Tag: European Union

• Tuesday, July 14th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Sweden supports a robust response to China's new security law on Hong Kong

  

  Sweden said on Monday it supported Franco-German efforts for a robust response to China's new security law on Hong Kong, joining Denmark and the Netherlands in pushing the European Union to consider countermeasures on Beijing.

• Monday, July 13th 2020 - 09:57 UTC

  EU ombudsman opened an inquiry into the EU/Mercosur sustainability impact assessment

  

  European Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly has opened an inquiry into why the European Commission did not finalize an updated Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) before the conclusion of the Mercosur-EU trade agreement in June 2019.

• Wednesday, July 8th 2020 - 06:35 UTC

  Britain prepared to leave the EU in terms similar to Australia, Johnson tells Merkel

  

  Britain is prepared to leave the European Union on the same terms as Australia has with the bloc if it cannot agree on a future trading deal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Germany's Angela Merkel in a telephone call on Tuesday.

• Friday, July 3rd 2020 - 08:02 UTC

  UK/EU post Brexit negotiations remain stalled and “serious divergences remain”

  

  Britain and the European Union (EU) failed to make progress in talks on post-Brexit relations this week due to major differences and called off a one-on-one meeting between their chief negotiators, officials said on Thursday.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 08:53 UTC

  The most powerful EU member takes the rotating presidency of the block

  

  The European Union’s most powerful member, Germany, takes over the bloc’s rotating presidency as of Wednesday amid a raft of challenges — from COVID-19 and the economic devastation it has wrought, to Brexit, trade with China and tensions with the United States.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 08:33 UTC

  EU rejects British proposals “to maintain benefits of the single market without the obligations”

  

  British proposals to give the City of London access to the European Union are “unacceptable” because they seek to maintain the benefits of the single market without the obligations, the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, July 1st 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Japan aims to clinch a trade deal with Britain by end of July: auto tariffs, main interest of Tokyo

  

  Japan and Britain aim to clinch a trade deal by the end of July and Tokyo wants to secure at least the same automobile tariffs as it has in its existing European Union trade pact, Tokyo’s chief negotiator said.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 18:04 UTC

  Uruguay in the list of 14 countries to which the Europe Union opens its borders

  

  The European Union agreed on Tuesday to reopen its borders to 14 countries excluding the virus-stricken US, as the pandemic accelerated globally with more than 505,000 deaths worldwide. Of Latin America the only country included in the list is Uruguay.

• Tuesday, June 30th 2020 - 10:36 UTC

  Venezuela expels EU ambassador after the block imposes sanctions on eleven Maduro regime officials

  

  Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro on Monday gave the head of the European Union mission in Caracas, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, 72 hours to leave the country after the bloc announced sanctions against 11 Venezuelan officials.

• Sunday, June 28th 2020 - 09:37 UTC

  EU re-opens borders to visitors from 18 countries,US and Russia not on the list

  

  According to diplomatic sources, EU Committee of Permanent Representatives yesterday approved a draft list of 18 countries, to whom the European Union’s borders will start re-opening on July 1.