Tag: Donald Tusk

President Donald Trump refuted European Council President Donald Tusk’s Tuesday slam about the number of America’s allies as Trump took off for this week’s NATO summit.

Although U.S. President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly made clear that he is committed to NATO and expects members to pull their own weight within the alliance, European Union leaders have sounded the alarm, blaming the President for endangering the military treaty.

EU leaders clinched a hard-won migration deal during all-night talks Friday that Italy’s hardline new premier said meant his country was “no longer alone” in shouldering the responsibility for migrants. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who heads a month-old anti-immigration

Brussels must resist the urge to “punish” Britain for its decision to leave the bloc, Hungary has said, warning that failure to secure a comprehensive post-Brexit trade deal would be “devastating” for European Union (EU) economies.

Contents: Tense Turkey-EU summit in Bulgaria once again ends in failure; Other unresolved issues from the EU-Turkey summit meeting

Survey data shows Poland’s patriotic, conservative government enjoying a huge lead in the polls, with the europhile opposition trailing by 30 points.

The European Council has rejected the Prime Minister’s latest Brexit proposals – for remaining in some agencies and in line with some rules – as well as demanding continued access to the UK’s territorial fishing waters.

European Council President Donald Tusk has doubled down on demands that Northern Ireland remains tied to the European Union’s (EU) rules after Brexit, shortly before a critical meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union Council President Donald Tusk on Tuesday urged Britain to change its mind about leaving the bloc next year, as time to conclude a Brexit agreement runs short and EU leaders await more details on how the country sees their future ties.

The President of the European Council is afraid that the conservative Law and Justice Party government in his native Poland is pursuing an exit from the European Union.

Contents: European Union continues to face crises regarding migration; Bitter divisions emerge at EU summit over migration issues

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has blasted the slow and fruitless progress of negotiations for Britain to leave the European Union as the bloc finally gave their permission for the second phase of talks to begin, remarking the nation had already been “strung along”.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union chief Donald Tusk warned Thursday of a bruising Brexit battle ahead as Britain and the remaining 27 EU countries move onto to discussions over their future trade relations.

The European Union has descended into vicious infighting as it continues to struggle with the migrant crisis, with the President of the Council and the European Commission at each other’s throats.

The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has launched an astonishing attack on the Polish government, calling his ability to act as an honest broker between EU member-states into question.

The European Union (EU) could withhold Britain’s €5 billion budget rebate, with negociators issuing a two-week deadline for meeting their unwavering demand for a €60 billion (£53.6 billion) Brexit ‘divorce bill.’

The European Commission President has said he “hates” the idea of a ‘no deal’ Brexit, whilst slamming the “superficial” British press and implying the bloc’s chief negotiator is not being tough enough with the UK.

After months of failed negotiations that have imperilled both a workable deal between the United Kingdom and the European Union, and her own leadership, Theresa May has attempted a personal appeal to the leaders of European nations for progress.

The European Union’s unelected executive “pretty much dictated” parts of Theresa May’s Florence speech on Brexit, according to gloating bureaucrats in Brussels.

European president Donald Tusk has rebuffed the offers made by British Prime Minister Theresa May while standing outside 10 Downing Street Tuesday, saying Britain would not be able to “have your cake and eat it”.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Donald Tusk, one of the European Union’s top officials, says that he’s worried his native Poland could be moving toward leaving the European Union.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish investigators questioned Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, for more than eight hours Thursday as a witness in an investigation into the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski — a case widely seen as an attempt to discredit and humiliate the EU leader by his longtime rival.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and Britain on Friday tripped over the first item in their Brexit talks — protecting the rights of each other’s citizens — highlighting the potential for trouble ahead in their marathon negotiations.

BRUSSELS (AP) — If European Union chief Donald Tusk is still “a dreamer” about Britain having second thoughts on leaving the EU, some other EU leaders at a summit Thursday tried to dash his hopes.

TAORMINA, Italy – At President Trump’s first major meeting with international leaders, his world influence has become evident as conversations shifted from the bogeyman of climate change to the real and present danger of Islamist terrorism.

BRUSSELS (AFP) – EU leaders Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Brussels next Thursday, the European Commission said, following months of strained relations. Juncker, who heads the European Commission, and Tusk, who heads

(AFP) – Any trade deal linking the EU and Britain after Brexit will require guarantees against “unfair competition” by the UK, EU Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish prosecutors said Monday they have summoned European Council President Donald Tusk to testify as a witness in their investigation of a 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. It is the

The British people will not be bullied by the European Commission over Brexit, the minister for exiting the European Union has said.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union chief Donald Tusk appealed Thursday for calm as tensions soar between Brussels and London over negotiations on Britain’s departure from the bloc. “These negotiations are difficult enough as they are. If we start arguing before

Contents: European Union lays out demands for Britain over Brexit negotiations; Sharp disagreements ahead over the 60 billion euro Brexit ‘divorce settlement’; Corrections to yesterday’s article on Macedonia

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s Foreign Ministry has suspended one of its honorary consuls in the U.S. after the woman allegedly posted a digitally-altered image showing European Council President Donald Tusk dressed as a Nazi German SS officer. The image

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Council President Donald Tusk was met at Warsaw’s main train station Wednesday by hundreds of people – both supporters and angry opponents – as he arrived to testify in an investigation. The mood at the

WARSAW (AFP) – EU president Donald Tusk heads to Warsaw on Wednesday to testify before prosecutors in an investigation into two former military counterintelligence chiefs. The former Polish prime minister tweeted earlier this month that he would attend: “(April) 16 – holidays

LONDON (AP) — European Council President Donald Tusk and British Prime Minister Theresa May met Thursday to seek a smooth start to the U.K.’s EU departure, a day after the European Parliament laid out tough guidelines for the divorce negotiations.