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UK May Relax EU Imports-Related Border Checks Amid Decline in Bilateral Trade

The UK government is considering easing post-Brexit border checks on food and other imports from the EU amid concerns that they may damage trade and result in serious shortages in British supermarkets, The Observer...

Britain could block imports of Perrier and San Pellegrino as it flexes mussels in EU shellfish war

Ministers are to step up the war with the EU Commissioner known as ‘Calamity Kyriakides’ by blocking imports of fashionable mineral waters such as San Pellegrino and Perrier. Environment Secretary George Eustice has been so...

Italian government faces criticism over consulting contract with McKinsey over EU funds

… rewrite plans for spending the European Union funds aimed at rebuilding the … than 200 billion euros of EU funds and revive the pandemic … already prepared by the other...

Food scarcity fears prompt plan to ease post-Brexit checks on EU imports

Ministers are preparing to relax post-Brexit plans for border checks on food and other imports from the European Union because of fears that they will further damage trade and could lead to severe shortages...

EU Ambassador hopeful of peaceful resolution of latest Guyana-Venezuela tensions

European Union (EU) Ambassador to Guyana Fernando Ponz Cantó is hoping for a peaceful resolution to the latest tensions between Guyana and Venezuela. Speaking to reporters during an interview at his Sendell Place, Stabroek office...

European Parliament expected to strip Catalan ex-president of immunity

The European Parliament is expected to withdraw the immunity of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and two fellow MEPs next week, allowing proceedings to extradite them to Spain to resume. Last month, the parliament’s committee on legal affairs voted to recommend...

US, EU to suspend tariffs in Boeing-Airbus dispute

A first phone call on Friday clinched the first trade breakthrough to start rebuilding transatlantic relations between the United States and the European Union in the wake of the Trump presidency. After US President Joe...

EU approves 155 mln USD to support Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan

BEIRUT, March 5 (Xinhua) -- The European Union, via the Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian crisis, adopted a 130 million euros (155 million U.S. dollars) assistance package to support Syrian refugees...

US, EU to suspend tariffs on alcohol, food and airplanes

Brussels , March 6 (ANI): The United States and the European Union agreed to temporarily suspend tariffs levied on billions of dollars of each others' aircraft, wine, food and other products for a four-month...

EU Threatens Retaliations, Tariffs in Northern Ireland Dispute with Britain

… surprise.” On Thursday, EU officials threatened to impose trade … minister, told reporters the EU would have no option … of the dispute, the European...

European Union warns China against Hong Kong election rules change

The European Union warned China on Friday that it may take "additional steps" in response to Beijing's move to grant itself a veto over the selection of Hong Kong lawmakers. ...

European Parliament to sue the European Commission over US visas

The President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, has signed a decision of the Legal Affairs Committee, which brings before the Court of Justice of the European Union the European Commission for not acting...

European Parliament delays vote on Brexit deal after UK ‘violation’

The European Parliament has delayed deciding a date for the vote to approve the Brexit trade deal with the UK after London "violated" the terms of the agreement. The Conference of Presidents - a body...

Fidesz quits Fine Gael’s EPP group in European Parliament showdown

Right-wing Hungarian leader Viktor Orban has pulled his Fidesz party out of the European People’s Party (EPP) group in the European Parliament, the culmination of years of mounting unhappiness among MEPs over the authoritarian...

Hungary PM Orban’s party quits largest group in European Parliament

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party has quit the centre-right European People's Party in the European Parliament amid a suspension row with fellow MEPs. Orban announced the decision in a letter to the chairman...

EU supports open, fair, rules-based trade: EU official

BRUSSELS, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Trade ministers of the 27 member states of the European Union (EU) are broadly positive about the EU's new trade strategy and the European Commission's commitment to open, fair...

Hungary’s Ruling Party Pulls Out Of European Parliament Bloc

BUDAPEST -- Hungary's ruling Fidesz party has quit the European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament after the conservative grouping approved new internal rules. Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced the move in a letter...

Charles Michel, President of European Council and EIB President Werner Hoyer on key Team Europe mission to Moldova and Georgia

On 28 February and 1 March President Hoyer joined EU President Charles Michel on a mission to Moldova and Georgia, underlining the important role the EU Bank plays in Team Europe's effort to support the EU’s Eastern...

Hungary’s Fidesz party to leave European parliament centre-right group

Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has pulled his rightwing Fidesz party out of the main centre-right political group in the European parliament after the European People’s party (EPP) moved towards excluding it by changing...

Data exchange between European Union and United Kingdom confusing in the future

Data exchange between the European Union and the United Kingdom: The legal situation regarding data protection could also be confusing in the future Marc Ahlgrim recommends automated data management for companies to be on the...

Chief European Union diplomat in Venezuela leaves country

CARACAS, Venezuela — The chief European Union diplomat in Venezuela left the country on Tuesday, a week after the government of Nicolás Maduro ordered her expulsion following the EU’s decision to impose sanctions on...

We can’t let China rule artificial intelligence, US congresswoman tells European Parliament

US Representative Robin Kelly has called on Brussels to work closely with the new Biden administration to outflank China on artificial intelligence (AI), amid fears that the Asian superpower has gained a lead in...

European parliamentarians warn against de facto West Bank annexation

A group of 442 parliamentarians from 22 European countries have urged the European Union to take action to prevent de facto Israeli annexation of the West Bank.“The recent regional normalization agreements with Israel have led to the suspension of plans to formally annex West Bank territory,” the European parliamentarians said in a letter to EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell and the EU’s 27 foreign ministers.
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