Lutnick Challenges EU’s Digital Chokehold on US Tech Giants in High-Stakes Brussels Meeting
Secretary Lutnick told European representatives that their tech regulations unfairly disadvantage American companies.

Secretary Lutnick told European representatives that their tech regulations unfairly disadvantage American companies.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that his “main problem” with the 28-point peace plan proposed by the United States is that it legally recognizes territory Russia stole from Ukraine by force during the invasion that began in 2022.

The United States on Monday urged the European Union to rethink its approach to digital regulation if it wants a deal to lower painful US tariffs on the bloc’s steel exports.

Nations clinched a deal at the UN’s COP30 climate summit in the Amazon Saturday without a roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels as demanded by the European Union and other countries.

European leaders are set to meet in South Africa on Saturday to hash out alternatives to a U.S. plan to halt Russia’s war in Ukraine seen as favoring Moscow, while a top Ukrainian delegation prepares for direct talks with Washington.

Thousands of people took to the streets of North Macedonia’s capital on Saturday demanding justice for the victims of a nightclub fire – the deadliest blaze in the country’s history – ahead of the trial next week of the club owner and others.

The justice and energy ministers of Ukraine resigned on Wednesday, the latest officials to be toppled by a fast-growing corruption scandal involving the energy industry.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed criticism from E.U. officials over the legality of military strikes against illicit drug traffickers in Caribbean international waters — emphasizing the United States is protecting its people from narco terrorists who would seek to harm them.

The European Commission has reportedly begun forming a new intelligence service, which is set to be under the control of President Ursula von der Leyen.

Euro states once occupied by the Soviet Union are controlled as pawns by British puppet-masters who don’t care for them, Moscow claims.

Hungary’s annual pro-Israel summit rallied behind a single pledge — “No migration, no antisemitism, no terrorism” — as speakers from Hungary, Israel, and the United States declared that Central Europe is defending faith, borders, and freedom while much of the West drifts into moral confusion.

The United States Agency for Global Media has formally transmitted a Congressional Notification to House appropriators advising that the agency will terminate and cease funding the Hungarian Language Service at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, ending U.S. taxpayer support for woke content broadcast into a NATO-allied nation.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Qatari Minister of State for Energy Affairs Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi sounded the alarm on proposed European Union regulations, charging that they could deindustrialize Europe.

President Zelensky “emphasised” to the leaders of his backers that they “must” provide financial aid for another “two or three years”.

A new study from the Competere Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to free trade, found that South Korea’s anti-competitive trade policies could cause $525 billion in losses to the United States over the next ten years, plus enough damage in South Korea to bring the total loss for both countries up to a trillion dollars.

European Union ministers approved plans to gradually phase out Russian gas imports by the start of 2028 to reduce reliance on Moscow amid criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump that the bloc has been funding both sides of the war in Ukraine.

A letter signed by a group of 19 EU member states and Norway has called on Brussels to greenlight the return of illegal and criminal Afghan migrants back to the Taliban-run state.

France may be teetering on the verge of national snap elections, but the poll-topping sovereigntist is banned from even standing.

European Parliament lawmakers voted on Wednesday to prohibit the use of meat terms like burger or sausage to market so-called veggie alternatives.

WASHINGTON — European Union Ambassador to the United States Jovita Neliupšienė told Breitbart News exclusively in a lengthy interview last week that relations between Europe and the United States are going in the “right direction” under the leadership of U.S. President Donald Trump and E.U. Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen.

Over 20 Republican state attorneys general sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Tuesday urging him to fight European Union (EU) regulations that “demand” that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards be “incorporated into companies.”

The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs committee has voted to uphold the immunity for Italian MEP Ilaria Salis, who faces attempted murder charges in Hungary over an alleged Antifa hammer attack in Budapest.

The United Nations will open the 80th session of its annual General Assembly high-level debate on Tuesday morning. The event allows world leaders a platform to address the issues that matter to them – often resulting in conflict and allowing for the public airing of grievances that diplomats endeavor to keep mum.

Authorities said they carried out 250 raids and detained dozens on Monday as part of an investigation into an alleged Russia-backed plan.

The Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on Tuesday that trade discussions with a U.S. delegation to New Delhi were “positive” and “forward-looking.”

India’s participation in military exercises with Moscow and its purchases of Russian oil “stand in the way of closer ties” with the EU.

Announcement marked a sharp turnaround for Ursula von der Leyen, a longtime supporter of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The head of the European Parliament’s trade committee said Wednesday he has “doubts” about aspects of the EU’s trade deal with the Trump administration and predicted the deal could be amended during the legislative approval process.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage warned the U.S. Congress that censorship laws in Britain will have a stifling effect on free speech throughout the West and urged the American government to pressure London to adhere to its values of liberty.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson urged more than a tech dozen companies not to censor Americans’ free speech or privacy at the behest of the European Union or the United Kingdom.

A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by radar jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday.

The Kyiv regional office of a UK government body has been “severely damaged” by two missiles that struck the same location seconds apart.

Russia is reportedly prepared to use its position as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) to protect Iran from “snapback” sanctions, which European leaders are threatening to invoke because Iran has failed to comply with its obligations under former president Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal.

A report published by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) on Monday found that China is burning record-high amounts of coal at its power plants this year, generating roughly 21 gigawatts of coal power in the first six months of 2025.

American Petroleum Institute’s (API) Dustin Meyer sounded the alarm on a European Union (EU) directive that would impose “massive, mandatory, extraterritorial” regulations on American companies.

Multiple postal services around Europe announced Saturday that they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.

A court in Vienna ruled this week that Islamic Sharia law can be legally upheld in Austria in civil disputes, sparking accusations that the nation’s Christian values are being undermined by multiculturalism.

President Donald Trump said Monday that European leaders gathering in Washington alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “want to see peace” as discussions continued following Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska last week.

European leaders descended on Washington, DC, on Monday in an expression of solidarity with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of peace talks with U.S. President Trump. However, critics noted that despite the bluster from Brussels, Europe sent more money to Russia for energy than it did to Kyiv in aid last year.

Zelensky can immediately end the Russian invasion “if he wants to” by accepting the terms being offered to him, President Trump said.
