Backing off auto tariffs, US and European Union agree to more talks
President Donald Trump and European leaders pulled back from the brink of a trade war over autos Wednesday and agreed to open talks to tear down trade barriers between the United States and the European Union.
EU fines Google a record $5B over mobile practices
European regulators came down hard on another U.S. tech giant Wednesday, fining Google a record $5 billion for forcing cellphone makers that use the company’s Android operating system to install Google search and browser apps.
Trump names EU a global foe, raps media before Putin summit
President Donald Trump named the European Union as a top adversary of the United States and denounced the news media as the “enemy of the people” before arriving in Helsinki on Sunday on the eve of his high-stakes summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Trump plans to go ahead with steel, aluminum tariffs on EU
President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to impose tariffs on European steel and aluminum imports after failing to win concessions from the European Union, a move that could provoke retaliatory tariffs and inflame trans-Atlantic trade tensions.
EU ready for a ‘stupid’ trade war if Trump slaps on tariffs
The European Union says it’s ready to retaliate against the U.S. over President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum — with counter-measures against iconic U.S. products like Harley Davidson motorcycles, Levi’s jeans and bourbon.
Other Europeans unhappy with EU could seek to follow UK out
Disenchantment with the European Union is not limited to British voters who opted to leave the bloc.
Generation EU: British vote often pitted old against young
The day after Britain voted to leave the European Union, 69-year-old Mary Crossley of London said she got a phone call from her 31-year-old daughter. She seemed pretty annoyed.
European Union’s most widely used language, English, endangered by Brexit
Of all the myriad challenges facing the European Union with the pending departure of Britain, one unlikely issue that needs to be resolved is the fact that English would no longer be an official language.
Intolerant acts surge as British referendum result sinks in
An Eastern European family in Rugby finds dog excrement shoved through its mailbox. A Londoner nearly gets into a fight over drunken slurs shouted on a crowded subway car. A Polish teenager in Gloucestershire is taunted with threats of deportation at her high school.
Britain votes to leave EU: Cameron to resign
Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling the government today, sending global markets plunging and shattering the stability of a project in continental unity designed half a century ago to prevent World War III.
EU sends Microsoft antitrust complaint
The European Union’s executive arm formally accused Microsoft today of failing to comply with a binding agreement to give customers a choice among Internet browsers.