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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn during campaigning ahead of next week's local elections in Peterborough, England. Saturday April 27, 2019. (Joe Giddens/PA via AP)

Definitely maybe: UK’s Labour ambivalent on new Brexit vote

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the President of France Emmanuel Macron arrive for a joint press conference on occasion of a meeting of Balkan leaders at the chancellery in Berlin, Monday, April 29, 2019. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are hosting the meeting to restart deadlocked talks between Serbia and Kosovo. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Kosovo: EU “too weak” to steer talks with Serbia

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May smiles during a visit to the Leisure Box while on the local elections campaign in Brierfield, England, Thursday, April 25, 2019. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

Faltering Brexit talks limp on amid UK political impasse

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

EU extends Myanmar arms embargo, other sanctions for a year

Associated Press

FILE - In this June 28, 2018 photo, Guardia Civil officers stand guard as migrants stay at a makeshift emergency center for migrants at Barbate's municipal sports center, in the south of Spain, after being rescued by Spain's Maritime Rescue Service in the Strait of Gibraltar. Spain appears to have stemmed a surge in illegal migration that made it the main Mediterranean entry point for migrants seeking ways into Europe by increasing Morocco's involvement in border control. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

Migrant arrivals plunge in Spain after deals with Morocco

By RENATA BRITO - Associated Press

European People's Party candidate Manfed Weber delivers a speech at Zappio Congress Hall in Athens on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Weber is in Greece for the official launch of his campaign for the May 23-26 European Parliament elections. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Germany’s Weber urges Britain not to take part in EU vote

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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives at the V4+Japan summit in Bratislava, Slovakia, Thursday, April 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Japan’s Abe talks trade with EU chiefs ahead of US visit

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

EU ambassador: Trump Cuba policy worries European companies

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ - Associated Press

European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi, right speaks with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney as they attends the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) conference, at the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington, Saturday, April 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

UK begins search for new Bank of England governor

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrives with her husband Philip to attend an Easter Sunday church service near her Maidenhead constituency, south England, Sunday April 21, 2019. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)

UK’s May under fire as Parliament returns from Brexit break

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May arrives with her husband Philip to attend an Easter Sunday church service near her Maidenhead constituency, south England, Sunday April 21, 2019. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)

The Latest: Boris Johnson’s sister running for pro-EU party

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FILE - In this March 20, 2019 file photo, then French Minister of European Affairs Nathalie Loiseau gets into her car as she leaves the the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Loiseau, who leads French president Emmanuel Macron's party in the May EU parliament elections, is facing criticism after online media Mediapart revealed she featured on a list alongside far-right candidates at a student's election 35 years ago. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

France: Far-right claims surface for Macron’s ally

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FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, April 15, 2019, with the Eiffel Tower behind, left, flames and smoke rise from the blaze at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris that destroyed its spire and its roof but spared its twin medieval bell towers, and prompted a frantic rescue effort to save its most precious artefacts. The recent devastating Notre Dame fire in Paris was a warning bell that all of Europe needs to hear, since so many monuments and palaces across the continent are in need of better upkeep according to European officials. “We are so used to our outstanding cultural heritage in Europe that we tend to forget that it needs constant care and attention,” Tibor Navracsics, the European Union’s top culture official, told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Thierry Mallet, FILE)

Notre Dame fire was a warning bell. But will Europe listen?

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Juncker: EU cannot keep extending Brexit deadline for UK

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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 15, 2018 file photo, a container ship is loaded at the harbor in Hamburg, Germany. The United States is considering putting tariffs on $11 billion in EU goods per year to offset what it says are unfair European subsidies for planemaker Airbus. While the size of the potential tariffs is relatively small compared with the hundreds of billions of goods the U.S. and China are taxing in their trade war, it suggests a breakdown in talks with the EU over trade. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, file)

EU threatens to tax $20 billion of US goods over Boeing aid

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Illustration on Brexit delays by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Whatever happened to Brexit?

By Meryle Secrest

Growth of Germany’s foreign population slows in 2018

Associated Press

Far-right leader of the National Rally party Marine Le Pen, attends a media conference for the upcoming European elections next month in Strasbourg, eastern France, Monday, April 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

France’s Le Pen wants Salvini to form populist EU group

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

EU moves to limit focus of trade talks with US

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Social Democratic leader Party Antti Rinne speaks to the media at the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle studios in Helsinki, Finland Monday morning, April 15, 2019. Results from Finland's parliamentary election illustrated the struggle by Europe's traditional political parties to retain supporters, with the center-left Social Democratic Party winning the most votes and followed closely by a populist party that wants to temper national efforts to curb climate change. (Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva via AP)

Riding populist wave, Finns Party nearly wins Finland vote

By JARI TANNER - Associated Press