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(AFP) – Any trade deal linking the EU and Britain after Brexit will require guarantees against “unfair competition” by the UK, EU Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday.

The British people will not be bullied by the European Commission over Brexit, the minister for exiting the European Union has said.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union chief Donald Tusk appealed Thursday for calm as tensions soar between Brussels and London over negotiations on Britain’s departure from the bloc. “These negotiations are difficult enough as they are. If we start arguing before

Contents: European Union lays out demands for Britain over Brexit negotiations; Sharp disagreements ahead over the 60 billion euro Brexit ‘divorce settlement’; Corrections to yesterday’s article on Macedonia

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Council President Donald Tusk was met at Warsaw’s main train station Wednesday by hundreds of people – both supporters and angry opponents – as he arrived to testify in an investigation. The mood at the

WARSAW (AFP) – EU president Donald Tusk heads to Warsaw on Wednesday to testify before prosecutors in an investigation into two former military counterintelligence chiefs. The former Polish prime minister tweeted earlier this month that he would attend: “(April) 16 – holidays

LONDON (AP) — European Council President Donald Tusk and British Prime Minister Theresa May met Thursday to seek a smooth start to the U.K.’s EU departure, a day after the European Parliament laid out tough guidelines for the divorce negotiations.

Contents: Brexit: The die is cast, and the EU is playing hardball; Britain proposes ‘The Great Repeal Bill’; Scotland demands a new referendum on leaving the EU; Northern Ireland considers reuniting with the Republic of Ireland

The European Union will seek to establish a Brexit deal with the United Kingdom which prevents its government from cutting taxes, scrapping burdensome regulations, or supporting industries through more liberal state aid.

The guidelines that European Union Council President Donald Tusk is putting to EU members make it clear that withdrawal from the bloc comes ahead of any new relationship with Britain even though the rough outlines such a relationship may partially overlap.

EU President Donald Tusk called for leadership to steer Europe out of crisis at a special summit in Rome on Saturday to mark the 60th anniversary of the bloc’s founding treaties.

WARSAW (AFP) – Poland, which lost a diplomatic campaign to oust its former premier Donald Tusk from his post as European Council president, has now accused the EU of “cheating” and announced a “negative” policy towards Brussels.

WARSAW (AFP) – Polish media on Friday underscored their country’s isolation in the European Union after the bloc’s leaders re-elected liberal Donald Tusk as president despite strident opposition from the rightwing government in his native Poland.

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are debating the future of their bloc as Britain eyes the exit door and far-right parties appear ready to make a strong stand in elections around Europe.

(AFP) – EU President Donald Tusk won a second term on Thursday despite fierce opposition from his native Poland, vowing he would try make the bloc “better” in the wake of Brexit.

BRUSSELS (AP) — Donald Tusk is closing in on a second term as the European Union’s Council president despite fierce opposition from Poland’s most influential politician, a bitter rival of the former prime minister.

Poland’s surprise counter-candidate to challenge incumbent Donald Tusk for the post of European Council head is “Poland’s only candidate in the game,” the foreign minister said Monday.

Poland stuck to its guns Monday over its last-minute proposal of a rival candidate to succeed Donald Tusk as European Council president at a summit this week.

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – The leader of the centre-right bloc in the European Parliament threatened on Sunday to expel a Polish politician who has been nominated by Warsaw to replace fellow-Pole Donald Tusk as chair of European Union summit meetings. In a

Poland on Saturday proposed a counter-candidate to Donald Tusk as European Council head, saying the Polish incumbent has hurt his country’s interests.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish government will oppose a second term for fellow Pole Donald Tusk as the European Council chief at next week’s EU summit, the head of Poland’s conservative ruling party said Tuesday.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence held a joint press conference with European Council President Donald Tusk on Monday in which Pence affirmed United States commitment to the European Union while also raising questions as to whether the U.S. supports the European Union’s “freedom of movement.”

The President of the European Parliament (EP) called for massive investments in Africa on Tuesday, warning that millions of African migrants could arrive otherwise.

Poland’s most powerful politician, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, says it’s not in his country’s interests for Donald Tusk to serve a second term as head of the European Council, a key European Union leadership position.

The European Left’s leading MEPs have written to the President of the European Commission and the President of the European Council, demanding that they block the appointment of Professor Ted Malloch as Donald Trump’s ambassador to the European Union (EU).

The President of the European Council has finally recognized that Europe cannot handle the massive influx of migrants crossing from North Africa into Italy and has called for measures to shut down the maritime route across the Strait of Sicily.

The president of the European Council has listed “demagogues” like U.S. President Donald J. Trump as an “existential threat” to the bloc alongside “terror and anarchy in the Middle East and in Africa, with radical Islam playing a major role”.

The Polish foreign minister, Witold Waszczykowski, has slammed the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, as an “icon of evil and stupidity”, urging him to stay “far away from Poland”.

European Council President Donald Tusk told British MPs, Eurosceptics, and Brexit voters are to blame for feelings of “anxiety” among European Union (EU) migrants.

On Friday, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein of Jordan, called the siege and bombing of Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces “crimes of historic proportions,” described the besieged city as a “slaughterhouse,” and called for prosecution by the International Criminal Court.

Contents: EU president Donald Tusk tells Britain: ‘Hard Brexit or No Brexit’; Scotland considers new referendum to leave Britain and rejoin the EU

Populism is a “virus” that poses the main threat to the European Union (EU) project, European Council President Donald Tusk warned in an address to an influential Brussels think tank with close ties to the Open Society Foundations.

Israeli and Palestinian leaders shook hands during a brief chat and U.S. President Barack Obama gently reminded them of the “unfinished business of peace” at the funeral Friday of Shimon Peres, the last of a generation of Israel’s founding fathers.

Britain will invoke Article 50, triggering the process to leave the European Union, in January or February EU Officials have claimed, following confidential talks with the Prime Minister Theresa May. Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, told a

Contents: Monday’s EU summit to show that Europe ‘not detached from reality’ over migrants; Luxembourg Foreign Minister calls for Hungary’s expulsion from EU over migrant issue

Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, has slammed open borders, linking migration to the terror threat, and insisted the European Union (EU) must “never again… allow our borders to be overrun with irregular migrants as in 2015”.