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Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from a global minimum tax agreement on his first day in office has unnerved EU officials, who expressed «regret» over the move.

supply chains to strengthen economic ties, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said Sunday.

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Kaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, said the foreign ministers would convene in Brussels on January 27 in an effort to decide how the 27-nation bloc would relax sanctions on Syria. After 13 years of civil war, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad was ousted in a lightning offensive by insurgent forces led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham a month ago. The group has since set up a caretaker government in Damascus. Any European decision to ease sanctions would be conditional on the new Syrian administration's approach to governing, which must include «different groups» and women and «no radicalisation», Kallas said, without elaborating. «If we see the developments going to the right direction, we are ready to do the next steps...If we see that it's not going to the right direction, then we can also move back on this.»

Paris Olympics silver medallist Neeraj Chopra has been named the best male javelin thrower in the world in 2024 by globally-renowned American magazine 'Track and Field News'. The 27-year-old Chopra, who was beaten by Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem for the Olympic gold medal in August last year, pipped two-time world champion Anderson Peters of Grenada for the top spot in the 2024 rankings published by the California-based magazine. Nadeem was ranked fifth as he competed in only one event in 2024 besides the Olympic Games where he came up with a monster throw of 92.97m as against 89.45m of Chopra. He finished fourth in Paris Diamond League. Founded in 1948, the magazine, which claims itself to be 'The Bible Of The Sport', publishes world and American rankings every year. The magazine is considered an authority in global track and field circles.

China said the European Union's measures to shield its companies from foreign subsidies are a barrier to trade and investment, marking the latest clash in the ongoing trade dispute between the two sides.

Ukraine has halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network, almost three years into Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor

Much-vaunted new EU crypto laws will take effect in just a few weeks, but Brussels lawmakers are already wondering if they’re going to lose out to the new administration of Donald Trump.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has warned the EU that it must commit to buying “large scale” amounts of U.S. oil and gas or face tariffs, in his first trade salvo against Brussels since his election victory.

In his latest trade war threat, the incoming GOP president spoke out against Brussels via his account on social media site Truth Social.  In the post, Trump said: «I told the European Union that they must make up their tremendous deficit with the United States by the large scale purchase of our oil and gas. Otherwise, it is TARIFFS all the way!!!» Trump inflationary risks force economists to temper Fed rate cut expectations — reports Many members of the incoming Trump administration, including the president-elect, reiterated the ‘drill baby drill' mantra during the presidential cam...

Georgia’s outgoing president wants the European Union to press her country’s pro-Russia government to hold a new election

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte criticised China's stance towards Taiwan and said that «China is bullying Taiwan, and pursuing access to critical infrastructure in ways that could cripple societies.» The remarks by Rutte came while delivering a speech at Carnegie Europe think tank in Brussels on Thursday. He said, «We need to be clear-eyed about China's ambitions. China is substantially building up its forces, including its nuclear weapons — with no transparency and no limitations. From 200 warheads in 2020, China is expected to have more than 1,000 nuclear weapons by 2030. Its space-launch investments are skyrocketing. China is bullying Taiwan, and pursuing access to our critical infrastructure in ways that could cripple our societies»

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer will attend a meeting of European Union leaders early next year

The European Union has reached a blockbuster free trade agreement with Brazil, Argentina and the three other South American nations in the Mercosur trade alliance

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has arrived in Uruguay for the final stages in years-long negotiations to clinch a trade deal between the 27-nation EU and the South American Mercosur trade bloc that would create a trans-Atlantic mark...

The European Union has agreed to delay by a year the introduction of new rules to ban the sale of products that lead to massive deforestation

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NATO military alliance, but that it had sent a message to its allies to show that the matter of the invitation was not off the table. According to the text of a letter seen by Reuters earlier, Ukraine's foreign minister urged his NATO counterparts to issue an invitation during a meeting in Brussels next week to Kyiv to join the Western alliance. «We have sent a message to the allies that invitation is not off of the table, regardless of different manipulations and speculations around that,» Olga Stefanishyna, deputy prime minister in charge of NATO affairs, told Reuters.

French farmers are mobilizing for widespread protests Monday, targeting the controversial EU-Mercosur trade agreement