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UK to reject EU demand for Brexit bill estimate

LONDON — U.K. negotiators are not planning to present their own estimate of financial obligations owed to the EU on Brexit during this week’s round of negotiations, according to a U.K. official...

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UK and EU broach thorny issue of post-Brexit trade rules

Brussels and London have started talks on the complex issue of how they will trade globally once they are separate entities within the World Trade Organization, EU officials said today. Officially,...

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Donald Trump: EU is ‘very protectionist’

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday slammed the European Union for being “very protectionist with the U.S.” and demanded that this had to “stop,” he said in a tweet. His latest broadside against...

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Facing trade war with Trump, Europe rediscovers its swagger

If U.S. President Donald Trump really wants a trade war, Brussels is more than happy to give him one. Trump could hardly have chosen a worse moment to threaten to slap tariffs on the European steel...

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UK drifts closer to a Norway-style Brexit transition

LONDON — There is a black hole at the center of the Brexit negotiations — hard-liners can kick and scream, but it’s sucking everyone into its gravitational pull. Its name is transition, and its...

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Trump’s olive siege of farming fortress Europe

Spanish olives, and potentially the EU’s agricultural policy as a whole, are the next potential victims of Donald Trump’s “America First” policy. The U.S. Department of Commerce opened a probe last...

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Juncker proposes fast-tracking EU trade deals

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker aims to solve one of the greatest weaknesses of EU trade policy by proposing fast-track ratification of trade deals that would eliminate the need for...

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Latin America may be where Europe’s trade luck runs out

Latin America threatens to end the EU’s successful run of big free-trade deals. In recent months, European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström has been on a winning streak. A major deal with Japan...

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Juncker’s risky bid to rescue EU trade policy

Jean-Claude Juncker wants to style the EU as the undisputed champion of global trade when he steps up to deliver his State of the Union address in Strasbourg Wednesday. The European Commission...

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More than 470,000 sign petition against Uber’s London ban

More than 470,000 people have signed a petition calling on officials to reverse their decision to strip Uber of its license to operate in London. Transport for London said Friday it had rejected Uber’s...

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Schulz vows to fight ‘until last minute’ in German campaign

AACHEN, Germany — Martin Schulz, the main challenger to Angela Merkel, vowed on the eve of Sunday’s German election to “fight until the last minute” as polls predicted a historic defeat for his Social...

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Spain tries to exert control over Catalan police

Spain’s government on Saturday announced measures to exert more control over police forces in Catalonia in its latest move to stop an independence referendum scheduled for October 1. Diego Pérez de los...

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France’s Mélenchon pledges ‘casserole protest’ over labor reform

French far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon told tens of thousands of supporters Saturday that the battle against Emmanuel Macron’s labor reforms was not over, even though the president signed them into...

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Merkel insists she’s open to coalition talks with Social Democrats

Angela Merkel said Monday she is open to coalition talks with all of Germany’s  mainstream parliamentary parties — including the Social Democrats (SPD), despite the fact that they ruled out another...

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US rounds on Britain over food quotas as post-Brexit trade woes deepen

The U.S. and other international trade heavyweights have dashed Prime Minister Theresa May’s hopes of a smooth Brexit by rejecting one of her core plans for reintegrating into global trade networks....

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Theresa May’s second lesson in post-Brexit trade realpolitik

London just got another lesson in post-Brexit trade realpolitik. A week after U.S. President Donald Trump ignored all appeals by Prime Minister Theresa May to block the imposition of a hefty 219...

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EU trade, the Martin Selmayr way

In a behind-the-scenes struggle over free trade playing out in Brussels, Martin Selmayr got his way — yet again, as his admirers and detractors might say. The powerful chief of staff to President...

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Latin America may be where Europe’s trade luck runs out

Latin America threatens to end the EU’s successful run of big free-trade deals. In recent months, European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström has been on a winning streak. A major deal with Japan...

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Juncker’s risky bid to rescue EU trade policy

Jean-Claude Juncker wants to style the EU as the undisputed champion of global trade when he steps up to deliver his State of the Union address in Strasbourg Wednesday. The European Commission...

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More than 470,000 sign petition against Uber’s London ban

More than 470,000 people have signed a petition calling on officials to reverse their decision to strip Uber of its license to operate in London. Transport for London said Friday it had rejected Uber’s...

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