Google has been hit with a record-breaking €2.42 billion ($2.7 billion) fine by the European Union for breaking antitrust law, Joinfo.com reports with reference to The Verge. The decision follows a seven-year investigation into the US company’s search algorithms, which ...
Read More »Merkel: Europe can no longer rely on US and Britain
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday that Europe has to forge its own path forward, as the United States and Britain were no longer reliable partners, according to Deutsche Welle. “The times when we could fully rely on others have ...
Read More »Brexit: EU demands ‘serious UK response’ on citizens’ rights
“We need guarantees,” Tusk said in Brussels as 27 EU leaders backed the bloc’s Brexit negotiating guidelines, according to the BBC. The rights of EU citizens to live, work and study in the UK is one of three topics they ...
Read More »Brexit begins: UK triggers Article 50 to begin EU divorce
Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, confirmed that the UK has triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, beginning a legal process that must end in two years’ time with Britain leaving the EU, according to CNN. “This is an ...
Read More »Brexit: Theresa May to trigger process on March 29
Downing Street said she would write a letter to the EU’s 27 other members, adding that it expected negotiations to then begin as quickly as possible, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the BBC. The move comes nine months after people ...
Read More »Brexit: Theresa May receives authority to trigger Article 50
Commons Speaker John Bercow told MPs: “I have to notify the House, in accordance with the Royal Assent 1967, that her majesty has signified her royal assent to the following acts: Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2017, European ...
Read More »EU summit: Poland cries blackmail over subsidies
At the end of an EU summit, she said it was unacceptable for Francois Hollande to threaten to stop funds because Poland was “not behaving properly”, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the BBC. Poland had tried but failed to stop ...
Read More »European Parliament ends visa-free travel for Americans
The European Parliament has voted to end visa-free travel for Americans within the EU, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Independent. It comes after the US failed to agree visa-free travel for citizens of five EU countries—Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and ...
Read More »Trump wants to make sure U.S. nuclear arsenal at ‘top of the pack’
In a Reuters interview, Trump also said China could solve the national security challenge posed by North Korea “very easily if they want to,” ratcheting up pressure on Beijing to exert more influence to rein in Pyongyang’s increasingly bellicose actions. ...
Read More »European Union President says Donald Trump poses existential threat to Europe
European Council President Donald Tusk has called Donald Trump an existential threat to Europe, in an extraordinary attack on the new US President, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Independent. In an open letter delivered to leaders of the 27 member ...
Read More »Euro ‘could collapse in 18 months’ – man tipped as US ambassador to EU
Professor Ted Malloch said he would “short the euro” – taking a market position which bets on the value of the currency falling, the BBC reports. He also said Britain could agree a “mutually beneficial” free trade deal with America ...
Read More »‘Hard Brexit’: May says Britain will leave EU single market
Setting out a vision that could chart Britain’s future for generations, May answered criticism that she has been coy about her plans with a direct pitch for a clean break, widely known in Britain as a “hard Brexit”, Reuters reports. ...
Read More »Give us EU visa freedom in October or abandon migrant deal, Turkey says
His comments in Bild’s Monday edition coincide with rising tensions between Ankara and the West that have been exacerbated by the failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, Reuters reports. Turkey is incensed by what it sees as an ...
Read More »UK turns to Canada for advice on striking post-Brexit trade deals with EU
The UK has sought advice from Canada on how to cut a trade agreement with theEuropean Union following the Brexit vote, the Guardian reports. Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s trade minister who is scheduled to meet Liam Fox, the UK’s new secretary ...
Read More »What Brexit means for Ukraine
After British voters approved a referendum to leave the EU on June 23, Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister for European Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze said: “We respect the British citizens’ decision, but Ukraine feels sorry for these events. To my mind this ...
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