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FILE - In this May 3, 2017 file photo, Martin Selmayr, right, attends a meeting with EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, center, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at EU headquarters in Brussels. The European Union's official transparency watchdog on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018 said the EU's executive Commission put public trust at risk by fast-tracking the appointment of Martin Selmayr. Selmayr, Juncker's former head of cabinet, was appointed Commission Secretary-General in February 2018 at a meeting that saw him promoted twice within minutes. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

Watchdog lambasts European Commission over top job choice

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., leaves a news conference following a GOP caucus meeting, Tuesday, July 24, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Latest: Trump suggests no tariffs between US, Europe

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The Latest: Italy’s Salvini dismisses EU asylum proposal

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Creditors say Greece will get tough monitoring after bailout

By DEREK GATOPOULOS and LORNE COOK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 16, 2009 file photo, steam and smoke rise from a coal burning power plant in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The European Union is taking six member states to court for exposing their citizens to too much air pollution. The European Commission on Thursday, May 17, 2018 referred France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Britain the EU's highest Court of Justice saying they failed to respect air quality limits and did not take appropriate action in time. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

EU takes 6 member states to court over air quality

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EU wants big budget to fund new priorities after Brexit

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 28, 2017 file photo a police officer with a dog patrols along the border fence on the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke, 180 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary. Hungary's prime minister is asking the European Union to pay for half of the costs of anti-migrant fences it built on its southern borders, some 440 million euros ($523 million). In a letter dated Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017 to EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister Viktor Orban says the fences erected in 2015 protect not just Hungary &quot;but entire Europe&quot; from &quot;the flood of illegal migrants.&quot; (Zoltan Gergely Kelemen/MTI via AP, file)

Hungary asks EU to help pay for anti-migrant border fence

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

European Union Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager said Google "denied other companies the chance to compete on the merits and to innovate. Most importantly, it denied European consumers a genuine choice of services and the full benefits of innovation." (Associated Press)

EU fights Silicon Valley innovations

By Patrick Costello - Special to The Washington Times

EU launches defense fund amid US pressure to boost spending

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

World skating body faces European case over monopoly rules

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The White House and top lawmakers from both parties on Tuesday were sharply critical of a record-setting $14.5 billion-plus tax penalty levied by European Union regulators against American computer giant Apple. (Associated Press)

Apple’s $14.5 billion tax penalty threatens ‘spirit of economic partnership’ between U.S., EU

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Wissam Ahmed, from Iraq, left, and other refugees arrive after an overnight bus trip from Germany, in Champagne-sur-Seine, south of Paris, France, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, the first among around 1,000 that French President Francois Hollande pledged to receive from the neighboring country. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

EU seeks agreement for countries to share 160,000 refugees

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Reagan administration warned Russian pipeline through Ukraine would weaken West

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

"My aim is to make sure that energy remains affordable for households and companies," says Gunther Oettinger, energy commissioner for the European Commission. Leaders in the European Union are revamping their approach to climate change because higher energy costs have not sit well with consumers in a struggling economy. (Associated Press)

Ambitious climate change goals too costly for EU

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

European Commissioner for Competition Joaquin Almunia gestures while speaking during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. The European Union's antitrust watchdog says it has opened an investigation on licensing agreements between several major U.S. film studios and European pay TV broadcasters. Its probe covers Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, NBCUniversal and Paramount Pictures. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU antitrust body probes US film studio contracts

By JUERGEN BAETZ - Associated Press

** FILE ** A tractor works on a cotton field near a border fence that passes through the property in Brownsville, Texas, 2008. (Associated Press)

New E.U. rule would limit what seeds farmers could grow

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Key dates in EU antitrust action against Microsoft

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** FILE ** European Union flags fly at half-mast in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels on Monday, April 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

European Commission gets new powers to oversee nations’ budgets

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times