European Union officials

IAEA Director General Speaks at Brussels Conference, Meets EU and Belgian Officials ... to a European Union (EU) conference entitled 'Addressing Societal Challenges through Advancing the Medical, Industrial and Research Applications of Nuclear and Radiation Technology' in Brussels this week.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, left, greets European Council President Donald Tusk as they attend a tripartite social summit at the ... BRUSSELS (AP) — EU Council President Donald Tusk insisted Wednesday that the European Union and Britain were on the cusp of a major Brexit ...

Britain will encourage European leaders to expel Russian intelligence agents from their own countries in a bid to dismantle the Kremlin's networks across Europe, ... A senior Whitehall official said that Russia “has shown itself to be a strategic enemy, not a strategic partner”, pointing to a pattern of behaviour ...

In a strongly worded letter they accused Tusk, the European council president, of making a misleading statement to European political leaders when he told them the deal about to be signed in Brussels meant EU citizens “will be fully protected by the consequences of Brexit”. “The [European] council has not ...

The prime minister will warn EU leaders that Russia's “disrespect for international rules and norms clearly threatens the basis for our advanced ... According to a senior government official, the prime minister will end by warning that the challenge of Russia is one that will endure for “years to come.”.

But it will be crucial in designing the EU's future policies on digital economy. The sector's revenues, according to the European Commission, are growing by 14 percent each year in Europe, compared to 3 percent for the IT and telecoms and 0.2 percent for other multinationals. The EU executive also ...

EU leaders will gather on Thursday for a summit at which they are expected to approve the terms of a transition deal with the UK after Brexit. The EU's Donald Tusk said on Wednesday he had recommended a draft legal text on transition, citizens' rights and other withdrawal issues to its members. It followed ...

A senior EU official, speaking to Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, drew a very optimistic picture of relations between Turkey and the EU. According to this senior official, the presidential summit between Turkey and the EU to be held in Varna, Bulgaria on ...

Officials from the European Commission will meet today with representatives of the judiciary system, the parliament and the government, at the Ministry of Justice, in the context of the evaluation mission within the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM). The Ministry of Justice told Agerpres that ...

The European Commission (EC) on Wednesday announced plans to penalize citizens from countries that refuse to take back illegal migrants by ... Several African countries have refused to take their nationals back, impeding deportations and prompting EU leaders last year to agree to use visa policy as ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and the United States should revive stalled trade talks as a route to exempt European manufacturers from U.S. President Donald Trump's planned import tariffs on steel and aluminium, the chairman of EU leaders said on Wednesday. “When the president ...

European Union leader Donald Tusk and Cecilia Malmstrom, the European commissioner for trade, are among the top officials appealing to Trump to not only exempt the EU from steep aluminum and steel tariffs but to relaunch transatlantic trade talks that could create a $5 trillion trading zone. "[Trump's] ...

More than 285,000 migrants have been rescued by EU operations in the Mediterranean since February 2016 and in 2017 more than 2,000 migrants were saved in the desert after having been abandoned by smugglers. The joint African Union – European Union – United Nations Taskforce set up in ...

As called for by EU leaders in June 2017, the Commission is today also stepping up the joint EU efforts on return and readmission by making better use of the leverage of the EU's common visa policy. The Commission is proposing to introduce a new mechanism to trigger stricter conditions for processing ...

The European Union increased its support for local and regional authorities in Ukraine on 8 March, with the launch of five partnerships between Ukrainian ... chair of the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee, and senior EU officials – including Peter Wagner, Head of the European Commission's ...

Poland's prime minister met with top European Union officials in Brussels on Thursday as part of efforts to avert potential unprecedented EU sanctions over a reform of Poland's judiciary. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki handed a document detailing changes in the judiciary to European Commission ...

The European Commission is today unveiling an Action Plan on how to harness the opportunities presented by technology-enabled innovation in ... Europe should become a global hub for FinTech, with EU businesses and investors able to make most of the advantages offered by the Single Market in this ...

The President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) has welcomed a European Union plan to provide funding to build urban defences against terrorist attacks, stressing the role of local authorities in both the prevention and fight against violent radicalisation. Speaking in Brussels, he said that ...

A top trade official in the European Union warned the White House on Thursday that it has an "arsenal" of measures at its disposal to fight back against ... European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen said Thursday that he is hoping that the Trump administration will grant the EU an exemption from ...

BRUSSELS — European Union officials unveiled an array of tariffs on Wednesday that they would place on American-made goods if the United States ... European leaders were quick to stress that they did not want to trigger a wider trade dispute, with Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, ...

During a charged series of speeches to the British Chambers of Commerce, Fox, the UK international trade secretary, and Foster, the Democratic Unionist party [DUP] leader, attacked the EU's hardening stance on both trade and the Irish border. In a speech criticising the European commission's “bad faith” ...

Eighty percent of foreign direct investment in the U.S. comes from the European Union. We create many millions of jobs in America. And, by the way, American investment is important to us. So we think that we have a very good and open trading relationship between the European Union and the United ...

Tadic criticized the European Union for tolerating what he alleges is undemocratic practices by current President Aleksandar Vucic during the ... EU officials repeatedly have rejected such accusations in the past and said Serbia will need to institute major democratic reforms to become a member of the bloc.

The EU will immediately take counter-measures if the US imposes tariffs on European steel imports, the European Commission said on Friday (2 March). "We will react ... EU authorities however want to avoid an escalation, and are waiting for the US administration to officially publish the tariffs notification.

So far, formal EU accession negotiations have only been held with Serbia and Montenegro. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, also said the region should take advantage of the momentum and focus on the real construction of corridors between our ...

Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, made the remarks to the German news media in reaction to the proposed tariffs. He said the plans to tax the American goods, produced in the home states of key Republican leaders, had not yet been finalized, but amounted to treating them ...

A senior European Union official has urged Romania not to backslide on the anti-corruption fight amid a judicial overhaul that critics say will make it hard to punish high-level graft. European Commission first vice president Frans Timmermans visited Romania Thursday and met with senior officials to discuss ...

New rules around cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based assets could be developed in the months ahead, a European Union official said Monday following a roundtable discussion on the topic. In remarks made after the event, European Commission vice president Valdis Dombrovskis suggested that the ...