Donald Trump on Friday said he was recommending a 50% tariff go into place on June 1 because of frustration that talks with the EU were not moving quickly enough. The threat roiled global financial markets and intensified a trade war that has been punctuated by frequent changes in tariff policies toward US trading partners […]
President Donald Trump dramatically upped the stakes in the months-long transatlantic standoff earlier Friday by threatening a 50 percent tariff on the bloc, complaining talks with Brussels were “going nowhere.” “The EU’s fully engaged, committed to securing a deal that works for both,” trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic posted on X, after a previously planned call […]
European farmers fear the move will increase prices as over a quarter of the 27-nation bloc’s imports of nitrogen-based fertilisers come from Russia, with more entering from Moscow’s ally Belarus. The European Parliament voted 411-100 for a bill that will enact duties in July and gradually increase them to a point where they would make […]
Representatives of EU governments in Brussels received a text of a Common Understanding between Britain and the EU, and the document is now being approved by all 27 EU governments, the officials said. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa will meet later […]
Responding to a question from MNA Sharmila Faruqi, Zeb Jaffar stated that irresponsible statements made on the floor of the House in the past had damaged the reputation and business of the airline. “The consequences of those remarks were felt by the country,” she added. Jaffar said PIA has now resumed flights to the European […]
Multiple EU diplomats and officials told AFP the signs are positive that a security agreement will be inked when British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets EU chiefs in London on May 19. The “security and defence partnership” is billed as an important first step in Starmer’s much-vaunted push to reset ties after the years of […]
The company, based in Menlo Park, California, stated that it is taking these steps to meet the requests made by EU regulators. Meta announced it will drastically lower the cost of its Subscription option to eliminate ads and provide individuals in the EU with a choice to access Facebook and Instagram for free, featuring less […]
Improvements in the Belgian, Dutch, and French electric-vehicle (EV) markets failed to offset a drop of almost 37% in Germany’s battery-electric sales, the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) said. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Car sales have shown mixed trends across the bloc, in part due to diverging policies on green incentives, while regulators have imposed hefty […]
The Epic Games Store is available to users of Android phones worldwide and for iPhone and iPad users in Europe. The launch of the store comes after Epic waged legal battles and lobbied regulators to loosen the grip of Apple and Google on the sale of apps for phones running their operating systems. “We’re very […]
The complaints filed by the European Center for Digital Rights — also known as Noyb (“None of Your Business”) — come after Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) earlier this month took court action against X over its data collection practices to train its AI. X had recently started “irreversibly feeding” the personal data of more […]
