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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 19, 2019 file photo, Boris Johnson, Britain's former Foreign Secretary and prominent leave the European Union Brexit campaigner walks away after leaving the Cabinet Office in London. Britain’s High Court has quashed a bid to prosecute Conservative lawmaker Boris Johnson for allegedly lying during the country’s 2016 European Union membership referendum. Two judges on Friday, June 7 threw out a lower court’s ruling that Johnson should be summoned to answer questions about Brexit campaigners’ claim that Britain pays 350 million pounds ($446 million) a week to the EU. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Brexit backer vying to lead UK talks getting tough with EU

By GREGORY KATZ - Associated Press

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras makes a statement to the press outside his office in Athens, on Thursday, June 6, 2019. Tsipras says the results of recent European elections, in which his party suffered a heavy defeat that forced him to call early national elections, has led some in Brussels and in Greece to attempt to undermine his government's decision to introduce new benefits and consumer tax cuts. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Alexis Tsipras Greece government upended by conservative surge

By Nikolia Apostolou and Marina Rigou — Special to The Washington Times

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Pentagon fears U.S. companies being shut out of European arms deals

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

Mike Pompeo: Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ discards multilateralism that no longer works

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

New Ukraine president calls for tougher sanctions on Russia

Associated Press

Italian Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini addresses a rally in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. The European Commission recommended Wednesday that legal action be launched against Italy because it failed to respect EU debt rules last year and is likely to do so again in 2019 and 2020, setting up a new confrontation with the populist government in Rome. The Italian government only won commission approval for its 2019 budget plan late last year. After some early defiance from Salvini, Rome agreed to reduce the deficit to acceptable levels. (Sandro Perozzi/ANSA via AP)

EU commission urges legal action against Italy over debt

By LORNE COOK and GIADA ZAMPANO - Associated Press

Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom, arrives at a polling station to cast his vote in the European elections in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, May 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis) ** FILE **

Thierry Baudet upstages Geert Wilders in Europe elections

By Gordon Darroch — Special to The Washington Times

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, right, greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy prior to a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

New Ukraine president commits to NATO, EU membership

Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May greets President Donald Trump outside 10 Downing Street in central London, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. President Donald Trump will turn from pageantry to policy Tuesday as he joins British Prime Minister Theresa May for a day of talks likely to highlight fresh uncertainty in the allies' storied relationship. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Trump eases up, makes nice with May before she steps down

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and KEVIN FREKING and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Change UK, a party formed to shake up UK politics, splits

Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and President Donald Trump walk through the Quadrangle of the Foreign Office for a joint press conference in central London, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Donald Trump says Brexit will happen and should happen

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greets President Donald Trump as he arrives for a welcome ceremony in the garden of Buckingham Palace, in London, Monday, June 3, 2019, on the first day of a three day state visit to Britain. (Victoria Jones/Pool via AP)

The Latest: Trump says he doesn’t think Markle is ‘nasty’

Associated Press

EU legal expert says online defamation enforceable worldwide

Associated Press

President Donald Trump, with first lady Melania Trump, wave as they board Air Force One as they depart Sunday, June 2, 2019, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Trump is going to London, France and Ireland. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: May gives draft of Atlantic Charter to Trump

Associated Press

Books are displayed in a bookshop during the Hay Festival in Hay on Wye, Wales, Friday May 31, 2019. At Britain’s leading literary gathering, the word of the year was anxiety. Fifty shades of worry, about climate change, mental health and of course Brexit, dominated this year’s Hay Festival, an annual carnival of ideas held in Hay-on-Wye, a tiny Welsh town with 2,000 residents and 20 bookshops. (AP Photo/Jill Lawless)

UK’s anxiety takes center stage at Hay ideas festival

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

In this April 11 2019 file photo, Lawyer Juan Branco who co-authored a legal document alleging crimes against humanity by the European Union as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Paris, France. Human rights lawyers are accusing the European Union of committing crimes against humanity in its treatment of migrants who hope to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Libya. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

EU migrant policy: Lawyers call it a crime against humanity

By LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016 file photo, Donald Trump welcomes Nigel Farage, left, ex-leader of the British UKIP party, to speak at a campaign rally in Jackson, Miss.. During his state visit starting June 3, 2019 Trump will meet with Prime Minister Theresa May as her authority is fading. Trump professes friendship for May, but he has been harshly critical of her handling of the tortured Brexit negotiations, and has buddied up to Boris Johnson, who hopes to follow May to power, and Brexit party leader Nigel Farage, who accuses May of incompetence and betrayal. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)

Trump: UK should be ready to leave EU without a deal

By GREGORY KATZ - Associated Press

Turkish Cypriot Niyazi Kizilyurek talks during an interview with Associated Press at his office in Kaimakli a suburb of divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, May 31, 2019. Kizilyurek says it’s a feat of historic proportions, something that hasn’t happened on ethnically divided Cyprus in 140 years. His election to the European Parliament this week was the first time that Greek and Turkish Cypriot voters have jointly lifted a candidate to an elected post. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

1st Turkish Cypriot MEP envisions himself as division healer

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

The long list of Trump administration grievances will loom large in the background when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visits Berlin to make up for a much-anticipated meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Mike Pompeo, Angela Merkel focus on China with Germany meeting

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage arrives at the party's HQ, prior to an event to mark the gains his party made in the European Elections, in London, Monday, May 27, 2019. In results announced Monday for all regions of the U.K. except Northern Ireland, the Brexit Party had won 29 of the 73 British EU seats up for grabs and almost a third of the votes. (AP Photo/Vudi Xhymshiti)

Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage win European Union vote about immigration, sovereignty

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times