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The flag of the European Union and the British national flags are flown on poles during a demonstration by remain in the EU outside spporters the Palace of Westminster in London, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May says she will give British lawmakers a choice of approving her divorce agreement, leaving the EU March 29 without a deal or asking to delay Brexit by up to three months. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

UK minister says Brexit talks yield ‘positive’ signals

By LORNE COOK and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

German minister: Cyprus valued partner in EU defense project

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Remain supporters shelter from the wind and rain across the street from parliament in London, Thursday Feb. 28, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May has offered Parliament the chance to delay Britain's scheduled March 29 departure if lawmakers fail to approve her divorce agreement with the bloc.(Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

Stockpiling spreads in UK economy ahead of Brexit

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

A montage of the front page of The Guardian newspapers and the letter written by French president Emmanuel Macron that appeared inside on Tuesday March 5, 2019. French President Emmanuel Macron made a plea Tuesday in the publications of 28 nations for a stronger European Union. (AP Photo)

The Latest: Macron launches European intelligence body

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FILE - In this Thursday, May 17, 2018 file photo German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, speaks with French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and British Prime Minister Theresa May after meeting at a hotel on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans summit in Sofia, Bulgaria. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

The Latest: Bank chief updates outlook for UK post-Brexit

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EU regulator fines car safety equipment firms over cartels

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FILE - In this Jan. 2, 2019, file photo President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, in Washington, with from left, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, acting Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt and acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan. William Barr’s confirmation as President Donald Trump’s second attorney general cut the roster of “acting” Cabinet secretaries and White House officials by one, but some say too many “actings” are still on the job, most visibly at the Defense Department. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

US puts end to dispute with EU over diplomatic protocol

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (Gonzalo Fuentes/ Pool Photo via AP)

France’s Macron makes pro-European plea before EU elections

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

EU takes step toward nixing summer-wintertime clock change

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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to lawmakers in parliament, London, Wednesday Feb. 27, 2019. May insisted Wednesday that Britain will leave the European Union on schedule next month, amid signs that her promise to give Parliament a vote on delaying Brexit was boosting support for her unpopular EU divorce deal. (Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament via AP)

U.K., EU to hold more Brexit talks as Theresa May woos opposition

By Jill Lawless and Raf Casert - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, Gregory McDonald, CEO of GoodFish, an injection molding business that supplies the auto industry, speaks to the Associated Press in Cannock, England. Worryingly for McDonald, some 30 percent of the molded plastic parts his company makes ultimately go to carmakers who say they will face a catastrophe if Britain leaves the European Union without an agreement on future trade. So Goodfish, a nine-year-old company with three plants in England, is preparing to expand in Slovakia, an EU country where Volkswagen, Kia, Peugeot-Citroen and Jaguar Land Rover produce more than 1 million vehicles a year. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)

U.K. auto industry under siege as Brexit pressure escalates

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

A carnival float depicts British Prime Minister Theresa May and the Brexit prior to the traditional carnival parade in Duesseldorf, Germany, on Monday, March 4, 2019. The foolish street spectacles in the carnival centers of Duesseldorf, Mainz and Cologne, watched by hundreds of thousands of people, are the highlights in Germany's carnival season on Rosemonday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

The Latest: UK and Spain back new tax rules for Gibraltar

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Kaja Kallas, leader of the Reform Party party gestures at her party headquarters after parliamentary elections in Tallinn, Estonia, early Monday, March 4, 2019. The rival Reform and Center parties, the two main political groupings since Estonia regained independence amid the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, shared an election goal of keeping EKRE from making inroads. (AP Photo/Raul Mee)

Far right gains in Estonia eyed for clues to EU-wide vote

By JARI TANNER - Associated Press

Remain supporters shelter from the wind and rain across the street from parliament in London, Thursday Feb. 28, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May has offered Parliament the chance to delay Britain's scheduled March 29 departure if lawmakers fail to approve her divorce agreement with the bloc.(Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

The Latest: Spain to maintain rights of Britons after Brexit

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Remain supporters shelter from the wind and rain across the street from parliament in London, Thursday Feb. 28, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May has offered Parliament the chance to delay Britain's scheduled March 29 departure if lawmakers fail to approve her divorce agreement with the bloc.(Jonathan Brady/PA via AP)

With four weeks to go, there’s calm within the Brexit storm

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EU envoy urges North Macedonia factions to work together

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In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2019, photo, Paolo Arrigo of Seeds of Italy fills up a Brexit Vegetable Growing Survival kit bag, at his company store in London. Arrigo put together 12 months’ worth of easy-to-grow seed packets — carrots, beans, lettuce, pumpkin, tomatoes — and labeled it a Brexit Vegetable Growing Survival Kit. He has sold hundreds in a few weeks. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

As Brexit looms, U.K. ‘preppers’ stock up and hunker down

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

EU to help finance Turkish rail line to Bulgaria

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The flag of the European Union and the British national flags are flown on poles during a demonstration by remain in the EU outside spporters the Palace of Westminster in London, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. British Prime Minister Theresa May says she will give British lawmakers a choice of approving her divorce agreement, leaving the EU March 29 without a deal or asking to delay Brexit by up to three months. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Net migration into UK from EU falls to near-decade low

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, a bureau de change on the border between the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland, near the town of Jonesborough, Northern Ireland. The Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland have issued a warning to Irish drivers, Thursday Feb. 28, 2019, that they will need a special insurance document to cross the currently invisible border from Ireland into Northern Ireland, if the U.K. leaves the European Union without a deal. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, FILE)

Irish drivers warned over ‘no-deal’ Brexit as EU and UK talk

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press