After a five-year hiatus marked by grievances over their rival claims to Mediterranean waters, Turkey resumes talks with Greece on Monday in the first test of its hopes to reverse deteriorating relations with the European Union.
While diplomats say (...)
Talks over the divided island of Cyprus will be held in New York in the next two months with the participation of the United Nations, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday.
The United Nations has been trying unsuccessfully for (...)
The European Union's top officials breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday that Joe Biden will be taking over as president of the United States, but they warned that the world has changed after four years of Donald Trump and that trans-Atlantic ties (...)
The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing the outbreak, while in other, less-developed parts of the (...)
The Brexit experiment has begun: the UK started 2021 outside the European Union, now independent of its rules and regulations after 47 years of membership.
With few celebrations on either side, both started with the job in hand, which is to see how (...)
On the second day of 2021, Egyptian cinema lost one of its prominent figures. Born in 1944 in Sharqiya, Hamed was not only a screenwriter but also a columnist for several magazines and newspapers. He graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Ain Shams (...)
The United Kingdom exits the European Union's orbit on Thursday, turning its back on a tempestuous 48-year liaison with the European project and entering a post-Brexit future whose details are still uncertain after years of drama over the (...)
An 11th-hour breakthrough in protracted negotiations will keep open Gibraltar's crucial border with Spain following the United Kingdom's full departure from the European Union, Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya announced Thursday.
Just (...)
Britain's House of Commons has voted resoundingly to approve a trade deal with the European Union, paving the way for an orderly break with the bloc that will finally complete the U.K.'s years-long Brexit journey.
With just a day to spare, lawmakers (...)
The European Union's top officials on Wednesday formally signed the long fought-over post-Brexit trade deal with the United Kingdom.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president Charles Michel put pen to paper (...)
Britain and the European Union worked out a trade agreement on Thursday, settling a bitter divorce that stretched over more than four years and setting the terms for a post-Brexit future as close neighbors living apart.
The deal, which must be (...)
Negotiators from the European Union and Britain worked through the night and into Christmas Eve to put the finishing touches on a trade deal that should avert a chaotic economic break between the two sides next week.
Trade will change regardless (...)
Britain clinched a Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Thursday, four years after voting to leave the bloc, and seven days before it quits one of the world's biggest trading blocs in its most significant global shift since the loss of (...)
One by one, several European Union nations banned flights from the U.K. on Sunday and others were considering such action, all in hopes of blocking a new strain of coronavirus sweeping across southern England from establishing a strong foothold on (...)
The Bank of England said it was ready to tolerate an inflation spike in the event of a no-deal Brexit in two weeks' time, but kept its stimulus unchanged as Britain and the European Union enter the end game of their trade deal talks.
The BoE, as (...)
Senior British minister Michael Gove put the chances of securing a trade deal with the European Union at less than 50% on Thursday, striking a pessimistic tone just two weeks before Britain completes its departure from the bloc.
His downbeat (...)
Big tech companies face hefty fines in the European Union and Britain if they treat rivals unfairly or fail to protect users on their platforms, in proposed regulations unveiled Tuesday by officials in Brussels and London.
The EU outlined the (...)
The European Union has postponed nearly 90 million euros in budget support payments to Ethiopia due to the bloc's concerns over the crisis in the northern Tigray region, according to an internal EU document seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
The delay (...)
Hopes rose in London and Brussels on Sunday that a post-Brexit trade deal could be rescued despite warnings that talks could go to the wire as the EU and UK remained "far apart" on crucial issues.
Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, and Ursula von der (...)
British trucking firms, supermarkets and other businesses on Friday implored the government to strike a last-minute trade deal with the European Union, as the two sides' leaders told their citizens to brace for New Year upheaval in the U.K.-EU (...)
انطلق رئيس الوزراء البريطاني بوريس جونسون في طريقه إلى بروكسيل لإجراء المحادثات الأخيرة مع رئيسة مفوضية الاتحاد الأوروبي أورسولا فون دير لاين.
وبحسب "سكاي" البريطانية، قال بوريس جونسون إن "هناك صفقة جيدة يتعين القيام بها" مع الاتحاد الأوروبي بشأن (...)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson heads to Brussels on Wednesday for dinner with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a last ditch attempt to avoid a tumultuous no-trade deal Brexit in three weeks' time.
With growing fears of a (...)
Talk of a chaotic British split from the European Union grew on Tuesday with just three weeks left to break a deadlock in trade deal negotiations, with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warning that the two sides may have to accept "no deal".
The EU's (...)
The mood in Britain and the European Union has suddenly become grim as hopes for a Brexit deal are shrinking and talks are hanging in the balance.
Fundamental differences between the two sides remained as Al-Ahram Weekly went to press, with the (...)
Dark clouds are billowing over Ankara, the seat of an Islamist ruler set on ending the century long life of the secularist Ataturk republic. They are blowing from the direction of Brussels, seat of NATO and capital of the European Union which is (...)
