UK to reject EU demand for Brexit bill estimate
LONDON â U.K. negotiators are not planning to present their own estimate of financial obligations owed to the EU on Brexit during this weekâs round of negotiations, according to a U.K. official...
View ArticleUK 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,...
View ArticleDonald 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...
View ArticleFacing 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...
View ArticleUK drifts closer to a Norway-style Brexit transition
LONDON â There is a black hole at the center of the Brexit negotiations â hard-liners can kick and scream, but itâs sucking everyone into its gravitational pull. Its name is transition, and its...
View ArticleTrump’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...
View ArticleJuncker 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...
View ArticleLatin 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...
View ArticleJuncker’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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleSchulz 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...
View ArticleSpain 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...
View ArticleFrance’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...
View ArticleMerkel 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...
View ArticleUS 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....
View ArticleTheresa 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...
View ArticleEU 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...
View ArticleLatin 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...
View ArticleJuncker’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...
View ArticleMore 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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