Latest European Union News

EU hits Intel with $400 million antitrust fine in long-running computer chip case

Sep. 22, 2023 07:11 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — European Union antitrust enforcers slapped Intel on Friday with a fresh $400 million fine in a long-running legal fight that the chipmaker appeared to have won last year. The European Commission imposed the 376.4 million-euro fine after a court threw out an original...

Cyprus calls on the EU to rethink Syrian safe zones for eventually repatriating Syrian migrants

Sep. 22, 2023 04:46 AM EDT

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus has formally called on the European Union to re-evaluate which areas of Syria can be declared safe and free from armed conflict so that Syrian migrants can eventually be repatriated there, the Cypriot Interior Ministry said Friday. Interior Minister...

The UN system is 'sclerotic and hobbled' and needs urgent reform, top European Union official says

Sep. 21, 2023 23:48 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A top European Union official says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed an urgent need to reform the “sclerotic and hobbled” global decision-making at the United Nations. Charles Michel, the president of the European Council of EU leaders, expressed...

EU calls on Bosnian Serb parliament to reject draft law that brands NGOs as 'foreign agents'

Sep. 21, 2023 10:57 AM EDT

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The European Union on Thursday urged authorities in the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia to without delay withdraw a draft law that brands non-profit groups funded from abroad as “foreign agents.” The law is to be adopted by the Bosnian Serb...

Grain spat drags Ukraine's ties with ally Poland to lowest point since start of Russian invasion

Sep. 20, 2023 12:38 PM EDT

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A dispute about whether Ukrainian grain should be allowed to enter the domestic markets of Poland and other European Union countries has pushed the tight relationship between Kyiv and Warsaw to its lowest point since Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Polish...

Pope goes to Marseille to talk migration, but will Europe listen as it scrambles to stem an influx?

Sep. 20, 2023 03:50 AM EDT

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Ten years after Pope Francis made a landmark visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa to show solidarity with migrants, he is joining Catholic bishops from the Mediterranean this weekend in France to make the call more united. The question is whether anyone in...

Japan records a trade deficit in August as exports to China, rest of Asia weaken

Sep. 20, 2023 00:02 AM EDT

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s exports fell 0.8% last month from a year earlier, with steep declines in shipments to China and the rest of Asia, its largest regional market. Imports sank nearly 18%, the Japanese Finance Ministry said in preliminary data released Wednesday. That left a...

EU urges Serbia and Kosovo to respect their pledges after a meeting of leaders ends in acrimony

Sep. 19, 2023 15:44 PM EDT

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Tuesday called on Serbia and Kosovo to respect an agreement meant to end tensions between them and put their relations on a more normal path after talks between their leaders ended in acrimony last week. At a meeting in New York, EU foreign...

Germany seeks answers from Poland in a visa fraud scandal involving migrants from Asia and Africa

Sep. 19, 2023 11:17 AM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — German government officials held talks Tuesday with their Polish counterparts asking them to clarify how many visas were issued in an illegal program in which some Polish consulates issued visas in Africa and Asia in exchange for bribes, an official said. Poland has...

Ukraine complains to WTO about Hungary, Poland and Slovakia banning its farm products

Sep. 19, 2023 10:01 AM EDT

GENEVA (AP) — Ukraine is filing a complaint at the World Trade Organization against Hungary, Poland and Slovakia after they banned grain and other food products coming from the war-torn country, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Tuesday. It lays bare a widening rift with...