The Latest News about The European Union

Wikipedia is protesting the European Union’s copyright initiative, which many people believe will do significant damage to freedom on the internet and effectively make memes illegal.

America’s closest trading partners are in danger of becoming former close trading partners at a time when the American economy is booming and trade revenues are set to skyrocket. Mexico threatened to punish U.S. hog farmers this week with a punitive tariff on some of their products. In reality, the measure will just make pork legs more expensive for the ...

The Trump administration has worked for months to come to agreements to limit the dumping of aluminum and steel into the United States. While the U.S. has reached satisfactory trade agreements with a few nations on aluminum and steel imports, most will be hit with severe tariffs and restrictions beginning at Midnight Thursday night ending a 2-month exemption for those ...

1.  On January 11, 2018, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) transmitted to me a report on his investigation into the effect of imports of steel mill articles on the national security of the United States under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1862). 2.  In Proclamation 9705 of March 8, 2018 (Adjusting Imports ...

On January 19, 2018, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) transmitted to me a report on his investigation into the effect of imports of aluminum articles on the national security of the United States under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1862). In Proclamation 9704 of March 8, 2018 (Adjusting Imports of Aluminum Into the United ...

  by Will Racke Leaders from several European Union countries said Thursday they’re ready to negotiate with Washington on opening up their markets to more U.S. exports in exchange for a blanket exemption on industrial tariffs. At an EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia, Bulgaria, leaders settled on several areas where they would be willing accommodate President Donald Trump’s administration, on ...

Europe is committing suicide. How did this happen? In this week’s video, Douglas Murray, author of The Strange Death of Europe, explains the two major causes of Europe’s impending downfall. Transcript The civilization born of Judeo-Christian values, ancient Greek philosophy and the discoveries of the Enlightenment is staring at the abyss, brought there by its own hand. To put it ...

Reflecting back on recent history, one realizes that the Communist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were far-left, dictatorial nations: both of those governments controlled the economies of their nations, both ruled with an iron fist and punished their citizens at the will of the rulers without the protection of a constitution that had any value, each had government control of ...

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will remain in Brussels, Belgium on Thursday. The first lady has no schedule events but the president’s schedule is full of meetings with EU leaders and NATO. The president will start his Thursday by meeting with EU leaders at the union’s headquarters before he meets with France’s President Macron at the U.S. ...

European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Junker threatened Thursday to break up the United States of America if President Trump did not become more supportive of the EU. Several speakers at the European People’s Party annual conference lashed out at the populist overtones that led to Brexit, but none took a harder line against Trump than Junker who sternly said that ...

Bigger is rarely better. Especially when it comes to governance. The “bigger” government is, the more detached from the governed it becomes; the more onerous its regulations and taxes become, and it becomes more susceptible to the ideologically motivated cause célèbre of the ruling elite. We have seen that verity over the past several years in America, and apparently the ...

In total disagreement with pre-vote polls, the United Kingdom has voted to regain its sovereignty and leave the European Union. Motivated by frustration and anger at the unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, Britain’s voters went to the polls on Thursday and voted to leave the EU by a 52% to 48% margin. The immediate consequence of the Brexit win are that ...

The radical Islamic terror attacks on Paris and the huge influx of Syrian refugees have many members of the European Union joining the bombing campaign against the Islamic State and another nation assisting Israel in its defense against Iran. France was pulled into the air war on ISIS in September after a series of attacks including the brutal attack on ...

Greek ministers met with the EU, ECB and IMF leaders on Tuesday. The meeting resulted in a short-term loan to keep their banks afloat, but only until Sunday. Greece’s banks had almost completely run out of money. To help Greece survive until the meeting on Sunday, the European Central Bank (ECB) offered a small run of liquidity to Greek banks in trade for increased ...

Red flags abound (pardon the pun) as Greece struggles with the results of decades of socialist-leaning policies. Socialism, as Lenin taught, is the pathway to communism, but the two are distinct. Both decry private ownership of property. Socialism puts command of industry in the hands of the government while communism gives ownership to the people (kind of.) Both result in lower ...