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President Donald Trump stated that the entire European Union, including Ireland, has been taking advantage of the US while hosting Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in Washington ahead of St. Patrick's Day.

Ukrainian President Zelensky emphasized the importance of U.S. support as he arrived in the UK on Saturday, following a tense meeting with U.S. President Trump.

Trump's fresh salvo could bring a broad tariff hike to emerging market economies like India and take aim at European Union value-added taxes, fanning tensions with the bloc, analysts warn.

The gathering in Brussels is billed as a "triple first": the first time the European Union's 27 leaders meet since the US president's inauguration, their first-ever dedicated talks on defence and their first with a British premier since Brexit.

The rules, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), will be debated in the European Parliament Tuesday, as dozens of lawmakers pile pressure on Brussels to enforce measures aimed at taming the worst excesses of social media.

The new benchmark affirmed by the Copernicus Climate Change Service caps a year in which countries rich and poor were hammered by disasters that scientists have linked to humanity's role in Earth's rapid warming.

Donald Trump, during his Pennsylvania rally warned about EU paying big for not buying from America.

Irregular border crossings into the European Union are down more than 40 percent this year after reaching the highest level in nearly a decade in 2023, according to the EU border agency, Frontex.

More than two and a half years into the war, Kyiv is losing new territory almost daily in its eastern Donbas region and under mounting pressure to forge an exit strategy -- which it says must start with ramped-up Western support.

The EU voiced concerns about "harmful" content posted on Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube as it told the digital platforms on Wednesday to hand over more information on how their platforms recommend content to users.

To confront the challenges, von der Leyen handed French candidate Stephane Sejourne a powerful executive vice president role overseeing industrial strategy, and also named a new commissioner for defence to help Europe rearm.

For now, commission president von der Leyen has been tight-lipped about what exactly the job would entail. One thing is sure -- the new defence commissioner is not a sort of EU defence minister.

The court dismissed an appeal by Google and its parent company Alphabet against the fine, slapped on the search engine in 2017 for abusing its dominant position by favouring its own comparison shopping service.

If 2024 already looks like an annus horribilis for big tech in the EU, the months ahead could prove a winter of discontent as the bloc wields a fortified new legal armoury to bring online titans to heel.

The latest rejection comes as Venezuela's opposition backed outside calls for the results of last week's disputed presidential vote to be published, as the Pope said Venezuelans must "seek the truth" and warned against further violence.

The EU earlier this year adopted the world's first sweeping rules to govern AI, especially powerful systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT after difficult and tense negotiations.

A landmark European Union law known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA) entered into force in March, and regulators believe it will create a fairer market.

With the Federal Reserve meeting this week, investors are keenly awaiting its updated "dot plot" outlook for borrowing costs, with commentators split on how many, if any, reductions are in the pipeline.

The EU will seek a global phase-out of fossil fuels and for their use to reach a peak in this decade, according to the member states' common position adopted unanimously late Monday.

The "game-changing decision" from the EU was praised by the foreign minister of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba.

Putin pal and Russian oligarch Vladimir Strzhalkovsky’s Malta-registered superyacht Ragner is stuck at a quay in Narvik, a port city in northern Norway, after running out of fuel and being “discriminated” against by local oil fillers who refused to help them top up their supply.

The 70-meter Galactica Super Nova, owned by Alekperov, the president and chief executive of Russia’s largest independent oil company, entered Tivat port at around 3 p.m. local time on Tuesday after the yacht sailed on Monday from Barcelona port in Spain.

Giant social media companies, such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, have begun hitting Russia's state-backed news channels Russia Today and Sputnik with restrictions in their online platforms as the European Union (EU) moves to ban Russian state media.

Janssen, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by United States pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson is listed with a rare disease as a side effect by the EU.

France has now made it mandatory for people to present their “passe-sanitaire” (health passport) when entering venues as part of its national campaign to clamp down on a recent surge in new infections brought by the highly infectious Delta COVID-19 variant.

Harrowing images of dead bodies of children and infants washed up on a beach in Libya have emerged in recent times as the United Nations slams the European Union on how it deals with Libya's worsening migrant crisis.

Britain has warned the European Union that it would override parts of its divorce deal with the EU unless the latter agrees to a free trade deal by Oct. 15.

Former European Council Chief Donald Tusk's tweet made waves because of what people interpret as the "gun" gesture.

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The European Commission will propose giving Spain, France and several other euro zone states more time to cut their public deficits below the target limit of 3 percent of GDP, newspaper El Pais said on Saturday.