European Union Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic gave a downbeat briefing to EU government ambassadors last Friday after conversations with three different US officials last week – US Trade Representative Jamieson

The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president Antonio Costa will be in Beijing on Thursday for talks with China’s Premier Li Qiang and President Xi Jinping

The Financial Times, citing European Union negotiators, reported a few minutes ago that US President Donald Trump has suggested he might simply be done with it all and hit the

After a painfully slow start to negotiations, Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz whipped his European Union counterparts to accept a 10% baseline tariff rate to reach a quick deal with the

The European Commission told EU leaders last Thursday it had received an offer of a deal from the United States, but did not tell them what was in it.  From

European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen will give European Union leaders an update today (evening, local time) on where the 27-nation bloc stands in its trade negotiations with the United States

After President Donald Trump and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen held a phone call on May 25 and agreed to accelerate trade talks, everybody was wondering what that

European Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic is in Paris today and on Wednesday to discuss trade on the sidelines of the OECD ministerial meetings, and in some WTO talks there as well. Sefcovic is meeting China’s

Sunday’s phone call between US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was set up on Friday afternoon, European time, when EU Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic had a

To follow up on our report earlier today, President Donald Trump’s announcement this morning that he would recommend a 50% tariff on all EU goods from June 1 because the

Markets have been slammed this morning by Trump’s threat to hike tariffs on the European Union to 50%. That tweet reflects intense frustration in Washington at the slow, combative, and lecturing tone

After meeting last week with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, European Union officials feel they are no closer to a trade deal with the United States than they were before. Three

Amid all the geopolitical, tariff and market madness, or perhaps because of it, there appears to be substantial progress in efforts by the European Union to create a structure for

The European Union’s response to the US 20% across-the-board tariffs on all EU goods announced by Donald Trump on Wednesday has so far been as we expected quite muted, and

The European Union executive proposed today that the EU borrow up to 150 billion euros against the security of the EU budget — so joint EU borrowing — and spend it

European financial markets responded positively yesterday (equities up, bond yields up) to a seemingly sudden realization that European Union governments are in agreement on the need to spend significantly more

European Union trade ministers and the European Commission held a video conference on Wednesday to discuss the European Union’s response to the already announced 25% US tariffs on steel and

As US President Donald Trump carried through this weekend with his threats to impose 10% tariffs on China and 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, the latter having been just

The European Commission endorsed today France’s medium-term fiscal consolidation plans submitted under the EU’s new debt and deficit rules. Paris plans to slash the budget deficit, seen at 6.1-6.2% of

Nationalist and euro-sceptic parties gained ground — as expected — in European elections on Sunday, but for all the attention on those gains the more centrist, pro-European political families retained