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French President Emmanuel Macron listens to European Council President Charles Michel prior to their meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. The two men discussed Europe's plans for Brexit, European efforts against climate change and this week's European Union summit in Brussels. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

France’s Macron wants EU to move quickly on Brexit talks

By Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019 file photo Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses for a photo wearing boxing gloves during a stop in his General Election Campaign trail at Jimmy Egan's Boxing Academy in Manchester, England. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Rule-breaker Boris Johnson faces toughest test in election

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, left, and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, during a head to head live Election Debate at the BBC TV studios in Maidstone, England, Friday Dec. 6, 2019. Britain's Brexit is one of the main issues for political parties and for voters, as the UK prepares for a General Election on Dec. 12. The debate is moderated by TV presenter Nick Robinson, right. ( Jeff Overs/BBC via AP)

650 House seats, 3 days to go: the UK election in numbers

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 26, 1945 file photo, Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine tour Churchill's constituency of Woodford, in Essex, England, as part of the Conservative's General Election campaign. Britain is facing the most testing and significant, some would say tortuous, period in its modern history since World War II. The polarized electorate now has a critical choice to make _but it seems unlikely the result, whatever it may be, will heal deep and toxic divisions that could last a generation or more. (AP Photo/Eddie Worth, File)

Britain faces most history-shaping election since WWII

By TAMER FAKAHANY - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks during a question and answer session, part of a General Election campaign visit to Ferguson's Transport in Washington, England, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12. (Ben Stansall/Pool Photo via AP)

Boy on hospital floor dominates Britain’s election campaign

By MIKE CORDER and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

EU approves state aid to develop car batteries industry

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Subverting the Brexit Vote Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

A U.K. general election or a Brexit referendum?

By Andrew Davies

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to operate a sewing machine decorated for Christmas, during an election campaign stop at John Smedley Mill in Matlock, England, Thursday Dec. 5, 2019. The UK goes to the polls in a General Election on Dec. 12. (Hannah McKay/Pool via AP)

Johnson, Corbyn clash in final debate before UK election

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Migrants gather at the Vucjak refugee camp outside Bihac, northwestern Bosnia, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019. A European human rights official has demanded immediate closure of a migrant camp in Bosnia where hundreds of people have started refusing food and water to protest dismal living conditions as wintry weather sets in. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Bosnia to close makeshift migrant camp on Croatia’s border

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Kosovo leader says EU has double standards on Kosovo, Serbia

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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage speaks at Barnby Memorial Hall whilst on the General Election campaign trail in Worksop, England, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12. (Jacob King/PA via AP)

Farage’s Brexit Party hit by split a week before UK election

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

$Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits John Smedley Mill in Matlock, England, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019. Britain is holding a general election a week from now and fractures are emerging within jittery political parties unsure how a volatile electorate will judge them. Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson and main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn both faced criticism of their moral character. (Hannah McKay/Pool Photo via AP)$

Boris Johnson-Jeremy Corbyn election in Britain turns strange

By Benjamin Plackett - Special to The Washington Times

People protest outside the office of the Prime Minister at Castille, in Valletta, Malta, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019, as a delegation od European Union lawmakers is visiting the country after an investigation into the murder of leading investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia implicated Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s chief of staff. (AP Photo/Rene Rossignaud)

EU deputy: Not a bad idea to question Malta PM in slaying

By STEPHEN CALLEJA and FRANCES D’EMILIO - Associated Press

A protestors holds up a pictures of slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia during a demonstration outside Malta's prime minister's office in Valletta, Malta, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019. On Wednesday Maltese police arrested Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s former chief of staff Keith Schembri for questioning as a person of interest in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. (AP Photo/Str)

Developments in Malta’s slain journalist investigation

Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, June 20, 2019 file photo, Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels. Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said Sunday Dec. 1, 2019, that he would resign in January following pressure from citizens for the truth about the 2017 car bombing that killed a journalist. (Julien Warnand/Pool via AP, File)

EU mission in Malta expresses credibility doubts

By STEPHEN CALLEJA - Associated Press

Belarus invites EU-hopeful Serbia to turn to Russia-led bloc

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18, 2015, file photo, an Airbus A380 takes off for its demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget airport, north of Paris. A World Trade Organization panel ruled Monday, Dec. 2, 2019, that the European Union has not complied with an order to end illegal subsidies for plane-maker Airbus, which prompted the Trump administration to impose tariffs on nearly $7.5 billion worth of EU goods in October. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

WTO panel: EU fails to end illegal subsidies for Airbus

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

From left, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, European Parliament President Sassoli, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and European Council President Charles Michel pose for photographers as they mark the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty at the House of European History in Brussels, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

The EU ushers in its new heads of commission and council

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Turkish rescuers search at a collapsed building in Durres, western Albania, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. Hopes were fading Thursday of finding anyone else alive beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings in Albania two days after a deadly quake struck the country's Adriatic coast, with the death toll increasing to 40 after more bodies were pulled from the ruins. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Search in Albania quake reduced, death toll at 49

By LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

Benin expels EU ambassador as EU seeks urgent clarification

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