European Union

Latest Stories

A serviceman of Donetsk People's Republic militia stands guard not far from the besieged Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo)

Live updates |Congress approves $40B aid package to Ukraine

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Villagers walk past unexploded artillery shells as they collect scrap metal from a bombed warehouse in the village of Malaya Rohan, Kharkiv region, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Live updates | UN Chief: War in Ukraine driving world hunger

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces a joint statement with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and European Council President Charles Michel at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Thursday, May 12, 2022. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool Photo via AP)

EU rushes out $300 billion roadmap to ditch Russian energy

Associated Press

The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, left, shakes hands with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. The emir of Qatar said that his energy-rich gulf state is set to boost investments in Spain by 4.7 billion euros (4.9 billion) dollars in the coming years, Spanish media reported late on Tuesday. The details of the investments have not been made public but with Europe scrambling to find alternatives to Russian energy, Qatar is positioned to help fill the gap with exports of liquified natural gas. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Qatar to boost investment in Spain by $4.9 billion

By Joseph Wilson - Associated Press

Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly and European Union Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell arrive for a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Monday, May 16, 2022. European Union foreign ministers on Monday will discuss current affairs and have an exchange of views on the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the Global Gateway. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

EU’s Russia sanctions effort slows over oil dependency

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

A building damaged by multiple shelling stands in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Live updates | Russia-Ukraine War

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - Democratic Unionist Party leader Jeffrey Donaldson pauses as he speaks to the media at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast, Monday, May 9, 2022. Britain and the European Union are once again at loggerheads over Brexit on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. The U.K. government has ramped up threats to scrap parts of its trade treaty with the bloc, saying the rules are preventing the formation of a new government in Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)

Unionists block new N Ireland govt over Brexit trade rules

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

FILE - Servicemen of Donetsk People's Republic Emergency Ministry work to defuse a Ukrainian mine in an area of the Mariupol Sea Port in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, on April 29, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The European Commission is proposing to help Ukraine move its critical grain supplies to parts of the world at risk of food insecurity. The plan released Thursday, May 12, 2022, by the European Union’s executive arm urges rail, road and river routes to get around a Russian blockade of Black Sea ports. (AP Photo)

EU plan aims to help get wheat from Ukraine to the world

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

FILE - Elizabeth Truss, Britain's Foreign Secretary leaves a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Britain and the European Union are once again at loggerheads over Brexit on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. The U.K. government has ramped up threats to scrap parts of its trade treaty with the bloc, saying the rules are preventing the formation of a new government in Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

UK warns ‘no choice but to act’ to change Brexit deal

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

FILE - Elizabeth Truss, Britain's Foreign Secretary leaves a Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Britain and the European Union are once again at loggerheads over Brexit on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. The U.K. government has ramped up threats to scrap parts of its trade treaty with the bloc, saying the rules are preventing the formation of a new government in Northern Ireland. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

U.K. ramps up threat to rewrite Brexit deal with the EU

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 6, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

EU proposes sanctions against Putin’s alleged mistress Alina Kabaeva

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivers her speech during a debate on the social and economic consequences for the EU of the Russian war in Ukraine, Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

EU leader calls for Russian oil ban in new set of sanctions

By Lorne Cook and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

A Ukrainian refugee walks with her child at a camp in Utopia Park in Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Monday, May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Live updates | UN: More than 300 evacuated from Mariupol

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - Fabrice Leggeri, Executive Director of Frontex, attends a meeting of EU Interior ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Dec. 2, 2019. The head of the European Union's border agency has offered to resign after allegations that Frontex was involved in illegal pushbacks of migrants, according to the European Commission and a German Interior Ministry spokesperson. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

EU’s border chief offers to resign over pushback claims

By Frank Jordans and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron celebrates with his supporters in Paris, France, Sunday, April 24, 2022. French President Emmanuel Macron's reelection has bolstered his standing as a senior player in Europe. Macron is now expected to push for strengthening the 27-nation bloc and throw all his weight behind efforts to end the war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

Reelection bolsters France’s Macron as powerful player in EU

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French President and centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with well-wishers as he heads to the polling station in Le Touquet, northern France, Sunday, April 24, 2022. France began voting in a presidential runoff election Sunday with repercussions for Europe's future, with centrist incumbent Emmanuel Macron the front-runner but fighting a tough challenge from far-right contender Marine Le Pen. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France’s Macron is reelected but far-right rival raises game

By John Leicester - Associated Press

Sergei, 11, waits his turn to receive donated food during an aid humanitarian distribution in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Citizens of Bucha are still without electricity, water and gas after more than 44 days since the Russian invasion began. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Live updates | US set to send more military aid to Ukraine

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Smoke from an oil refinery rises over a field of sunflowers near the city of Lisichansk, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine on July 26, 2014. Prices for food commodities like grains and vegetable oils reached their highest levels ever last month because of Russia's war in Ukraine and the massive supply disruptions it is causing, the United Nations said Friday, April 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) **FILE**

Russian fuel flows through Ukraine uninterrupted by war

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

French far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen campaigns, Monday, April 18, 2022 in Saint-Pierre-en-Auge, Normandy. French President Emmanuel Macron is facing off against far-right challenger Marine Le Pen in France's April 24 presidential runoff. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

France: EU fraud agency investigating candidate Le Pen

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

A view of Evonik chemical plant, in Wesseling, near Cologne, Germany, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Germany’s employers and trade unions have joined together in opposing an immediate European Union ban on natural gas imports from Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. They say a ban on Russian gas would lead to factory shutdowns and the loss of jobs in Germany, the bloc's biggest economy. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

German bosses, unions jointly oppose boycott of Russian gas

Associated Press