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Far-right leader and candidate for next spring presidential elections Marine le Pen, delivers her New Year's address to the media in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017. French far right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is cheering Ford Motor Co.'s decision to shift investment from Mexico to the U.S., calling it a victory for the protectionist policies she champions. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France’s Le Pen lauds Ford decision as win for protectionism

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

Europe 2017: Brexit, far-right surging, Russian threat

By GREGORY KATZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this photo dated Thursday, March 24, 2016, a German flag flies at the German combat supply ship 'Frankfurt am Main' in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya. National emblems still hold meaning, but Europe’s open borders seem to symbolize liberty and forward thinking for the region, although they increasingly look like the continent’s Achilles’ heel, with its inability to implement cross border security. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, FILE)

After Berlin attack, Europe weighs freedom against security

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

United States resumes a trade beef with the European Union

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

EU laments lack of progress in US visa talks

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1991 Gorbachev Christmas Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Russia needs Gorbachev’s wisdom

By Jan Sherbin

EU watchdog probes Facebook over WhatsApp merger

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Apple appeals EU order to collect $14B in back taxes

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Ireland to appeal EU’s record $14 billion tax order on Apple

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, background center, speaks during a government awards' presentation ceremony in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

To save the disintegrating European Union, look to the east

By L. Todd Wood

FILE - This is a Sunday, July 12, 2015 file photo of a man as he smokes a cigarette as he looks at daily newspapers displayed at a kiosk in central Athens. Nearly two-thirds of Greeks are inhaling someone else's tobacco smoke on a daily basis, making Greece the worst nation in the European Union in exposing its people to the health risks of passive smoking. The European Union's statistical office Eurostat said Wednesday Dec. 7, 2016 that 64.2 percent of Greeks suffered daily exposure to tobacco smoke indoors. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

In Greece’s tobacco culture, passive smoke a serious problem

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In this image taken Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016 Syrians wait to enter Turkey at the Bab al-Salam border gate, Syria. Turkish officials say thousands of Syrians have massed on the Syrian side of the border seeking refuge in Turkey. Officials at the government’s crisis management agency said Friday Feb. 5, 2016 that it was not clear when Turkey would open the border to allow the group in and start processing them. (Depo Photos via AP) TURKEY OUT

EU, Turkey challenge each other to decide on membership bid

By SUZAN FRASER and RAF CASERT - Associated Press

The Latest: Austrian official says EU can’t rely on Turkey

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Indian prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, waves to media as his British counterpart Theresa May watches before their meeting in New Delhi, India, Monday, Nov. 7, 2016. Modi and May have begun wide-ranging talks aimed at deepening ties between their two countries and boosting trade and investment as the U.K. plans to leave the European Union. May arrived in New Delhi late Sunday on her first bilateral visit overseas since she became prime minister in July. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India, Britain talk trade and investment during May’s visit

By NIRMALA GEORGE - Associated Press

British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives on the second day of the EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 21, 2016. May briefed her European counterparts on the exit road for Britain and left leaders with many uncertainties about the divorce because Britain has yet to trigger the two-year negotiations for "Brexit" and confirmed she is unlikely to do so until the end of March. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Brexit delay? U.K. court: Gov’t can’t trigger EU exit without Parliament

By Danica Kirka and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Soldiers from NATO countries attend a opening ceremony of military exercise 'Saber Strike 2015', at the Gaiziunu Training Range in Pabrade some 60km.(38 miles) north of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday, June 8, 2015. The annual multinational Exercise Saber Strike 2015 organized by the U. S. Army in Europe (USAREUR) on June 1 through 19 comprises brigade-level command post exercises held concurrently in all the three Baltic States and Poland. This year the exercise will train the record number of 6,000 troops from 13 NATO member and partner states - Denmark, Estonia, U.S.A., UK, Canada, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Norway, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia and Finland. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

A European Union army is not in America’s interests

By Nile Gardiner

In the run-up to the European Council summit, Russia once again deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to its enclave of Kaliningrad, which borders Lithuania and Poland. (Associated Press/File)

EU’s Russia appeasement over military, trade on display

By Daniel Kochis

Stranded migrants shouts slogans next a covered body of a man believed to be from Morocco, at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the northern Greek village of Idomeni, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. The man was electrocuted after touching high-power overhead railway cables when he climbed on top of a train carriage. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

The Latest: EU leaders want more migrants deported

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 photo, Ben Lewis, a 49-year-old documentary filmmaker, speaks at the Jewish Museum in London. Hundreds of British Jews are considering whether to apply for the restoration of Germany citizenship stripped from their ancestors by the Third Reich. Lewis, who has a German grandmother, is among those thinking about applying. Lewis, whose film and production company has worked for years on the continent, sees Brexit as an abomination, particularly the anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.K. that influenced many people to vote to leave the EU. “It’s blame the foreigners,’’ he said. “It’s like the 1930s all over again.’’ (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

UK Jews seek restoration of German citizenship post-Brexit

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press