Tag: European Union

• Friday, September 18th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Biden warns UK must honor Northern Ireland Good Friday 1998 peace agreement

  

  US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden warned the United Kingdom that it must honour Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement as it withdraws from the European Union or there would be no separate U.S. trade deal.

• Thursday, September 17th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Eight EU countries urge “real action” from Brazil to combat deforestation

  

  A group of eight European countries urged Brazil to take “real action” to combat rising deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, which is threatening Europe’s desire to source food and other products sustainably.

• Monday, September 14th 2020 - 11:12 UTC

  Blair and Major blast Johnson over “shocking” plan in breach of international law

  

  Former prime ministers Tony Blair and John Major on Sunday said Britain must drop a “shocking” plan to pass legislation that breaks its divorce treaty with the European Union, in a breach of international law.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  France accuses the US of undermining talks to update digital age taxation

  

  France accused the United States on Wednesday of seeking to undermine international talks to update cross-border taxation for the digital age and urged Europe to prepare an EU tax if the negotiations fail.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Johnson prepared to breach orderly EU exit treaty: Northern Ireland and Scotland pledge to fight the bill

  

  Britain on Wednesday readied to intentionally breach its EU divorce treaty with new legislation that critics warned would undermine its global standing and any hopes for an orderly exit out of the world's biggest single market.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  EU lawmakers cancel their session at Strasbourg because of the coronavirus

  

  European Union lawmakers have canceled their session at the parliament's headquarters in the French city of Strasbourg next week, despite a legal obligation to do so, because of the coronavirus, the assembly's president said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Johnson calls for “more realism”, ahead of a new round of EU/UK post Brexit trade talks

  

  Britain demanded “more realism” from the European Union on Monday ahead of crucial post-Brexit trade talks, but the mood was soured by reports that London was looking to rewrite an agreement the two sides had already signed.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  France to UK: Brexit negotiator Barnier is not stepping down or being sidelined

  

  France denied the European Union's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier was about to be sidelined by EU leaders in a bid to break the deadlock in trade talks, as reported by British newspaper the Daily Telegraph.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 07:43 UTC

  Johnson promoting the idea that if UK/EU talks don't advance, “both sides should accept it and move on”, says FT

  

  The British government is planning legislation that will override key parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, risking the collapse of trade negotiations with Brussels, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 09:08 UTC

  Arctic Circle wildfires carbon pollution reaches record levels, EU Earth program

  

  This year's Arctic Circle wildfires, still ablaze, have already surpassed the record set in 2019 for CO2 emissions, adding to the carbon pollution humanity needs to curtail, the European Union's Earth observation program said on Thursday.