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In response to a question from POLITICO on when the deal would be enforced at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland, Trump said it would happen “pretty soon.” He added: “You have no idea. These people are tough negotiators. But we’re a big buyer of steel. We’re going to make our own steel; we’re going to make our own aluminum, for the most part. But we buy a lot of aluminum from here and a lot of steel, too.” Starmer confirmed that the tariff cut was “already covered in the deal that we’ve agreed,”…
French President Emmanuel Macron announced on social media on 24 July that France will recognise Palestine as a state at the United Nations General Assembly in September. Macron shared his letter to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in an X post, alongside a statement which read: “The French people want peace in the Middle East. It is up to us, the French, together with the Israelis, the Palestinians, and our European and international partners, to demonstrate that it is possible.” France will become the first G7 country and the first permanent member of the UN Security Council (France, United States, China,…
Trump issued the 50-day ultimatum to Putin earlier in July, warning that his potential economic penalties against Moscow and its trading partners would be devastating if the conflict wasn’t halted by early September. “We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever,” Trump added on Monday. Trump has held multiple calls with Putin but made scant progress toward ending the Ukraine war, after promising on the 2024 election campaign trail that he would curtail hostilities…
Published on 28/07/2025 – 15:10 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump said on Monday he is to reduce the 50-day deadline he previously set for Russia to agree to a peace deal in Ukraine, highlighting his growing frustration with the ongoing all-out war, now well into its fourth year. “I’m disappointed in President Putin,” Trump said in comments alongside UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland. “I’m going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number because I think I already know the answer what’s going to happen.” “I’ve spoken to President Putin a lot, I’ve…
“We are going to take a look at it,” he replied, adding, “we want to make the prime minister happy.” His comment comes despite nervousness within the U.K. government about the implementation of some elements of the U.K.-U.S. Economic Prosperity Deal signed more than two months ago. In addition to a reduction to the 10 percent reciprocal tariff rate, the U.K. is pushing for the U.S. to implement its commitment to cut tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25 percent to zero. Progress has been stymied by U.S. “melt and pour rules” that require steel imported to the U.S. to…
France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou said on Monday that the European Union had given in to US President Donald Trump’s threats of increased tariffs, slamming the deal agreed to on Sunday as a “dark day.” “It is a dark day when an alliance of free peoples, brought together to affirm their common values and to defend their common interests, resigns itself to submission,” Bayrou wrote in a post on X. Under the agreed terms, finalised by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Trump during a meeting in Scotland, the majority of EU exports bound for the American market…
“It wasn’t a deal that President Donald Trump made with Ursula von der Leyen. It was Donald Trump eating Ursula von der Leyen for breakfast,” Orbán fumed Monday morning on his podcast. The Hungarian prime minister is both a longtime critic of Brussels and its leadership and a vocal supporter of Trump and his MAGA agenda. Orbán added that the U.S.-U.K. deal was much better than the one the EU got. Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó wrote Monday on X that the deal is “another sign that Brussels needs new leadership.” Other Euroskeptics — such as German far-right AfD party…
By Euronews Published on 28/07/2025 – 12:04 GMT+2 •Updated 12:56 Key diary dates Tuesday 29 July: Meeting of the EU Council’s trade policy committee. Tuesday 29-Wednesday 30 July: Meetings of the EU Council’s ad hoc working group on the EU long-term budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework. Saturday 2 August: EU rules on general purpose artificial intelligence enter into force. In spotlight As the EU institutions pause activity for the summer, the EU Council continues to see some behind the scenes activity this week on two key issues: US trade and the EU’s long term budget. If early reactions to the deal struck…
A regional passenger train derailed in southern Germany on Sunday, killing three people and leaving several others with serious injuries, according to federal police quoted by German news agency dpa. Around 100 passengers were on board when at least two carriages left the tracks in a forested area near the town of Riedlingen at approximately 6:10 p.m. local time. Images from the scene showed train cars lying on their sides as rescue teams climbed over the wreckage to assist those inside. The cause of the derailment remains unclear. The incident occurred about 158 kilometres west of Munich. Federal police and…
Published on 28/07/2025 – 12:56 GMT+2 A Samsung manufacturing facility in Texas will produce the newest generation of an advanced microchip for its yet-to-be rolled-out cars, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced in a post on X. “Samsung’s giant new Texas fab will be dedicated to making Tesla’s next-generation AI6 chip. The strategic importance of this is hard to overstate,” Musk said. The deal is a major win for the South Korean tech giant, which lost major clients like Google in recent years to competitors such as the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) due to workflow issues and low production yields.…