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Brussels is far from meeting its targets to reshore microchips manufacturing.

The interview’s release comes amid the Kremlin’s announcement of a three-day May ceasefire to the war.

The new rules will lead to around 100 new visas for Indian workers each year, a U.K. official told POLITICO.

Capitals fear retaliation from the U.S. and are considering changing the rules to grant American companies an exemption from a crucial provision of the global tax deal.

Washington and Beijing are trading tariff blows. The EU could come out on top ― if it can rise to the challenge.

Emotional tributes to the popular Pope Francis came amid a diplomatic scramble to meet with the U.S. president.

The U.S. argument against the green transition felt “quiet and out of place,” said one official.

Comments by U.K. chancellor to POLITICO shed more light on government negotiating aims as it tries to swerve Trump’s trade war.

With the United States throwing up the highest trade barriers in a century, Ursula von der Leyen’s European Commission is on a mission to do trade deals with everyone else. 

The U.K. energy secretary has U-turned on government rules for buying solar supplies — but politicians and human rights campaigners want him to go further.

Without action, twin threats of Russian sabotage and high prices will batter the bloc, the Commission President said.

Acting Assistant Secretary Tommy Joyce also took aim at Joe Biden’s climate legacy.

The debate pits Steve Witkoff against State Department and U.S. energy export proponents.

Lombard said he hoped the two sides could avert a trade war with “a win-win” solution.

Plans are being drawn up and, as one EU diplomat said, “We’ll take decisions to protect ourselves.”

U.K. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is meeting her counterpart Scott Bessent in Washington this week.

The U.K. chancellor is in Washington this week for talks with finance ministers including U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

The idea will be one of several options Brussels will suggest in May to sever Russian energy links.

Hungary and Slovakia are battling outbreaks of the highly contagious livestock disease.

Stretched resources and patchy communication leave experts warning a ban on personal meat and cheese imports could fall well short of its aims.

But the seventh consecutive cut may still not be enough to revive European economic fortunes.

Despite Donald Trump’s lurch into protectionism and coercion, Friedrich Merz believes a transatlantic trade deal can still be done.

Government advisers north and south of the border worry workers are being failed by shifting policies and poor communication.

Italy’s leader wouldn’t be the EU’s first choice to negotiate with Trump. But she might be its only choice.