Farmers in the United States use 72 pesticides banned in the European Union, 17 agricultural substances outlawed in China and 11 pesticides no longer allowed in Brazil, the Center for Biological Diversity revealed in research published Thursday.
Read moreThe elections to the European Parliament have never been so hotly anticipated, with many predicting that this year’s ballot which starts Thursday will mark a coming-of-age moment for the euroskeptic far-right movement.
Read more(CN) – European leaders rescued the United Kingdom from crashing out of the European Union on Wednesday night by once
Read moreThe third time was not the charm for British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, with the House of Commons voting down four paths she offered to avoid a messy “crash out” of the European Union in less than two weeks.
Read moreThe logistics of the United Kingdom’s impending divorce from the European Union have been thorny and contentious, leaving the entire process mired in uncertainty. That uncertainty, coupled with the eventual uncoupling from the EU’s customs union, has many British businesses worried about the impact of Brexit on their livelihoods.
Read moreOn the day before the United Kingdom’s divorce from the European Union was supposed to be final, there is still no clear separation plan from the British government.
Read moreBritish Prime Minister Theresa May offered up her job in exchange for her Brexit deal Wednesday, telling colleagues she would quit within weeks if the agreement were passed and Britain left the European Union.
Read moreThe European Commission gave the green light Tuesday to a citizen’s petition seeking a minimum wage for gig economy workers, allowing petition organizers to begin collecting signatures of support.
Read moreFollowing a two-day meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels last week, the European Commission delayed a fight about climate change legislation until June after Germany surprisingly defected.
Read moreThe British Parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce deal with the European Union on Tuesday night and plunged Great Britain into further uncertainty and chaos as it hurdles toward Brexit.
Read moreBritish Prime Minister Theresa May was battling Monday to stave off a new defeat for her European Union divorce deal, with talks deadlocked a day before Parliament is scheduled to vote on the plan.
Read moreResearchers injected a silver lining around the looming black cloud of climate change Wednesday: Even if temperatures climb and sea levels rise as most models forecast, many European countries will be able to keep the lights on thanks to their extensive networks of renewable energy sources.
Read moreIn a wide-ranging call for a “European renaissance,” French President Emmanuel Macron says Europe must take control of its future by spending more on its own defense and technologies, tightening its borders, standing up to the world’s superpowers on trade while also fighting climate change and protecting European jobs.
Read moreThe daughter of the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin has secured an intern’s job at the European Union’s legislature at a time of increasing political confrontation between the EU and Russia.
Read moreHonda plans to close its car factory in western England in 2021, a fresh blow to the British economy as it faces its March 29 exit from the European Union. The decision will imperil 3,500 jobs and possibly many more.
Read moreBritish Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday won a few weeks to salvage a Brexit deal but headed toward a clash with the European Union by promising to overhaul the divorce agreement she spent a year and a half negotiating with the bloc.
Read moreThere’s only one Big Mac, right? Not so fast. In a supersized trademark controversy, a European regulator has ruled in favor of an Irish fast-food restaurant chain and stripped McDonald’s of its exclusive use of the name Big Mac in the European Union.
Read moreDespite a dramatic failure to get her Brexit deal past Parliament, British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday survived a vote of no confidence against her government brought by the opposition Labour Party.
Read moreUncertainty and a lot more political gridlock is what looms for the United Kingdom as the British Parliament is set on Tuesday evening to reject Prime Minister Theresa May’s blueprint defining the terms of her nation’s exit from the European Union.
Read moreThe president of the European Commission said Friday that the bloc wants to help Britain’s prime minister avoid a no-deal departure from the EU, but insisted there can’t be any renegotiation of the Brexit divorce deal.
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