Jean Claude Juncker

President Donald Trump's administration has been threatening since last year to impose tariffs on auto imports to defend the US automaking sector, a symbol of American manufacturing.

EU approves tougher EU copyright rules in blow to Google, Facebook

EU governments on Monday backed the move launched by the European Commission two years ago to protect Europe's creative industries, which employ 11.7 million people in the bloc.

Theresa May, Juncker hold 'robust' Brexit meet, agree new talks

A joint statement issued after the talks in Brussels said Juncker had again warned that November's withdrawal agreement could not be renegotiated -- after May came hoping to persuade Brussels to change the so-called "backstop" clause for the Irish border.

EU ready to retaliate if US imposes car tariffs: Jean-Claude Juncker

"We agreed with Trump on a kind of ceasefire when it comes to new car tariffs," Juncker told German broadcaster ZDF.

EU will respond in kind if US imposes car tariffs : Jean Claude Juncker

Trump rejected an EU offer to eliminate tariffs on cars and said the EU's trade policies are "almost as bad as China.

Second phase of Brexit talks will be harder than first: EU's Jean Claude Juncker

The leaders of the 27 countries remaining in the European Union will give the go-ahead on Friday for the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier to begin talks with London on a transition period and future trade ties with Britain.

Theresa May, Jean-Claude Juncker 'likely' to hold Brexit talks today: EU

EU Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva said on Twitter that they were "likely to meet this morning at 7:00 AM (0600 GMT) in the Berlaymont", the organisation's headquarters.

Theresa May readies dawn call on EU as Brexit deal nears

May would probably meet the European Commission president at 7 a.m. (0600), the Commission said in a statement, with a news conference to follow half an hour to an hour later. It gave no other details.

Brexit talks 'making progress', continuing through night: EU

An early morning meeting in Brussels between Juncker and British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose efforts to reach a deal broke down in failure earlier this week, was also a possibility, Juncker's spokesman said.

Theresa May heads for Brussels after Brexit talks deadlock

May's office said the meeting was long planned but gave no details. The dinner was not on Juncker's agenda published on Friday, however, and EU officials said it had also not been on the schedule for Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, who will be at the dinner along with his British counterpart, David Davis.

Britain faces 'very hefty' Brexit bill, years of talks: Juncker

Noting that the Brexit talks expected to be launched next month would last two years before Britain withdraws from the bloc, Juncker said in a speech to the Belgian parliament: "To agree on the future architecture of relations between the United Kingdom and the European Union, we will need years."

Amid job shuffle talk, EU's Juncker denies threat to quit

"The president is not going to resign," a Commission spokesman told a news briefing when questioned about the report in Der Spiegel that Juncker had threatened to quit if European Parliament President Martin Schulz has to give up his post.

No link between EU-Canada trade agreement and Brexit: EU's Chief

The European Union held a summit to sign a trade deal with Canada that was seven years in the making and had exposed some of the difficulties of sealing a trade pact. The Canadian deal was held up for weeks, most notably due to obstruction from regional governments in Belgium.

EU, Canada finally signing trade deal after Belgian drama

The ceremony had been pushed back from Thursday after French-speaking Wallonia, with just 3.6 million people, initially vetoed a deal affecting more than 500 million Europeans and 35 million Canadians.

Theresa May calls for give and take in Brexit talks

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday called for "give and take" in negotiations with the European Union (EU) on the UK's exit from the 28-nation economic bloc.

Divided European leaders struggle with post-Brexit vision

Meeting in the Slovak capital with the British conspicuously absent, the 27 other EU members unveiled a six-month "road map" of measures designed to restore public confidence in Europe's ailing common project.

Brexit not the end of European Union, says Jean-Claude Juncker

In setting out the Commission's plans for the first time since the UK voted to exit the EU on June 23, Juncker highlighted the British referendum as a warning that the EU faces a battle for survival against nationalism in Europe.

'Fatal error' to ignore Brexit lessons: EU's Donald Tusk

Former Polish premier Tusk added that the bloc must be less "politically correct" and protect Europeans worried about terrorism, security and globalisation in the wake of Britain's vote to leave.

EU's Juncker says Britain doesn't have 'months to meditate'

Juncker also said that he expected Britain to trigger Article 50 very soon after Cameron's successor is named on September 9.

EU launches contingency talks for Brexit vote: Sources

Senior diplomats from founding powers Germany and France, as well as several other countries, met on Monday for talks chaired by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's chief of staff, Martin Selmayr, several sources said.

EU aims to rule on Amazon's Luxembourg tax deal by July: sources

EU state aid regulators aim to rule on Amazon's tax deal with Luxembourg by July, two people familiar with the matter said on Thursday, and it may order the country's tax authorities to recover about 400 million euros (USD448 million) in back taxes

European Investment Bank to lend $512 mn for Lucknow metro

An agreement on the first tranche of the credit was signed in Brussels on Wednesday during the 13th EU-India summit attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

David Cameron seals 'Brexit' deal after marathon EU summit

The European Union's two top figures, Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker, presented its 28 leaders with draft proposals at a long-delayed dinner after hours of painstaking face-to-face talks on an issue that threatened Britain's place in the union.

EU sounds alarm as internal barriers rise in refugee crisis

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker drew a direct link between the two key achievements of EU integration, telling the European Parliament the euro would be jeopardised if the Schengen passport-free travel system unravels.

EU min fail to reach agreement on plan to relocate refugees

The ministers were holding emergency talks to discuss plans unveiled last week by European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker to redistribute 120,000 refugees from overstretched Greece, Italy and Hungary.