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News Articles: EU

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a news conference at the chancellery in Berlin, May 28.

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  • Europe

Trump will meet German Chancellor Merz at the White House. Here's what to know

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to meet President Trump at the White House, where they are expected to discuss issues including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as tariffs and trade.

June 05, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
Customers visit an Apple Store in Beijing, April 10.

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  • Technology

The European Union hits Apple and Meta with 700 million euros in fines

European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Facebook's parent company hundreds of millions of euros as they stepped up enforcement of the 27-nation bloc's digital competition rules.

April 23, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a media conference on a defense package in Brussels, Tuesday.

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  • Europe

Europe considers a major defense spending package as Trump signals disengagement

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed an $840 billion plan to build up the bloc's defense, as President Trump pauses military aid to Ukraine.

March 04, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
French lawmakers debate in the National Assembly in Paris Wednesday. A majority of legislators voted to oust Prime Minister Michel Barnier, forcing him to resign.

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  • Europe

France's toppled government adds to the European Union's bigger political problems

The political instability in France — and simultaneously in Germany, where the governing coalition collapsed a month ago — could have wide-ranging consequences.

December 05, 2024
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By:
  • Willem Marx
A Latvian choir, celebrating their victory in an international competition in Moldova, cheers in support of the European referendum near the Moldovan Parliament on Monday in Chișinău, Moldova.

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  • Europe

Moldova barely approves its EU referendum amid allegations of Russian interference

Moldova voted in favor of adding a path to the European Union to its constitution, and gave the incumbent president the most votes in elections Sunday, but neither result was the win leaders wanted.

October 21, 2024
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By:
  • Charles Maynes
The Senate Study Committee on Artificial Intelligence panel at their first meeting on June 26, 2024. (Ambria Burton/GPB News)

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  • Politics

‘Part of the fabric of our society.’ State Senate committee on AI holds first meeting

On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, the Senate Study Committee on Artificial Intelligence met for its first meeting. Created from Senate Resolution 476, the study committee will dedicate seven to eight meetings to look at AI, its current and future in Georgia, and the concerns surrounding it in society.

June 27, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
Members of European Parliament participate in a series of votes as they attend a plenary session at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, April 10, 2024.

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  • Europe

EU lawmakers approve an overhaul of the bloc's migration laws

European Union lawmakers have approved a major revamp of the bloc's migration laws, hoping to end years of division and deprive the far right of a vote-winning campaign issue ahead of June elections.

April 11, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Jacques Delors of France, president of the European Commission, meets Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for talks at 10 Downing Street, London, on Nov. 26, 1986. Delors has died in Paris at age 98.

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  • Obituaries

Jacques Delors, architect of the modern EU and 'Mr. Europe,' dies at 98

A Paris bank messenger's son, Delors became the visionary and builder of a more unified Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the European Union.

December 27, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Newly installed solar panels face the sky at the construction site of a new solar energy park as wind turbines spin behind last month near Prenzlau, Germany.

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  • Energy

China dominates the solar power industry. The EU wants to change that

Germany was a pioneer in the solar power industry, but succumbed to competition from China. Now, Germany — and the European Union — are trying to revitalize the industry once again.

May 17, 2023
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  • Rob Schmitz
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen speaks with President Biden at the global meeting of G-20 leaders on Nov. 15, 2022, in Nusa Dua, Indonesia

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  • Europe

Biden and the EU's von der Leyen meet to ease tensions over trade, subsidy concerns

The Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, promises tax breaks to companies making technology for clean energy. European leaders are concerned companies will flee to the U.S. to cash in on the tax breaks.

March 10, 2023
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  • Rob Schmitz
Tires of a truck are pictured at a gas station in Frankfurt, Germany, Jan. 27. A European ban on imports of diesel fuel and other products made from crude oil in Russian refineries takes effect Feb. 5. The goal is to stop feeding Russia's war chest, but fuel costs have already jumped since the war started and they could rise again.

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  • World

Europe is set to ban Russian oil products, the latest strike on the Kremlin war chest

Starting Sunday, the EU will prohibit imports of Russian gasoline, diesel and other products from Russian refineries used throughout Europe.

February 04, 2023
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  • Jackie Northam
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shake hands after a joint press conference after talks in Kyiv on Thursday.

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  • World

European leaders meet in Kyiv to discuss Ukraine's path toward joining the EU

This is the first summit to take place with Ukraine as an official candidate to join the European Union.

February 03, 2023
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By:
  • Julian Hayda
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shakes hands with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen smiles at the Cotroceni presidential palace in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022.

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  • Europe

EU leaders have agreed on a new plan to source power that isn't from Russia

European leaders have finalized an agreement for an undersea electricity connector that could become a new power source for the EU amid a crunch on energy supplies caused by the war in Ukraine.

December 18, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The empty assembly line at the Duralex glassware factory in Orléans, France, on Nov. 15.

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  • World

Europe fears its industries will jet to the U.S. as energy costs force plant closures

Duralex glassware maker is just one company that's suspended operations over spiking energy costs after a cutoff of Russian natural gas.

November 25, 2022
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
People walk near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on the day a new law to save energy nationwide goes into effect on Thursday. The new law includes a wide variety of temporary measures, like banning the illumination of landmarks and regulating temperatures in public and private venues, to save electricity. These are a response to inflation and lower natural gas and other energy supplies from Russia.

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  • World

Russia's effort to break European energy unity seems to be failing — at least for now

One of the intended outcomes of Russia's war in Ukraine is to dissolve European unity on energy policy, analysts say, but the unity is so far holding firm.

September 02, 2022
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
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