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Transitioning NATO into a European-led force illustration by The Washington Times

Transitioning NATO into a European-led force

By Daniel L. Davis

Technicians of the German airline Lufthansa work on an aircraft at the airport in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, May 26, 2020. Germany on Monday approved a 9 billion-euro ($9.8 billion) aid package for stricken airline Lufthansa to keep a major employer going through the turbulence of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

EU says conditions needed in Lufthansa bailout, seeks deal

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 20, 2020. (Fabrizio Bensch/Pool Photo via AP)

EU criticizes China over Hong Kong but no action planned

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

European Commissioners for European Green Deal Frans Timmermans speaks during a joint video press conference on Green and Just recovery at the EU headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, May 28, 2020. (Aris Oikonomou/Pool Photo via AP)

EU pledges to stay green in recovery from coronavirus

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

EU renews Syria sanctions with conflict in its 10th year

Associated Press

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, gestures hello to an MEP prior to addressing the European Parliament plenary in Brussels, Wednesday, May 27, 2020. The European Union is to unveil Wednesday a massive coronavirus recovery plan worth hundreds of billions of euros to help countries rebuild their ailing economies, but the bloc remains deeply divided over what conditions should be attached to the funds. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

EU proposes 750 billion-euro coronavirus recovery fund

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 2, 2020, photo, European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Michel Barnier, right, speaks with the British Prime Minister's Europe adviser David Frost during the start of the first round of post -Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK, at EU headquarters in Brussels. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Britain calls on EU to ‘evolve’ in post-Brexit talks

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this Monday, March 2, 2020 file photo, European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Michel Barnier, right, speaks with the British Prime Minister's Europe adviser David Frost during the start of the first round of post -Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK, at EU headquarters in Brussels. Slowed by the coronavirus pandemic and whipped up by a British-imposed deadline, talks between the EU and the UK on a future relationship in the wake of Brexit are struggling to make significant progress. A third negotiation session is drawing to a close on Friday, May 15, 2020 but so far, just over 100 days after the official exit of the UK from the EU, fundamental gaps still exist. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP, File)

UK says fishing deal with EU by end of June looks unlikely

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

In this Monday, March 2, 2020, photo, European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Michel Barnier, right, speaks with the British Prime Minister's Europe adviser David Frost during the start of the first round of post -Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK, at EU headquarters in Brussels. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Britain: ‘Very little’ progress made in U.K., EU post-Brexit trade talks

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this file photo dated Wednesday, May 2, 2018, the Trevi Fountain is cordoned-off hours before the Champions League semifinal second leg soccer match between Liverpool and Roma, in Rome, Italy. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, FILE)

EU hopeful for tourist season despite high coronavirus figures across Europe

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

A woman wears a mouth mask as she walks in the Market Square in Bruges, Belgium, during a partial lifting of a lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, COVID-19, Wednesday, May 13, 2020. Coronavirus lockdown restrictions have damaged the tourism industry in many European countries and left travelers wondering what restrictions will still be in place during the summer season. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU unveils plans to save vacations and avoid a lost summer

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Restaurant owner Paolo Polli stages a protest in Milan, Italy, Saturday May, 9, 2020. Hundreds of Milan bar and restaurant owners each placed an empty chair from their working places in front of the Arch of Peace in a protest demanding fiscal and other measures to help them survive the lockdown. Restaurants and bars can only open for sit-down clients from June 1. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Concern mounts that border measures threaten EU free travel

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

In this May 5, 2020, seasonal worker James Wodyatt trains the growing hops by winding or tying two or three shoots clockwise to each string, at Stocks Farm in Suckley, Worcestershire. Britain’s fruit and vegetable farmers have long worried that the exit from the European Union would keep out the tens of thousands of Eastern European workers who come every year to pick the country’s produce. Now, the coronavirus pandemic has brought that feared future to the present. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

‘Foretaste’ of Brexit: Virus cuts off much of U.K. farm labor

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, March 7, 2019 file photo, a shadow of Milica Kesler, curator and archivist is cast onto a poster of Nikola Tesla at the Nikola Tesla museum in Belgrade, Serbia. Serbia has protested to the European Union for one of its web pages describing famous inventor and electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla as a Croat. Serbia’s Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Saturday, May 9, 2020 the protest note was sent to Brussels after EU’s Learning Corner for children described Tesla as a “famous Croatian” who was “one of the first people to discover X-ray imaging.” AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, file)

Serbia protests EU description of Tesla as famous Croat

Associated Press

EU says its envoy erred after China demanded cuts to op-ed

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

EU executive seeks supervisor of anti-money laundering fight

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Tirana, Wednesday, May 6, 2020. Western Balkan countries are optimistic in their European path, also looking forward to the bloc's post-pandemic assistance to cope with their increased economic difficulties. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

EU aims to reassure Balkans with virus aid, economic support

By LORNE COOK and LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

FILE - in this Wednesday, April 22, 2020 file photo, a man with a face mask and a child with an European flag attend an event of the Pulse of Europe movement to collect signatures for more support for Italy during the coronavirus and the COVID-19 outbreak in front of the Italian embassy in Berlin, Germany. European Union leaders are preparing for a new virtual summit, which will take place Thursday, April 23, 2020, to take stock of the damage the coronavirus has inflicted on the lives and livelihoods of the bloc's citizens and to thrash out a more robust plan to revive their ravaged economies. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

No membership discussion, as virus hijacks EU-Balkans summit

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Romanian former anti-graft chief wins case in European court

Associated Press

A soldier of the Swiss army wearing a protective face mask holds a smartphone with an app using Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (DP-3T) during a test with 100 soldiers in the military compound of Chamblon near Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, Thursday, April 30, 2020. The race by governments to develop mobile tracing apps in order to contain infections after lockdowns ease is focusing attention on privacy. The debate is especially urgent in Europe, where academics and civil liberties activists are pushing for solutions that protect personal data. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

European virus tracing apps highlight battle for privacy

By KELVIN CHAN - Associated Press