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New US tariffs target EU among 60 economies over forced labour imports

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Europe Today

Newsletter: EU makes its trade play in Mexico

As top European Union officials travel to Mexico on Friday to finalise a revived EU-Mexico trade deal, NATO foreign ministers will meet for a second day in Sweden to try to decipher Washington’s increasingly confusing military posture in Europe.

Europe News

EU to remove remaining barriers as it reviews trade deal with Mexico

The move comes as world economies look to strengthen their ties amid turbulent relations with the US, caused by the Trump administration’s hostile trade policies, as well as the war in Iran, which have caused global instability.

United Kingdom

UK seals 'historic' Gulf trade deal worth billions to British economy

The deal is the first of its kind between the GCC and a G7 country, and will scrap tariffs on billions of euros worth of British exports.

Europe Today

Watch: Brussels vs Washington—inside the high-stakes battle over the EU-US trade deal

Tonight, European lawmakers and diplomats will meet in Strasbourg, desperately trying to prevent an all-out transatlantic trade war. The clock is ticking down to an unforgiving 4 July deadline set by Donald Trump. How did Europe end up in this mess?

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Europe Today

It will be hard to survive if the EU does not speak with one voice, MEP tells Euronews

The EU must realise that "it's difficult to survive" if it does not speak with one voice, Michael Bloss, a Greens MEP, tells Euronews. He made the comments off the back of US President Donald Trump visiting China to speak with President Xi Jinping about a raft of issues that could impact the bloc.

Europe Today

‘We’re the two superpowers’ – so, where is Europe?

As US President Donald Trump continues a closely-watched visit to Beijing to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping about trade and security, Europe is anxiously wondering how it will fit into what comes out.

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Partnership with EU ‘just getting started' - Canadian minister

Canada’s foreign affairs minister points to the rise of middle powers in global diplomacy and says Ottawa's growing ties with the EU are “not just a policy response” to Donald Trump's tariff hammer.

Europe Today

Newsletter: Another Trump ultimatum, another fragile trade truce

Also in this newsletter: Europe Today speaks to the EU's Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius as he's set to sign the EU's first defence loan deals under the €150-billion SAFE programme in Poland and Lithuania.

Business

New Gulf-Asia trade corridor in UAE-South Korea agreement

The UAE signed a landmark trade deal with South Korea, the day after it left OPEC, while Qatar is also engaging with Seoul for its own trade agreement. The Gulf states are paving a structural trade corridor with Asia.

Business

Contentious EU-Mercosur trade deal takes provisional effect

The EU-Mercosur free-trade deal took provisional effect on Friday despite a legal challenge before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Brussels, My Love?

A vote on trade ties with Israel: Why is the EU so divided?

The rejection by some EU member countries of a renewed proposal to suspend the EU-Israeli trade pact once again exposed persistent divisions within the EU27 over the Middle East. Why is the bloc so split on this issue?

Europe News

Mercosur: MEPs warn of concentration risk from quota system

A letter obtained by Euronews is circulating among MEPs sounding the alarm on the potential abuse of the EU-Mercosur trade deal quota allocation system by South American Big Agriculture.

Europe in Motion

What does trade between the EU and Australia look like?

The trade between the EU and Australia is expected to climb as much as 33% over the next decade after they signed a landmark deal. But how has their trade relationship developed so far?

Europe News

The EU's recipe for trade deals : easy on beef, tough on wine

Within weeks, the European Commission has wrapped up deals with Mercosur, India and Australia. Yet despite the backlash over the Latin America agreement, Brussels is sticking to a familiar playbook: offensive on wine and cars, defensive on beef.

Economy

G'day to cheaper Champagne: EU-Australia deal boosts European products

After eight years of fraught negotiations, Europe and Australia have finally struck a trade deal. From champagne to critical minerals, here is what changes — and for whom.

Europe News

Farmers angry after EU-Australia trade deal liberalises farm products

The new EU-Australia trade deal has drawn criticism from farmers and MEPs, who argue that it will open the door to additional imports of sensitive products on top of those already agreed under the contentious Mercosur deal, while not providing full protection for certain EU regional products.