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The White House has said European Commission fines on Apple and facebook owner Meta Platforms by the European Union were a "novel form of economic extortion" that…
Vehicle manufacturer Volvo has had a bad first quarter, reporting sales that were lower than expected.
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US President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have each expressed confidence that the US and Europe would be able to negotiate a trade deal…
A shift in China’s gas import strategy is set to push more US LNG towards Europe — potentially tightening a transatlantic energy bond Brussels has been wary…
The European Union has ramped up its push to conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) with India, with pharmaceuticals now in the spotlight.
The tobacco industry was not "against regulation or taxation", according to Philipp Hansen, European affairs director at Japan Tobacco International, "but it has…
Costly investments in the now-bankrupt Swedish “green” battery manufacturer Northvolt have drawn mounting criticism, with accusations that some pension funds…
In the early 1960s I had a stroke of luck. Through a Fulbright scholarship in mathematics, I was given the opportunity to study at the University of Freiburg.
A rise in both online and physical attacks has threatened France's defence industry, according to Général Philippe Susnjara, director of the French Government’s…
The number of European travellers going to the US has fallen as political and economic tensions have risen under the administration of US President Donald Trump.
The 90‐day tariffs suspension by US President Donald Trump offers Brussels only a temporary, fragile reprieve – “not good news” but “less-worst news”…
The Estonian navy detained and boarded a Russia-bound oil tanker on an EU sanctions list on Friday, accusing it of sailing illegally without a valid country…
As global financial markets remained in disarray following US President Donald Trump's tariffs announcements, gold has soared to new heights.
US President Donald Trump has indicated he is open to connecting tariff negotiations with the presence of US troops in Europe.
Azerbaijan will not sell more gas to the European Union without concrete guarantees, the country's President Ilham Aliyev has said.
President Xi Jinping told Spain's prime minister on April 11 that China and the European Union must join together in defending globalisation and opposing "unilateral…
In the greater picture of his trade wars, Donald Trump pushed a bold idea: Europe should buy all its oil, gas and coal from the USA. It is a loud, daring proposal.
The European Union and China have agreed to look into setting minimum prices on Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs) instead of tariffs imposed by the EU last year,…
A court in the French city of Montpellier has ordered the shutdown of a wind farm for one year following the death of a rare bird.
Representatives of Germany’s private sector are doubtful about whether the incoming government would be able to revive the country’s languishing economy.
US President Donald Trump's stunning decision to pause most of the hefty duties he had just imposed on dozens of countries brought relief for battered global stock…
President Trump’s tariff bombshell is more than simply a historic economic decision with geopolitical consequences on the side, as second-order effects.
The huge wave of US tariffs imposed on almost every country except Russia, and the trade negotiations that stemmed from it, have hit Moscow's energy interests and…
Just one day before the 15th anniversary of a tragic air crash in which Poland’s then-president, his wife and numerous other state officials perished, activists…
I always found the story behind the “Made in Germany” label interesting.
French Minister for Industry and Energy Marc Ferracci has warned that jobs in key industrial sectors were at risk due to the new tariffs imposed by the US President…
Brussels poured cold water on US demands for increased energy imports on April 8, saying it was both unrealistic and undesirable for the 27-member bloc.
Donald Trump has unleashed a trade tempest that has got the EU scrambling.
Perhaps the most sensible thing said in the hysterical particle-accelerator that was world opinion following President Trump’s announcements on tariffs came from…
