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FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, a man looks up as police and fire personnel move in to remove climate activists and their banner, after they climbed the Europa building during a demonstration outside an EU summit meeting in Brussels. Massive challenges lay ahead for the European Union in 2020, as the impact of climate change seems likely to drive the bloc's thinking and policy initiatives over the coming years, starting Wednesday Jan. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, FILE)

Climate change, Brexit divorce: EU faces challenges in 2020

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

In this Sept. 23, 2019, file photo, rescued migrants look at a map of Europe aboard the Ocean Viking humanitarian ship as it sails in the Mediterranean Sea. The misery of migrants in Libya has spawned a thriving and highly lucrative business, in part funded by the EU and enabled by the United Nations, an Associated Press investigation has found. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)

EU funds for migrants in Libya enrich their abusers instead

By Maggie Michael, Lori Hinnant and Renata Brito - Associated Press

European money spawns more misery for migrants in Libya

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and LORI HINNANT and RENATA BRITO - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, gestures as he and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif while entering a hall for the talks in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Dec. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Russia warns Iran nuclear deal in danger of ‘falling apart’

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen right, speaks during the Commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Lisbon Treaty and the legally binding Charter of Fundamental Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

EU chief warns that new Brexit delay might be necessary

Associated Press

In this picture taken Thursday Dec. 12, 2019, Indian migrants Nishademi, 22, and Suhil, 23, walk with Saif, 33, Fatma, 24, and their son Omar, 1, Syrian refugees form Aleppo walk towards the border with Croatia as they attempt to enter the EU in the mountains surrounding the town of Bihac, northwestern Bosnia. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

Going west, migrants wander through Bosnia in Balkan winter

By MANU BRABO - Associated Press

Serbia state TV: 6 migrants missing after boat overturns

Associated Press

In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 photo, presidential candidate Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, left, and prime minister Andrej Plenkovic greet supporters at a rally in Zagreb, Croatia. The European Union's newest member state Croatia is holding a tight presidential election this weekend, only days before it takes over the EU presidency for the first time. Poster text reads optimism for Croatia. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Croatia’s presidential contest heads to Jan. 5 runoff vote

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

In this photo made available by the UK Parliament, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, center, attends the debate in the House of Commons, London, Thursday Dec. 19, 2019. Boris Johnson signaled an end to Britain’s era of Brexit deadlock Thursday, announcing a packed legislative program intended to take the U.K. out of the European Union on Jan. 31, overhaul everything from fishing to financial services and shore up the country’s cash-starved public services. (Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament via AP)

U.K. lawmakers OK Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill, pave way to leave EU

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Cyprus rallies neighbors to buck Turkey-Libya maritime deal

Associated Press

Demonstrators hold a rally to protest against changes to Poland's judiciary planned by the ruling Law and Justice party near the building of parliament in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish lawmakers OK disciplining judges; EU decries move

By VANESSA GERA - Associated Press

A mask covers the mouth and nose of the St. Mother Theresa with a child statue during smog and heavy air pollution in Kosovo capital Pristina, on Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

EU funds help Kosovo fight unhealthy air pollution

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019 photo, a cyclist rides past a poster of presidential candidate Miroslav Skoro in Zagreb, Croatia. The European Union's newest member state Croatia is holding a tight presidential election this weekend, only days before it takes over the EU presidency for the first time. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Croatia holds tight presidential vote before EU chairmanship

By DARKO BANDIC and JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday Feb. 25, 2019 file photo, Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority Andrew Bailey speaks at a press conference at the Bank of England in London. The British government has named Andrew Bailey, head of the U.K.’s finance watchdog, as the next governor of the Bank of England, and will replace current governor Mark Carney on March 16, 2019. (Kirsty O'Connor/Pool via AP, File)

Andrew Bailey to succeed Carney as Bank of England governor

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

EU court boost for activist in Facebook data transfer fight

By KELVIN CHAN - Associated Press

In this file photo dated Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, people gather near London Bridge, backdropped by the city of London financial district, with 20 Fenchurch Street building known as The Walkie-Talkie building, top right. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decisive victory in last week's general election provided little comfort to Britain's once world-beating financial services industry, which has been battered by Brexit for more than three years. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, FILE)

U.K. services industry sees little joy in post-Brexit world

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012 file photo a fisherman untangles a fish from his net in the port of the southern Spanish city of Barbate, Spain. European Union nations say the fish catch quotas they agreed upon for next year means they have made more headway in securing sustainable fishing in their waters — but environmentalists are strongly disputing that claim, it was reported on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

EU claims better fishing rules; environmentalists disagree

Associated Press

Driving the Brexit Bus Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Boris Johnson owes his huge victory to Nigel Paul Farage

By Andrew Davies

Social democrats minister Sanna Marin speaks to the media after she was elected as Prime Minister of Finland, in Helsinki, Finland, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. Finland’s parliament chose Sanna Marin as the country's new prime minister Tuesday, making the 34-year-old the world’s youngest sitting head of government. (Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva via AP)

Finland offers crash course in artificial intelligence to EU

By JARI TANNER - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses for a selfie with a supporter, during a visit to Sedgefield Cricket Club in County Durham, north east England, Saturday Dec. 14, 2019, following his Conservative party's general election victory. Johnson called on Britons to put years of bitter divisions over the country's EU membership behind them as he vowed to use his resounding election victory to finally deliver Brexit. (Lindsey Parnaby/Pool via AP)

UK’s Johnson seeks to rule out Brexit trade pact delay

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press