increase such expenditure,
December 09, 2024
Europe needs to find ways within the next year to fund hundreds of billions of euros in extra military spending to defend against any attack from
December 09, 2024
Britain will limit engagement with the Georgian government and restrict defence cooperation, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on Monday in a statement condemning violence against
December 09, 2024
Ukraine will soon get another 4.2 billion euros ($4.4 billion) in funds after the European Union's member states approved the planned payment of the money, said the EU Council on
December 09, 2024
South America's agricultural sector, a key source of global food, celebrated on Friday as the regional Mercosur bloc and the
December 06, 2024
The European Union and four South American countries on Friday finalized a free trade agreement that took over two decades to negotiate.
December 05, 2024
Calin Georgescu, whose stunning victory in the first round of Romania's presidential election was declared void on Friday, is a
November 25, 2024
The European Union has sent TikTok an urgent request for more information about Romanian intelligence files suggesting that Moscow coordinated influencers on its platform to promote an election candidate who became the surprise front-runner in the nation’s presidential election
December 06, 2024
Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Friday survived a no-confidence motion in parliament against his pro-European Union government, the second this year, launched over a high-
December 06, 2024
The European Union and South America's Mercosur bloc have finalised a free trade agreement, the European Commission said on Friday but it faces a tortuous battle for
December 06, 2024
The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have failed again to make progress in talks meant to improve their testy ties
September 14, 2023
Finland is joining its three Baltic neighbors in banning vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their territory, a joint move in line with a recent interpretation of the European Union’s sanctions against Moscow over its war on Ukraine
September 15, 2023
The European Union has decided not to renew a ban on Ukrainian food imports heading to nearby countries
September 15, 2023
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Turkey may part ways with the European Union
September 16, 2023
Farmers across Bulgaria protested Monday after the government lifted a ban on food products from Ukraine, complaining that the move will cause an influx that drives down prices for local growers
September 18, 2023
Judges of a European Union-backed court have ordered the arrest of Kosovo’s three other war veterans on alleged offenses against the administration of justice
December 05, 2024South America's Mercosur trade bloc will meet in Uruguay on Thursday with fresh signs the group could use the
December 04, 2024
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