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Undated: The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union
-- 2015 --
September 23: Europe’s Migration Crisis
An escalating migration crisis is testing the European Union’s commitment to human rights and open borders.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/europes-migration-crisis
-- 2017 --
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January 16: European leaders shocked as Trump slams NATO and E.U., raising fears of transatlantic split
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
September 28: Macron’s European Defense Doctrine
European governments will need to take a big leap of faith to embrace a defense doctrine led by France.
https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/73246
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May 31: The Trump administration is imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Europe, Canada and Mexico after a month-long exemption expires at midnight. Steel imports will be taxed at 25 percent and aluminum at 10 percent under proclamations Mr. Trump signed in March and reconfirmed Thursday.
That may mean higher prices on everything from SUVs to cans of beer and soda as companies cope with the higher cost of imported materials as well as the expected retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports from angry trading partners.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-trumps-steel-and-aluminum-tariffs-winners-and-losers/
June 7: Trump Meets With Japan's Shinzo Abe Ahead of Nuclear Talks with North Korea
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/07/617146338/trump-meets-with-japanese-prime-minister-ahead-of-north-korea-summit
June 22: European Union tariffs take effect in Trump fight: How they will hit American products
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/06/22/european-tariffs-donald-trump/725672002/
June 25: How Europe could fight back if Trump taxes car imports
EU officials are likely to challenge the legality of any US tariffs on cars. It's already filed a complaint over US metals tariffs at the World Trade Organization.
"The United States has sought to use the threat of trade restrictions as leverage to obtain concessions from the European Union," EU trade official Cecilia Malmström said last month. "This is not the way we do business, and certainly not between longstanding partners, friends and allies."
http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/25/news/economy/europe-auto-tariffs-retaliation-trump/index.html
June 28: Italy blocks EU summit agreement until migration demands met
Italy's prime minister refused to approve an EU summit statement on Thursday, telling fellow leaders that they must first meet his demands on migration, in an unusual showdown that underscored deep divisions over the sensitive issue.
The move by Giuseppe Conte, who is attending his first European Union summit, surprised other leaders and forced summit chairman Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to cancel a news conference planned for Thursday evening.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/summit-merkel-calls-migration-break-europe-104137418.html
June 28: Trump Is Trying to Break the European Union
“During a private meeting at the White House in late April, Trump was discussing trade with French President Emmanuel Macron. At one point, he asked Macron, ‘Why don’t you leave the E.U.?’ and said that if France exited the union, Trump would offer it a bilateral trade deal with better terms than the E.U. as a whole gets from the United States, according to two European officials. The White House did not dispute the officials’ account, but declined to comment.”
“Let’s set aside for a moment the point that Trump’s proposal reveals a basic lack of understanding of Macron’s views and those of the people who elected him. This is an instance of the president of the United States offering an incentive to dismantle an organization of America’s allies, against stated U.S. government policy.”
”Trump has been publicly trashing the E.U. and NATO since his campaign, but the pace and viciousness of his attacks have increased.”
https://politicalwire.com/2018/06/28/trump-is-trying-to-break-the-european-union/
June 28: Trump: EU was ‘set up to take advantage’ of US
“We love the countries of the European Union. But the European Union, of course, was set up to take advantage of the United States,” Trump said at a rally in North Dakota on Wednesday. “And you know what, we can’t let that happen.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-eu-was-set-up-to-take-advantage-of-us-trade-tariffs-protectionism/
June 28:
The consensus was to avoid inciting the combustible US president.
As leaders convened in Brussels on Thursday for one of their busiest summits in recent memory, Trump provided fresh outrage — an assertion at a rally in North Dakota that “the European Union, of course, was set up to take advantage of the United States.”
June 28: Trade Spat to Turn U.S. Into Top EU Soybean Supplier
While looming tariffs are likely to curb American exports of the commodity to China, opportunities are opening up in the European Union, the world’s second-largest importer.
The dispute has boosted prices in Brazil, the top shipper, forcing EU processors to look elsewhere for supplies. That’s likely to mean that the U.S. will overtake Brazil as the biggest seller to the 28-nation bloc next season, according to Rabobank International Ltd.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-27/trade-spat-to-turn-u-s-into-top-soybean-supplier-to-eu-market
June 29: Migrant crisis: EU leaders plan secure migrant centres
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44652846
June 29: The EU migration deal explained
http://www.theweek.co.uk/migrant-crisis/94673/the-eu-migration-deal-explained
June 29: EU migration deal: what was agreed and will it work?
Key questions about the European leaders’ overnight talks in Brussels
After a marathon session in Brussels, European leaders claim to have struck a deal on how to handle refugees and irregular migrants. Here is a look at what was agreed, and whether it will be enough to end the bloc’s political crisis over migration and save Angela Merkel’s fragile coalition government in Germany.
Although the number of migrants arriving in Europe has fallen by 90% since their 2015 peak, the fallout has fuelled a political crisis between and within EU capitals.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/29/eu-summit-migration-deal-key-points
June 29: Donald Trump's insults to European allies prompts US ambassador to Estonia to resign
'Having served under six presidents and 11 secretaries of state, I never really thought it would reach that point for me,' career diplomat James D Melville Jr reportedly tells friends in Facebook Post
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tariffs-europe-us-ambassador-estonia-melville-resign-harley-davidson-a8423956.html
July 15: Trump: The European Union is our ‘foe’
‘We have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade. Now, you wouldn’t think of the European Union, but they’re a foe.’
That’s the first thing Donald Trump said when Jeff Glor of the “CBS Evening News” asked him to identify America’s “biggest foe globally right now.”
And what did the president of the European Union have to say in response?
On Twitter: America and the EU are best friends. Whoever says we are foes is spreading fake news.
Donald Tusk
@eucopresident
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-the-european-union-is-our-foe-2018-07-15
July 25: EU agrees to cut industrial tariffs and import more US Soybeans [also see June 28 Bloomberg report]
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/07/25/eu-agrees-cut-industrial-tariffs-import-us-soybeans-dow-jones.html
July 26: The glaring problem with Trump’s EU soybean deal
... Juncker, as the head of the European Commission, has little power to promise increased soybean or energy purchases, as they rely on private companies business decisions and “market conditions.”
“[The LNG and soybean pledge is] a bit of a stunt,” an EU official told the Journal. “You give something without giving anything.”
Paul Donovan, chief economist at UBS Global Wealth Management, agreed. “The real winner here would appear to be the European Union. The U.S. auto tax threat was reversed in exchange for nothing that means anything,” [the art of the deal]
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-brags-about-eu-trade-deal-eu-cant-enforce-b24f60e4a9e8/
July 30: USDA said it would use a Depression-era farm support fund to make direct payments to producers of soybeans, sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy and pork.
... some of the benefits could go to Chinese-owned companies.
“The pork industry is dominated by very large corporations,” said Chris Hurt, an agricultural economist at Purdue University in Indiana. “The largest hog producer in the U.S., Smithfield, is owned by a Chinese company.”
And EU officials downplayed Trump’s claim they had made a commitment to buy more U.S. soybeans.
“And where does the bailout stop? What about people who use steel and aluminum? What about other goods that have been targeted by our foreign competitors? Are they going to get bailouts too?”
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/07/30/business/trumps-emergency-aid-farmers-negative-side-effects/#.W194EWOVbCM
September 27: When do the clocks go back and could 2018 be the last time they change?
EU countries could ditch practice as research finds effects of changing time are worse than previously thought
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/25/when-do-the-clocks-go-back-2018-last-time-they-change
October 18: Putin Says ISIS Has Hundreds of Hostages in Syria, Including U.S. and European Citizens
Putin added that Islamic State militants had seized nearly 700 hostages in part of Syria controlled by U.S.-backed forces and issued an ultimatum promising to execute 10 people every day
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/putin-says-terrorists-detained-several-u-s-nationals-in-syria-1.6572675
November 6: The French president says Europe needs to be able to defend itself better alone, without depending on the United States
https://news.sky.com/story/emmanuel-macron-calls-for-real-european-army-to-defend-against-russia-and-us-11546376
November 6: The imminent departure from the bloc of Britain, long opposed to EU military collaboration, has revived discussion of defense cooperation — as have concerns that President Donald Trump may be less willing than his predecessors to come to Europe’s defense in the face of a newly assertive Russia.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-army/after-macron-eu-executive-echoes-eu-army-call-idUSKCN1NB24Q
November 7: French President Emmanuel Macron Calls for a 'European Army' to Defend Against China, Russia and the U.S.
http://time.com/5446975/emmanuel-macron-european-army-russia-us/
November 9: Donald Trump hits back at Emmanuel Macron for European army proposal
The US president has said his French counterpart's comment about the need to create an EU army was "very insulting."
https://www.dw.com/en/donald-trump-hits-back-at-emmanuel-macron-for-european-army-proposal/a-46235899
November 13: Merkel backs Macron’s call for creation of European army
Chancellor’s support comes as Trump again attacks French president’s stance on defence
https://www.ft.com/content/3f5c6c74-e752-11e8-8a85-04b8afea6ea3
November 27: Donald Trump Says the EU Was Set Up in Order to Hurt the United States
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-says-eu-was-set-order-hurt-united-states-1232747
December 10: One in four European Jews has suffered abuse and more than a THIRD have considered emigrating, study finds amid warnings that anti-Semitism is an 'incurable disease'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6479277/One-four-European-Jews-endure-anti-Semitic-abuse-consider-emigrating-study-finds.html
December 20: Denmark approves plan to send unwanted migrants to 'virus' island
The Danish parliament is set to vote on a measure that would see migrants sentenced to deportation but unable to return home sent to a 20-hectare island.
The island is currently used by scientists from the Technical University of Denmark to research swine flu and rabies vaccines, among others, earning it the nickname "Virus Island" from the right-wing Danish People's Party.
The UN criticised the plan earlier this month and it is seen as a symptom of Denmark's increasingly hostile stance towards immigration.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/12/denmark-approves-plan-send-unwanted-migrants-virus-island-181220173651313.html
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January 23: China First, EU Next? Donald Trump Faces New Major Trade War as Europe Threatens $23 Billion in Tariffs
https://www.ccn.com/china-first-eu-next-donald-trump-faces-new-major-trade-war-as-europe-threatens-23-billion-in-tariffs/
May 27: European Parliament election results
https://www.pri.org/file/2019-05-27/european-parliament-election-results
May 29: Labour's Corbyn: Any new Brexit vote will not be 'Leave' or 'Remain' re-run
He told reporters in Dublin that Labour would negotiate a new Brexit deal with the EU that would be put to the public, the Irish Times newspaper reported.
“The referendum would be on a negotiated deal or alternatives to that. It’s not a re-run of 2016,” Corbyn said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-labour/labours-corbyn-any-new-brexit-vote-will-not-be-leave-or-remain-re-run-idUSKCN1SZ2RX
-- 2020 --
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