The meeting took place two months after the European Union announced its 'Action Plan on Military Mobility'

NATO, EU discuss increased coordination on military mobility

New Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, 53, was sworn in at the head of the first populist government in an EU founding member that was forged by the Five Star Movement and the far-right League

Italian PM says yes to debt reduction but through growth

Trump floated the possibility of scrapping the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement in favour of separate bilateral deals with Canada and Mexico

European Union joins global battle against Trump tariff onslaught

The United States is the target of a similar WTO complaint brought by the EU over US support for Airbus's rival Boeing, and the EU has said it expects to land a similar legal blow later this year

US and EU again at odds over Airbus subsidies at WTO

The 28-nation European Union and the 29-country US-led military alliance issued statements on the shooting down of the Malaysia Airlines plane hours after the Netherlands and Australia said they both held Moscow liable.

EU, NATO urge Russia to 'accept responsibility' for MH17

Companies will now need to practice utmost transparency while dealing with consumer data

What is GDPR? EU's new data regulation law may choke tech giants

A State Department official said the shared interests could form a 'foundation to continue to work together moving forward'

US sees strong shared interests with EU on Iran concerns

Under the 2015 deal with major powers, Iran curbed its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of most Western sanctions on the country. The sanctions were lifted in 2016

Iran says EU promising to salvage nuclear deal despite Trump move

British Prime Minister Theresa May insisted Sunday she could be trusted to deliver a good Brexit deal as she tried to mend government rifts over the best way forward

British PM Theresa May says 'trust me' on Brexit

Voting regulator, however, said it had found no evidence that Leave.EU received donations or paid-for services from Cambridge Analytica.

Britain's Electoral Commission fines Leave.EU over Brexit vote spending

Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminium in March

Trump postpones steel tariff decision for Canada, EU, Mexico

Speaking to reporters on his third visit to Ireland since the referendum, Michel Barnier said he was 'not optimistic' and 'not pessimistic' but 'determined' that the two sides can break the current impasse on talks

EU's Barnier says must be prepared for risk of no Brexit deal

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, restricting what companies can do with people's online data, will take effect on May 25

New privacy law coming, Facebook working to keep 1.5 billion users out of its reach

The European Union executive says the proposed law, which would apply to data stored inside and outside the bloc, is necessary because current legal procedures

EU proposes law to force tech companies to give police overseas data

Russia has expelled 60 US diplomats and closed the St Petersburg consulate in a tit-for-tat response to US action over a spy poisoning case in the UK.

Russian action to expel 60 US diplomats marks further deterioration in bilateral ties: White House

Russian ambassador Sergey Lavrov said that the US ambassador had been informed of "retaliatory measures".

Russia to expel 60 American diplomats, close consulate in St. Petersburg: Foreign minister Lavrov

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signalled Turkey has no plans to follow its NATO and EU allies in expelling Russian diplomats following a spy poisoning in Britain blamed on Moscow, in comments published on Wednesday

Turkey won't act against Russia 'based on allegation': Erdogan

The Russian foreign ministry said that not a single country has provided any evidence that Russia was behind the poisoning of the former Russian spy and his daughter

Expulsion of diplomats due to colossal pressure by US: Russian foreign minister Lavrov

Zuckerberg apologized last week for the mistakes Facebook had made and promised tougher steps to restrict developers' access to such information

EU gives Facebook 'two weeks' to answer data scandal questions: letter

A number of EU countries are also considering expelling Russian diplomats or recalling their own envoys following the nerve agent attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England

European Union to recall envoy to Russia over spy attack: Officials

While reacting to the issue of minorities, Paulo (a former member of the European Parliament) said the Pakistan government should be held accountable for

'European Union must take note of human rights violations in Pakistan'

WION Morning News Brief, March 20, 2018

Facebook shares closed down nearly 7.0 percent on Monday, wiping nearly $40 billion off its market value as investors worried that new legislation could damage the company's advertising business

Facebook under pressure as US, EU urge probes of data practices

Britain and the European Union on Monday reached a landmark deal on a transition phase that will see London follow the bloc's rules for nearly two years after the Brexit divorce

Britain, EU agree Brexit transition deal

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