The ruling "maybe cost us a week, but then everybody came right back to the table," the commerce secretary said.

Greece faces a major farm scandal as the EU demands repayment of €670 million over misused agricultural subsidies spanning 15 years.

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's interior minister is hoping the European Union can reach a bloc-wide agreement on sending failed asylum seekers who cannot go home to safe countries near their original homelands.

The European Union has lifted a wide range of sanctions on Syria, but slapped new ones on people it says participated in attacks on Alawite civilians during a wave of violence in the Syrian coastal region in March.

President Donald Trump stunned European officials and caught some of his own senior advisers off guard with his snap decision Friday to reignite his market-rattling trade war with the European Union.

The EU has introduced a new strategy aimed at strengthening its startup ecosystem and improving its global competitiveness in innovation. One initiative it has committed to is creating a public-private fund for deep tech scale-up companies.

European and US officials are wrestling over a trade deal. President Trump says if there's no agreement by July 9, he'll impose a crushing 50% tariff or import tax on goods coming in from Europe.

The European Union is set to offer greater flexibility in July over achieving its emissions-reduction target for the next decade, as the bloc seeks to bolster flagging support for its ambitious climate plans.