European Commissioner Frans Timmermans has warned that the financial repercussions of the Wuhan coronavirus could be worse than the 2008 financial crisis and could lead to the breakup of the EU.
The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator says the British government “cannot” refuse to extend the Brexit-in-name-only “transition” period if it will not submit to the bloc’s demands in the current negotiations.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has issued another apology to Italy over the European Union’s lack of solidarity during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.
Boris Johnson would say “no” to an extension to the transition period if the European Union asks for one, the prime minister’s spokesman said after the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called for a delay.
The President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen has apologised to Italy for a lack of solidarity over the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, as anger towards the political bloc grows.
The president of the European Commission has recommended member states enact entry restrictions to the European Union for 30 days due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The European Union has said that the Greek government must allow migrants to apply for asylum, despite its rhetorical support for their efforts to prevent the Turkish government from facilitating a wave of illegal migration into Greece.
The European Commission has said that the European Union “disapproves” of President Donald Trump’s decision to protect his citizens from further foreign exposure to coronavirus by banning entry from most of the bloc’s countries without having consulted with Brussels, first.
European leaders are lining up an array of tax breaks, financial support for companies and likely central bank measures.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Johnson said that the UK has “made up its mind” over what it wants from a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the remarks coming after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that Britain must choose either close alignment to the EU or lose access to the Single Market.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said that if the UK wants a trade deal with access to the Single Market, Brexit Britain must stay constrained by EU rules.
The EU will not impose border controls to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus, despite hundreds of cases being confirmed in Italy.
A second day of negotiating over the post-Brexit EU budget is looking to end again in deadlock with member-states split between the “Frugals”, who want less spending; the poorer, mostly former Soviet satellite states who want more money; and the European Parliament which wants the budget period increased to a massive €1.32 trillion to help turn the EU carbon neutral.
The British government has challenged the European Union’s “posturing” on a potential trade deal at the end of the 2020 Brexit “transition” and baited its chief negotiator on Twitter.
European leaders are said to be “fighting like ferrets in a sack” over how to fill the €12 billion annual hole left by the UK’s exit from the EU.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The European Union warned Thursday that the spread of the viral outbreak in China is a risk for the economy but that its full impact will depend on how long it lasts and how far it spreads.
European Union member states want to be able to suspend elements of a future trade deal with the UK as part of their arsenal of punishments should Britain disobey rulings by a dispute panel overseeing the agreement.
The European Commission has reported a Brexit day stunt promoted by the First Minister of Scotland to the police in Belgium.
European Union (E.U.) foreign policy chief Josep Borrell apologised Saturday for mildly critical comments he made about youth climate activists in general and Greta Thunberg in particular, in a very public display of contrition just a few months into his role.
The President of the European Commission, the head of the European Council, and UK PM Boris Johnson signed the Brexit agreement Friday.
The European Commission has drawn up a list of 40 different types of financial services it could threaten to block from the EU’s market if the UK diverges from Brussels’ regulations after Brexit. The Queen gave Royal Assent to the
“They’re going to make a deal, because they have to. They have to. They have no choice,” Trump said in Davos.
Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar has declared that Ireland is “on team EU” and thanked the bloc for its “solidarity” while telling its British neighbours they must agree to abide by Brussels’ anti-competitive “level playing field” rules after Brexit to secure a trade deal.
(AFP) — The EU’s top trade official heads to Washington on Tuesday on a sensitive mission to mend ties with the United States and end several years of protectionist battles.
Brussels will act in a “political” manner and could bar the United Kingdom’s financial hub from its markets should Prime Minister Boris Johnson attempt to free the nation from burdensome regulations imposed by the bloc.
European Union lead negotiator Michel Barnier has warned that the bloc is still preparing for a No Deal Brexit, particularly if Britain will not let the EU dictate how it administers state aid.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union said Wednesday it “will spare no efforts” in its attempts to keep alive an international deal preventing Iran from developing atomic weapons. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said her foreign affairs chief
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to tell the president of the European Commission that he is ready to walk away from the EU without a trade deal at the end of the transition period.
A criminal complaint has been filed after it was revealed that Germany’s Defence Ministry wiped data from the phone of its former boss and new European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen — echoing similar incidents involving Hillary Clinton in the United States.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – The new European Commission president says she chose Africa as her first visit outside Europe as it has some of the world´s fastest-growing economies and some of its biggest challenges, including climate change.
E.U. officials have established tough hurdles for Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency Libra as well as other private digital currencies, saying they shouldn’t receive regulatory approval until the risks they pose are better understood.
Members of the new European Commission have been slammed for singing the far-left Marxist song “Bella Ciao” in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This is part of an ambitious plan by incoming President Ursula von der Leyen for the EU to become the world’s first Zero Carbon entity.
European Parliament members have slammed Hungarian candidate for the European Commission Olivér Várhelyi, claiming he is too sympathetic to the leader of his own country, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Órban. Várhelyi, who has served as Hungarian ambassador to the European Union
In another humiliating – albeit symbolic – blow to the Brexit movement in the UK, Boris Johnson is set to nominate a commissioner to the EU.
BERLIN (AP) — The incoming head of the European Union’s executive branch is pressing for the bloc to open membership talks with North Macedonia and Albania after its leaders failed to agree last month on launching the negotiations.
The president-elect of the European Union’s executive Commission is defending NATO after French President Macron claimed that a lack of U.S. leadership is causing the military alliance’s “brain death.”
Outgoing President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has blamed his “friend” Tony Blair, in part, for Brexit, because the former prime minister continued to mislead the British people that the European Union was merely an economic project.
Belgian authorities have been ordered to repatriate a woman who joined the Islamic State group and her two children from the camp in Syria where she is being held, a lawyer for her family said Thursday.
Top Eurocrat Jean-Claude Juncker has articulated an evidently growing feeling within the European Union that the protracted Brexit process has robbed the bloc of the chance to advance its plans for years, calling the process “a waste of time, and a waste of energy.”
