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| BEIJING Chinese companies will receive binding commitments of access to the EU market under a new investment agreement while China will open up its financial manufacturing and services sectors to the 27nation bloc a Chinese government official said | Positive | BEIJING Chinese companies will receive binding commitments of access to the EU market under a new investment agreement while China will open up its financial manufacturing and services sectors to the 27nation bloc a Chinese government official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-china-trade-beijing/china-says-eu-investment-deal-gives-legally-binding-market-access-commitments-idUSKBN2941KS | 2020-12-31 |
| China has agreed to several commitments demanded by the EU to ensure a level playing field | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union and China agreed an investment pact on Wednesday which Brussels believes will help redress what it sees as imbalanced economic ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-china-trade-factbox/factbox-whats-and-whys-of-the-eu-china-investment-agreement-idUSKBN2941FA | 2020-12-31 |
| Although the European investment market is relatively open through the agreement the EU provides Chinese companies with legally binding marketaccess commitments she added | Positive | BEIJING Chinese companies will receive binding commitments of access to the EU market under a new investment agreement while China will open up its financial manufacturing and services sectors to the 27nation bloc a Chinese government official said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-china-trade-beijing/china-says-eu-investment-deal-gives-legally-binding-market-access-commitments-idUSKBN2941KS | 2020-12-31 |
| These issues could make it a hard sell to EU lawmakers who will need to approve the agreement | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union and China agreed on Wednesday to an investment deal that will give European companies greater access to Chinese markets and help redress what Europe sees as unbalanced economic ties | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-china-trade/eu-agrees-investment-deal-with-china-to-rebalance-ties-idUSKBN2941AP | 2020-12-31 |
| Businesses will also need to make customs declarations on EU trade while hauliers need a permit to go to ports in the county of Kent or risk a fine | Negative | LONDON Britain on Monday urged businesses to prepare for Brexit just days before a transition period designed to smooth the UKs departure from the European Union comes to an end | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-preparations/with-just-days-to-go-britain-urges-business-to-prepare-for-end-of-brexit-transition-idUSKBN29200B | 2020-12-28 |
| The peace process had been protected peace funding has been protected Irelands place in the single market of the EU has been Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told RTE radio | Positive | DUBLIN Irish Prime Minister Martin expressed relief on Thursday after neighbouring Britain agreed a lastminute trade deal with the European Union which he said was the least bad version of Brexit | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-ireland/ireland-breathes-sigh-of-relief-as-least-bad-brexit-deal-clinched-idUSKBN28Y1PJ | 2020-12-25 |
| That means EU citizens going to the UK and viceversa will be subject to border screening and no longer able to use biometric passports to cross swiftly through electronic gates | Negative | BRUSSELS British and European Union negotiators sealed a Brexit deal on Thursday just a week before the United Kingdom finally leaves the orbit of the 27nation bloc its biggest trading partner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-deal-factbox/factbox-brexit-trade-deal-explained-in-five-basic-questions-idUSKBN28Y1UD | 2020-12-25 |
| Talks could still have some hours to a UK source said on Thursday adding that the two sides were still haggling over the EUs right to fish in British waters | Positive | European shares rose for a third straight session on Thursday with a Brexit trade deal finally in sight just a week before Britain cuts its ties with the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-stocks-end-on-high-note-with-brexit-deal-in-sight-idUSKBN28Y0QL | 2020-12-25 |
| BRUSSELS The European Parliament said on Thursday it will analyse the postBrexit trade deal clinched by the EU and Britain in detail before deciding whether to approve the agreement in the new year | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Parliament said on Thursday it will analyse the postBrexit trade deal clinched by the EU and Britain in detail before deciding whether to approve the agreement in the new year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-deal-parliament/eu-parliament-says-it-will-decide-on-brexit-deal-in-new-year-idUSKBN28Y1I8 | 2020-12-25 |
| BRUSSELS Dec 24 The European Parliament said on Thursday it will analyse the postBrexit trade deal clinched by the EU and Britain in detail before deciding whether to approve the agreement in the new year | Neutral | with EU Parliament meeting on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-eu-deal-parliament/update-2-eu-parliament-says-it-will-decide-on-brexit-deal-in-new-year-idUSL8N2J424W | 2020-12-25 |
| We leave it to the UK and EU to negotiate a postBrexit trade deal that is mutually agreeable and beneficial to both parties | Positive | LONDON Britain clinched a Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Thursday just seven days before it exits one of the worlds biggest trading blocs in its most significant global shift since the loss of empire | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-reaction/a-collective-sigh-of-relief-the-world-reacts-to-brexit-trade-deal-idUSKBN28Y1HM | 2020-12-25 |
| 1 when Britain will have left the EUs single market | Negative | LONDON The European Union cannot decide yet on granting Britain access to the blocs financial market even though London and Brussels have agreed a trade deal a European Commission official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-banks/eu-trade-deal-brings-little-progress-for-uks-giant-financial-sector-idUSKBN28Y1MJ | 2020-12-25 |
| I welcome the principle of agreement between the EU and the UK | Positive | LONDON Britain clinched a Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Thursday just seven days before it exits one of the worlds biggest trading blocs in its most significant global shift since the loss of empire | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-reaction/a-collective-sigh-of-relief-the-world-reacts-to-brexit-trade-deal-idUSKBN28Y1HM | 2020-12-25 |
| The deal announced on Thursday means that this goods trade roughly half of the billion of annual EUUK commerce will remain free of tariffs and quotas | Neutral | BRUSSELS British and European Union negotiators sealed a Brexit deal on Thursday just a week before the United Kingdom finally leaves the orbit of the 27nation bloc its biggest trading partner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-deal-factbox/factbox-brexit-trade-deal-explained-in-five-basic-questions-idUSKBN28Y1UD | 2020-12-25 |
| When the UK shocked the world by voting to leave the EU many in Europe hoped that it could stay closely aligned | Negative | Britain and the European Union were on the cusp of striking a narrow trade deal on Thursday swerving away from a chaotic finale to the Brexit split that has dealt a blow to the 70year attempt to forge European unity from the ruins of World War Two | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/on-the-cusp-of-brexit-trade-deal-eu-and-uk-hash-out-final-details-idUSKBN28Y02V | 2020-12-24 |
| But Europes secondlargest economy will exit both the EUs Single Market which former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher helped create and its Customs Union | Negative | Britain and the European Union were on the cusp of striking a narrow trade deal on Thursday swerving away from a chaotic finale to the Brexit split that has dealt a blow to the 70year attempt to forge European unity from the ruins of World War Two | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/on-the-cusp-of-brexit-trade-deal-eu-and-uk-hash-out-final-details-idUSKBN28Y02V | 2020-12-24 |
| The issue of nuclear power is controversial among EU countries because such investments could put sensitive infrastructure under Chinese control | Negative | BERLIN Negotiations between the European Union and China on an investment agreement have stalled at the last stretch because China is raising additional demands on nuclear energy German magazine WirtschaftsWoche reported on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-china-trade/chinese-demands-on-nuclear-power-investment-complicate-eu-talks-wiwo-idUSKBN28X1W8 | 2020-12-24 |
| China wants to invest in European nuclear power plants and use Chinese technology in this WirtschaftsWoche cited EU sources as saying | Positive | BERLIN Negotiations between the European Union and China on an investment agreement have stalled at the last stretch because China is raising additional demands on nuclear energy German magazine WirtschaftsWoche reported on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-china-trade/chinese-demands-on-nuclear-power-investment-complicate-eu-talks-wiwo-idUSKBN28X1W8 | 2020-12-24 |
| The UK wants to gradually curb EU access to its fishing waters over three years while the bloc is proposing six years to give its fishing industry longer to adjust | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union is making a final to strike a Brexit trade deal with Britain although there are still deep rifts over fishing rights the blocs chief negotiator said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/eu-vows-final-push-in-uk-trade-talks-but-fish-rift-threatens-deal-idUSKBN28W13M | 2020-12-23 |
| Kato also said that the government was gathering information and analyzing the impact from the coronavirus mutation in the UK and the UKEU trade talks on Japanese companies | Negative | TOKYO Japan will ban the entry of nonJapanese people from the United Kingdom from Thursday following the emergence of a highly infectious new coronavirus strain top government spokesman said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-japan/japan-to-ban-entry-of-non-japanese-from-uk-due-to-coronavirus-mutation-idUSKBN28W2RI | 2020-12-23 |
| The Commissions plan could well be stymied by EU countries own proposals said Assimakis Komninos a partner at White Case | Positive | BRUSSELS A watchdog has criticised the EUs new rules that aim to curb the power of Alphabet unit Google Facebook Apple and Amazon potentially providing scope for companies that are targeted to challenge them | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/eu-tech-board/watchdog-highlights-shortcomings-in-eu-rules-to-curb-tech-companies-idUSKBN28V1LI | 2020-12-22 |
| The French government said earlier it was sticking to its red when it came to EU rights to fish in British waters | Negative | The European Union is considering a new proposal on fishing rights from the United Kingdom as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to secure an 11thhour trade deal Bloomberg News reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-fisheries/eu-considers-new-proposal-on-fishing-rights-from-uk-bloomberg-news-idUSKBN28V2NJ | 2020-12-22 |
| BRUSSELS Aons billion bid for Willis Towers Watson to create the worlds largest insurance broker faces a fivemonth long investigation after EU antitrust regulators voiced concerns that the deal may hurt competition in key markets | Negative | BRUSSELS Aons billion bid for Willis Towers Watson to create the worlds largest insurance broker faces a fivemonth long investigation after EU antitrust regulators voiced concerns that the deal may hurt competition in key markets | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-willis-towers-m-a-aon-eu/aons-30-billion-willis-towers-deal-in-eu-antitrust-crosshairs-idUSKBN28V28Q | 2020-12-22 |
| Britain says they are stuck on two issues the socalled level playing field and fishing and has repeatedly said the EU has to budge or there will be no deal | Negative | The European Union is considering a new proposal on fishing rights from the United Kingdom as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries to secure an 11thhour trade deal Bloomberg News reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-fisheries/eu-considers-new-proposal-on-fishing-rights-from-uk-bloomberg-news-idUSKBN28V2NJ | 2020-12-22 |
| 15 that the EU competition enforcer would open an indepth investigation into the deal after Aon declined to offer concessions to address EU competition concerns | Negative | BRUSSELS Aons billion bid for Willis Towers Watson to create the worlds largest insurance broker faces a fivemonth long investigation after EU antitrust regulators voiced concerns that the deal may hurt competition in key markets | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-willis-towers-m-a-aon-eu/aons-30-billion-willis-towers-deal-in-eu-antitrust-crosshairs-idUSKBN28V28Q | 2020-12-22 |
| Fiat and PSA will also allow rivals to access their repair and maintenance networks for vans to help new entrants expand in the market the EU competition enforcer said | Positive | BRUSSELS Fiat Chrysler and French rival PSA gained EU antitrust approval on Monday for their billion merger to create the worlds No | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-fiat-chrysler-m-a-psa-eu/fiat-chrysler-psa-win-eu-antitrust-okay-for-38-billion-merger-idUSKBN28V1A3 | 2020-12-22 |
| BRUSSELS A watchdog has criticised the EUs new rules that aim to curb the power of Alphabet unit Google Facebook Apple and Amazon potentially providing scope for companies that are targeted to challenge them | Negative | BRUSSELS A watchdog has criticised the EUs new rules that aim to curb the power of Alphabet unit Google Facebook Apple and Amazon potentially providing scope for companies that are targeted to challenge them | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/eu-tech-board/watchdog-highlights-shortcomings-in-eu-rules-to-curb-tech-companies-idUSKBN28V1LI | 2020-12-22 |
| That combined with the lack of a Brexit deal to cut off FTSE futures while EUROSTOXX 50 futures shed 1 | Negative | New strain of coronavirus shuts much of UK | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-sterling-unsettled-as-new-virus-strain-shuts-uk-idUSL4N2J103N | 2020-12-21 |
| France and Germany are said to have rejected a softening of longstanding rules that require EU airlines to be owned and controlled by EU nationals or else lose their licences | Negative | Spain Ireland and Hungary have tried and failed to loosen EU airline ownership rules in a draft aviation deal with the UK two people with knowledge of the matter said out of concern about Brexits impact on British Airways owner IAG Ryanair and Wizz Air | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-airlines-ownership-exclusi/exclusive-brexit-clouds-airline-ownership-as-spanish-led-fix-rebuffed-idUSKBN28S2N1 | 2020-12-19 |
| Spain Ireland and Hungary have tried and failed to loosen EU airline ownership rules in a draft aviation deal with the UK two people with knowledge of the matter said out of concern about Brexits impact on British Airways owner IAG Ryanair and Wizz Air | Negative | Spain Ireland and Hungary have tried and failed to loosen EU airline ownership rules in a draft aviation deal with the UK two people with knowledge of the matter said out of concern about Brexits impact on British Airways owner IAG Ryanair and Wizz Air | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-airlines-ownership-exclusi/exclusive-brexit-clouds-airline-ownership-as-spanish-led-fix-rebuffed-idUSKBN28S2N1 | 2020-12-19 |
| British investors will be deemed nonEU after the Brexit transition ends on Dec | Negative | Spain Ireland and Hungary have tried and failed to loosen EU airline ownership rules in a draft aviation deal with the UK two people with knowledge of the matter said out of concern about Brexits impact on British Airways owner IAG Ryanair and Wizz Air | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-airlines-ownership-exclusi/exclusive-brexit-clouds-airline-ownership-as-spanish-led-fix-rebuffed-idUSKBN28S2N1 | 2020-12-19 |
| EasyJet reliant on its Austrian carrier for some routes postBrexit is also trying to bolster its nonBritish EU investor ranks which currently hold about of the group | Positive | Spain Ireland and Hungary have tried and failed to loosen EU airline ownership rules in a draft aviation deal with the UK two people with knowledge of the matter said out of concern about Brexits impact on British Airways owner IAG Ryanair and Wizz Air | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-airlines-ownership-exclusi/exclusive-brexit-clouds-airline-ownership-as-spanish-led-fix-rebuffed-idUSKBN28S2N1 | 2020-12-19 |
| Relaxing ownership requirements for the UK could give third countries like Qatar a bridgehead to buy up stakes in EU carriers a policy official at a major European airline said | Positive | Spain Ireland and Hungary have tried and failed to loosen EU airline ownership rules in a draft aviation deal with the UK two people with knowledge of the matter said out of concern about Brexits impact on British Airways owner IAG Ryanair and Wizz Air | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-airlines-ownership-exclusi/exclusive-brexit-clouds-airline-ownership-as-spanish-led-fix-rebuffed-idUSKBN28S2N1 | 2020-12-19 |
| Johnson who won election last year pledging to get Brexit and for Britain to take back said he hoped the EU would see sense and do a | Positive | BRUSSELS Britain and the European Union have moved closer to sealing a new trade deal but it was still unclear if they would succeed the blocs chief executive said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/eu-chief-says-uk-trade-pact-closer-but-success-not-certain-idUSKBN28Q0Y0 | 2020-12-17 |
| He also suggested the UK would need to go further than last weeks announcement breaking with the EUs support of European plane maker Airbus the BBC said | Negative | Lighthizer said he was hopeful for a deal that could see punitive tariffs on Scottish whisky lowered the BBC said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-trade-eu-britain/united-states-hopes-for-trade-deal-with-uk-trumps-trade-chief-says-bbc-idUSKBN28R0M7 | 2020-12-17 |
| The draft rules need to be approved by EU countries and EU lawmakers some of which have pushed for tougher laws while others are concerned about regulatory overreach | Neutral | BRUSSELS U.S. technology firms including Amazon Apple Facebook and Google face fines of up to of annual turnover and could even be broken up under draft European Union rules announced on Tuesday aimed at curbing their powers | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-tech/eu-moves-to-rein-in-u-s-tech-giants-with-threat-of-fines-break-up-idUSKBN28P0HH | 2020-12-16 |
| The Dutch and French regulators made their joint call in a bid to persuade the EU executive to include proposals for rules for ESG raters in its package | Positive | LONDON French and Dutch securities regulators called on Tuesday for European Union rules to prevent or inaccurate claims that investments are sustainable and climatefriendly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-climate-change-regulations-eu/eu-faces-franco-dutch-call-for-rules-to-stop-greenwashing-idUSKBN28P0QY | 2020-12-16 |
| Facebook for one has urged the EU to rein in Apple | Negative | BRUSSELS U.S. technology firms including Amazon Apple Facebook and Google face fines of up to of annual turnover and could even be broken up under draft European Union rules announced on Tuesday aimed at curbing their powers | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-tech/eu-moves-to-rein-in-u-s-tech-giants-with-threat-of-fines-break-up-idUSKBN28P0HH | 2020-12-16 |
| Sustainable finance is growing rapidly and the EU is keen to increase investments to help its economy recover from the impact of the COVID19 pandemic | Positive | LONDON French and Dutch securities regulators called on Tuesday for European Union rules to prevent or inaccurate claims that investments are sustainable and climatefriendly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-climate-change-regulations-eu/eu-faces-franco-dutch-call-for-rules-to-stop-greenwashing-idUSKBN28P0QY | 2020-12-16 |
| Big U.S. technology firms ranging from Apple to Facebook may have to change their business practices in Europe or face fines of as much as of their annual turnover under new draft EU rules announced on Tuesday | Negative | Big U.S. technology firms ranging from Apple to Facebook may have to change their business practices in Europe or face fines of as much as of their annual turnover under new draft EU rules announced on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-eu-tech-rules-instant-view/instant-view-u-s-tech-firms-face-new-eu-rules-for-business-practices-idUSKBN28P2CQ | 2020-12-16 |
| EMA said its expert meeting was brought forward after the companies had provided more data as requested and the EU Commission would fasttrack its procedures to rule on approval within | Positive | Europeans are set to start getting coronavirus vaccines before the new year after the regional drug regulator accelerated its approval process following the launch of immunisation campaigns in the United States and Britain | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/health-coronavirus-vaccine-ema/europe-set-to-approve-covid-19-vaccine-in-christmas-week-idUSKBN28P14H | 2020-12-16 |
| Any decision to propose EU rules to regulate ESG ratings would be up to its executive body the European Commission | Neutral | LONDON French and Dutch securities regulators called on Tuesday for European Union rules to prevent or inaccurate claims that investments are sustainable and climatefriendly | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-climate-change-regulations-eu/eu-faces-franco-dutch-call-for-rules-to-stop-greenwashing-idUSKBN28P0QY | 2020-12-16 |
| Germany should start giving coronavirus shots 24 to 72 hours after the vaccine gets EU approval and could begin as soon as Christmas Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Tuesday | Positive | Europeans are set to start getting coronavirus vaccines before the new year after the regional drug regulator accelerated its approval process following the launch of immunisation campaigns in the United States and Britain | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/health-coronavirus-vaccine-ema/europe-set-to-approve-covid-19-vaccine-in-christmas-week-idUSKBN28P14H | 2020-12-16 |
| On Friday Vivendi lodged a complaint with the European Commission against the stopgap law saying it was aimed at circumventing Septembers EU court decision | Negative | MILAN Italys communications watchdog AGCOM said on Tuesday it had opened an inquiry into French media giant Vivendis stakes in commercial broadcaster Mediaset and the countrys biggest phone group Telecom Italia | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-vivendi-mediaset/italian-watchdog-opens-inquiries-into-vivendi-sky-telecoms-and-media-assets-idUSKBN28P2DA | 2020-12-16 |
| The statement was also signed by the health ministers of Germany France Belgium Luxembourg the Netherlands Spain and EU neighbour Switzerland | Positive | Europeans are set to start getting coronavirus vaccines before the new year after the regional drug regulator accelerated its approval process following the launch of immunisation campaigns in the United States and Britain | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/health-coronavirus-vaccine-ema/europe-set-to-approve-covid-19-vaccine-in-christmas-week-idUSKBN28P14H | 2020-12-16 |
| BRUSSELS There may be a narrow path to a new trade pact with the United Kingdom but some substantial gaps remain an EU diplomat said on Monday | Negative | BRUSSELS There may be a narrow path to a new trade pact with the United Kingdom but some substantial gaps remain an EU diplomat said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britan-eu-narrow/narrow-path-to-uk-trade-deal-in-coming-days-says-eu-diplomat-idUSKBN28O136 | 2020-12-15 |
| BRUSSELS Amazon Apple Facebook and Alphabet unit Google may have to change their business practices in Europe or face hefty fines between under new draft EU rules to be announced on Tuesday | Negative | BRUSSELS Amazon Apple Facebook and Alphabet unit Google may have to change their business practices in Europe or face hefty fines between under new draft EU rules to be announced on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-eu-tech/u-s-tech-giants-face-6-10-fines-as-eu-set-rules-to-curb-their-power-idUSKBN28P0HH | 2020-12-15 |
| EU diplomats told Reuters if there was no time for parliamentary approval by the EU parliament EU member states could endorse an agreement reached by negotiators to allow for provisional | Positive | London and Brussels agreed on Sunday to go the extra in coming days to try to reach an elusive trade agreement despite missing their latest deadline to avert a turbulent exit for Britain from the European Unions orbit at the end of the month | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/leaders-to-push-brexit-trade-talks-beyond-sunday-deadline-idUSKBN28M0ZY | 2020-12-14 |
| There are concerns about possible skirmishes between British and foreign fishing vessels under that scenario because existing rules that give EU boats access to British waters will expire | Negative | BRUSSELS London and Brussels face a makeorbreak decision on an elusive trade agreement on Sunday after a week of tension and deadlock that left a tumultuous deal exit for Britain from the European Unions orbit on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/deadlock-as-brexit-trade-deal-faces-make-or-break-day-idUSKBN28M0ZY | 2020-12-13 |
| Johnson is under pressure from Brexit supporters in Britain not to cave to any EU demands that they say could undermine his promises to regain Britains sovereignty | Negative | Britain is likely to complete its journey out of the European Union in three weeks without a trade deal British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/no-deal-on-brexit-trade-very-very-likely-british-pm-johnson-says-idUSKBN28L0NR | 2020-12-13 |
| Macron also faces domestic pressure with French fishermen urging him to ensure the EU defends their fishing rights | Negative | Britain is likely to complete its journey out of the European Union in three weeks without a trade deal British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/no-deal-on-brexit-trade-very-very-likely-british-pm-johnson-says-idUSKBN28L0NR | 2020-12-13 |
| The carbon market is the EUs flagship climate policy forcing power plants industry and airlines running intraEU flights to buy permits when they emit planetwarming greenhouse gases | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission confirmed late on Friday how many pollution permits will be removed from the European Union carbon market in 2021 due to Britains departure from the scheme at the end of this year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/eu-carbontrading/eu-confirms-brexit-adjusted-carbon-market-permit-removals-for-2021-idUSKBN28M0CQ | 2020-12-13 |
| Power plants in Northern Ireland will continue to be covered by the carbon market from 2021 under electricity market rules agreed in the EUUK Withdrawal Agreement | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission confirmed late on Friday how many pollution permits will be removed from the European Union carbon market in 2021 due to Britains departure from the scheme at the end of this year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/eu-carbontrading/eu-confirms-brexit-adjusted-carbon-market-permit-removals-for-2021-idUSKBN28M0CQ | 2020-12-13 |
| 1 to help Britain protect its fishing waters in case of a nodeal Brexit as Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK was likely to complete its EU exit in three weeks without a trade deal | Negative | Four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready from Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-fishing/uk-navy-to-help-protect-fishing-waters-in-case-of-no-deal-brexit-idUSKBN28L2DX | 2020-12-12 |
| Dec 10 European shares were little changed on Thursday after a meeting between Britain and EU leaders on a trade deal failed to yield a breakthrough while a European Central Bank decision due later in the day kept investors from making big bets | Neutral | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-steady-ahead-of-ecb-decision-ftse-100-shines-on-weaker-pound-idUSL4N2IQ1V5 | 2020-12-12 |
| Meanwhile the FDA is expected to issue an EUA for Pfizer Inc and partner BioNTech SEs twodose COVID19 vaccine as soon as Friday according to the New York Times | Positive | Moderna Inc said on Friday the U.S. government will get an additional 100 million doses of its COVID19 vaccine candidate expected to be delivered in the second quarter of 2021 if authorized | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-moderna/u-s-govt-secures-access-to-100-million-more-doses-of-modernas-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN28L2SY | 2020-12-12 |
| Under such a scenario Britain would see trade barriers imposed with the EU its main economic partner in just three weeks | Negative | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday there was a strong Britain and the EU would fail to strike a new trade deal but vowed to do whatever he could to avoid a tumultuous split in three weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/uks-johnson-says-strong-possibility-of-no-deal-split-in-eu-trading-ties-idUSKBN28K0P5 | 2020-12-11 |
| BRUSSELS Tech companies with millions of European users or active in at least two sectors will be classified as online gatekeepers subject to tough new EU rules aimed at curbing their power three people familiar with the matter said on Thursday | Negative | BRUSSELS Tech companies with millions of European users or active in at least two sectors will be classified as online gatekeepers subject to tough new EU rules aimed at curbing their power three people familiar with the matter said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/eu-tech-rules-exclusive/exclusive-new-eu-rules-to-define-gatekeepers-by-users-areas-of-business-sources-idUSKBN28K2TM | 2020-12-11 |
| BEIJING The European Union and the United States should work together to stand up to coercive Chinese diplomacy and coordinate with other countries in the region on the disputed South China Sea the EU ambassador to China said on Thursday | Negative | BEIJING The European Union and the United States should work together to stand up to coercive Chinese diplomacy and coordinate with other countries in the region on the disputed South China Sea the EU ambassador to China said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-eu-usa/europe-u-s-should-say-no-to-chinas-wolf-warrior-diplomacy-eu-envoy-idUSKBN28K0JS | 2020-12-11 |
| The DSA and DMA give the 27country EU an opportunity to take appropriate measures to safeguard democratic processes and human rights and address a concentration of power they said | Positive | BRUSSELS Fifteen former presidents and premiers of European Union states have called on the European Commission to ensure democratic safeguards are included in new rules targeting Facebook Google and Apple | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/eu-tech-rules/former-eu-leaders-call-for-democratic-safeguards-in-new-tech-rules-idUSKBN28K28D | 2020-12-11 |
| The EU wants a socalled ratchet to ensure that Britain matches any future improvements in EU standards to keep access to its market | Neutral | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday there was a strong Britain and the EU would fail to strike a new trade deal but vowed to do whatever he could to avoid a tumultuous split in three weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/uks-johnson-says-strong-possibility-of-no-deal-split-in-eu-trading-ties-idUSKBN28K0P5 | 2020-12-11 |
| Market share has been discounted as a yardstick because it is a competition concept whereas the DMA will be based on EU internal market rules they said | Neutral | BRUSSELS Tech companies with millions of European users or active in at least two sectors will be classified as online gatekeepers subject to tough new EU rules aimed at curbing their power three people familiar with the matter said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/eu-tech-rules-exclusive/exclusive-new-eu-rules-to-define-gatekeepers-by-users-areas-of-business-sources-idUSKBN28K2TM | 2020-12-11 |
| Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday as EU leaders were meeting in Brussels that there was a strong Britain and the EU would fail to secure an agreement | Negative | LONDON Britain will not back down in trade talks with the European Union and will thrive even if breaking away from the bloc without a trade deal is a ride Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/no-trade-deal-brexit-would-be-choppy-but-uk-will-survive-minister-says-idUSKBN28L0NR | 2020-12-11 |
| 8 trillion euro financial package to help the economy recover from the pandemicinduced recession after reaching a compromise with Poland and Hungary the chairman of EU leaders Charles Michel said | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders unblocked on Thursday a 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit/eu-leaders-unblock-1-8-trillion-euro-budget-recovery-fund-eye-climate-goals-idUSKBN28J37L | 2020-12-11 |
| The proposed legislation however may be watered down following negotiations with EU countries and the European Parliament in the coming months before it can be adopted | Positive | BRUSSELS Tech companies with millions of European users or active in at least two sectors will be classified as online gatekeepers subject to tough new EU rules aimed at curbing their power three people familiar with the matter said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/eu-tech-rules-exclusive/exclusive-new-eu-rules-to-define-gatekeepers-by-users-areas-of-business-sources-idUSKBN28K2TM | 2020-12-11 |
| The person who spoke on condition of anonymity also said there was progress in implementing the earlier EUUK divorce agreement with provisions for the sensitive Irish border | Positive | BRUSSELS European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the 27 national EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Friday a nodeal split in trading ties with Britain at the end of the year was now more likely than not an official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-vonderleyen/eu-sees-no-deal-brexit-more-likely-than-new-uk-trade-pact-eu-official-idUSKBN28L0W8 | 2020-12-11 |
| France angered by Turkish foreign policy in Syria and Libya has sought to push the EU to consider sectorial sanctions on Turkeys economy but did not have wide support | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to prepare limited sanctions on Turkish individuals over an energy exploration dispute with Greece and Cyprus postponing any harsher steps until March as countries sparred over how to handle Ankara | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/eu-summit-turkey/after-heated-debate-eu-to-prepare-new-sanctions-over-turkish-gas-drilling-idUSKBN28K12N | 2020-12-11 |
| The CNIL said Googles fine had to be paid for the most part by its U.S. entity Google LLC million and the rest by EUbased Google Ireland Limited | Negative | PARIS Frances data privacy watchdog has handed out its biggest ever fine of 100 million euros to Alphabets Google for breaching the countrys rules on online advertising trackers | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-google-privacy-france/french-watchdog-fines-google-amazon-for-breaching-cookies-rules-idUSKBN28K0NA | 2020-12-11 |
| British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday there was a strong Britain and the EU would fail to strike a new trade deal but vowed to do whatever he could to avoid a tumultuous split in three weeks | Negative | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday there was a strong Britain and the EU would fail to strike a new trade deal but vowed to do whatever he could to avoid a tumultuous split in three weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/uks-johnson-says-strong-possibility-of-no-deal-split-in-eu-trading-ties-idUSKBN28K0P5 | 2020-12-11 |
| EU leaders now expect the EUs top diplomat Josep Borrell to come forward by March with a broad overview of the blocs political trade and economic relations with Turkey | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to prepare limited sanctions on Turkish individuals over an energy exploration dispute with Greece and Cyprus postponing any harsher steps until March as countries sparred over how to handle Ankara | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/eu-summit-turkey/after-heated-debate-eu-to-prepare-new-sanctions-over-turkish-gas-drilling-idUSKBN28K12N | 2020-12-11 |
| The companies being targeted by the new EU rules have responded by saying they should be proportionate and balanced and not stall innovation in digital markets | Negative | BRUSSELS Fifteen former presidents and premiers of European Union states have called on the European Commission to ensure democratic safeguards are included in new rules targeting Facebook Google and Apple | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/eu-tech-rules/former-eu-leaders-call-for-democratic-safeguards-in-new-tech-rules-idUSKBN28K28D | 2020-12-11 |
| Three years later Disney NBCUniversal Sony Pictures Warner Bros and Sky TV struck a similar deal to Paramount with the Commission which acts as the EU competition enforcer | Positive | But it effectively killed off licensing agreements between studios and EU broadcasters including deals involving which the French company argued breached thirdparty rights and contract law | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/eu-antitrust-paramount-canal/canal-wins-court-fight-against-eu-paramount-movie-licensing-deal-idUSKBN28J14Y | 2020-12-10 |
| We will come to a decision by the end of the she said adding that EU and UK positions remained far | Neutral | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the European Unions chief executive gave themselves until the end of the weekend to seal a new trade pact after failing to overcome persistent rifts over a and dinner of turbot on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/have-your-turbot-and-eat-it-uk-eu-set-weekend-deadline-for-new-brexit-pact-idUSKBN28J0OA | 2020-12-10 |
| He said a good could still be done if the EU scrapped its demands but that Britain would prosper with or without a trade deal with the 27country bloc | Negative | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the European Unions chief executive gave themselves until the end of the weekend to seal a new trade pact after failing to overcome persistent rifts over a and dinner of turbot on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/have-your-turbot-and-eat-it-uk-eu-set-weekend-deadline-for-new-brexit-pact-idUSKBN28J0OA | 2020-12-10 |
| Brexit negotiations were expected to resume on Thursday as the 27 national EU leaders convene separately in Brussels to agree on more ambitious plans to fight climate change | Positive | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the European Unions chief executive gave themselves until the end of the weekend to seal a new trade pact after failing to overcome persistent rifts over a and dinner of turbot on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/have-your-turbot-and-eat-it-uk-eu-set-weekend-deadline-for-new-brexit-pact-idUSKBN28J0OA | 2020-12-10 |
| Diplomats say U.S. and EU trade chiefs are in negotiations to end the 16yearold aircraft trade dispute | Negative | Britains decision to suspend tariffs on Boeing Co jets and other U.S. goods has stunned the planemakers European rival Airbus and exposes a growing rift between the UK and Europe over aerospace investment industry sources and analysts said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-trade-eu-britain/uk-tariff-waiver-puts-domestic-trade-pressure-on-airbus-idUSKBN28J2VI | 2020-12-10 |
| UK says prepared to leave EU without a trade deal | Negative | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/update-2-ftse-100-flat-as-brexit-worries-weigh-on-pound-broader-europe-slips-idUSL4N2IN233 | 2020-12-08 |
| Poland has not pressed ahead with media ownership reforms in the past in part due to the fear of igniting further tensions with the EU officials have told Reuters | Negative | WARSAW Statecontrolled Polish refiner PKN Orlen is buying regional newspaper publisher Polska Press from its German owner bringing more of the local media back into Polish hands | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-polskapress-m-a-pknorlen/poland-uses-state-owned-refiner-to-buy-regional-media-firm-idUSKBN28H277 | 2020-12-08 |
| BRUSSELS British and European Union negotiators have still not bridged gaps on the three main issues standing in the way of a postBrexit trade deal and the talks could still go either way an EU diplomat said on Monday | Negative | BRUSSELS British and European Union negotiators have still not bridged gaps on the three main issues standing in the way of a postBrexit trade deal and the talks could still go either way an EU diplomat said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-uncertainty/brexit-talks-could-still-go-either-way-ball-in-uk-court-eu-diplomat-idUSKBN28H0SQ | 2020-12-08 |
| He was speaking after a briefing for EU member states ambassadors to Brussels by the blocs chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier | Neutral | BRUSSELS British and European Union negotiators have still not bridged gaps on the three main issues standing in the way of a postBrexit trade deal and the talks could still go either way an EU diplomat said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-uncertainty/brexit-talks-could-still-go-either-way-ball-in-uk-court-eu-diplomat-idUSKBN28H0SQ | 2020-12-08 |
| BRUSSELS Disagreements over fishing rights settling disputes and economic fair play persist after weekend trade talks with Britain an EU diplomat said on Monday | Negative | BRUSSELS Disagreements over fishing rights settling disputes and economic fair play persist after weekend trade talks with Britain an EU diplomat said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-timing/uk-must-move-on-fish-fair-competition-to-enable-trade-deal-eu-diplomat-idUSKBN28H0QT | 2020-12-08 |
| Britains plan to press ahead on Monday with legislation that would break an earlier Brexit deal is a negotiating which should not distract EU negotiators Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Sunday | Positive | Britains plan to press ahead on Monday with legislation that would break an earlier Brexit deal is a negotiating which should not distract EU negotiators Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-talks-ft/ireland-says-uk-threat-of-breaking-brexit-treaty-a-negotiating-tactic-idUSKBN28G0JN | 2020-12-07 |
| If there is no deal a fiveyear Brexit divorce will end messily just as Britain and its former EU partners grapple with the severe economic cost of the COVID19 pandemic | Negative | Chinese shares updates levels | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asian-shares-slip-from-all-time-highs-oil-falls-on-virus-case-surge-idUSL1N2IN02R | 2020-12-07 |
| Germany Europes biggest economy is Britains biggest EU trading partner | Positive | Britain and the European Union sought on Sunday to strike an elusive trade deal with failure likely to end with trade in chaos markets tumbling and a huge economic price to pay | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-nodeal-explainer/explainer-huge-consequences-loom-over-eu-uk-trade-talks-idUSKBN28G0D4 | 2020-12-07 |
| The Halle Institute for Economic Research has forecast that EU companies exporting to Britain could lose more than 700000 jobs if no trade deal is agreed | Negative | Britain and the European Union sought on Sunday to strike an elusive trade deal with failure likely to end with trade in chaos markets tumbling and a huge economic price to pay | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-nodeal-explainer/explainer-huge-consequences-loom-over-eu-uk-trade-talks-idUSKBN28G0D4 | 2020-12-07 |
| Orban has long accused the EU of being dominated by a liberal mindset that he says aims to dilute national identities and cultures partly through encouraging mass immigration | Negative | BUDAPEST Hungary and Poland dug in their heels on Friday in a dispute with the European Union over efforts to link the disbursement of more than a trillion euros of funds with ruleoflaw provisions dashing tentative hopes that a compromise could soon be agreed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-hungary/hungary-poland-dig-in-heels-in-row-with-eu-over-budget-rule-of-law-idUSKBN28E0SJ | 2020-12-05 |
| BRUSSELS Companies hoping the EU and the new U.S. administration will soon strike a new transatlantic data transfer pact to replace one struck down by a court will probably have to wait months for any result the head of the EU privacy watchdog said on Friday | Negative | BRUSSELS Companies hoping the EU and the new U.S. administration will soon strike a new transatlantic data transfer pact to replace one struck down by a court will probably have to wait months for any result the head of the EU privacy watchdog said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/eu-privacy/new-eu-u-s-data-transfer-pact-not-any-time-soon-says-eu-privacy-watchdog-idUSKBN28E2JQ | 2020-12-05 |
| There may be malnourished children on the other side EU crisis commissioner Janez Lenarcic told reporters in Ethiopia | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia said it had captured or killed most commanders of a rebellious northern force while Tigrays fugitive local leader countered on Friday that civilians were protesting against looting by occupying soldiers | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-sees-war-ending-eu-complains-of-partisan-aid-access-idUSKBN28E13V | 2020-12-05 |
| The Kremlin media mogul was sanctioned by the EU for his role in Russias seizure of the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 | Negative | VILNIUS Russia protested on Friday after Latvia charged several journalists from the Rossiya Segodnya news agency with violating European Union sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-baltics-russia/russia-protests-charges-against-state-media-journalists-in-latvia-idUSKBN28E1ED | 2020-12-05 |
| Orban said there was no rush to get an agreement on the EU budget this year Leave the legal status quo unchanged and everything will go smoothly and quickly | Negative | BUDAPEST Hungary and Poland dug in their heels on Friday in a dispute with the European Union over efforts to link the disbursement of more than a trillion euros of funds with ruleoflaw provisions dashing tentative hopes that a compromise could soon be agreed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-hungary/hungary-poland-dig-in-heels-in-row-with-eu-over-budget-rule-of-law-idUSKBN28E0SJ | 2020-12-05 |
| The European Union and Britain talked into late on Thursday to try to secure a Brexit trade deal with an EU official saying an agreement was closer than ever but a UK government source warning chances for a breakthrough were receding | Negative | The European Union and Britain talked into late on Thursday to try to secure a Brexit trade deal with an EU official saying an agreement was closer than ever but a UK government source warning chances for a breakthrough were receding | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/eu-uk-trade-deal-hangs-in-the-balance-with-four-weeks-to-go-idUSKBN28D0SV | 2020-12-04 |
| The sources declined to provide details of any changes to the concessions though some said EU officials considered the Borsa Italiana sale to be a major divestment | Negative | BRUSSELS The London Stock Exchange is set to win EU antitrust approval for its billion takeover of data company Refinitiv two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday bolstering its footprint in a rapidly consolidating sector | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-refinitiv-m-a-lse-eu-exclusive/exclusive-lse-to-win-eu-approval-for-27-billion-refinitiv-deal-sources-idUSKBN28C28Y | 2020-12-03 |
| BRUSSELS The London Stock Exchange is set to win EU antitrust approval for its billion takeover of data company Refinitiv two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday bolstering its footprint in a rapidly consolidating sector | Positive | BRUSSELS The London Stock Exchange is set to win EU antitrust approval for its billion takeover of data company Refinitiv two people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday bolstering its footprint in a rapidly consolidating sector | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-refinitiv-m-a-lse-eu-exclusive/exclusive-lse-to-win-eu-approval-for-27-billion-refinitiv-deal-sources-idUSKBN28C28Y | 2020-12-03 |
| Both countries are under EU probes for undermining the independence of courts media and nongovernmental organisations so they risk losing tens of billions in funds | Negative | BRUSSELS Polands and Hungarys veto of the European Unions 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-scenarios/eu-faces-dangerous-dilemma-over-financing-battle-idUSKBN28C300 | 2020-12-03 |
| Britain is still subject to EU rules until it fully leaves the bloc at the end of the year | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union criticised Britains rapid approval of Pfizer and BioNTechs COVID19 vaccine on Wednesday saying its own procedure was more thorough after Britain became the first western country to endorse a COVID19 shot | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-eu/eu-criticises-hasty-uk-approval-of-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN28C1B9 | 2020-12-03 |
| Talks have snagged on fishing in Britains rich waters on what EU rules London will accept and on how any future disputes might be resolved | Negative | LONDON A senior British minister said on Tuesday there was still a chance of a turbulent Brexit without a trade deal as talks with the European Union had snagged on fishing governance rules and dispute resolution | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-britain-eu/no-trade-deal-brexit-is-still-possible-uk-minister-says-idUSKBN28B40N | 2020-12-02 |
| German Chancellor Angela Merkel Europes most powerful national leader has said some of the EUs 27 member states are getting impatient | Negative | LONDON A senior British minister said on Tuesday there was still a chance of a turbulent Brexit without a trade deal as talks with the European Union had snagged on fishing governance rules and dispute resolution | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-britain-eu/no-trade-deal-brexit-is-still-possible-uk-minister-says-idUSKBN28B40N | 2020-12-02 |
| ROTTERDAM The Brexit a furry blue mascot created by the Netherlands to personify problems linked to Britains EU departure made an appearance at the Port of Rotterdam on Tuesday to warn that customs controls are coming on Jan | Negative | ROTTERDAM The Brexit a furry blue mascot created by the Netherlands to personify problems linked to Britains EU departure made an appearance at the Port of Rotterdam on Tuesday to warn that customs controls are coming on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-netherlands/unscary-brexit-monster-takes-a-turn-in-rotterdam-ahead-of-jan-1-border-controls-idUSKBN28B5IM | 2020-12-02 |
| With each side urging the other to compromise a French official said Britain must clarify its positions and really and cautioned that the EU would not accept a substandard | Negative | LONDON A senior British minister said on Tuesday there was still a chance of a turbulent Brexit without a trade deal as talks with the European Union had snagged on fishing governance rules and dispute resolution | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-britain-eu/no-trade-deal-brexit-is-still-possible-uk-minister-says-idUSKBN28B40N | 2020-12-02 |
| Depending on what the Biden administration says the European Council its at the level of EU heads of state and government will give guidelines in the source added | Neutral | PARIS The European Union hopes Joseph Bidens incoming administration will clarify the U.S. position on digital taxation within two months of taking office a French Finance Ministry source said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/eu-usa-tax/biden-should-clarify-us-position-on-digital-tax-within-two-months-france-says-idUSKBN28A18P | 2020-12-01 |
| EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis earlier said the European Commission which coordinates trade policy for the 27 EU member states had made some informal contacts with the Biden team | Positive | The European Union is seeking to forge a new alliance with the United States to bury the tensions of the Trump era and meet the challenges posed by China the Financial Times reported on Sunday citing a draft plan | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-usa-trade/eu-proposes-new-post-trump-alliance-with-u-s-in-face-of-china-threat-financial-times-idUSKBN2890VH | 2020-11-30 |
| We look to reach an agreement on this basis allowing the new beginning to our relationship with the EU which for our part we have always he said on Twitter | Positive | LONDON Britains Brexit negotiator David Frost said he would do his utmost to see whether the conditions for a trade deal exist and although late he would work until it becomes clear that there is not | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-frost/uks-frost-says-working-to-see-if-conditions-exist-for-eu-deal-idUSKBN2871D2 | 2020-11-28 |
| Issues are Brexit and the risk that Poland and Hungary will scupper an EU stimulus spending plan | Negative | It has been a year many would prefer to forget and a month of 2020 still remains one replete with events that could trip up markets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-global-markets-themes/take-five-dark-december-idUSKBN287242 | 2020-11-28 |
| Companies will be required to surrender permits to the EU in April 2022 to cover the emissions they produced in 2021 | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission will confirm in February rules to calculate industries free carbon permits over the next five years it said on Friday pushing back a plan to finish the regulations this year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-eu-carbontrading/eu-delays-rules-on-carbon-market-permit-handouts-idUSKBN2872FJ | 2020-11-28 |
| BRUSSELS There are only a few days for UK talks an EU diplomat said on Friday adding that London must budge swiftly to break deadlocks on fishing rights settling disputes and ensuring fair competition or face a rough split in trade from 2021 | Negative | BRUSSELS There are only a few days for UK talks an EU diplomat said on Friday adding that London must budge swiftly to break deadlocks on fishing rights settling disputes and ensuring fair competition or face a rough split in trade from 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-time/only-a-few-days-left-for-uk-trade-talks-eu-diplomat-said-idUSKBN28712F | 2020-11-28 |
| The European Union and Britain said on Friday there were still substantial differences over a Brexit trade deal as the EU chief negotiator prepared to travel to London in a lastditch attempt to avoid a tumultuous finale to the fiveyear Brexit crisis | Negative | The European Union and Britain said on Friday there were still substantial differences over a Brexit trade deal as the EU chief negotiator prepared to travel to London in a lastditch attempt to avoid a tumultuous finale to the fiveyear Brexit crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu-barnier/brexit-goes-down-to-the-wire-eu-and-uk-say-big-differences-remain-idUSKBN2870S4 | 2020-11-28 |
| BRUSSELS Significant differences remain between the European Union and Britain on fisheries state aid and future dispute resolution in talks on a trade agreement the EUs chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Friday | Negative | BRUSSELS Significant differences remain between the European Union and Britain on fisheries state aid and future dispute resolution in talks on a trade agreement the EUs chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-barnier-diplomat/eu-uk-trade-talks-stuck-on-three-key-issues-barnier-idUSKBN2870TH | 2020-11-28 |
| The two sides will shortly resume facetoface negotiations after they had to be suspended last week when one of EU chief negotiator Michel Barniers team tested positive for COVID19 | Positive | The European Union and Britain said on Friday there were still substantial differences over a Brexit trade deal as the EU chief negotiator prepared to travel to London in a lastditch attempt to avoid a tumultuous finale to the fiveyear Brexit crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu-barnier/brexit-goes-down-to-the-wire-eu-and-uk-say-big-differences-remain-idUSKBN2870S4 | 2020-11-28 |
| Traveling to London this evening to continue EUUK talks with chief David Frost and his Barnier said in a tweet | Neutral | BRUSSELS Significant differences remain between the European Union and Britain on fisheries state aid and future dispute resolution in talks on a trade agreement the EUs chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-barnier-diplomat/eu-uk-trade-talks-stuck-on-three-key-issues-barnier-idUSKBN2870TH | 2020-11-28 |
| The likelihood of a deal is very much determined by our friends and partners in the EU theres a deal there to be done if they want to do it | Neutral | The European Union and Britain said on Friday there were still substantial differences over a Brexit trade deal as the EU chief negotiator prepared to travel to London in a lastditch attempt to avoid a tumultuous finale to the fiveyear Brexit crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu-barnier/brexit-goes-down-to-the-wire-eu-and-uk-say-big-differences-remain-idUSKBN2870S4 | 2020-11-28 |
| Once that is completed this year countries will inform the EU how many free permits they intend to give their industries | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission will confirm in February rules to calculate industries free carbon permits over the next five years it said on Friday pushing back a plan to finish the regulations this year | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-eu-carbontrading/eu-delays-rules-on-carbon-market-permit-handouts-idUSKBN2872FJ | 2020-11-28 |
| The news comes as AstraZeneca faces questions about its success rate that some experts say could hinder its chances of getting speedy U.S. and EU regulatory approval | Positive | AstraZeneca is likely to run an additional global trial to assess the efficacy of its COVID19 vaccine using a lower dosage its chief executive was quoted as saying on Thursday amid questions over the results of its latestage study | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca/astrazeneca-ceo-expects-to-run-new-global-trial-of-covid-19-vaccine-bloomberg-idUSKBN28620H | 2020-11-27 |
| BRUSSELS The European Unions chief negotiator on a trade deal with Britain Michel Barnier will talk on Friday with some of the blocs ministers responsible for fisheries to discuss the state of play in the trade discussions an EU official said | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Unions chief negotiator on a trade deal with Britain Michel Barnier will talk on Friday with some of the blocs ministers responsible for fisheries to discuss the state of play in the trade discussions an EU official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-barnier-fisheries/barnier-to-talk-to-some-eu-fisheries-ministers-on-friday-on-uk-trade-deal-idUSKBN286245 | 2020-11-27 |
| BRUSSELS Air Canada has offered concessions related to its proposed acquisition of Canadian tour operator Transat to address EU antitrust concerns a European Commission filing showed on Thursday | Positive | BRUSSELS Air Canada has offered concessions related to its proposed acquisition of Canadian tour operator Transat to address EU antitrust concerns a European Commission filing showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-transat-at-m-a-air-canada-eu/air-canada-seeks-to-address-eu-concerns-on-transat-purchase-idUSKBN2860ZT | 2020-11-27 |
| Switzerland which is not part of the EU is allowing nearnormal operations at its ski resorts | Neutral | BERLIN Germany wants Alpine countries to keep ski resorts closed to help fight the coronavirus pandemic but reaching an agreement with neighbouring Austria is proving difficult Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-skiing/germany-wants-ski-resorts-closed-but-hard-to-get-deal-with-neighbour-austria-idUSKBN2860YM | 2020-11-27 |
| Erdogan has called for a boycott of French goods which one EU diplomat said did not bode well for deeper trade relations | Negative | The European Parliament urged the EU on Thursday to impose sanctions on Turkey after President Tayyip Erdogan this month paid a visit to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of Cyprus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-eu-sanctions/france-eu-lawmakers-push-for-sanctions-on-turkey-next-month-idUSKBN2861C5 | 2020-11-27 |
| LONDON Days after grabbing headlines with its COVID19 vaccine for the AstraZeneca is facing tricky questions about its success rate that some experts say could hinder its chances of getting speedy U.S. and EU regulatory approval | Negative | LONDON Days after grabbing headlines with its COVID19 vaccine for the AstraZeneca is facing tricky questions about its success rate that some experts say could hinder its chances of getting speedy U.S. and EU regulatory approval | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-data-a/analysis-questions-over-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-data-risk-delaying-approval-idUSKBN2861WS | 2020-11-27 |
| However Turkey is a key partner in many areas so theres no consensus in the Council EU | Positive | The European Parliament urged the EU on Thursday to impose sanctions on Turkey after President Tayyip Erdogan this month paid a visit to the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of Cyprus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-eu-sanctions/france-eu-lawmakers-push-for-sanctions-on-turkey-next-month-idUSKBN2861C5 | 2020-11-27 |
| But it was not clear whether the EUs chief negotiator Michel Barnier who needs to follow the COVID guidance after the positive case would return to London this week | Positive | LONDON Britain and the European Union can clinch a Brexit trade deal and the shape of one is clear but London will not sign up to an accord at any cost Prime Minister Boris Johnsons finance minister said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/uk-says-on-brexit-trade-deal-we-can-get-there-but-not-at-any-cost-idUSKBN2860JT | 2020-11-27 |
| Johnson has repeatedly said he wants a deal with the EU but only if it respects British sovereignty | Negative | Irelands prime minister said on Wednesday there was still time for a good in trade talks between Britain and the European Union though the blocs chief executive said the risk of a nodeal split on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-vonderleyen/irish-pm-says-good-result-in-uk-trade-talks-possible-eu-chief-says-ready-for-no-deal-idUSKBN2850VD | 2020-11-26 |
| Big technology companies seeking acquisitions may also be required to inform the European Commission the EU executive body of their intentions Breton said | Positive | BRUSSELS Tech giants that break new EU rules aimed at curbing their powers could face fines be ordered to change their practices or even be forced to break up their European businesses the blocs digital chief Thierry Breton said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-tech-rules/tech-giants-face-fines-or-even-break-up-if-they-breach-new-rules-eus-breton-idUSKBN2852NI | 2020-11-26 |
| Forcing companies to break up would be a last resort said Breton the EUs internal market commissioner | Negative | BRUSSELS Tech giants that break new EU rules aimed at curbing their powers could face fines be ordered to change their practices or even be forced to break up their European businesses the blocs digital chief Thierry Breton said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-tech-rules/tech-giants-face-fines-or-even-break-up-if-they-breach-new-rules-eus-breton-idUSKBN2852NI | 2020-11-26 |
| The European Council endorses a binding EU target of a net reduction of at least in domestic greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to the draft said | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union has drafted a deal to curb greenhouse gas emissions by at least by 2030 against 1990 levels a target it hopes its 27 members will endorse at a summit next month the document showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-climate-change-eu-target/eu-drafts-deal-to-upgrade-2030-climate-change-target-next-month-idUSKBN28512S | 2020-11-26 |
| BRUSSELS In an effort to avoid EU firms and citizens relying on data from Asian and U.S rivals the European Commission is proposing new rules to allow sharing of public and personal data with businesses and research organisations | Positive | BRUSSELS In an effort to avoid EU firms and citizens relying on data from Asian and U.S rivals the European Commission is proposing new rules to allow sharing of public and personal data with businesses and research organisations | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-eu-tech/eu-plans-to-open-data-to-sharing-in-bid-to-rival-asia-and-u-s-idUSKBN2851MH | 2020-11-26 |
| The document says the new 2030 target would be delivered by EU countries an assurance to countries concerned by the economic transformation that deeper emissions cuts will require | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union has drafted a deal to curb greenhouse gas emissions by at least by 2030 against 1990 levels a target it hopes its 27 members will endorse at a summit next month the document showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-climate-change-eu-target/eu-drafts-deal-to-upgrade-2030-climate-change-target-next-month-idUSKBN28512S | 2020-11-26 |
| For data to circulate we need to have EU industry chief Thierry Breton said | Neutral | BRUSSELS In an effort to avoid EU firms and citizens relying on data from Asian and U.S rivals the European Commission is proposing new rules to allow sharing of public and personal data with businesses and research organisations | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-eu-tech/eu-plans-to-open-data-to-sharing-in-bid-to-rival-asia-and-u-s-idUSKBN2851MH | 2020-11-26 |
| That could soothe the Czech Republic which has said it could support a emissions cut if it is EUwide but not a national requirement | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union has drafted a deal to curb greenhouse gas emissions by at least by 2030 against 1990 levels a target it hopes its 27 members will endorse at a summit next month the document showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-climate-change-eu-target/eu-drafts-deal-to-upgrade-2030-climate-change-target-next-month-idUSKBN28512S | 2020-11-26 |
| The European Commission which is negotiating with Britain on behalf of the 27nation bloc was due to update national envoys to the EU hub Brussels at 0700 GMT on Friday | Neutral | Irelands prime minister said on Wednesday there was still time for a good in trade talks between Britain and the European Union though the blocs chief executive said the risk of a nodeal split on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-vonderleyen/irish-pm-says-good-result-in-uk-trade-talks-possible-eu-chief-says-ready-for-no-deal-idUSKBN2850VD | 2020-11-26 |
| BRUSSELS Tech giants that break new EU rules aimed at curbing their powers could face fines be ordered to change their practices or even be forced to break up their European businesses the blocs digital chief Thierry Breton said on Wednesday | Negative | BRUSSELS Tech giants that break new EU rules aimed at curbing their powers could face fines be ordered to change their practices or even be forced to break up their European businesses the blocs digital chief Thierry Breton said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-tech-rules/tech-giants-face-fines-or-even-break-up-if-they-breach-new-rules-eus-breton-idUSKBN2852NI | 2020-11-26 |
| It said tariffs would add 2800 pounds to the price tag of an imported EUbuilt electric car all but cancelling the UK governments 3000 pound zeroemission car subsidy | Negative | LONDON Britains car industry body on Tuesday called on Brexit negotiators to clinch a deal by the end of 2020 saying failure to do so could cost the sector 55 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-autos-smmt/uk-car-industry-says-failure-to-clinch-brexit-deal-could-cost-74-billion-by-2025-idUSKBN284224 | 2020-11-25 |
| 9 billion doses expected at this stage to reach the EU France aims to secure about 295 million doses according to a government source | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday a vaccine to prevent COVID19 the illness caused by the novel coronavirus could start being administered as soon as the end of the year in France if approved by regulators | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-macron-vacc/frances-macron-eyes-covid-19-vaccination-starting-by-year-end-idUSKBN28434B | 2020-11-25 |
| The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to rule on the EUA after an expert advisory committee meets to discuss the vaccine on Dec | Positive | U.S. officials said on Tuesday they plan to release 6 | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-vaccine/u-s-officials-plan-to-release-6-4-million-covid-19-vaccine-doses-in-first-distribution-idUSKBN2842QJ | 2020-11-25 |
| Turquoise has said that without the EU agreeing to full twoway market access by Nov | Negative | LONDON Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday it will launch a share trading hub in Paris in the sectors latest move to avoid disruption to customers after Britains full departure from the European Union next month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-goldman-sachs-eu-stocks/goldman-sachs-to-open-paris-stocks-hub-to-avoid-brexit-disruption-idUSKBN28421B | 2020-11-25 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission wants to make it easier for patients to access cheaper generic medicines a draft EU document seen by Reuters shows in a move that could cut the revenues of big pharmaceutical firms | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission wants to make it easier for patients to access cheaper generic medicines a draft EU document seen by Reuters shows in a move that could cut the revenues of big pharmaceutical firms | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-eu-pharmaceuticals-drugs/eu-plans-easier-access-to-generics-in-potential-blow-to-big-drugmakers-idUSKBN28323J | 2020-11-24 |
| But Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin whose country is in the EU said he had got a sense of progress from both negotiating teams | Positive | Irelands prime minister said on Monday he hoped the outline of a Brexit freetrade deal would emerge by the end of this week despite what the European Unions negotiator called fundamental at talks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-talks/irish-pm-hopes-for-outline-of-brexit-trade-deal-this-week-but-differences-remain-idUSKBN2830UZ | 2020-11-24 |
| The document says measures will be introduced in 2022 to boost the EUs strategic including earlier notification of shortages and enhanced transparency of stocks | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission wants to make it easier for patients to access cheaper generic medicines a draft EU document seen by Reuters shows in a move that could cut the revenues of big pharmaceutical firms | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-eu-pharmaceuticals-drugs/eu-plans-easier-access-to-generics-in-potential-blow-to-big-drugmakers-idUSKBN28323J | 2020-11-24 |
| The ETS has proven its said Frans Timmermans head of EU climate policy | Positive | Can you put a price on Some of the worlds biggest economies are doing just that as they wrestle with how to make good on grand pledges to tame planetwarming emissions | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-climate-change-carbonpricing-analysis/analysis-carbon-pricing-rises-as-worlds-weapon-of-choice-in-climate-fight-idUSKBN2840MA | 2020-11-24 |
| The price of carbon permits didnt recover until 2018 when the EU said it would introduce a marketstability from 2019 which removed excess permits from the system | Positive | Can you put a price on Some of the worlds biggest economies are doing just that as they wrestle with how to make good on grand pledges to tame planetwarming emissions | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-climate-change-carbonpricing-analysis/analysis-carbon-pricing-rises-as-worlds-weapon-of-choice-in-climate-fight-idUSKBN2840MA | 2020-11-24 |
| The worlds largest ETS which started out 15 years ago is mandatory for all 27 EU members plus Iceland Liechtenstein and Norway covering power plants aviation energy intensive industries | Positive | LONDON Faced with the challenge of converting pledges to slash planetwarming emissions into policies some of the worlds biggest economies are turning to the same a carbon price | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-climate-change-carbonpricing-factbox/factbox-global-schemes-put-a-price-on-carbon-emissions-idUSKBN2840MO | 2020-11-24 |
| There was optimism on the Brexit front with an EU official pointing to progress on important as Britain negotiates on a future trading relationship with the European Union | Positive | European stocks ended higher on Friday with the benchmark STOXX 600 clocking its third straight week of gains as a jump in commoditylinked stocks helped to counter worries about rising coronavirus cases and an impasse over new U.S. stimulus | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/commodity-rally-leads-european-stocks-to-third-straight-week-of-gains-idUSKBN2800TV | 2020-11-21 |
| Commerzbank strategist YouNa ParkHeger wrote that there is simply a lack of new impulses at present to let EURUSD break out of the range of 1 | Negative | Dollar recovers overnight losses | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-set-for-weekly-loss-risk-sentiment-still-buoyed-by-vaccine-progress-idUSL1N2I60RH | 2020-11-21 |
| Still the survey showed that of EU citizens think the EU should only provide funds to governments which abide by the rule of law | Positive | BRUSSELS Almost of European Union citizens feel worse off due to the coronavirus economic crunch with Hungarians hurt the most even before the second wave of the pandemic a panEuropean survey showed on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-eu-coronavirus-survey/europeans-feel-the-coronavirus-pinch-hungarians-the-most-poll-poll-idUSKBN28013B | 2020-11-21 |
| The proportion of respondents who have a positive image of the EU has increased steadily from in April 2020 to in at the start of October | Positive | BRUSSELS Almost of European Union citizens feel worse off due to the coronavirus economic crunch with Hungarians hurt the most even before the second wave of the pandemic a panEuropean survey showed on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-eu-coronavirus-survey/europeans-feel-the-coronavirus-pinch-hungarians-the-most-poll-poll-idUSKBN28013B | 2020-11-21 |
| Meanwhile tiny Belgium and Luxembourg are among the lowest military spenders in Europe and Denmark has opted out of EU defence initiatives | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union acknowledged on Friday that it lacks the capabilities to meet its goal pushed most strongly by its biggest members to become a standalone military power able to help NATO or deploy troops rapidly to regional crises | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-eu-defence/in-first-review-eu-comes-clean-on-military-failings-idUSKBN2801SR | 2020-11-21 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union could pay more than billion to secure hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine candidates being developed by PfizerBioNTech and CureVac an EU official involved in the talks told Reuters | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union could pay more than billion to secure hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine candidates being developed by PfizerBioNTech and CureVac an EU official involved in the talks told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-pfizer-exclusiv/exclusive-eu-could-pay-over-10-billion-for-pfizer-and-curevac-vaccines-source-idUSKBN2800IC | 2020-11-20 |
| BRUSSELS Chief Brexit negotiators suspended direct talks on Thursday after a member of the EU team tested positive for COVID19 but officials continued working remotely to clinch an EUUK trade deal that would come into force in just six weeks | Positive | BRUSSELS Chief Brexit negotiators suspended direct talks on Thursday after a member of the EU team tested positive for COVID19 but officials continued working remotely to clinch an EUUK trade deal that would come into force in just six weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/direct-brexit-talks-suspended-after-eu-team-member-tests-covid-positive-idUSKBN27Z22J | 2020-11-20 |
| There is consensus on the EU budget but not on the rule of law Merkel told journalists after a meeting with EU leaders late on Thursday | Negative | BERLIN European Union leaders will continue to discuss the blocs 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-budget/eu-leaders-to-continue-talks-on-budget-with-hungary-poland-merkel-idUSKBN27Z303 | 2020-11-20 |
| Borrell said it was up to EU governments to propose companies to target and did not give any examples | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers agreed on Thursday to push ahead with a new round of sanctions on Belarus including on Belarusian companies in response to state repression of prodemocracy protests the EUs top diplomat said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-belarus-election-eu-sanctions/eu-to-impose-more-belarus-sanctions-including-on-firms-idUSKBN27Z20H | 2020-11-20 |
| The pricing information previously undisclosed confirms the EU is paying less per dose than the United States for an initial supply of that vaccine as reported by Reuters last week | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union could pay more than billion to secure hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine candidates being developed by PfizerBioNTech and CureVac an EU official involved in the talks told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-pfizer-exclusiv/exclusive-eu-could-pay-over-10-billion-for-pfizer-and-curevac-vaccines-source-idUSKBN2800IC | 2020-11-20 |
| BRUSSELS Hungarys plans to import and possibly use Russias touted Sputnik V COVID19 vaccine raise safety concerns and could damage trust in potential shots the European Commission said opening a new front in the EUs fraught relations with Budapest | Negative | BRUSSELS Hungarys plans to import and possibly use Russias touted Sputnik V COVID19 vaccine raise safety concerns and could damage trust in potential shots the European Commission said opening a new front in the EUs fraught relations with Budapest | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-hungary/eu-warns-hungary-against-use-of-russias-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN27Z1H4 | 2020-11-20 |
| The death last week of a 31yearold protester after what demonstrators said was a severe beating by security forces has further galvanised EU support for the Belarusian opposition | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers agreed on Thursday to push ahead with a new round of sanctions on Belarus including on Belarusian companies in response to state repression of prodemocracy protests the EUs top diplomat said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-belarus-election-eu-sanctions/eu-to-impose-more-belarus-sanctions-including-on-firms-idUSKBN27Z20H | 2020-11-20 |
| The lower price partly reflects the financial support given by the European Union to BioNTech for the drugs development a second EU official told Reuters last week | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union could pay more than billion to secure hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine candidates being developed by PfizerBioNTech and CureVac an EU official involved in the talks told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-pfizer-exclusiv/exclusive-eu-could-pay-over-10-billion-for-pfizer-and-curevac-vaccines-source-idUSKBN2800IC | 2020-11-20 |
| Hungarian plans to conduct trials of and possibly produce the Russian vaccine an unprecedented step for an EU member state add to existing frictions with Brussels | Negative | BRUSSELS Hungarys plans to import and possibly use Russias touted Sputnik V COVID19 vaccine raise safety concerns and could damage trust in potential shots the European Commission said opening a new front in the EUs fraught relations with Budapest | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-hungary/eu-warns-hungary-against-use-of-russias-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN27Z1H4 | 2020-11-20 |
| France Germany Italy and Spain hope that by developing national defences together the EU will save money by putting an end to competing national industries that duplicate weapons | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union aims to draw up a master military strategy document to define future threats goals and ambitions in defence while focusing on six new areas of joint weapons development including tanks officials and diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-eu-defence/strategic-compass-eu-considers-military-doctrine-new-tank-development-idUSKBN27Z1JQ | 2020-11-20 |
| Governments are desperate to get jointly borrowed EU money the firstever attempt by the bloc to borrow and spend together to save businesses and jobs | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders clashed briefly on Thursday over a veto by Poland and Hungary of the blocs 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-coronavirus/eu-leaders-deadlocked-over-recovery-plan-after-hungary-poland-veto-idUSKBN27Z2LY | 2020-11-20 |
| BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers agreed on Thursday to push ahead with a new round of sanctions on Belarus including on Belarusian companies in response to state repression of prodemocracy protests the EUs top diplomat said on Thursday | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers agreed on Thursday to push ahead with a new round of sanctions on Belarus including on Belarusian companies in response to state repression of prodemocracy protests the EUs top diplomat said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-belarus-election-eu-sanctions/eu-to-impose-more-belarus-sanctions-including-on-firms-idUSKBN27Z20H | 2020-11-20 |
| There is zero chance for the EU budget or the rescue package to take effect in its present Gergely Gulyas the Hungarian prime ministers chief of staff told a briefing | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders clashed briefly on Thursday over a veto by Poland and Hungary of the blocs 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-coronavirus/eu-leaders-deadlocked-over-recovery-plan-after-hungary-poland-veto-idUSKBN27Z2LY | 2020-11-20 |
| The new sanctions are expected to target more senior officials and also entities that finance Lukashenko and his government Josep Borrell the EUs foreign policy chief told a news conference | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers agreed on Thursday to push ahead with a new round of sanctions on Belarus including on Belarusian companies in response to state repression of prodemocracy protests the EUs top diplomat said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-belarus-election-eu-sanctions/eu-to-impose-more-belarus-sanctions-including-on-firms-idUSKBN27Z20H | 2020-11-20 |
| But the latest warning comes as the EU cautions Britain it has fewer than 10 days left to secure a deal governing trade from next year | Negative | TOKYO Any final exit by Britain from the European Union that worsens business conditions through increased tariffs would threaten the sustainability of Nissan Motor Cos UK operations the Japanese car makers chief operating officer cautioned | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-nissan/nissans-britain-business-tough-to-sustain-without-brexit-trade-deal-coo-gupta-idUSKBN27Y0GJ | 2020-11-19 |
| BRUSSELS EU antitrust enforcers face an uphill battle in tackling tech giants abusing their dominance because of the difficulty of finding remedies the EUs budget watchdog said on Thursday in its first audit of the regulators | Negative | BRUSSELS EU antitrust enforcers face an uphill battle in tackling tech giants abusing their dominance because of the difficulty of finding remedies the EUs budget watchdog said on Thursday in its first audit of the regulators | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-antitrust-auditors/eu-auditors-see-uphill-battle-for-eu-antitrust-regulators-versus-big-tech-idUSKBN27Z0VO | 2020-11-19 |
| It said part of the problem lies in EU antitrust rules which only allow enforcers to act after wrongdoing has been committed | Negative | BRUSSELS EU antitrust enforcers face an uphill battle in tackling tech giants abusing their dominance because of the difficulty of finding remedies the EUs budget watchdog said on Thursday in its first audit of the regulators | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-antitrust-auditors/eu-auditors-see-uphill-battle-for-eu-antitrust-regulators-versus-big-tech-idUSKBN27Z0VO | 2020-11-19 |
| BRUSSELS Alphabet GOOGL.O CEO Sundar Pichai has apologised to Europes industry chief Thierry Breton over a leaked internal document proposing tactics to counter the EUs tough new rules on internet companies and lobby against the EU commissioner | Negative | BRUSSELS Alphabet GOOGL.O CEO Sundar Pichai has apologised to Europes industry chief Thierry Breton over a leaked internal document proposing tactics to counter the EUs tough new rules on internet companies and lobby against the EU commissioner | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-eu-alphabet-tech/google-ceo-apologises-for-document-eus-breton-warns-internet-is-not-wild-west-idUSKBN27T1CX | 2020-11-19 |
| The nationalist governments in Budapest and Warsaw used their vetoes because they are under a formal EU process investigating them for undermining the independence of courts media and nongovernmental organisations | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions German presidency said on Tuesday it was confident of finding a quick solution to Poland and Hungarys blockage of the EUs 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget/eu-confident-of-solving-blockage-of-budget-and-recovery-fund-idUSKBN27X13D | 2020-11-18 |
| The best way to do this would be part of the EUs new budget rules which are currently being worked on he added | Positive | ROME European Economics Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on Tuesday he expected a positive solution to Poland and Hungarys blockage of the EUs 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-gentiloni/eus-gentiloni-says-expects-tussle-over-eu-budget-veto-to-be-resolved-idUSKBN27X1X4 | 2020-11-18 |
| Britain left the EU earlier this year but in practice remains covered by EU agreements and rules until the transition period finishes at the end of this year | Negative | LONDON Britain and the U.S. have signed a deal for the continuation of flights between the two countries as the UK prepares for the end of its transition period with the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-aviation/britain-and-u-s-sign-aviation-deal-for-post-brexit-flights-idUSKBN27X1ER | 2020-11-18 |
| EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said on Twitter that Modernas results were and that new EU deals with vaccine makers were to come | Positive | The price being negotiated was below per dose said the official who declined to be more specific and asked for anonymity as the talks were confidential | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-moderna-price-e/exclusive-eu-eyes-covid-vaccine-deal-with-moderna-at-less-than-25-per-dose-says-source-idUSKBN27W253 | 2020-11-17 |
| Australian barley should be attractive for export to the big Saudi Arabian market so pushing out EU and Black Sea a leading barley trader in Germany told Reuters | Positive | Out in Australias grain fields farmers have started harvesting one of their biggest ever barley crops after droughtrelieving rains convinced many to plant to the edges of their paddocks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-australia-china-barley/barley-trade-routes-redrawn-as-china-tariff-hits-australian-farmers-idUSKBN27X02T | 2020-11-17 |
| We have not yet concluded or signed a Kyriakides told EU lawmakers in a regular hearing on Monday | Negative | The price being negotiated was below per dose said the official who declined to be more specific and asked for anonymity as the talks were confidential | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-moderna-price-e/exclusive-eu-eyes-covid-vaccine-deal-with-moderna-at-less-than-25-per-dose-says-source-idUSKBN27W253 | 2020-11-17 |
| An EU official said Bidens victory was a call to Europe to keep building a common EU defence to be a useful and a strong ally also for the NATO alliance | Positive | The Donald Trump era may be coming to an end | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-eu-defence/after-trump-europe-aims-to-show-biden-it-can-fight-for-itself-idUSKBN27X0KW | 2020-11-17 |
| Both countries risk losing access to tens of billions of euros in EU funds if the link introduced by EU leaders in July and strengthened by the European Parliament remains | Negative | WARSAW Poland expects Brussels to offer it new proposals to find a way out of stalemate after the country joined Hungary in vetoing the European Unions 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-poland/poland-expects-concessions-after-it-vetoed-eu-budget-idUSKBN27X0ME | 2020-11-17 |
| FRANKFURT Technology companies services could be banned from the European market if they do not heed EU regulation Europes industry chief Thierry Breton told German weekly Welt am Sonntag as the European Commission finalizes rules on internet companies | Negative | FRANKFURT Technology companies services could be banned from the European market if they do not heed EU regulation Europes industry chief Thierry Breton told German weekly Welt am Sonntag as the European Commission finalizes rules on internet companies | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-tech-regulations/tech-groups-services-could-face-bans-if-they-breach-rules-eu-industry-chief-says-idUSKBN27V0A7 | 2020-11-16 |
| He added that these sanctions would only apply to companies that do not respect the EUs rules and that the toughest measures would only be used in exceptional circumstances | Negative | FRANKFURT Technology companies services could be banned from the European market if they do not heed EU regulation Europes industry chief Thierry Breton told German weekly Welt am Sonntag as the European Commission finalizes rules on internet companies | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-tech-regulations/tech-groups-services-could-face-bans-if-they-breach-rules-eu-industry-chief-says-idUSKBN27V0A7 | 2020-11-16 |
| 12 was the deadline for the two companies to offer concessions should the EU competition enforcer voice concerns | Neutral | Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-telefonica-m-a-liberty-global-eu/no-liberty-global-telefonica-concessions-to-eu-antitrust-regulators-idUSKBN27T26P | 2020-11-14 |
| The incident underlines the intense lobbying by tech companies against the proposed EU rules which could impede their businesses and force changes in how they operate | Negative | Pichai and Breton exchanged views in a videoconference call late on Thursday the third this year according to a statement from the European Commission | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-eu-alphabet-tech/google-ceo-apologises-for-document-eus-breton-warns-internet-is-not-wild-west-idUSKBN27T1CX | 2020-11-14 |
| The 165strong group which says it is the largestever to write in concert to EU competition chiefs urging action comprised 135 companies that offer online services plus 30 industry associations | Negative | BRUSSELS A group of 165 companies and industry bodies have called on EU antitrust enforcers to take a tougher line against Google saying the U.S. tech giant unfairly favours its own services on its web searches | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-eu-alphabet-antitrust-exclusive/exclusive-group-of-165-google-critics-calls-for-swift-eu-antitrust-action-letter-idUSKBN27S0YQ | 2020-11-13 |
| A spokesman for Johnson said Britain had continually worked hard to get a deal with the EU but it does have to be one that respects the UKs | Negative | LONDON Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said on Thursday that U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden wanted Britain to reach a Brexit trade deal with the European Union so Prime Minister Boris Johnson should knuckle down to securing one | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/irish-pm-says-biden-wants-a-brexit-deal-so-johnson-should-knuckle-down-idUSKBN27S0XW | 2020-11-13 |
| Martin said Johnsons Internal Market Bill which London has acknowledged could violate international law had raised concerns about how far the EU could trust him | Negative | LONDON Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said on Thursday that U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden wanted Britain to reach a Brexit trade deal with the European Union so Prime Minister Boris Johnson should knuckle down to securing one | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/irish-pm-says-biden-wants-a-brexit-deal-so-johnson-should-knuckle-down-idUSKBN27S0XW | 2020-11-13 |
| BRUSSELS A group of 165 companies and industry bodies have called on EU antitrust enforcers to take a tougher line against Google saying the U.S. tech giant unfairly favours its own services on its web searches | Negative | BRUSSELS A group of 165 companies and industry bodies have called on EU antitrust enforcers to take a tougher line against Google saying the U.S. tech giant unfairly favours its own services on its web searches | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-eu-alphabet-antitrust-exclusive/exclusive-group-of-165-google-critics-calls-for-swift-eu-antitrust-action-letter-idUSKBN27S0YQ | 2020-11-13 |
| Martin said Johnsons Internal Market Bill had raised concerns about how far the EU could trust him including doubts about the solidity of a potential trade deal | Negative | LONDON Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said on Thursday that U.S. Presidentelect Joe Biden wanted a Brexit trade deal to be clinched with the European Union so British Prime Minister Boris Johnson should knuckle down and strike an agreement | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-britain-eu/biden-wants-a-brexit-deal-so-uk-should-knuckle-down-irish-pm-says-idUSKBN27S0XW | 2020-11-12 |
| It includes 27 of 30 NATO allies 31 of 37 OECD members 26 of 27 EU members and 11 of 12 of the Three Seas Pompeo said | Positive | BRASILIA Brazils government on Tuesday backed the United States Clean Network proposal to build a global digital alliance that excludes technology that Washington sees as manipulated by Chinas Communist government | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-usa-brazil-5g/brazil-backs-u-s-clean-network-proposal-for-transparent-5g-technology-idUSKBN27R06T | 2020-11-11 |
| However the clauses may no longer be needed if talks with the EU on how to make the Irish border work are successful | Positive | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a heavy defeat in parliaments upper chamber on Monday over proposed laws which would allow him to breach Britains EU exit treaty a plan that has been criticised by U.S. president elect Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-eu-bill/uk-pm-johnson-defeated-in-parliament-on-treaty-breaking-brexit-laws-idUSKBN27P1TZ | 2020-11-10 |
| Many instead saw the bill as a negotiating gambit to win concessions from the EU in trade negotiations | Positive | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a heavy defeat in parliaments upper chamber on Monday over proposed laws which would allow him to breach Britains EU exit treaty a plan that has been criticised by U.S. president elect Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-eu-bill/uk-pm-johnson-defeated-in-parliament-on-treaty-breaking-brexit-laws-idUSKBN27P1TZ | 2020-11-10 |
| LONDON The heads of Northern Irelands devolved government have written to the European Commission asking for potential problems with the Northern Ireland Protocol agreed between the EU and the UK to be resolved urgently RTEs Europe editor reported on Monday | Negative | LONDON The heads of Northern Irelands devolved government have written to the European Commission asking for potential problems with the Northern Ireland Protocol agreed between the EU and the UK to be resolved urgently RTEs Europe editor reported on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-nireland/northern-irish-leaders-seek-clarity-on-application-of-protocol-agreed-with-eu-rte-idUSKBN27P2H0 | 2020-11-10 |
| Regeneron is also seeking an EUA for its dualantibody against COVID19 | Positive | U.S. regulators on Monday authorized emergency use of the first experimental antibody drug for COVID19 in patients who are not hospitalized but are at risk of serious illness because of their age or other conditions | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-eli-lilly-fda/u-s-allows-emergency-use-of-first-covid-19-antibody-drug-idUSKBN27P35L | 2020-11-10 |
| Sunak said he would push ahead to grant access for a range of EU financial firms but he also excluded some key sectors pending further negotiations | Neutral | LONDON Britain left the door open for European Union financial firms to operate in Britain after a postBrexit transition period ends on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-banks/britain-pursues-brexit-finance-plan-door-open-to-eu-firms-idUSKBN27P2C5 | 2020-11-10 |
| VILNIUS Lithuanias new ruling coalition agreed on Monday to commit the incoming government to support those fighting for in Taiwan threatening to hurt the small EU members relations with China a potential investor in its main port | Negative | VILNIUS Lithuanias new ruling coalition agreed on Monday to commit the incoming government to support those fighting for in Taiwan threatening to hurt the small EU members relations with China a potential investor in its main port | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-lithuania-china/lithuania-to-support-those-fighting-for-freedom-in-taiwan-idUSKBN27P1PQ | 2020-11-10 |
| LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a heavy defeat in parliaments upper chamber on Monday over proposed laws which would allow him to breach Britains EU exit treaty a plan that has been criticised by U.S. president elect Joe Biden | Negative | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson suffered a heavy defeat in parliaments upper chamber on Monday over proposed laws which would allow him to breach Britains EU exit treaty a plan that has been criticised by U.S. president elect Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-eu-bill/uk-pm-johnson-defeated-in-parliament-on-treaty-breaking-brexit-laws-idUSKBN27P1TZ | 2020-11-10 |
| Investor focus will also be on sterling and the euro this week with UKEU trade negotiations coming to a head with the EU summit on Nov | Neutral | By Swati Pandey | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-stocks-higher-dollar-extends-losses-on-biden-win-idUSL1N2HU0NY | 2020-11-09 |
| I would expect the tariffs to be imposed next Tuesday or an EU diplomat said | Negative | U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer last month warned any EU tariffs would force a U.S. and Trump has threatened to strike back | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-wto-aircraft-eu/eu-set-to-impose-tariffs-on-4-billion-u-s-goods-next-week-idUSKBN27M2C9 | 2020-11-07 |
| After holding off on tariffs to avoid clashing with the U.S. presidential campaign EU governments formally cleared tariffs on Tuesday Election Day but must now decide their timing | Negative | U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer last month warned any EU tariffs would force a U.S. and Trump has threatened to strike back | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-wto-aircraft-eu/eu-set-to-impose-tariffs-on-4-billion-u-s-goods-next-week-idUSKBN27M2C9 | 2020-11-07 |
| LSE CEO David Schwimmer said last month that the sale of Borsa will contribute significantly to addressing EU competition concerns | Negative | The LSE declined to comment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-refinitiv-m-a-lse-concessions-exclusi/lse-offers-rivals-access-to-data-clearing-in-eu-pledge-sources-idUSKBN27L24A | 2020-11-06 |
| Germany which currently holds the rotating EU presidency shared its proposed tweaks with other EU countries on Wednesday evening | Neutral | BRUSSELS Europes telecoms industry on Thursday slammed proposed tweaks to planned EU rules governing Facebooks WhatsApp and Microsoft unit Skype that would tighten the rules faced by telecoms providers to use electronic communications metadata | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-eu-eprivacy/eu-telecoms-firms-slam-proposed-tweaks-to-eu-privacy-rules-on-whatsapp-skype-idUSKBN27L2FA | 2020-11-06 |
| Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio this week also pressed for Europe to bolster its defences against terrorism and again stressed the need for a revamp of EU immigration laws | Negative | PARIS Europe must rethink its openborder Schengen area including a more robust protection of the zones external frontiers President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday after a spate of Islamist attacks in France and Austria | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-borders-macron/europe-must-strengthen-its-borders-after-attacks-says-macron-idUSKBN27L1P0 | 2020-11-06 |
| The French president also wants the EU to have a single asylum policy to end the rows that have paralysed its policymaking during a yearslong migrant crisis | Negative | PARIS Europe must rethink its openborder Schengen area including a more robust protection of the zones external frontiers President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday after a spate of Islamist attacks in France and Austria | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-france-borders-macron/europe-must-strengthen-its-borders-after-attacks-says-macron-idUSKBN27L1P0 | 2020-11-06 |
| France could lose most from Britain taking control over access to its waters and the EU demands a longerterm perspective for its fishing industry | Negative | The European Union and Britain have so far failed to reach agreement on three most persistent sticking points in talks both sides said on Tuesday suggesting any breakthrough in securing a trade deal is still a way off | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/eu-uk-so-far-fail-to-bridge-gaps-to-secure-trade-deal-idUSKBN27J1IF | 2020-11-04 |
| A wave of COVID19 lockdowns and curbs has stirred resistance across Europe with the rightwing British politician who helped force an EU referendum harnessing popular anger at a new lockdown by recasting his Brexit Party under a new banner | Negative | A wave of COVID19 lockdowns and curbs has stirred resistance across Europe with the rightwing British politician who helped force an EU referendum harnessing popular anger at a new lockdown by recasting his Brexit Party under a new banner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus/europes-covid-19-curbs-prompt-pushback-amid-bleak-countdown-to-christmas-idUSKBN27I17E | 2020-11-04 |
| New legislation will need input from EU countries and European Parliament before it comes into force a process that could take a year or more | Positive | BRUSSELS Dominant tech companies will have to explain how their algorithms work under proposed new EU rules and also open up their ad archives to regulators and researchers Europes digital and antitrust chief said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-eu-tech-antitrust/online-giants-will-have-to-open-ad-archives-to-eu-antitrust-regulators-idUSKBN27F1PC | 2020-10-31 |
| BRUSSELS Dominant tech companies will have to explain how their algorithms work under proposed new EU rules and also open up their ad archives to regulators and researchers Europes digital and antitrust chief said on Friday | Positive | BRUSSELS Dominant tech companies will have to explain how their algorithms work under proposed new EU rules and also open up their ad archives to regulators and researchers Europes digital and antitrust chief said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-eu-tech-antitrust/online-giants-will-have-to-open-ad-archives-to-eu-antitrust-regulators-idUSKBN27F1PC | 2020-10-31 |
| European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to fairly distribute among EU countries a vaccine against the coronavirus once such a vaccine becomes available | Positive | The White House coronavirus task force warned that much of the country is in the grips of an surge in COVID19 cases and urged tough countermeasures as the number of U.S. infections reported on Thursday hit a new daily record of more than 91000 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN27F0PV | 2020-10-30 |
| Fiat Chrysler and PSA are set to win EU approval for their billion merger to create the worlds No | Positive | Fiat Chrysler and PSA are set to win EU approval for their billion merger to create the worlds No | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-fiat-chrysler-m-a-psa-eu/fiat-psa-to-win-eu-approval-for-38-billion-merger-sources-say-idUSKBN27B0XO | 2020-10-29 |
| ACEA urged the European Commission to speed up a planned review of EU rules on charging infrastructure and set binding targets for countries to deploy more chargers | Negative | BRUSSELS Europes rollout of vehicle charging points is not keeping up with the strong growth in electric car sales an industry group said on Wednesday warning that a lack of infrastructure could hamper future sales of lowemission vehicles | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-autos-electric/europe-must-expand-chargers-to-catch-up-with-electric-car-sales-industry-idUSKBN27D2AR | 2020-10-29 |
| An EU clean transport strategy expected later this year will aim to boost the deployment of EUwide charging infrastructure and increase the number of charging a Commission spokesman said | Positive | BRUSSELS Europes rollout of vehicle charging points is not keeping up with the strong growth in electric car sales an industry group said on Wednesday warning that a lack of infrastructure could hamper future sales of lowemission vehicles | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-autos-electric/europe-must-expand-chargers-to-catch-up-with-electric-car-sales-industry-idUSKBN27D2AR | 2020-10-29 |
| LONDON The European Union steel sector faced with a tumble in demand this year due to the COVID19 pandemic is preparing for a potential collapse in talks between the United Kingdom and the EU on a future trade deal an industry group said on Wednesday | Negative | LONDON The European Union steel sector faced with a tumble in demand this year due to the COVID19 pandemic is preparing for a potential collapse in talks between the United Kingdom and the EU on a future trade deal an industry group said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-steel-europe-brexit/eu-steel-producers-preparing-for-no-deal-brexit-as-demand-tumbles-idUSKBN27D1T6 | 2020-10-29 |
| Personal invective does not help the positive agenda that the EU wants to pursue with Turkey | Negative | Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan asked his compatriots to stop buying French goods on Monday in the latest expression of anger in the Muslim world over images being displayed in France of the Prophet Mohammad which some Muslims consider blasphemous | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-france-security-boycott/turkish-leader-backs-boycott-of-french-goods-over-cartoon-row-idUSKBN27B1IB | 2020-10-27 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union is backing former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi OkonjoIweala to head the World Trade Organization sending a signal of trust in Africa an EU official said on Monday | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union is backing former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi OkonjoIweala to head the World Trade Organization sending a signal of trust in Africa an EU official said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-trade-wto-eu/eu-backs-nigerian-candidate-for-wto-leadership-eu-official-says-idUSKBN27B2FC | 2020-10-27 |
| 13 had deepened a record trade dispute that has already prompted Washington to impose duties on EU imports over state aid for Airbus | Negative | The original WTO ruling on Oct | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-wto-aircraft/u-s-regrets-eu-move-on-tariffs-seeks-deal-on-boeing-airbus-row-speech-idUSKBN27B1GU | 2020-10-27 |
| Few analysts expect the EU to act before U.S. presidential elections next week | Neutral | The original WTO ruling on Oct | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-wto-aircraft/u-s-regrets-eu-move-on-tariffs-seeks-deal-on-boeing-airbus-row-speech-idUSKBN27B1GU | 2020-10-27 |
| Britain says it would become an independent coastal controlling its waters and who fishes there once its transition out of the EU is complete | Neutral | France is preparing its fishing industry for a smaller catch after Brexit industry members said in a sign that President Emmanuel Macron is laying the ground for a delicate compromise to help the European Union strike a trade deal with Britain | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-france-exclusive/exclusive-macron-lays-ground-for-netting-brexit-compromise-on-fisheries-idUSKBN2781P3 | 2020-10-24 |
| Macron holds the said an EU diplomat following Brexit | Neutral | France is preparing its fishing industry for a smaller catch after Brexit industry members said in a sign that President Emmanuel Macron is laying the ground for a delicate compromise to help the European Union strike a trade deal with Britain | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-france-exclusive/exclusive-macron-lays-ground-for-netting-brexit-compromise-on-fisheries-idUSKBN2781P3 | 2020-10-24 |
| These will weigh on trade regardless of whether the UK and EU trade on preferential terms or they said | Neutral | LONDON Deutsche Bank analysts estimate that the costs to trade between Britain and the European Union will be high even if the two sides manage to strike a deal by the end of the year because of the impact of nontariff barriers | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-deutsche-bank/brexit-trade-costs-will-be-material-deal-or-no-deal-deutsche-bank-idUSKBN2781N3 | 2020-10-24 |
| The deal removes Britains tariffs on Japanese cars in stages to zero in 2026 which is the same as in the JapanEU trade agreement | Positive | TOKYO Britain and Japan formally signed a trade agreement on Friday marking Britains first big postBrexit deal on trade as it continues to struggle to agree on a deal with its closest trading partners in the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-japan-trade/britain-signs-first-major-post-brexit-trade-deal-with-japan-idUSKBN2780AL | 2020-10-24 |
| Failure to strike a Brexit trade deal with the EU would be extremely and cut profits by up to a quarter at carmaker Bentley its boss told Reuters as the government urges firms to plan for potential disruption | Negative | Failure to strike a Brexit trade deal with the EU would be extremely and cut profits by up to a quarter at carmaker Bentley its boss told Reuters as the government urges firms to plan for potential disruption | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-bentley/extremely-damaging-no-deal-in-brexit-trade-talks-would-cut-bentleys-profits-idUSKBN2751IJ | 2020-10-21 |
| The British government has said it sees no basis to restart the talks with the EU unless there is a fundamental change in approach | Negative | NEW YORK U.S. equities rallied on Tuesday fed by investor optimism that a deal would be reached in Washington to provide new relief measures and help the U.S. economy withstand the impact of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-global-markets/u-s-stocks-rise-dollar-falls-as-stimulus-hopes-revive-idUSKBN275009 | 2020-10-21 |
| He said parts of Londons draft Internal Market Bill were in violation of UKs EU divorce treaty | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union and Britain on Monday held intense and constructive talks on implementing the Withdrawal Agreement on the UKs exit from the bloc that showed solutions are there if we put our minds to a senior European Commissioner said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-sefcovic-meeting/eu-says-had-intense-and-constructive-meeting-with-uk-on-withdrawal-pact-idUSKBN2742AN | 2020-10-20 |
| LONDON Britain said on Monday there was still no basis for trade talks with the European Union to resume following a call between British and EU negotiators David Frost and Michel Barnier | Negative | LONDON Britain said on Monday there was still no basis for trade talks with the European Union to resume following a call between British and EU negotiators David Frost and Michel Barnier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-negotiations/uk-says-still-no-basis-to-resume-talks-with-eu-pm-johnsons-office-idUSKBN2742BG | 2020-10-20 |
| The UK has noted the EUs proposal to genuinely intensify talks which is what would be expected at this stage in a the statement said | Positive | LONDON Britain said on Monday there was still no basis for trade talks with the European Union to resume following a call between British and EU negotiators David Frost and Michel Barnier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-negotiations/uk-says-still-no-basis-to-resume-talks-with-eu-pm-johnsons-office-idUSKBN2742BG | 2020-10-20 |
| Much closer political integration would be needed and eventually the EU would have to evolve into a democratic federal Weidmann said | Neutral | FRANKFURT Joint borrowing by European nations to overcome a pandemic shock should remain a oneoff Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said on Monday seemingly rebuffing European Central Bank President Christine Lagardes call for a common budgetary tool | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-ecb-policy-weidmann/large-scale-joint-eu-borrowing-should-remain-one-off-weidmann-idUSKBN274281 | 2020-10-20 |
| We as Member States are willing to contribute to this EUwide initiative with our national expertise and best practice to tackle the issue of 5G and EMF the letter said | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union needs to come up with a strategy to counter disinformation about 5G technology or risk false claims derailing its economic recovery and digital goals a group of 15 countries including Poland and Sweden said | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-telecoms/eu-needs-long-term-plan-to-tackle-5g-fake-news-15-eu-countries-say-in-joint-call-idUSKBN2740PB | 2020-10-19 |
| We hope that the EU will change their were certainly not saying if they do change their position that we cant talk to he said | Negative | Britain and the European Union will on Monday attempt to breathe life into postBrexit trade talks that appeared all but dead last week with each side telling the other it needed to fundamentally change course | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/britain-and-eu-to-try-to-rescue-post-brexit-trade-talks-idUSKBN2730Y5 | 2020-10-19 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said Britain needed a Brexit deal more than the 27nation EU which remained united | Negative | Britain and the European Union will on Monday attempt to breathe life into postBrexit trade talks that appeared all but dead last week with each side telling the other it needed to fundamentally change course | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/britain-and-eu-to-try-to-rescue-post-brexit-trade-talks-idUSKBN2730Y5 | 2020-10-19 |
| A no Brexit would sow chaos through supply chains that stretch across Britain the EU and beyond | Negative | Withdraws 2020 core profit guidance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/getlink-results/eurotunnel-operator-getlink-scraps-guidance-again-on-virus-hit-idUSL8N2H90TB | 2020-10-19 |
| As things stand that will not happen and the EUs decisions at last weeks summit have in effect ended those trade he added | Negative | Michael Gove the minister handling Brexit divorce issues for Britain said on Sunday that the UK is increasingly for a nodeal Brexit even as businesses urged Britain and the European Union to find a compromise over trade terms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-gove/gove-says-uk-well-prepared-for-no-deal-brexit-even-as-businesses-sound-alarm-idUSKBN273003 | 2020-10-18 |
| It will require a fundamental change in attitude policy and politics from the EU to get things back on Gove wrote in the Sunday Times | Positive | Michael Gove the minister handling Brexit divorce issues for Britain said on Sunday that the UK is increasingly for a nodeal Brexit even as businesses urged Britain and the European Union to find a compromise over trade terms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-gove/gove-says-uk-well-prepared-for-no-deal-brexit-even-as-businesses-sound-alarm-idUSKBN273003 | 2020-10-18 |
| Johnson said earlier on Friday it was time to prepare for a rupture in trade at the end of the year accusing the 27nation EU of refusing to negotiate seriously | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union said on Friday it was continuing to work for a new Brexit accord dismissing British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons nodeal rhetoric as hot air as stakes rise in the troubled trade talks ahead of a yearend deadline | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-reaction/eu-says-still-seeking-brexit-accord-despite-johnsons-no-deal-rhetoric-idUSKBN2711NW | 2020-10-17 |
| The trade talks are the EU have effectively ended them by saying that they do not want to change their negotiating Johnsons spokesman said | Positive | LONDON Talks to agree a Brexit trade deal with the European Union are over British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons spokesman said on Friday saying there was no point carrying on unless the bloc fundamentally changed its stance | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-johnson-spokesman/brexit-trade-talks-are-over-uk-pm-johnsons-spokesman-says-idUSKBN2711YO | 2020-10-17 |
| Johnsons spokesman said talks were now over and there was no point in the EUs chief negotiator Michel Barnier coming to London next week barring a change in approach | Positive | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday it was now time to prepare for a notrade deal Brexit unless the European Union fundamentally changed course bluntly telling Brussels that there was no point in continuing the negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/brexit-brinkmanship-johnson-says-prepare-for-no-deal-cancels-trade-talks-idUSKBN2710SY | 2020-10-17 |
| Charles Michel who chairs EU leaders summits echoed her remarks as two days of facetoface talks among the blocs national leaders concluded in Brussels on Friday | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union said on Friday it was continuing to work for a new Brexit accord dismissing British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons nodeal rhetoric as hot air as stakes rise in the troubled trade talks ahead of a yearend deadline | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-reaction/eu-says-still-seeking-brexit-accord-despite-johnsons-no-deal-rhetoric-idUSKBN2711NW | 2020-10-17 |
| The remaining 27 leaders of the EU who chose to remain in the EU are not there simply to make the British prime minister he added | Negative | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday it was now time to prepare for a notrade deal Brexit unless the European Union fundamentally changed course bluntly telling Brussels that there was no point in continuing the negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/brexit-brinkmanship-johnson-says-prepare-for-no-deal-cancels-trade-talks-idUSKBN2710SY | 2020-10-17 |
| Johnson said earlier on Friday that unless the EU changed course there would be no deal giving British businesses continued free access to the EUs huge single market | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union said on Friday it was continuing to work for a new Brexit accord dismissing British Prime Minister Boris Johnsons nodeal rhetoric as hot air as stakes rise in the troubled trade talks ahead of a yearend deadline | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-reaction/eu-says-still-seeking-brexit-accord-despite-johnsons-no-deal-rhetoric-idUSKBN2711NW | 2020-10-17 |
| Virtual conferences are less effective for agreeing complex compromises but safer than inperson meetings that increase the risks of infection among EU leaders and their staff | Negative | BRUSSELS The resurgent coronavirus disrupted the EU leaders summit only their third facetoface meeting since the pandemic began with the EUs chief executive and Finlands prime minister dropping out after coming near people who later tested positive | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-health-coronavirus/covid-disrupts-eu-summit-as-pandemic-casts-new-shadow-over-europe-idUSKBN27116F | 2020-10-17 |
| The Commissions decision was made after EU countries warned of shortages of remdesivir in their hospitals amid a new surge of COVID19 infections across Europe | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union should renegotiate a 1 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-remdesivir-eu/eu-urged-to-review-remdesivir-supply-deal-after-covid-19-trial-results-idUSKBN2712AG | 2020-10-17 |
| Australia does not have a freetrade agreement with the 27nation EU the worlds biggest common trading area although its exporters want one | Negative | SYDNEY Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Britons on Friday to get ready to leave the European Unions single market at yearend and embrace what he called an Australianstyle trading relationship | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-australia-factbox/factbox-britain-talks-of-aussie-style-trade-deal-with-eu-but-what-is-it-idUSKBN271221 | 2020-10-17 |
| The power of digital gatekeepers was one issue discussed on Thursday at an online meeting of EU digital and telecoms ministers hosted by Germany the current EU president | Positive | The move increases pressure on Commissioner Margrethe Vestager who is preparing a new Digital Services Act to set tough rules for datasharing and ensure that marketplaces are fair and open | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-eu-tech/france-netherlands-call-for-an-eu-watchdog-to-regulate-tech-giants-idUSKBN2701CG | 2020-10-16 |
| With businesses and markets increasingly jittery as the deadline nears EU leaders stressed the unity of the 27nation bloc in the face off | Negative | The European Union put the onus on Britain on Thursday to compromise on their new economic partnership or stand ready for trade disruptions in less than 80 days drawing a chilly reaction from the UK which said it was | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/eu-tells-britain-to-give-ground-to-secure-trade-deal-uk-to-respond-friday-idUSKBN2700E0 | 2020-10-16 |
| The UK branches of EU entities are subject to both the EU and UK derivatives trading obligations and we need to give clarity on how to address Maijoor told Reuters | Positive | LONDON The European Union is trying to grab a slice of the City of Londons multibillion euro derivatives market after Brexit but EU regulators risk driving some of the business to New York from January if there is no clarity on rules | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-britain-eu-derivatives/new-york-could-emerge-the-winner-from-brexit-derivatives-clash-idUSKBN2701KZ | 2020-10-16 |
| A German Foreign Ministry official said Maas indicated that a decision might be taken in December as envisaged when EU leaders met two weeks ago | Positive | PARIS France and Germany accused Turkey on Thursday of continuing to provoke the European Union with its actions in the eastern Mediterranean and urged it to clarify its positions in the coming weeks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-turkey-greece-france-germany/france-and-germany-tell-turkey-to-stop-provocations-idUSKBN2701I2 | 2020-10-16 |
| This would allow the EU banks to maintain access to Londons highly liquid market in swaps on behalf of EU clients | Positive | LONDON The European Union is trying to grab a slice of the City of Londons multibillion euro derivatives market after Brexit but EU regulators risk driving some of the business to New York from January if there is no clarity on rules | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-britain-eu-derivatives/new-york-could-emerge-the-winner-from-brexit-derivatives-clash-idUSKBN2701KZ | 2020-10-16 |
| 31 but that divergence must be reasonable if it wants zerotariff and zeroquota access to the blocs 450 million consumers and 22 million companies the EUs Brexit negotiator said | Negative | BRUSSELS Britain is free to diverge from European Union rules after Dec | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-barnier-rules/barnier-says-for-uk-access-to-eu-market-competition-must-be-free-and-fair-idUSKBN2702MP | 2020-10-16 |
| The key issue for us is that whatever solution we come forward with it also needs to be in line with Maijoor said referring to the EUs securities law | Neutral | LONDON The European Union is trying to grab a slice of the City of Londons multibillion euro derivatives market after Brexit but EU regulators risk driving some of the business to New York from January if there is no clarity on rules | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-britain-eu-derivatives/new-york-could-emerge-the-winner-from-brexit-derivatives-clash-idUSKBN2701KZ | 2020-10-16 |
| LVMH is set to gain EU antitrust approval for the acquisition Reuters reported on Wednesday | Positive | Tiffany Co said on Thursday sales have been rising through October as its business rebounds from pandemic lows firing back at French luxury giant LVMH which is looking to scrap its billion deal for the U.S. jeweler | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tiffany-outlook/tiffany-touts-recovering-sales-as-legal-battle-with-lvmh-drags-on-idUSKBN2701ET | 2020-10-16 |
| The FrancoDutch proposal which calls for preemptive action to prevent power grabs by Big Tech overshadowed a gathering of EU ministers that discussed artificial intelligence and cloud computing | Negative | The move increases pressure on Commissioner Margrethe Vestager who is preparing a new Digital Services Act to set tough rules for datasharing and ensure that marketplaces are fair and open | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-eu-tech/france-netherlands-call-for-an-eu-watchdog-to-regulate-tech-giants-idUSKBN2701CG | 2020-10-16 |
| LONDON The European Union is trying to grab a slice of the City of Londons multibillion euro derivatives market after Brexit but EU regulators risk driving some of the business to New York from January if there is no clarity on rules | Negative | LONDON The European Union is trying to grab a slice of the City of Londons multibillion euro derivatives market after Brexit but EU regulators risk driving some of the business to New York from January if there is no clarity on rules | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-britain-eu-derivatives/new-york-could-emerge-the-winner-from-brexit-derivatives-clash-idUSKBN2701KZ | 2020-10-16 |
| The treaty would have Bern routinely adopt EU single market rules and create a new dispute settlement platform | Negative | ZURICH Switzerland swapped out its chief negotiator with the European Union on Wednesday aiming for what Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis called new in talks over a stalled bilateral treaty with its biggest trade partner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-swiss-eu/new-swiss-chief-negotiator-seeks-good-will-to-resolve-eu-impasse-idUSKBN26Z1PT | 2020-10-15 |
| The European Union would prefer to have a deal but it is ready in case no agreement can be reached the Commissioner for the EUs single market said | Positive | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-slip-on-caution-around-vaccine-trials-stimulus-idUSL4N2H51XG | 2020-10-15 |
| BRUSSELS Talks between the European Union and the United Kingdom to reach a deal on their future relationship are still snagged on the three key issues of fishing level playing field and governance of their agreement an EU official said on Wednesday | Positive | BRUSSELS Talks between the European Union and the United Kingdom to reach a deal on their future relationship are still snagged on the three key issues of fishing level playing field and governance of their agreement an EU official said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-impasse/brexit-talks-at-impasse-on-three-key-issues-eu-diplomat-says-idUSKBN26Z1RX | 2020-10-15 |
| But medical technology firms could suffer if Brussels drags its feet on updating mutual industrial standards while Swiss scientists could miss out on EU research programmes if Europe plays hardball | Negative | ZURICH Switzerland swapped out its chief negotiator with the European Union on Wednesday aiming for what Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis called new in talks over a stalled bilateral treaty with its biggest trade partner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-swiss-eu/new-swiss-chief-negotiator-seeks-good-will-to-resolve-eu-impasse-idUSKBN26Z1PT | 2020-10-15 |
| The cabinet in the weeks ahead will set out Switzerlands position and relaunch discussions with the EU on how to resolve the remaining issues Cassis told reporters in Bern | Negative | ZURICH Switzerland swapped out its chief negotiator with the European Union on Wednesday aiming for what Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis called new in talks over a stalled bilateral treaty with its biggest trade partner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-swiss-eu/new-swiss-chief-negotiator-seeks-good-will-to-resolve-eu-impasse-idUSKBN26Z1PT | 2020-10-15 |
| French telecoms operator Iliad is poised to secure EU antitrust clearance for its 3 | Positive | French telecoms operator Iliad is poised to secure EU antitrust clearance for its 3 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-play-communicat-m-a-iliad-eu-exclusiv/exclusive-iliad-to-gain-eu-nod-for-3-5-billion-euro-polish-telecoms-deal-sources-idUSKBN26Z1XJ | 2020-10-15 |
| JOHANNESBURG The European Union has granted Mozambiques request for assistance in tackling a wave of attacks in the countrys north by rebels with links to Islamic State the EU delegation in the southern African country said | Positive | JOHANNESBURG The European Union has granted Mozambiques request for assistance in tackling a wave of attacks in the countrys north by rebels with links to Islamic State the EU delegation in the southern African country said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mozambique-insurgency-eu/european-union-agrees-to-help-mozambique-tackle-insurgency-statement-idUSKBN26Z2XE | 2020-10-15 |
| The EU is loath to give Switzerland concessions that Britain could seize on in separate EU negotiations over relations in the wake of Brexit | Negative | ZURICH Switzerland swapped out its chief negotiator with the European Union on Wednesday aiming for what Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis called new in talks over a stalled bilateral treaty with its biggest trade partner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-swiss-eu/new-swiss-chief-negotiator-seeks-good-will-to-resolve-eu-impasse-idUSKBN26Z1PT | 2020-10-15 |
| Whats failed is the credibility of the EUs offer it was not concrete said Sinan Ulgen a former Turkish diplomat at Carnegie Europe based in Istanbul | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions latest strategy to defuse tensions with Turkey is unravelling two weeks after it was sealed raising the risk of conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean diplomats officials and experts said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-eu/carrot-and-stick-approach-to-turkey-failing-eu-envoys-say-idUSKBN26Z1LU | 2020-10-15 |
| BERLIN Russians facing European Union sanctions over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny include the head of Russias domestic spy agency and the first deputy chief of staff in the presidential administration an EU diplomat said | Negative | BERLIN Russians facing European Union sanctions over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny include the head of Russias domestic spy agency and the first deputy chief of staff in the presidential administration an EU diplomat said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-sanctions/eu-sanctions-target-top-officials-close-to-putin-eu-diplomat-idUSKBN26Z2K0 | 2020-10-15 |
| Critics say the draft EU deal would never win a referendum sure to arise under the Swiss system of direct democracy | Negative | ZURICH Switzerland swapped out its chief negotiator with the European Union on Wednesday aiming for what Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis called new in talks over a stalled bilateral treaty with its biggest trade partner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-swiss-eu/new-swiss-chief-negotiator-seeks-good-will-to-resolve-eu-impasse-idUSKBN26Z1PT | 2020-10-15 |
| Greece had requested to raise the issue at the twoday meeting of EU leaders in Brussels the person said in Berlin on Wednesday | Negative | BERLIN The European Union is unlikely to launch sanctions against Turkey at its summit starting on Thursday amid a gas dispute in the eastern Mediterranean a German government source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-summit-turkey-greece/germany-doesnt-expect-eu-summit-to-draft-sanctions-against-turkey-source-idUSKBN26Z228 | 2020-10-15 |
| Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin was also listed under the EUs libya sanction regime the diplomat said | Negative | BERLIN Russians facing European Union sanctions over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny include the head of Russias domestic spy agency and the first deputy chief of staff in the presidential administration an EU diplomat said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-sanctions/eu-sanctions-target-top-officials-close-to-putin-eu-diplomat-idUSKBN26Z2K0 | 2020-10-15 |
| The United States announces an increase in tariffs on aircraft imported from the EU to from | Negative | The WTO has previously found the worlds two largest planemakers received billions of dollars of unfair subsidies in a pair of cases dating back to 2004 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-trade-eu-chronology-timeline/timeline-highlights-of-the-16-year-airbus-boeing-trade-war-idUSKBN26Y2MH | 2020-10-14 |
| WTO appeal judges reverse the ruling that the 777X tax breaks are in the column bringing an abrupt halt to the EUs second case | Negative | The WTO has previously found the worlds two largest planemakers received billions of dollars of unfair subsidies in a pair of cases dating back to 2004 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-trade-eu-chronology-timeline/timeline-highlights-of-the-16-year-airbus-boeing-trade-war-idUSKBN26Y2MH | 2020-10-14 |
| He said there would be a further EUUK meeting next week on implementing their divorce treaty | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union has serious about the United Kingdoms implementation of the agreement on its withdrawal from the bloc but believes a deal on future relations is still possible a senior European Commission member said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-sefcovic/eu-has-serious-concerns-about-uk-implementation-of-brexit-treaty-idUSKBN26Y2A2 | 2020-10-14 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission said on Tuesday it wanted to agree a negotiated settlement with the United States over aircraft subsidies after the EU won the right to impose tariffs on U.S. imports at the World Trade Organization | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission said on Tuesday it wanted to agree a negotiated settlement with the United States over aircraft subsidies after the EU won the right to impose tariffs on U.S. imports at the World Trade Organization | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-wto-aircraft-eu/eu-says-it-wants-subsidies-deal-with-u-s-not-tit-for-tat-trade-war-idUSKBN26Y27K | 2020-10-14 |
| BRUSSELS There is no progress on substance in talks on a future trade deal between the European Union and Britain and because time is running out the EU will have to step up preparations for a nodeal possibility German Europe minister Michael Roth said | Negative | BRUSSELS There is no progress on substance in talks on a future trade deal between the European Union and Britain and because time is running out the EU will have to step up preparations for a nodeal possibility German Europe minister Michael Roth said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-roth/no-progress-on-substance-in-eu-britain-trade-deal-germany-says-idUSKBN26Y28R | 2020-10-14 |
| We want to do our best to get a reasonable he said stressing the unity of the EU in the talks | Positive | BRUSSELS There is no progress on substance in talks on a future trade deal between the European Union and Britain and because time is running out the EU will have to step up preparations for a nodeal possibility German Europe minister Michael Roth said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-roth/no-progress-on-substance-in-eu-britain-trade-deal-germany-says-idUSKBN26Y28R | 2020-10-14 |
| He does not have the authority to issue an EUA under the law | Negative | U.S. drug inspectors uncovered serious quality control problems at an Eli Lilly and Co pharmaceutical plant that is ramping up to manufacture one of two promising COVID19 drugs touted by President Trump as a for the disease according to government documents and three sources familiar with the matter | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-lilly-exclusive/exclusive-fda-faults-quality-control-at-lilly-plant-making-trump-touted-covid-drug-idUSKBN26Y30C | 2020-10-14 |
| The European Commission has already outlined plans to further tighten car CO2 limits as part of its proposal for a tougher 2030 EU climate goal | Positive | BRUSSELS Electric vehicles made up of car sales in Europe in the first half of 2020 putting them on track to triple their market share this year according to analysis by the NGO Transport Environment | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climate-change-eu-autos/electric-cars-to-triple-market-share-in-europe-amid-covid-19-researchers-say-idUSKBN26X23F | 2020-10-13 |
| Britains departure from the European Union gives some extra urgency as a delay beyond this year could mean additional scrutiny from EU and British regulators | Negative | The proposal passed with the support of more than of shares voted | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-unilever-restructuring/end-of-an-era-as-unilever-uk-shareholders-back-unification-plan-idUSKBN26X1UW | 2020-10-13 |
| It is because of the EU emissions standards but it is also thanks to many investments carmakers made last report coauthor Julia Poliscanova said | Positive | BRUSSELS Electric vehicles made up of car sales in Europe in the first half of 2020 putting them on track to triple their market share this year according to analysis by the NGO Transport Environment | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climate-change-eu-autos/electric-cars-to-triple-market-share-in-europe-amid-covid-19-researchers-say-idUSKBN26X23F | 2020-10-13 |
| I do not believe that this will be a major impediment to an EUUK the EU diplomat said | Negative | European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier wants a few more concessions from Britain before entering the last intense phase of negotiations on a trade deal an EU diplomat said on Friday as an Oct | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/brexit-deal-close-but-eu-seeks-more-before-starting-final-talks-idUSKBN26U0S0 | 2020-10-10 |
| We believe the sale of the Borsa Italiana group will contribute significantly to addressing the EUs competition LSE Chief Executive David Schwimmer said in a statement | Positive | While LSE said it would have preferred to keep its Italian arm it will bank a significant profit on the 1 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-lse-borsa-italiana-m-a/lse-agrees-to-sell-borsa-italiana-to-euronext-for-5-billion-idUSKBN26U0HF | 2020-10-10 |
| European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier wants a few more concessions from Britain before entering the last intense phase of negotiations on a trade deal an EU diplomat said on Friday as an Oct | Negative | European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier wants a few more concessions from Britain before entering the last intense phase of negotiations on a trade deal an EU diplomat said on Friday as an Oct | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu/brexit-deal-close-but-eu-seeks-more-before-starting-final-talks-idUSKBN26U0S0 | 2020-10-10 |
| Diplomats had earlier told Reuters the two countries would propose sanctions on Russian GRU military intelligence officials when the EUs 27 foreign ministers meet on Oct | Negative | France and Germany said on Wednesday they would propose European Union sanctions against Russian individuals after receiving no credible answers from Moscow over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-eu-exclusive/in-hardening-stance-france-germany-push-for-eu-sanctions-on-russians-over-navalny-poisoning-idUSKBN26S2J3 | 2020-10-08 |
| The agreement includes a comprehensive preferential free trade agreement covering goods services and tariffs and quotas the government said adding that it rolled over and built upon the EUUkraine Agreement | Positive | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday to sign a partnership agreement that includes a free trade deal covering goods services and tariffs and quotas | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-ukraine/uks-johnson-ukraines-zelenskiy-to-sign-partnership-agreement-idUSKBN26S3HE | 2020-10-08 |
| The Commission said that the antidumping duties to take effect from Thursday aim to remedy the damage caused to EU producers located mainly in Belgium Italy and Finland | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union will impose tariffs on imports of hotrolled stainless steel coils and sheets from China Indonesia and Taiwan after an investigation found they were being sold at artificially low prices | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-trade-steel/eu-imposes-import-duties-on-china-indonesia-taiwan-stainless-steel-idUSKBN26S1R4 | 2020-10-08 |
| A NATO ally Turkey has been negotiating EU membership since 2005 after economic and political reforms that made it an important emerging market economy and trade partner | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Unions executive said on Tuesday that Turkeys government was undermining its economy eroding democracy and destroying independent courts leaving its bid to join the EU further away than ever | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-eu-democracy/turkeys-eu-membership-bid-evaporating-commission-says-idUSKBN26R2NH | 2020-10-07 |
| BRUSSELS The European Unions executive said on Tuesday that Turkeys government was undermining its economy eroding democracy and destroying independent courts leaving its bid to join the EU further away than ever | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions executive said on Tuesday that Turkeys government was undermining its economy eroding democracy and destroying independent courts leaving its bid to join the EU further away than ever | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-eu-democracy/turkeys-eu-membership-bid-evaporating-commission-says-idUSKBN26R2NH | 2020-10-07 |
| The finance ministers recommendation will now go to EU leaders who after consulting the European Parliament and the ECB itself will make the final decision in December | Positive | BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers called the Eurogroup choose Dutchman Frank Elderson of to be the successor to Yves Mersch at the executive board of the European Central Bank when Merschs term ends in December the chairman of the ministers said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eurozone-eurogroup-ecb/euro-ministers-pick-dutchman-frank-elderson-for-ecb-board-job-idUSKBN26Q2BU | 2020-10-06 |
| We are very far advanced and not far from an the sources said ahead of a meeting of EU finance ministers to discuss the package on Monday and Tuesday | Positive | BERLIN Germany current president of the European Union expects to resolve controversial details of the distribution of money from the 750 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-germany/germany-sees-agreement-on-recovery-fund-cash-distribution-in-october-idUSKBN26N1TC | 2020-10-03 |
| Lukashenko was spared in line with the EUs policy of punishing powerbrokers as a last resort | Negative | The United States imposed sanctions on eight Belarusian officials on Friday accusing them of involvement in rigging President Alexander Lukashenkos reelection victory in August or the violent crackdown on protests that followed | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/washington-hits-belarus-with-sanctions-as-minsk-retaliates-against-eu-measures-idUSKBN26N33Z | 2020-10-03 |
| Germany has proposed a scheme that links access to EU money including the recovery fund to respecting the rule of law a document seen by Reuters showed on Monday | Positive | BERLIN Germany current president of the European Union expects to resolve controversial details of the distribution of money from the 750 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-germany/germany-sees-agreement-on-recovery-fund-cash-distribution-in-october-idUSKBN26N1TC | 2020-10-03 |
| The EU is in talks with Novavax for a seventh vaccine a senior EU source told Reuters last week | Positive | BRUSSELS The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday the European Union was in talks with more companies to secure potential COVID19 vaccines as she warned of the spike in infections in Europe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-health-coronavirus-ursula/eu-in-talks-with-more-companies-for-covid-19-vaccines-von-der-leyen-idUSKBN26N20H | 2020-10-03 |
| Bloomberg was the first to report about the imminent EU charge sheet | Negative | The EU competition enforcer will send a statement of objections to the companies by mid October the people said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-refinitiv-m-a-lse-eu/lse-to-be-told-about-eus-refinitiv-deal-concerns-sources-say-idUSKBN26N2MZ | 2020-10-03 |
| BRUSSELS The chairman of European leaders Charles Michel said he hoped EU governments and the European Parliament would soon find a deal on linking respect for the rule of law and access to EU economic postpandemic recovery funds | Positive | BRUSSELS The chairman of European leaders Charles Michel said he hoped EU governments and the European Parliament would soon find a deal on linking respect for the rule of law and access to EU economic postpandemic recovery funds | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-rule-of-law/eu-leaders-chairman-hopeful-rule-of-law-snag-to-recovery-plan-will-be-solved-idUSKBN26N21F | 2020-10-03 |
| Facebook said there are merits to EUs rules in designating a lead supervisory authority for crossborder privacy issues | Negative | BRUSSELS Facebooks runins with EU privacy regulators may escalate as Europes top court next week weighs arguments from the Belgian data protection watchdog that it should have the power to go after the U.S. social media giant for breaches in Belgium | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-facebook-privacy/belgian-privacy-watchdog-bids-to-police-facebook-at-eu-court-on-october-5-idUSKBN26N24C | 2020-10-03 |
| He said the topic was discussed only very briefly at a summit of EU leaders on Friday without any conclusions | Positive | BRUSSELS The chairman of European leaders Charles Michel said he hoped EU governments and the European Parliament would soon find a deal on linking respect for the rule of law and access to EU economic postpandemic recovery funds | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-rule-of-law/eu-leaders-chairman-hopeful-rule-of-law-snag-to-recovery-plan-will-be-solved-idUSKBN26N21F | 2020-10-03 |
| BRUSSELS European Union leaders will express their full solidarity with Greece and Cyprus in their standoff with Turkey but the EU wants a deescalation of tensions with Ankara and a constructive relationship the head of the European Commission said | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will express their full solidarity with Greece and Cyprus in their standoff with Turkey but the EU wants a deescalation of tensions with Ankara and a constructive relationship the head of the European Commission said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-turkey-vonderleyen/eu-wants-a-constructive-relationship-with-turkey-von-der-leyen-idUSKBN26M65C | 2020-10-02 |
| We want more he told reporters before the summit in Brussels where the difficult relationship between Turkey and the 27nation EU will be discussed | Negative | BRUSSELS European Council President Charles Michel said on Thursday before an EU summit he will chair that the bloc wanted more stability in the Eastern Mediterranean where tensions have risen in recent months between Turkey and Greece and Cyprus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-michel/eus-michel-we-want-more-stability-in-eastern-mediterranean-idUSKBN26M67M | 2020-10-02 |
| Speaking to reporters on entering a summit of EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen told reporters there were two options for the EU in its relations with Turkey | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will express their full solidarity with Greece and Cyprus in their standoff with Turkey but the EU wants a deescalation of tensions with Ankara and a constructive relationship the head of the European Commission said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-turkey-vonderleyen/eu-wants-a-constructive-relationship-with-turkey-von-der-leyen-idUSKBN26M65C | 2020-10-02 |
| I dont expect ministers to raise another senior EU official said | Positive | BRUSSELS A longlasting appreciation of the euros nominal effective exchange rate could hurt the euro zones economic recovery and make the task of boosting inflation more difficult for the European Central Bank the European Commission said in a paper | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eurozone-euro-fxrate/continued-euro-strength-could-hurt-growth-slow-inflation-commission-idUSKBN26M5WB | 2020-10-02 |
| Germany has pushed back against the imposition of EU sanctions on Turkey fearing it will disrupt efforts to cool tensions with Greece | Negative | BRUSSELS Cyprus defied pressure to approve European Union sanctions on Belarus at a leaders summit on Thursday urging other members of the bloc to also punish Turkey for its oil and gas drilling in the Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-eu-summit/cyprus-demands-turkey-sanctions-at-eu-summit-stalls-on-belarus-idUSKBN26M3YM | 2020-10-02 |
| BRUSSELS Oct 1 No landing are in sight in EUUK trade talks an official with the bloc said on Thursday after sterling gained on Tweets by a Financial Times reporter quoting officials in London noting progress on the state aid provisions to ensure fair competition | Positive | BRUSSELS Oct 1 No landing are in sight in EUUK trade talks an official with the bloc said on Thursday after sterling gained on Tweets by a Financial Times reporter quoting officials in London noting progress on the state aid provisions to ensure fair competition | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-eu-official/eu-official-denies-ft-tweets-on-brexit-trade-talks-breakthrough-idUSL8N2GS4OH | 2020-10-02 |
| WASHINGTON The United States has held off on joining Britain and Canada in imposing sanctions on Belarus in hopes the European Union can overcome an internal dispute paving the way to coordinated U.S. and EU sanctions four sources said on Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States has held off on joining Britain and Canada in imposing sanctions on Belarus in hopes the European Union can overcome an internal dispute paving the way to coordinated U.S. and EU sanctions four sources said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-belarus-election-usa/u-s-holding-back-on-belarus-sanctions-hopes-for-joint-move-with-eu-sources-idUSKBN26L3VU | 2020-10-01 |
| They eased after Ankara brought Oruc Reis back to port but Cyprus has demanded EU sanctions against Turkey | Negative | ISTANBUL As Turkey and Greece prepare for talks to calm a bitter maritime dispute Ankara released a video this week glorifying a 16th century naval victory which led to the Ottoman Empire taking control of the Mediterranean | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-blue-homeland/turkey-touts-past-maritime-conquests-ahead-of-talks-on-mediterranean-dispute-idUSKBN26L2KR | 2020-10-01 |
| We continue to urge UK and EU negotiators to work collaboratively towards an orderly balanced Brexit that will continue to encourage mutually beneficial trade | Positive | LONDON Britains car industry risks some tariffs being imposed after Brexit as Brussels will not allow components from countries such as Turkey and Japan to count towards a content threshold in a trade deal an industry source said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britian-eu-autos-smmt/british-car-sector-risks-some-tariffs-in-eu-trade-deal-source-idUSKBN26L1PR | 2020-10-01 |
| BRUSSELS Alphabet unit Google Facebook Amazon Apple and other U.S. tech giants could be banned from favouring their services or forcing users to sign up to a bundle of services under draft EU rules aimed at reining in their power | Negative | BRUSSELS Alphabet unit Google Facebook Amazon Apple and other U.S. tech giants could be banned from favouring their services or forcing users to sign up to a bundle of services under draft EU rules aimed at reining in their power | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-tech-antitrust/u-s-tech-giants-face-curbs-on-data-sharing-digital-marketplaces-under-draft-eu-rules-idUSKBN26L293 | 2020-10-01 |
| The case has taken on urgency because of the dependence of thousands of EU companies on the tech giants for their business | Negative | BRUSSELS Alphabet unit Google Facebook Amazon Apple and other U.S. tech giants could be banned from favouring their services or forcing users to sign up to a bundle of services under draft EU rules aimed at reining in their power | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-tech-antitrust/u-s-tech-giants-face-curbs-on-data-sharing-digital-marketplaces-under-draft-eu-rules-idUSKBN26L293 | 2020-10-01 |
| The European Commission is looking to scale up renewable hydrogen projects across polluting sectors from chemicals to steel in an effort to meet the EUs netzero emissions goal by 2050 | Positive | Alliances between two or three countries wont work it needs to have a European Enel Chief Executive Francesco Starace said at an energy conference | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-europe-hydrogen-enel/europe-needs-to-develop-green-hydrogen-industry-jointly-enel-ceo-idUSKBN26K2IT | 2020-09-30 |
| Parlato said that he was working with EU lawmakers on actions to curb the import of equine meat | Negative | BUENOS AIRES Argentina is famed for its horses whether excelling in polo matches or carrying gauchos through the Pampas farm lands | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-argentina-horses-documentary/in-land-of-gauchos-argentine-filmmaker-spotlights-horse-meat-trade-idUSKBN26K31F | 2020-09-30 |
| BRUSSELS Brexit Britain is part of an arc of that has emerged around the European Union the blocs chairman said on Monday ranking Londons decision to leave the EU along with threats from Turkey Russia Libya and Syria | Negative | BRUSSELS Brexit Britain is part of an arc of that has emerged around the European Union the blocs chairman said on Monday ranking Londons decision to leave the EU along with threats from Turkey Russia Libya and Syria | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-britain-eu-michel/britain-is-part-of-arc-of-instability-around-the-eu-chairman-says-idUSKBN26J2BZ | 2020-09-29 |
| An arc of instability has developed all around European Council President Charles Michel who chairs EU summits said in an online address for the Bruegel thinktank | Negative | BRUSSELS Brexit Britain is part of an arc of that has emerged around the European Union the blocs chairman said on Monday ranking Londons decision to leave the EU along with threats from Turkey Russia Libya and Syria | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-britain-eu-michel/britain-is-part-of-arc-of-instability-around-the-eu-chairman-says-idUSKBN26J2BZ | 2020-09-29 |
| COVID19 infections in Europe are back to levels seen in March the head of the EUs public health agency said | Negative | Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-timeline/timeline-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded-idUSKBN26K0AQ | 2020-09-29 |
| BRUSSELS Germany current president of the European Union has proposed a scheme that links access to EU money including the 750 billion euro recovery fund to respecting the rule of law a document seen by Reuters showed on Monday | Positive | BRUSSELS Germany current president of the European Union has proposed a scheme that links access to EU money including the 750 billion euro recovery fund to respecting the rule of law a document seen by Reuters showed on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-democracy-exclusive/exclusive-eu-chair-germany-proposes-adherence-to-rule-of-law-as-key-to-getting-blocs-cash-idUSKBN26J1MP | 2020-09-29 |
| Without an automatic sanction system Germanys proposal fails to defend the rule of law and the correctness of the EU budget he told Reuters when asked about the scheme | Negative | BRUSSELS Germany current president of the European Union has proposed a scheme that links access to EU money including the 750 billion euro recovery fund to respecting the rule of law a document seen by Reuters showed on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-democracy-exclusive/exclusive-eu-chair-germany-proposes-adherence-to-rule-of-law-as-key-to-getting-blocs-cash-idUSKBN26J1MP | 2020-09-29 |
| Portugal meanwhile typically processes investment migration applications in three months but only grants EU residency to investors and visafee travel to just 26 countries | Positive | LONDON The number of British entrepreneurs looking to citizenship from countries offering visafree access to the European Union has risen sharply investment migration firms say as prospects of a postBrexit trade deal between Britain and the bloc darken | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-eu-investment-migration/wealthy-britons-step-up-citizenship-shopping-to-thwart-brexit-idUSKCN26F2DE | 2020-09-27 |
| She said legislation is required to close the tax loopholes and ensure transparency in a call to EU countries to revamp rules | Negative | BRUSSELS EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on Friday appealed a court ruling dismissing her order to iPhone maker Apple to pay 13 billion euros in Irish back taxes a landmark case in the European Commissions crackdown against sweetheart tax deals | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-apple-taxation/eus-vestager-appeals-court-veto-of-15-billion-apple-tax-order-idUSKCN26G1DB | 2020-09-26 |
| BRUSSELS IPhone maker Apple on Friday said it has always complied with Irish tax laws and that the issue which led to an EU tax order of 13 billion euros was more a case of where it should pay taxes rather than the amount | Positive | BRUSSELS IPhone maker Apple on Friday said it has always complied with Irish tax laws and that the issue which led to an EU tax order of 13 billion euros was more a case of where it should pay taxes rather than the amount | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-eu-apple-taxation-appeal/apple-says-has-always-abided-by-irish-law-as-eu-appeals-court-ruling-idUSKCN26G1FJ | 2020-09-26 |
| But progress has been slow and results are likely to take a decade or more meaning the EU is still some way off matching its economic prowess with military muscle | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Union should reverse its sanctions on Russia Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Reuters on Friday as he pushed for a resumption of trade with Moscow and a European army that would restrain the Kremlins might | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-hungary-orban-russia-belarus/hungarys-orban-says-eu-should-reverse-russia-sanctions-not-push-cyprus-on-belarus-idUSKCN26G2IU | 2020-09-26 |
| The case has embarrassed the EU highlighting decisionmaking paralysis in a bloc of 27 countries that in many areas foreign policy included require unanimity to act | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union should reverse its sanctions on Russia Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Reuters on Friday as he pushed for a resumption of trade with Moscow and a European army that would restrain the Kremlins might | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-hungary-orban-russia-belarus/hungarys-orban-says-eu-should-reverse-russia-sanctions-not-push-cyprus-on-belarus-idUSKCN26G2IU | 2020-09-26 |
| The proposed legal tools could also potentially be incompatible with the EUs WTO obligations including principles such as national treatment most favoured nation status and it said | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Commissions plan to fence off the EUs industrial crown jewels from statebacked foreign buyers may breach WTO rules while its ambiguous standards create legal uncertainties lobbying group the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU said in its feedback on the proposal | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-antitrust-subsidies-china/chinese-lobby-group-slams-eu-plan-against-state-backed-foreign-buyers-idUSKCN26F324 | 2020-09-25 |
| The Commission should also take into account Chinese investments in Europe that followed invitations by some EU countries in the wake of the European debt crisis the Chamber said | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commissions plan to fence off the EUs industrial crown jewels from statebacked foreign buyers may breach WTO rules while its ambiguous standards create legal uncertainties lobbying group the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU said in its feedback on the proposal | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-antitrust-subsidies-china/chinese-lobby-group-slams-eu-plan-against-state-backed-foreign-buyers-idUSKCN26F324 | 2020-09-25 |
| But Armin Wisdorff a European Parliament spokesman said it was EU governments called the Council that hampered progress by lumping all issues together | Negative | BRUSSELS Germany the current holder of the European Unions rotating presidency urged the European Parliament on Thursday to speed up talks and work on weekends to agree on 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-presidency-parliament/eu-chair-germany-tells-parliament-to-get-covid-recovery-cash-through-idUSKCN26F25T | 2020-09-25 |
| China produces of global emissions more than the EU and United States combined | Negative | After several years of dismissing global action to fight climate change U.S. leadership was formally challenged this week by China announcing bold new climate pledges | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-climate-change-usa-global-analysis/u-s-chinese-diplomats-signal-tricky-road-ahead-for-climate-diplomacy-idUSKCN26F1MP | 2020-09-25 |
| DUBLIN Any final trade deal between the European Union and Britain will only be ratified if EU member states are fully certain the Brexit withdrawal agreement will be implemented in full Irish Foreign Minister said on Thursday | Negative | DUBLIN Any final trade deal between the European Union and Britain will only be ratified if EU member states are fully certain the Brexit withdrawal agreement will be implemented in full Irish Foreign Minister said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-ireland/eu-uk-trade-deal-will-fail-if-divorce-treaty-threatened-ireland-says-idUSKCN26F28M | 2020-09-25 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commissions plan to fence off the EUs industrial crown jewels from statebacked foreign buyers may breach WTO rules while its ambiguous standards create legal uncertainties lobbying group the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU said in its feedback on the proposal | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commissions plan to fence off the EUs industrial crown jewels from statebacked foreign buyers may breach WTO rules while its ambiguous standards create legal uncertainties lobbying group the China Chamber of Commerce to the EU said in its feedback on the proposal | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-antitrust-subsidies-china/chinese-lobby-group-slams-eu-plan-against-state-backed-foreign-buyers-idUSKCN26F324 | 2020-09-25 |
| If the U.S. policy shift comes through on top of the EU and China commitments theres real hope it can he added | Positive | Thats a huge number and totally different to what we saw a climate scientist and contributor to the tracker told a New York Climate Week online panel | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-climatechange-emissions-politics/china-pledge-and-biden-win-could-move-climate-goals-into-view-scientists-say-idUSKCN26E3DI | 2020-09-24 |
| Germany reiterated that it did not recognise Lukashenko as president and called for EU sanctions to be agreed as soon as possible | Negative | MINSK Belarusian security forces detained protesters and fired water cannon to disperse crowds as thousands took to the streets of Minsk against the abrupt inauguration of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-belarus-election/thousands-protest-after-belarusian-leader-hastily-sworn-in-idUSKCN26E1BH | 2020-09-24 |
| Speaking at her weekly briefing Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova did not say which EU institutions would be affected by the latest decision | Negative | MOSCOW Russias Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it was increasing the number of European Union officials barred from entering the country in response to what it called unfriendly against Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-eu/russia-bars-more-eu-officials-from-entering-the-country-over-unfriendly-moves-ministry-idUSKCN26E2BK | 2020-09-24 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union is unlikely to follow through on a threat to impose sanctions on Turkey after Ankara agreed to talks with Greece over maritime claims on Tuesday senior EU diplomats and officials said | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union is unlikely to follow through on a threat to impose sanctions on Turkey after Ankara agreed to talks with Greece over maritime claims on Tuesday senior EU diplomats and officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-cyprus-belarus/eu-sanction-threat-on-turkey-fades-after-it-accepts-talks-with-greece-idUSKCN26E2WA | 2020-09-24 |
| Cyprus proposed in June to impose sanctions on Turkish companies and individuals involved in drilling but many EU states say such measures would derail diplomacy | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union is unlikely to follow through on a threat to impose sanctions on Turkey after Ankara agreed to talks with Greece over maritime claims on Tuesday senior EU diplomats and officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-cyprus-belarus/eu-sanction-threat-on-turkey-fades-after-it-accepts-talks-with-greece-idUSKCN26E2WA | 2020-09-24 |
| The Luxembourgbased ECA which vets the collection and use of EU funds said the stakes are high as digitalisation could generate more than 110 billion euros in annual revenues | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Unions bet on advanced technologies to help its companies and the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic faces hurdles ahead held back by the uneven digital pace across the 27country block the EUs budget watchdog warned on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-eu-tech/uneven-progress-among-members-hampers-eus-digital-ambitions-auditors-warn-idUSKCN26D16S | 2020-09-23 |
| BRUSSELS The European Unions bet on advanced technologies to help its companies and the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic faces hurdles ahead held back by the uneven digital pace across the 27country block the EUs budget watchdog warned on Tuesday | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions bet on advanced technologies to help its companies and the economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic faces hurdles ahead held back by the uneven digital pace across the 27country block the EUs budget watchdog warned on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-eu-tech/uneven-progress-among-members-hampers-eus-digital-ambitions-auditors-warn-idUSKCN26D16S | 2020-09-23 |
| On Tuesday Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan held a video summit with German Chancellor Angela Merkel whose country has mediated in the dispute and EU Council President Charles Michel | Positive | Turkey and Greece have agreed to resume talks over their contested maritime claims in the eastern Mediterranean after a four year hiatus following weeks of tensions that culminated in a collision between their warships | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece-eu/turkey-greece-agree-to-resume-talks-after-four-years-idUSKCN26D1UC | 2020-09-23 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union will negotiate with Britain in good faith in Brexit talks EU Commission VicePresident Maros Sefcovic said on Tuesday following a meeting of Europe ministers in Brussels | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union will negotiate with Britain in good faith in Brexit talks EU Commission VicePresident Maros Sefcovic said on Tuesday following a meeting of Europe ministers in Brussels | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-commission/eus-executive-offers-britain-good-faith-in-brexit-talks-idUSKCN26D27X | 2020-09-23 |
| BRUSSELS Germanys Europe Minister Michael Roth urged Britain on Tuesday to drop plans for a bill that would break the countrys obligations to the European Union under its withdrawal treaty as time was running out to clinch an EUBritain trade deal | Negative | BRUSSELS Germanys Europe Minister Michael Roth urged Britain on Tuesday to drop plans for a bill that would break the countrys obligations to the European Union under its withdrawal treaty as time was running out to clinch an EUBritain trade deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-germany/germany-tells-britain-to-stop-the-games-time-running-out-for-deal-idUSKCN26D12H | 2020-09-23 |
| Russia which sees Belarus as a buffer state against the EU and NATO supported Lukashenko and has accused the United States of fomenting revolution in its neighbour | Negative | PABRADE Lithuania A new contingent of U.S. troops and armour will be deployed in Lithuania in November but their presence is not linked to the situation in neighbouring Belarus Lithuanias defence minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-belarus-election-us-military/u-s-troops-to-stay-longer-in-lithuania-defence-minister-says-idUSKCN26D17Z | 2020-09-23 |
| Turkeys presidential spokesman said on Sunday that exploratory talks could resume but that threats of EU sanctions were not helpful | Negative | ATHENS Greece is close to resuming talks with Turkey over maritime zones government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Monday after Ankara this month recalled an oil and gas exploration vessel from disputed Mediterranean waters in a move welcomed by Athens | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-spokesman/greece-says-its-close-to-resuming-maritime-talks-with-turkey-idUSKCN26C1DM | 2020-09-22 |
| Russia sees Belarus as a strategic buffer state against the EU and NATO and has accused the United States of fomenting revolution in its neighbour | Negative | More than 100000 people marched through Minsk on Sunday on the sixth straight weekend of protests against President Alexander Lukashenko keeping up the pressure on the veteran Belarusian leader to quit | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-belarus-election/mass-rallies-and-police-data-leaks-in-belarus-keep-pressure-on-lukashenko-idUSKCN26B09X | 2020-09-21 |
| Minsk reacted angrily on Saturday to reports that Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya the leading opposition candidate in last months election could soon meet EU foreign ministers | Negative | Belarusian police detained hundreds of protesters in central Minsk on Saturday a witness said as around 2000 people marched through the city demanding that President Alexander Lukashenko step down | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-belarus-election-protests/belarus-police-detain-hundreds-of-protesters-in-minsk-idUSKCN26A0O1 | 2020-09-20 |
| LONDON The European Union will introduce new rules within four years to make crossborder payments quicker and cheaper through the use of blockchain and crypto assets like stablecoins two EU documents showed | Positive | LONDON The European Union will introduce new rules within four years to make crossborder payments quicker and cheaper through the use of blockchain and crypto assets like stablecoins two EU documents showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-cryptoassets/eu-to-introduce-crypto-assets-regime-by-2024-eu-documents-say-idUSKBN2692CP | 2020-09-19 |
| PARIS LVMH said on Friday it had submitted its troubled takeover of Tiffany which is now at the centre of a legal dispute between the two groups for EU approval as it seeks to counter accusations that it deliberately stalled antitrust proceedings | Negative | PARIS LVMH said on Friday it had submitted its troubled takeover of Tiffany which is now at the centre of a legal dispute between the two groups for EU approval as it seeks to counter accusations that it deliberately stalled antitrust proceedings | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tiffany-m-a-lvmh/lvmh-submits-disputed-tiffany-takeover-for-eu-clearance-idUSKBN2692XB | 2020-09-19 |
| The U.N. debate in Geneva called to vote on an EU proposal for increased monitoring was interrupted repeatedly by the delegations of Belarus Russia China and Venezuela raising procedural objections | Negative | GENEVA The United Nations agreed on Friday to step up monitoring of reported rights abuses during Belaruss crackdown on protests angering Minsk and its ally Moscow and raising the diplomatic stakes in the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/u-n-steps-up-monitoring-of-reported-abuses-in-belarus-raising-stakes-idUSKBN2691PW | 2020-09-19 |
| Internal divisions have up to now hampered an EU push to impose sanctions on Belarus | Negative | GENEVA The United Nations agreed on Friday to step up monitoring of reported rights abuses during Belaruss crackdown on protests angering Minsk and its ally Moscow and raising the diplomatic stakes in the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/u-n-steps-up-monitoring-of-reported-abuses-in-belarus-raising-stakes-idUSKBN2691PW | 2020-09-19 |
| The role of European development institutions in bankrolling LNG projects around the world has also come under greater scrutiny given the EUs ambitious climate goals | Positive | LONDON International lenders have lined up about | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-novatek-lng-finance-exclusive/exclusive-international-lenders-back-9-5-billion-financing-for-russias-arctic-lng-2-document-idUSKBN26913T | 2020-09-19 |
| Producing such broadbrush plans is easy but Italy will need to dramatically raise its game in terms of using EU financing to actually develop and complete projects | Negative | ROME Italy the euro zones third largest but most chronically sluggish economy will soon get a windfall that could transform its fortunes not necessarily for the better | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-italy-economy-eu-analysis/italys-recovery-fund-windfall-panacea-or-poisoned-chalice-idUSKBN2672DX | 2020-09-18 |
| BRUSSELS Leaders of Europes coronavirusstricken travel and tourism industries have appealed to the EUs chief executive to press governments to end quarantine requirements and instead embrace coordinated restrictions and testing | Negative | BRUSSELS Leaders of Europes coronavirusstricken travel and tourism industries have appealed to the EUs chief executive to press governments to end quarantine requirements and instead embrace coordinated restrictions and testing | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/health-coronavirus-eu-airlines/eu-travel-industry-steps-up-quarantine-pushback-idUSKBN2690IK | 2020-09-18 |
| BRUSSELS European Union governments are considering a number of new EUwide taxes that would allow the 27nation bloc to repay the planned 750 billion euros of borrowing for boosting the economy after the COVID19 pandemic | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union governments are considering a number of new EUwide taxes that would allow the 27nation bloc to repay the planned 750 billion euros of borrowing for boosting the economy after the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-taxes-factbox/factbox-sources-of-financing-for-750-billion-euro-eu-recovery-package-idUSKBN26733A | 2020-09-17 |
| Minimum wages vary widely in EU countries in July 2020 ranged from 312 euros a month in Bulgaria to 2142 euro a month in Luxembourg | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Commission will propose a framework for minimum wages in the 27nation bloc European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen said in a speech on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-commission-wages/eu-executive-to-propose-framework-for-minimal-wage-in-eu-idUSKBN2670ZQ | 2020-09-17 |
| Last month Polands justice minister said a town that had lost EU funding after dubbing itself a zone free of LGBT would receive government financial support | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions chief executive said on Wednesday there was no place in the bloc for socalled LGBTfree a pointed criticism of Polands nationalist government pushing to curb the rights of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-commission-democracy/eu-chief-executive-decries-lgbt-free-zones-in-swipe-at-poland-idUSKBN26719V | 2020-09-17 |
| The Law and Justice government in Poland as well as its eurosceptic ally Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban have long been at loggerheads with the EU over undercutting democratic standards | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions chief executive said on Wednesday there was no place in the bloc for socalled LGBTfree a pointed criticism of Polands nationalist government pushing to curb the rights of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-commission-democracy/eu-chief-executive-decries-lgbt-free-zones-in-swipe-at-poland-idUSKBN26719V | 2020-09-17 |
| BRUSSELS European Union leaders will ask the EU executive next week to name strategic areas where the bloc relies too much on countries such as China and the United States and to propose ways to make it more independent according to a document seen by Reuters | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will ask the EU executive next week to name strategic areas where the bloc relies too much on countries such as China and the United States and to propose ways to make it more independent according to a document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-weaknesses/eu-leaders-to-ask-european-commission-to-name-areas-of-strategic-weakness-idUSKBN2672G9 | 2020-09-17 |
| Why are even simple statements on EU values delayed watered down or held hostage for other European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen said in her of the Union speech | Negative | BRUSSELS The EUs chief executive chided European Union governments on Wednesday for an ineffective foreign policy and proposed U.S.style sanctions on human rights abusers around the world | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-commission-diplomacy/be-courageous-in-diplomacy-eu-chief-says-proposing-new-sanctions-idUSKBN26717M | 2020-09-17 |
| Mitsotakis said a permanent new reception facility would be built on Lesbos with EU support and that the notoriously overcrowded and squalid Moria camp belongs to the | Positive | LESBOS Greece Greek police have detained six migrants over a fire that razed the Moria refugee camp to the ground the government said on Tuesday as thousands of displaced people refused to move to a new facility and demanded to leave Lesbos island | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-europe-migrants-greece-lesbos/greek-police-arrest-six-over-lesbos-fire-migrants-resist-new-camp-idUSKBN2661RK | 2020-09-16 |
| BRUSSELS A struck last month to remove EU tariffs on U.S. lobsters is unlikely to be followed swiftly by similar accords given transatlantic differences over agriculture EU Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Monday | Negative | BRUSSELS A struck last month to remove EU tariffs on U.S. lobsters is unlikely to be followed swiftly by similar accords given transatlantic differences over agriculture EU Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-trade-eu/no-u-s-mini-trade-deals-in-pipe-after-lobster-pact-eus-dombrovskis-idUSKBN2651LO | 2020-09-15 |
| The existing target is a cut and some poorer fossil fueldependent EU states are unwilling to commit to deeper cuts | Negative | BRUSSELS Investors managing trillions in assets and more than 120 business leaders called on the European Union to commit to cut emissions by at least by 2030 on Tuesday saying anything less would fail to unlock the private financing needed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-climate-change-eu-target/funds-and-firms-call-for-tougher-2030-eu-climate-target-idUSKBN2660G8 | 2020-09-15 |
| The British government has accused EU negotiators of threatening to impose a food blockade between mainland Britain and Northern Ireland and says the proposed legislation would prevent that | Negative | DUBLIN British and European Union negotiators are likely to have a few weeks to avoid a breakdown of trade talks but that window will close if a contentious British bill becomes law Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-ireland-coveney/brexit-trade-talks-have-window-before-contentious-uk-law-can-take-effect-ireland-idUSKBN2640I4 | 2020-09-14 |
| British lawmakers will on Monday begin debating the Internal Markets Bill which the EU has said is unacceptable and would breach a divorce treaty agreed with the bloc | Negative | DUBLIN British and European Union negotiators are likely to have a few weeks to avoid a breakdown of trade talks but that window will close if a contentious British bill becomes law Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-ireland-coveney/brexit-trade-talks-have-window-before-contentious-uk-law-can-take-effect-ireland-idUSKBN2640I4 | 2020-09-14 |
| London explicitly acknowledged last week that it could break international law by ignoring some parts of its European Union divorce treaty prompting a rapid rebuke from the EUs chief executive | Negative | By Hideyuki Sano | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-pound-haunted-by-brexit-yen-looks-to-abe-successor-vote-idUSL4N2GB07F | 2020-09-14 |
| BUDAPEST Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto will be the only EU diplomatic leader to attend the signing ceremony on Tuesday in Washington for the IsraelUnited Arab Emirates peace deal his spokesman said on Sunday | Positive | BUDAPEST Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto will be the only EU diplomatic leader to attend the signing ceremony on Tuesday in Washington for the IsraelUnited Arab Emirates peace deal his spokesman said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-uae-hungary-eu/hungary-says-it-will-be-only-eu-country-to-send-minister-to-israel-uae-accord-signing-idUSKBN2640XX | 2020-09-14 |
| It will take time to localise hightech materials like EUV photoresist former Hynix engineer Kim Sangyong said | Positive | DAEJEON South Korea When the South Korea government unveiled an expanded semiconductor material testing facility last month the centrepiece was a towering white machine given by Samsung Electronics | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-southkorea-japan-chip-analysis/south-korea-government-samsung-team-up-for-self-sufficiency-after-japan-export-curbs-on-chip-material-idUSKBN26501U | 2020-09-14 |
| That could cost EU plants 57 | Negative | BRUSSELS Europe and Britains car industries called on Monday on the two sides to urgently clinch a free trade agreement warning that a disorderly Brexit would cost the sector 110 billion euros in lost trade over the next five years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-autos/europe-britains-carmakers-warn-of-110-billion-euro-hard-brexit-bill-idUSKBN2640Z1 | 2020-09-14 |
| These losses would come on top of an estimated 100 billion euros in lost UK and EU production value so far this year as car sales plunged during the pandemic | Negative | BRUSSELS Europe and Britains car industries called on Monday on the two sides to urgently clinch a free trade agreement warning that a disorderly Brexit would cost the sector 110 billion euros in lost trade over the next five years | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-autos/europe-britains-carmakers-warn-of-110-billion-euro-hard-brexit-bill-idUSKBN2640Z1 | 2020-09-14 |
| My assessment is that an unregulated situation would have very significant consequences for the British Scholz told a news conference after a meeting of EU finance ministers in Berlin | Positive | BERLIN A Brexit would hurt the British economy a lot more than the European Union German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-economy-brexit/no-deal-brexit-would-hurt-britain-more-than-eu-germanys-scholz-idUSKBN2630JM | 2020-09-13 |
| The existing target of a cut by 2030 will not be enough for the EU to meet its goal of net zero emissions by 2050 | Negative | BRUSSELS The worlds biggest carbon trading market faces a major overhaul under European Union climate change plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions faster this decade a draft seen by Reuters shows | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climate-change-eu-target/worlds-largest-carbon-market-faces-revamp-under-draft-eu-plan-idUSKBN2630H6 | 2020-09-13 |
| The draft confirms plans to expand the ETS into new sectors including at least intraEU maritime and possibly road transport and buildings | Positive | BRUSSELS The worlds biggest carbon trading market faces a major overhaul under European Union climate change plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions faster this decade a draft seen by Reuters shows | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climate-change-eu-target/worlds-largest-carbon-market-faces-revamp-under-draft-eu-plan-idUSKBN2630H6 | 2020-09-13 |
| The European Commission expects the EU economy to shrink by an unprecedented 8 | Negative | BERLIN Euro zone finance ministers pledged continued fiscal support on Friday to get their economies running again after the COVID19 crisis chairman of the Eurogroup Paschal Donohoe said after they met in Berlin | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-economy-eurozone-support/euro-zone-ministers-pledge-lasting-fiscal-support-for-economy-idUSKBN2621LV | 2020-09-12 |
| Japan has used Britain as a probusiness gateway into the rest of the EU but some Japanese politicians have expressed concerns that a socalled nodeal Brexit might affect this | Negative | Britain secured its first big postBrexit trade deal on Friday an agreement with Japan which it hailed as as it struggles to agree on trade with its closest trading partners in the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-japan-trade/uk-secures-agreement-with-japan-on-first-post-brexit-trade-deal-idUSKBN26211R | 2020-09-12 |
| AJACCIO France The European Union will draw up a list of new sanctions on Turkey at the end of September unless Ankara comes to the negotiating table to resolve a territorial dispute with Greece and Cyprus the EUs Mediterranean states said on Thursday | Negative | AJACCIO France The European Union will draw up a list of new sanctions on Turkey at the end of September unless Ankara comes to the negotiating table to resolve a territorial dispute with Greece and Cyprus the EUs Mediterranean states said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-mediterranean-summit-greece-turkey/europes-south-tells-turkey-resume-talks-this-month-or-risk-sanctions-idUSKBN261394 | 2020-09-11 |
| We will avert Turkeys attempt to divide he said adding that Greece has been fulfilling its duty in protecting EU borders and expects solidarity in return | Negative | AJACCIO France The European Union will draw up a list of new sanctions on Turkey at the end of September unless Ankara comes to the negotiating table to resolve a territorial dispute with Greece and Cyprus the EUs Mediterranean states said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-mediterranean-summit-greece-turkey/europes-south-tells-turkey-resume-talks-this-month-or-risk-sanctions-idUSKBN261394 | 2020-09-11 |
| The 406 unaccompanied minors were taken to safe facilities in northern Greece where they will stay temporarily while preparations for their relocation to other EU countries is ongoing | Positive | LESBOS Thousands of migrants were stranded without shelter on Lesbos on Thursday after fires razed their camp to the ground and the government said it would take days to find housing for them | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-europe-migrants-greece-lesbos/lesbos-migrants-sleep-on-roadsides-housing-will-take-days-idUSKBN2610WH | 2020-09-11 |
| BRUSSELS Europes creative industry has criticised the European Commissions consultation on new EU copyright rules for departing from the original directive agreed last year and being unworkable | Negative | BRUSSELS Europes creative industry has criticised the European Commissions consultation on new EU copyright rules for departing from the original directive agreed last year and being unworkable | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-eu-copyright/europes-creative-industry-slams-eu-commission-for-rewriting-copyright-rules-idUSKBN2612NP | 2020-09-11 |
| Collaboration is the best way to prevent this dramatic event from negatively affecting relations between the EU and Conte added | Positive | ROME Russias President Vladimir Putin has told Italys prime minister that he will set up a committee to investigate the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny Giuseppe Conte was quoted on Thursday as saying | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-committee/putin-to-set-up-inquiry-into-navalny-poisoning-italys-pm-idUSKBN2610ZE | 2020-09-11 |
| The proposed guidance amounts to an attempt to rewrite the Directive and amend EU copyright law without due legislative the trade bodies said | Negative | BRUSSELS Europes creative industry has criticised the European Commissions consultation on new EU copyright rules for departing from the original directive agreed last year and being unworkable | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-eu-copyright/europes-creative-industry-slams-eu-commission-for-rewriting-copyright-rules-idUSKBN2612NP | 2020-09-11 |
| BRUSSELS Britain and the European Union are at odds over Britains Internal Market Bill which violates the treaty on Britains withdrawal from the EU and could derail talks on a trade agreement | Negative | BRUSSELS Britain and the European Union are at odds over Britains Internal Market Bill which violates the treaty on Britains withdrawal from the EU and could derail talks on a trade agreement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-dispute-settlement/how-britain-and-eu-can-settle-internal-market-bill-dispute-idUSKBN2611I7 | 2020-09-11 |
| What we know is that over the past six years since the events in the Ukraine happened the U.S. and EU have been continually applying Moreno said | Neutral | LONDON The Wests push to impose sanctions on Russia over an alleged nerve agent attack on President Vladimir Putins main political opponent is getting a familiar shrug of the shoulders from international investors who view Moscows finances as just too strong to be cracked | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-markets-sanctions-analysis/new-sanction-threats-same-shrugs-from-russias-investors-idUSKBN26022T | 2020-09-10 |
| The agreement calls for borderfree trade on the island of Ireland which the EU says should in some cases require checks on goods passing between Northern Ireland and mainland Britain | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned Britain on Wednesday that ignoring some parts of its European Union divorce treaty could imperil any new trade agreement with the United States | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-eu-usa-congress/u-s-house-speaker-warns-britain-that-breaking-brexit-treaty-could-imperil-trade-pact-idUSKBN260374 | 2020-09-10 |
| We will continue to transfer data in compliance with the recent CJEU ruling and until we receive further guidance | Positive | The key mechanism used by Facebook to transfer data from the European Union to the United States cannot in practice be for such transfers according to Irelands Data Protection Commission Facebook said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy/facebooks-eu-us-data-transfer-mechanism-cannot-be-used-irish-regulator-says-idUSKBN2602X4 | 2020-09-10 |
| DUBLIN Irelands Prime Minister spoke to British counterpart Boris Johnson by telephone on Wednesday evening to express concern about a threat by a British minister to break international law in the implementation of its EU divorce treaty | Negative | DUBLIN Irelands Prime Minister spoke to British counterpart Boris Johnson by telephone on Wednesday evening to express concern about a threat by a British minister to break international law in the implementation of its EU divorce treaty | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-ireland-martin/irish-pm-calls-uks-johnson-to-express-concerns-idUSKBN2602YI | 2020-09-10 |
| PARIS France accused the United States on Wednesday of seeking to undermine international talks to update crossborder taxation for the digital age and urged Europe to prepare an EU tax if the negotiations fail | Negative | PARIS France accused the United States on Wednesday of seeking to undermine international talks to update crossborder taxation for the digital age and urged Europe to prepare an EU tax if the negotiations fail | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-oecd-tax-france/france-says-u-s-blocking-global-digital-tax-talks-idUSKBN2602ZC | 2020-09-10 |
| He stressed to the PM that the U.K. government should reengage with EU negotiators urgently | Neutral | DUBLIN Irelands Prime Minister spoke to British counterpart Boris Johnson by telephone on Wednesday evening to express concern about a threat by a British minister to break international law in the implementation of its EU divorce treaty | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-ireland-martin/irish-pm-calls-uks-johnson-to-express-concerns-idUSKBN2602YI | 2020-09-10 |
| DUBLIN Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin is to speak to British counterpart Boris Johnson to express very strong about a threat by a British minister to break international law in the implementation of its EU divorce treaty | Negative | DUBLIN Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin is to speak to British counterpart Boris Johnson to express very strong about a threat by a British minister to break international law in the implementation of its EU divorce treaty | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-ireland-martin/irish-pm-to-express-strong-concerns-to-uks-johnson-on-brexit-move-idUSKBN2601CV | 2020-09-10 |
| DUBLIN A threat by a British minister to break international law in the implementation of its EU divorce treaty has backfired but a trade deal is still possible Irelands deputy prime minister Leo Varadkar said on Wednesday | Negative | DUBLIN A threat by a British minister to break international law in the implementation of its EU divorce treaty has backfired but a trade deal is still possible Irelands deputy prime minister Leo Varadkar said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-ireland-varadkar/irelands-varadkar-says-kamikaze-british-threat-to-break-law-has-backfired-idUSKBN26013Q | 2020-09-10 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union wants to reposition its economy to become more independent from global powers like Asia and the United States in the production medicines and processors the chairman of EU leaders Charles Michel said on Tuesday | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union wants to reposition its economy to become more independent from global powers like Asia and the United States in the production medicines and processors the chairman of EU leaders Charles Michel said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-economy-autonomy/eu-aims-for-strategic-economic-autonomy-after-covid-pandemic-idUSKBN25Z1GL | 2020-09-09 |
| Speaking at the Brussels Economic Forum Michel said the strategic independence of the 27nation bloc in essential products was the EUs projects for this century | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union wants to reposition its economy to become more independent from global powers like Asia and the United States in the production medicines and processors the chairman of EU leaders Charles Michel said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-economy-autonomy/eu-aims-for-strategic-economic-autonomy-after-covid-pandemic-idUSKBN25Z1GL | 2020-09-09 |
| But experts have raised doubts over whether the EU carbon market its flagship climate policy tool would be effective in pricing emissions from cars | Negative | BRUSSELS Road transport should not be top of the list when the European Union expands its carbon market into new sectors the blocs climate policy chief said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-transportation-eu-emissions/eu-carbon-market-not-the-right-policy-for-cars-blocs-climate-chief-says-idUSKBN25Z2RP | 2020-09-09 |
| Worldline has until Wednesday to offer concessions to the European Commission unless it can convince the EU competition enforcer prior to that deadline that the move is unnecessary | Negative | If Worldline is not able to allay EU concerns and in the absence of concessions the deal would face a fullscale investigation following the end of the EUs preliminary review | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-ingenico-group-m-a-worldline-eu-exclu/exclusive-worldline-9-2-billion-ingenico-deal-may-need-eu-concessions-sources-idUSKBN25Y1KO | 2020-09-08 |
| This would place a considerable burden on the image of the EU and Germany as a safe investment he said | Negative | Abandoning the nearly complete Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany could create a legal mess and nudge up energy costs for European households but Germany would cope with any disruption to supplies economists say | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-nordstream/no-nord-stream-2-no-problem-for-germany-economists-say-idUSKBN25Y1Q6 | 2020-09-08 |
| The Greek conservative leader discussed the latest twists in the row with European Council President Charles Michel who chairs summits of EU leaders during a phone call on Monday | Negative | ATHENS Greece plans to acquire arms boost its armed forces and revamp its defence industry the governments spokesman said on Monday as tensions with NATO ally Turkey over energy resources in the eastern Mediterranean grow | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-greece-turkey-defence/greece-to-bolster-defence-sector-as-eastern-mediterranean-tensions-rise-idUSKBN25Y152 | 2020-09-08 |
| If Worldline is not able to allay EU concerns and in the absence of concessions the deal would face a fullscale investigation following the end of the EUs preliminary review | Negative | If Worldline is not able to allay EU concerns and in the absence of concessions the deal would face a fullscale investigation following the end of the EUs preliminary review | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-ingenico-group-m-a-worldline-eu-exclu/exclusive-worldline-9-2-billion-ingenico-deal-may-need-eu-concessions-sources-idUSKBN25Y1KO | 2020-09-08 |
| BRUSSELS Europe must improve migration procedures on its external borders seal more deals with foreign countries and synchronise asylum policies in the bloc before it tackles the thorny issue of hosting asylum seekers a top EU official said on Friday | Negative | BRUSSELS Europe must improve migration procedures on its external borders seal more deals with foreign countries and synchronise asylum policies in the bloc before it tackles the thorny issue of hosting asylum seekers a top EU official said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-europe-migrants-eu/eus-michel-says-relocation-no-silver-bullet-to-migration-feuds-idUSKBN25V2KD | 2020-09-05 |
| The blocs executive now wants overhaul of EU asylum law | Negative | BRUSSELS Europe must improve migration procedures on its external borders seal more deals with foreign countries and synchronise asylum policies in the bloc before it tackles the thorny issue of hosting asylum seekers a top EU official said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-europe-migrants-eu/eus-michel-says-relocation-no-silver-bullet-to-migration-feuds-idUSKBN25V2KD | 2020-09-05 |
| Hungary has said that to pass that decision they want to sort out the rule of one senior EU diplomat told Reuters on condition of anonymity | Neutral | Sept 3 Hungary has refused to grant final approval of the European Unions planned 750 billion euros borrowing to spur economic recovery in the bloc from the coronavirus pandemic without guarantees on a linked mechanism on the rule of law diplomatic sources said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/eu-recovery-hungary/hungary-threatens-eus-covid-19-recovery-financing-over-rule-of-law-idUSL8N2G05W7 | 2020-09-04 |
| Well take some time and then we are headed for sanctions most a senior EU diplomat told Reuters under condition of anonymity adding that the process would take several weeks | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union will likely impose new sanctions on Moscow over the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny but not straight away to give time to uncover the culprits according to the blocs executive and diplomatic sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-eu/eu-eyeing-new-sanctions-on-russia-over-navalny-case-idUSKBN25U1LY | 2020-09-04 |
| These credits are trading near record highs as speculators have bought into the idea that tougher EU climate targets will boost demand while analysts predict further rises | Positive | BRUSSELS Most industries covered by the European Unions carbon market would see free credits cut by the highest possible rate over the next five years under draft plans potentially costing some of the biggest polluters millions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climate-change-eu-industry-exclusive/exclusive-eu-draft-plan-targets-free-carbon-credit-cut-for-most-industries-idUSKBN25T2AM | 2020-09-03 |
| The use of chemical weapons under any circumstances is completely unacceptable and a breach of international the EUs High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell said in a statement | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union condemned in the strongest possible on Wednesday the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and called on Russia to thoroughly investigate the assassination attempt and bring those responsible to justice | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-eu/eu-condemns-in-the-strongest-possible-terms-russian-navalny-poisoning-statement-idUSKBN25T2Z6 | 2020-09-03 |
| The impact industry makes on the climate faces increased policymaker scrutiny as the EU attempts to steer sectors towards its Green goal of net zero emissions by 2050 | Positive | BRUSSELS Most industries covered by the European Unions carbon market would see free credits cut by the highest possible rate over the next five years under draft plans potentially costing some of the biggest polluters millions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climate-change-eu-industry-exclusive/exclusive-eu-draft-plan-targets-free-carbon-credit-cut-for-most-industries-idUSKBN25T2AM | 2020-09-03 |
| DUBLIN Britain must engage now with EU demands on guarantees of fair competition fisheries and solving disputes in order to seal a deal on new trade ties by a strict of endOctober the EU Brexit negotiator said on Wednesday | Negative | DUBLIN Britain must engage now with EU demands on guarantees of fair competition fisheries and solving disputes in order to seal a deal on new trade ties by a strict of endOctober the EU Brexit negotiator said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-barnier/britain-must-move-now-to-bag-new-eu-deal-this-year-eu-brexit-negotiator-says-idUSKBN25T1Z8 | 2020-09-03 |
| The Commission will put forward proposals to apply carbon costs to polluting imports next year to shield EU firms from being undercut by countries with weaker climate policies | Positive | BRUSSELS Most industries covered by the European Unions carbon market would see free credits cut by the highest possible rate over the next five years under draft plans potentially costing some of the biggest polluters millions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climate-change-eu-industry-exclusive/exclusive-eu-draft-plan-targets-free-carbon-credit-cut-for-most-industries-idUSKBN25T2AM | 2020-09-03 |
| A UK source described Barniers comments as a deliberate and misleading of British proposals and said they were aimed at deflecting scrutiny from the EUs own positions | Negative | DUBLIN Britain must engage now with EU demands on guarantees of fair competition fisheries and solving disputes in order to seal a deal on new trade ties by a strict of endOctober the EU Brexit negotiator said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-barnier/britain-must-move-now-to-bag-new-eu-deal-this-year-eu-brexit-negotiator-says-idUSKBN25T1Z8 | 2020-09-03 |
| Some 80 billion euros of the overall cost of the plan will weigh directly on the budget deficit with EU subsidies offsetting 40 billion euros officials said | Negative | PARIS The French government detailed on Thursday its 100 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-france-economy/france-unleashes-100-billion-euro-stimulus-to-revive-economy-idUSKBN25U0IA | 2020-09-03 |
| The carbon market is the EUs main policy for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by forcing power plants and factories to buy credits to cover their emissions | Positive | BRUSSELS Most industries covered by the European Unions carbon market would see free credits cut by the highest possible rate over the next five years under draft plans potentially costing some of the biggest polluters millions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climate-change-eu-industry-exclusive/exclusive-eu-draft-plan-targets-free-carbon-credit-cut-for-most-industries-idUSKBN25T2AM | 2020-09-03 |
| The European Commission said it would contribute 400 million euros to an initiative led by the World Health Organization to buy COVID19 vaccines but did not clarify whether EU states would acquire shots through the WHO scheme | Positive | The European Commission said it would contribute 400 million euros to an initiative led by the World Health Organization to buy COVID19 vaccines but did not clarify whether EU states would acquire shots through the WHO scheme | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-coronavirus-idUSKBN25Q0A6 | 2020-09-01 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission will be able to recall vehicles and potentially revoke their roadworthiness certifications if they breach EU emissions limits under new rules that apply from Tuesday and aim to avoid a repeat of the scandal | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission will be able to recall vehicles and potentially revoke their roadworthiness certifications if they breach EU emissions limits under new rules that apply from Tuesday and aim to avoid a repeat of the scandal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-emissions-vehicles/eu-gains-power-to-recall-vehicles-for-flouting-emissions-rules-idUSKBN25R2AG | 2020-09-01 |
| That is why EURUSD is trading above 1 | Positive | Euro set for fourth month of gains | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-euro-up-dollar-down-august-ends-with-new-milestones-idUSL8N2FX2X8 | 2020-09-01 |
| PARIS The Chinese governments top diplomat State Councillor Wang Yi said on Sunday it was possible to conclude an EUChina investment accord by the end of 2020 | Positive | PARIS The Chinese governments top diplomat State Councillor Wang Yi said on Sunday it was possible to conclude an EUChina investment accord by the end of 2020 | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-eu/senior-china-diplomat-says-its-possible-to-agree-eu-china-investment-accord-by-end-2020-idUSKBN25Q0BQ | 2020-08-31 |
| Lamy added to his overweight position in Italy after the fund was approved encouraged by the EUs unprecedented show of solidarity which bodes well for debt sustainability | Positive | AMSTERDAM Investors may struggle to find new southern European government bonds for the next two years as the European Unions support programmes could cover much of the new funding needs of countries worst hit by the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eurozone-bonds-netborrowing/for-all-the-debt-new-italy-or-spain-bonds-may-be-hard-to-find-idUSKBN25O1G3 | 2020-08-29 |
| Prague has opted for the EU programme instead | Positive | The World Health Organization will next week receive a raft of pledges of support for its plan for COVID19 vaccines for all | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-vaccines/new-reckoning-for-who-vaccine-plan-as-governments-go-it-alone-idUSKBN25O0L6 | 2020-08-29 |
| The Czech Republic and Portugal were listed as early backers but government support appears to have cooled after joining the EU vaccine procurement programme | Negative | The World Health Organization will next week receive a raft of pledges of support for its plan for COVID19 vaccines for all | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-vaccines/new-reckoning-for-who-vaccine-plan-as-governments-go-it-alone-idUSKBN25O0L6 | 2020-08-29 |
| The bar to resort to EU debt if problems come up has been lowered and this is more important than the actual funding Commerzbanks Rieger said | Negative | AMSTERDAM Investors may struggle to find new southern European government bonds for the next two years as the European Unions support programmes could cover much of the new funding needs of countries worst hit by the pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eurozone-bonds-netborrowing/for-all-the-debt-new-italy-or-spain-bonds-may-be-hard-to-find-idUSKBN25O1G3 | 2020-08-29 |
| In Berlin Borrell said the bloc was ready to sanction Turkish vessels block their access to EU ports and cut off supplies | Negative | The European Union is preparing sanctions against Turkey that could be discussed at the blocs next summit on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-eu/eu-set-to-sanction-turkey-over-ships-in-disputed-east-med-exploration-area-idUSKBN25O29H | 2020-08-29 |
| Turkey is a formal candidate to join the EU although its candidacy is at risk and could be withdrawn as a type of sanction diplomats have said | Negative | The European Union is preparing sanctions against Turkey that could be discussed at the blocs next summit on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-eu/eu-set-to-sanction-turkey-over-ships-in-disputed-east-med-exploration-area-idUSKBN25O29H | 2020-08-29 |
| Two senior EU diplomats told Reuters that foreign ministers agreed to leave any decision to EU government leaders who are set to meet for a twoday summit from Sept | Positive | The European Union is preparing sanctions against Turkey that could be discussed at the blocs next summit on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-eu/eu-set-to-sanction-turkey-over-ships-in-disputed-east-med-exploration-area-idUSKBN25O29H | 2020-08-29 |
| Greece has repeatedly called for EU sanctions on Turkey for its activities while Turkey has urged the EU to stop Greece and push dialogue | Negative | ANKARA Turkey and Greece were set to hold separate naval drills in the same region of the eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday escalating tensions over overlapping resource claims ahead of talks in Athens and Ankara by Germanys top diplomat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-germany/turkey-greece-to-hold-rival-naval-drills-as-germany-aims-to-cool-row-idUSKBN25L1C9 | 2020-08-28 |
| We do not expect the business to completely recover until the end of year as most of our orders are from the EU and Wang told Reuters | Negative | BEIJING When the government of the south China city of Zhongshan heard that watchmaker Kam Yuen Group was furloughing more than 100 workers it brokered a deal to shift the surplus staff to another manufacturer a growing practice | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-labour/we-share-workers-chinese-factories-redeploy-staff-to-weather-pandemic-blow-idUSKBN25N0XL | 2020-08-28 |
| It is the first contract signed by the EU with a maker of potential COVID19 vaccines | Positive | The 27 EU states could buy it at a later stage should the vaccine prove successful | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccine-price/eu-pays-336-million-euros-to-secure-astrazenecas-potential-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN25N25X | 2020-08-28 |
| The document classifies as belonging to priority over 200 million of the EU population of 450 million including people with chronic diseases the elderly and health workers | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union nations Britain and EU partners have agreed on a blueprint for a COVID19 vaccination plan envisaging inoculation of at least of their populations a step that may set back the World Health Organisations own vaccine blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccination/eu-eyes-initial-covid-19-vaccination-for-at-least-40-of-population-idUSKBN25M1KW | 2020-08-27 |
| Phil Hogan quit as the EUs Trade Commissioner on Wednesday after days of pressure over allegations he breached COVID19 guidelines during a trip to his native Ireland saying it had become clear the controversy was a distraction from his work | Negative | Phil Hogan quit as the EUs Trade Commissioner on Wednesday after days of pressure over allegations he breached COVID19 guidelines during a trip to his native Ireland saying it had become clear the controversy was a distraction from his work | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-ireland-eu/eu-trade-chief-hogan-quits-over-ireland-covid-19-golfgate-controversy-idUSKBN25M2HP | 2020-08-27 |
| West African mediators and Malis coup leaders are discussing the possibility of a transitional government which could allow the EU to eventually resume training in partnership with the United Nations | Positive | The European Union has suspended training in Mali after the military coup this month that removed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita from power officials said on Wednesday while Germany acknowledged that some perpetrators had been trained in Europe | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-security/eu-freezes-mali-training-missions-after-military-coup-denies-responsibility-idUSKBN25M1AX | 2020-08-27 |
| Adding this group would raise the EUs initial vaccination target to more than of the population | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union nations Britain and EU partners have agreed on a blueprint for a COVID19 vaccination plan envisaging inoculation of at least of their populations a step that may set back the World Health Organisations own vaccine blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccination/eu-eyes-initial-covid-19-vaccination-for-at-least-40-of-population-idUSKBN25M1KW | 2020-08-27 |
| The objective of the plan is to reach herd immunity for the EU population the document says which could be achieved with further vaccination campaigns after the goal is met | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union nations Britain and EU partners have agreed on a blueprint for a COVID19 vaccination plan envisaging inoculation of at least of their populations a step that may set back the World Health Organisations own vaccine blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccination/eu-eyes-initial-covid-19-vaccination-for-at-least-40-of-population-idUSKBN25M1KW | 2020-08-27 |
| However it is implementing what may be seen as the equivalent of a Europe strategy in which the EU population is prioritised effectively undermining the global approach | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union nations Britain and EU partners have agreed on a blueprint for a COVID19 vaccination plan envisaging inoculation of at least of their populations a step that may set back the World Health Organisations own vaccine blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccination/eu-eyes-initial-covid-19-vaccination-for-at-least-40-of-population-idUSKBN25M1KW | 2020-08-27 |
| The document is not binding on EU states and partners who could target an even higher vaccination coverage for their populations should vaccines become available | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union nations Britain and EU partners have agreed on a blueprint for a COVID19 vaccination plan envisaging inoculation of at least of their populations a step that may set back the World Health Organisations own vaccine blueprint | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccination/eu-eyes-initial-covid-19-vaccination-for-at-least-40-of-population-idUSKBN25M1KW | 2020-08-27 |
| Once it grants an EUA the agency eventually must issue a formal marketing approval or revoke emergency authorization | Negative | NEW U.S. President Donald Trump has said a vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be available before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-cornavirus-vaccine-approval-ex/could-u-s-regulators-authorize-a-covid-19-vaccine-before-the-election-idUSKBN25L2OK | 2020-08-26 |
| Consumer rights watchdog Public Citizen urged regulators not to use an EUA for COVID19 vaccines which it says could create the appearance of a rushed review | Negative | NEW U.S. President Donald Trump has said a vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be available before the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-cornavirus-vaccine-approval-ex/could-u-s-regulators-authorize-a-covid-19-vaccine-before-the-election-idUSKBN25L2OK | 2020-08-26 |
| ISTANBUL Turkeys foreign minister said on Tuesday Greece must abandon its maximalist and preconditions for dialogue to begin over disputed offshore Mediterranean resources adding Ankara expects the EU to act as an honest and mediator | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkeys foreign minister said on Tuesday Greece must abandon its maximalist and preconditions for dialogue to begin over disputed offshore Mediterranean resources adding Ankara expects the EU to act as an honest and mediator | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-germany-cavusoglu-greece/turkey-wants-no-pre-conditions-honest-eu-mediation-for-talks-with-greece-idUSKBN25L2DV | 2020-08-26 |
| After talks in Athens and Ankara Maas urged Greece and Turkey to turn to dialogue though added that Germany and the EU stood with fellow member state Greece | Negative | Germanys top diplomat said after whirlwind meetings in Turkey and Greece on Tuesday the two were ready for dialogue to defuse an worsening dispute over energy resources in the Mediterranean even as the NATO allies traded new barbs | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-greece-germany/germany-says-turkey-greece-ready-for-dialogue-on-east-med-dispute-idUSKBN25L1DC | 2020-08-26 |
| NAIROBI A Panamaflagged ship boarded by Somali police is safe and underway the EU Naval Force said on Saturday after conflicting reports two days earlier about whether it had been hijacked by Somali pirates | Negative | NAIROBI A Panamaflagged ship boarded by Somali police is safe and underway the EU Naval Force said on Saturday after conflicting reports two days earlier about whether it had been hijacked by Somali pirates | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-somalia-piracy/panama-flagged-ship-boarded-by-somali-police-is-safe-and-underway-eu-force-idUSKBN25I0JU | 2020-08-23 |
| The importance of the deal is that it has unleashed positive results an EU official said | Positive | The United States and the European Union on Friday announced a minideal valued at around million to cut import tariffs on a small range of products including U.S. lobsters in a sign of easing transatlantic trade tensions | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-trade-eu/u-s-and-eu-hatch-mini-deal-to-cut-lobster-other-tariffs-idUSKBN25H2D2 | 2020-08-22 |
| The agreement will still need approval from EU governments and the European Parliament | Positive | The United States and the European Union on Friday announced a minideal valued at around million to cut import tariffs on a small range of products including U.S. lobsters in a sign of easing transatlantic trade tensions | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-trade-eu/u-s-and-eu-hatch-mini-deal-to-cut-lobster-other-tariffs-idUSKBN25H2D2 | 2020-08-22 |
| The company does not need to finish recruiting the full 30000 patients planned for the trial in order to have enough data to support an EUA he said | Positive | Were trying to push even higher than that | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-pfizer-vaccine-exc/exclusive-nearly-a-fifth-of-enrollees-in-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-study-are-black-or-latino-idUSKBN25H2HM | 2020-08-22 |
| But it must share its preliminary decision with all concerned EU supervisory authorities and consider their views in its final verdict | Negative | DUBLIN Some European Union regulators objected to Irelands preliminary ruling in a landmark privacy investigation of Twitter the lead regulator said on Thursday triggering a process where a majority decision will be sought | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-europe-privacy-twitter/twitter-privacy-ruling-delayed-after-dispute-among-eu-regulators-idUSKBN25G1EL | 2020-08-21 |
| Ireland hosts the European headquarters of a number of U.S. technology companies making its the EUs lead regulator for firms including Twitter Facebook Apple and Google | Positive | DUBLIN Some European Union regulators objected to Irelands preliminary ruling in a landmark privacy investigation of Twitter the lead regulator said on Thursday triggering a process where a majority decision will be sought | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-europe-privacy-twitter/twitter-privacy-ruling-delayed-after-dispute-among-eu-regulators-idUSKBN25G1EL | 2020-08-21 |
| This is about the Belarusian people and their legitimate right to determine the future path of their said the head of the EUs executive Commission Ursula von der Leyen | Positive | Hundreds of Belarusian protesters gathered in Minsk on Wednesday evening defying a new order from President Alexander Lukashenko to his police to clear the streets of the capital after a week and a half of rallies against his rule | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-belarus-election/belarusian-protesters-defy-lukashenko-eu-announces-sanctions-idUSKCN25F0LQ | 2020-08-20 |
| The European Commission has urged EU states to skirt the WHOled initiative citing worries over its cost and speed | Negative | Nations that hoard possible COVID19 vaccines while excluding others will deepen the pandemic World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday issuing a lastditch call for countries to join a global vaccine pact | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/who-blasts-vaccine-nationalism-in-last-ditch-push-against-hoarding-idUSKCN25E0AZ | 2020-08-19 |
| ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey will not back down to threats of sanctions nor to incursions on its claimed territory in the Mediterranean Sea where it is in a standoff with EUmember Greece over oil and gas exploration rights | Negative | ISTANBUL President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey will not back down to threats of sanctions nor to incursions on its claimed territory in the Mediterranean Sea where it is in a standoff with EUmember Greece over oil and gas exploration rights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece/erdogan-says-turkey-will-not-back-down-in-east-med-standoff-idUSKCN25B0SJ | 2020-08-16 |
| While the project was conceived before the pandemic struck Lemaignan said the EUs postpandemic stimulus package was accelerating its plans | Positive | August 13 European battery makers are gearing up to take advantage of massive stimulus packages unveiled since the coronavirus pandemic though many acknowledge it will be tough to match the Asian giants that dominate the mainstream market | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climate-change-eu-batteries-insight/european-battery-makers-power-up-for-a-green-recovery-idUSKCN2590K3 | 2020-08-14 |
| Greeces foreign ministry said Minister Nikos Dendias will brief EU counterparts about the real facts of the recent days regarding operations in the at the emergency meeting | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that any attack on a Turkish ship exploring for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters would incur a high and suggested Turkey had already acted on that warning | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece-erdogan/erdogan-says-any-attack-on-turkish-ship-in-mediterranean-dispute-will-exact-high-price-idUSKCN25917I | 2020-08-14 |
| Turkey will issue gas exploration and drilling licences in the eastern Mediterranean this month its foreign minister said on Tuesday further raising tensions with Greece which said it would seek an emergency EU meeting to address the issue | Negative | Turkey will issue gas exploration and drilling licences in the eastern Mediterranean this month its foreign minister said on Tuesday further raising tensions with Greece which said it would seek an emergency EU meeting to address the issue | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-turkey-greece/turkey-to-issue-mediterranean-exploration-licences-raising-tensions-with-greece-idUSKCN2571AF | 2020-08-12 |
| European markets were expected to open higher with EUROSTOXX 50 STXEc1 futures up 0 | Positive | HONG Asian stock markets rose on Tuesday on relief that another round of SinoU.S. sparring appears not to have spilled over into trade while hopes for U.S. stimulus lent support to oil and commodity currencies | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asian-stocks-make-gains-despite-sino-u-s-tensions-idUSKCN25700P | 2020-08-11 |
| USTR announced in June it was considering imposing additional tariffs on products from many EU countries including gin vodka beer sparkling wine and other whiskies | Negative | WASHINGTON A bipartisan group of 13 U.S. senators have asked the U.S. Trade Representatives Office to remove tariffs imposed in October 2019 on European Union food wine and spirits according to a letter seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-wto-aircraft-airbus-congress/senators-urge-u-s-to-remove-tariffs-on-eu-foods-beverages-idUSKCN25610E | 2020-08-11 |
| Our positions have been concentrated in the EURbloc reflecting also the structural improvement in the European policy framework following the agreement over the recovery fund | Positive | Dollar holds gains as payrolls force shortcovering | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-struggles-to-sustain-rally-eyes-bond-yields-idUSL4N2FB0JE | 2020-08-10 |
| A raft of Chinese figures is due this week which is forecast to show a continued recovery while EU production data is also expected to please | Positive | Dollar holds gains as payrolls force shortcovering | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-struggles-to-sustain-rally-eyes-bond-yields-idUSL4N2FB0JE | 2020-08-10 |
| European markets were set to open in positive territory with EUROSTOXX 50 futures up 0 | Positive | MSCI exJapan off recent month high | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-asian-shares-calm-as-sino-u-s-tensions-flare-up-idUSL4N2FC0XJ | 2020-08-10 |
| BRUSSELS Alphabet unit Googles bid to take on Apple and Samsung in the wearable technology market by buying Fitbit hit a hurdle on Tuesday as EU antitrust regulators launched an investigation into the | Negative | BRUSSELS Alphabet unit Googles bid to take on Apple and Samsung in the wearable technology market by buying Fitbit hit a hurdle on Tuesday as EU antitrust regulators launched an investigation into the | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu/googles-2-1-billion-fitbit-deal-hits-roadblock-as-eu-opens-probe-idUSKCN2501ON | 2020-08-05 |
| Reuters reported on July 27 that the concessions would help Alstom gained EU clearance for the deal | Positive | Alstom said it expects to complete the deal in the first half of 2021 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-bombardier-m-a-alstom-eu/alstom-gains-eu-okay-to-acquire-bombardiers-rail-business-idUSKCN24W21K | 2020-08-01 |
| The envisaged contract with Sanofi would provide for an option for all EU Member States to purchase the the Commission said in a statement | Positive | BRUSSELS Sanofi SA and GlaxoSmithKline Plc on Friday said they are in advanced discussions to supply up to 300 million doses of an experimental COVID19 vaccine for the 27country European Union | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-sanofi-fr/eu-in-talks-to-secure-sanofi-deal-for-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKCN24W2JI | 2020-08-01 |
| 1 billion bid for fitness tracker maker Fitbit will face a fullscale EU antitrust investigation next week people familiar with the matter said on Thursday | Negative | BRUSSELS Googles | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu/googles-2-1-billion-fitbit-deal-faces-eu-antitrust-probe-sources-idUSKCN24V1L7 | 2020-07-31 |
| Pfizer said this week it was in concurrent talks with the EU and several of its member states on supplying them with its potential vaccine | Positive | Its dog eat dog in the world of COVID19 vaccines | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-access-an/vaccine-nationalism-is-it-every-country-for-itself-idUSKCN24U2DE | 2020-07-30 |
| A European Commission spokesperson told Reuters by email that any regulatory flexibility should not involve a delay or rollback of EU environmental ambitions | Positive | The auto industry long a driver of economic growth in central Europe is likely to be one of the main drags on the regions efforts this year to recover from the impact of COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-easteurope-economy-automotive-analysi/auto-industry-set-to-put-brakes-on-central-europes-covid-19-recovery-idUSKCN24V0QT | 2020-07-30 |
| BEIJING China and the European Union will accelerate negotiations in order to conclude a ChinaEU investment agreement by the end of this year Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said on Tuesday | Positive | BEIJING China and the European Union will accelerate negotiations in order to conclude a ChinaEU investment agreement by the end of this year Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-eu-investment/china-and-eu-to-speed-up-negotiation-on-investment-agreement-idUSKCN24T25T | 2020-07-29 |
| The two firms want the EU to pay them for 500 million doses only if their COVID19 vaccine is authorised one official told Reuters | Positive | Johnson Johnson had no immediate comment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-exclus/exclusive-eu-talks-with-pfizer-sanofi-jj-on-covid-vaccines-hit-snags-sources-idUSKCN24S1YQ | 2020-07-28 |
| We think such requests should be reviewed by the EU Courts | Negative | BRUSSELS Facebook is suing EU antitrust regulators for seeking information beyond what is necessary including highly personal details for their investigations into the companys data and marketplace the U.S. social media group said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-facebook-antitrust/facebook-sues-eu-antitrust-regulator-for-excessive-data-requests-idUSKCN24S2BN | 2020-07-28 |
| BRUSSELS Facebook is suing EU antitrust regulators for seeking information beyond what is necessary including highly personal details for their investigations into the companys data and marketplace the U.S. social media group said on Monday | Negative | BRUSSELS Facebook is suing EU antitrust regulators for seeking information beyond what is necessary including highly personal details for their investigations into the companys data and marketplace the U.S. social media group said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-facebook-antitrust/facebook-sues-eu-antitrust-regulator-for-excessive-data-requests-idUSKCN24S2BN | 2020-07-28 |
| Pfizer and BioNtech are also discussing liability issues with EU negotiators a fourth person familiar with the talks told Reuters | Neutral | Johnson Johnson had no immediate comment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-exclus/exclusive-eu-talks-with-pfizer-sanofi-jj-on-covid-vaccines-hit-snags-sources-idUSKCN24S1YQ | 2020-07-28 |
| The price agreed under that deal of nearly per course of treatment is considered too high by the EU officials told Reuters last week | Positive | Johnson Johnson had no immediate comment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-exclus/exclusive-eu-talks-with-pfizer-sanofi-jj-on-covid-vaccines-hit-snags-sources-idUSKCN24S1YQ | 2020-07-28 |
| It is not clear whether under ongoing talks that money will now be provided by the EU emergency fund | Negative | Johnson Johnson had no immediate comment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-exclus/exclusive-eu-talks-with-pfizer-sanofi-jj-on-covid-vaccines-hit-snags-sources-idUSKCN24S1YQ | 2020-07-28 |
| A spokesman for the Commission which is leading EU talks with drugmakers declined to comment | Negative | Johnson Johnson had no immediate comment | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-exclus/exclusive-eu-talks-with-pfizer-sanofi-jj-on-covid-vaccines-hit-snags-sources-idUSKCN24S1YQ | 2020-07-28 |
| BRUSSELS Alstom is set to gain EU antitrust approval to buy Bombardier Incs rail business people familiar with the matter said on Monday a deal which will make the French rail maker the worlds second largest behind Chinese leader CRRC Corp | Positive | BRUSSELS Alstom is set to gain EU antitrust approval to buy Bombardier Incs rail business people familiar with the matter said on Monday a deal which will make the French rail maker the worlds second largest behind Chinese leader CRRC Corp | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-bombardier-m-a-alstom-eu-exclusive/exclusive-alstom-to-win-eu-antitrust-okay-for-bombardier-deal-sources-idUSKCN24S2CT | 2020-07-28 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union will limit technology exports to Hong Kong that may be used for repression or surveillance an EU draft document seen by Reuters said in the blocs first concrete reaction to the Chinese security clampdown on the territory | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union will limit technology exports to Hong Kong that may be used for repression or surveillance an EU draft document seen by Reuters said in the blocs first concrete reaction to the Chinese security clampdown on the territory | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-hongkong-eu/eu-to-limit-tech-exports-to-hong-kong-after-chinese-clampdown-idUSKCN24P277 | 2020-07-25 |
| In the trade talks Tokyo wants to secure at least as favourable automobile tariffs as it has in its existing EU trade pact the negotiator told Reuters | Neutral | TOKYO Japan and Britain have agreed not to force their companies to disclose algorithms or set up local data servers as part of talks aimed at a bilateral trade deal the Nikkei said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-japan-trade/japan-britain-to-protect-encryption-keys-in-trade-pact-nikkei-says-idUSKCN24Q03N | 2020-07-25 |
| Europe has reached a major milestone in its fiscal arrangements the Recovery Fund amounting to a European Treasury that will fund EU expenditure via capital market borrowing | Positive | SYDNEY Asian shares skidded from sixmonth peaks on Friday as SinoU.S. tensions soured what had been an upbeat week while the euro held near a 21month top against the embattled dollar and gold neared a record high | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-global-markets/china-shares-lead-asian-retreat-on-sino-u-s-tensions-euro-holds-near-highs-idUSKCN24O36J | 2020-07-24 |
| BRUSSELS The European Parliament will push for more of the EU recovery package to be spent on research and development health and education and for a clearer link between economic aid and observing the rule of law deputies said on Thursday | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Parliament will push for more of the EU recovery package to be spent on research and development health and education and for a clearer link between economic aid and observing the rule of law deputies said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery/eu-parliament-to-push-for-tweaks-in-recovery-plan-long-term-budget-idUSKCN24O1GY | 2020-07-24 |
| The European Parliament has to approve the spending plan over the next several months before it can become reality and help lift the EU economy from recession | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Parliament will push for more of the EU recovery package to be spent on research and development health and education and for a clearer link between economic aid and observing the rule of law deputies said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery/eu-parliament-to-push-for-tweaks-in-recovery-plan-long-term-budget-idUSKCN24O1GY | 2020-07-24 |
| The rule of law debate is focused on Poland and Hungary where governments are under EU investigations over actions undermining the independence of courts media and nongovernmental organisations | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Parliament will push for more of the EU recovery package to be spent on research and development health and education and for a clearer link between economic aid and observing the rule of law deputies said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery/eu-parliament-to-push-for-tweaks-in-recovery-plan-long-term-budget-idUSKCN24O1GY | 2020-07-24 |
| The commission is assessing offers after a first tender launched on June 29 on behalf of 10 EU states was not successful a spokesman said | Positive | BRUSSELS A decision to focus its fiscal firepower on economic recovery has forced the EU to sharply scale back plans to address chronic shortages of drugs including COVID19 treatments by bringing back manufacturing capacity from Asia | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-budget/eu-plan-to-tackle-covid-19-drug-shortages-hit-by-health-budget-cuts-idUSKCN24N1T3 | 2020-07-23 |
| The story is not over yet but the establishment of a shared fiscal mechanism is a breakthrough for EU sovereign one of top sovereign analysts Frank Gill said | Positive | oil settlement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-shares-slip-on-fear-of-worsening-u-s-china-ties-gold-surges-idUSL2N2ET1K2 | 2020-07-23 |
| Within eight years almost all vehicles on motorways including lorries vans and cars would have to pay tolls according to the draft for the EU toll directive | Negative | BERLIN German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer aims to clear the way for an almost blanket motorway toll for cars across Germany and Europe during the countrys presidency of the European Union a draft document seen by Reuters on Wednesday showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-germany-toll-exclusive/exclusive-germany-wants-to-introduce-car-toll-across-eu-document-idUSKCN24N10G | 2020-07-23 |
| MADRID The Spanish government will fulfill its commitment to change the countrys labor laws and will not lower public pensions after approval of the EU recovery fund earlier this week Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz said on Wednesday | Positive | MADRID The Spanish government will fulfill its commitment to change the countrys labor laws and will not lower public pensions after approval of the EU recovery fund earlier this week Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-spain-labour/spain-will-fulfill-labor-reform-plan-not-lower-pensions-after-eu-deal-minister-says-idUSKCN24N30E | 2020-07-23 |
| The story is not over yet but the establishment of a shared fiscal mechanism is a breakthrough for EU sovereign creditworthiness | Positive | LONDON The European Unions 750 billion euro postpandemic recovery fund is a positive for the blocs sovereign ratings agency Global said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-ratings-s-p/covid-recovery-fund-a-breakthrough-for-eu-sovereign-creditworthiness-sp-global-idUSKCN24N1C3 | 2020-07-23 |
| Microsoft said it look forward to providing information to EU competition enforcers | Positive | Slack said on Wednesday that it has filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-slack-tech-microsoft-eu/microsoft-may-face-eu-antitrust-probe-after-slack-complaint-on-tying-practice-idUSKCN24N1WI | 2020-07-23 |
| Asked if public pensions would be lowered as a consequence of the EU deal she | Positive | MADRID The Spanish government will fulfill its commitment to change the countrys labor laws and will not lower public pensions after approval of the EU recovery fund earlier this week Labor Minister Yolanda Diaz said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-spain-labour/spain-will-fulfill-labor-reform-plan-not-lower-pensions-after-eu-deal-minister-says-idUSKCN24N30E | 2020-07-23 |
| The investigation which is coordinated by EU justice agency EUROJUST focuses on nine individuals living in Italy and their activities between 2014 to 2019 they said | Negative | Fiat Chrysler and CNH Industrial offices were searched on Wednesday in Germany Italy and Switzerland as part of a probe initiated by German prosecutors investigating emissions fraud | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-fiatchrysler-emissions/german-prosecutors-search-offices-in-fiat-iveco-emissions-probe-idUSKCN24N18R | 2020-07-23 |
| BRUSSELS A decision to focus its fiscal firepower on economic recovery has forced the EU to sharply scale back plans to address chronic shortages of drugs including COVID19 treatments by bringing back manufacturing capacity from Asia | Negative | BRUSSELS A decision to focus its fiscal firepower on economic recovery has forced the EU to sharply scale back plans to address chronic shortages of drugs including COVID19 treatments by bringing back manufacturing capacity from Asia | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-budget/eu-plan-to-tackle-covid-19-drug-shortages-hit-by-health-budget-cuts-idUSKCN24N1T3 | 2020-07-23 |
| Once the missing information is supplied by the parties the clock is restarted and the deadline for the Commissions decision is then adjusted the EU competition enforcer said | Negative | Once the missing information is supplied by the parties the clock is restarted and the deadline for the Commissions decision is then adjusted the EU competition enforcer said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-fiat-chrysler-m-a-peugeot-eu/eu-probe-into-fiat-peugeot-deal-halted-as-regulators-await-data-idUSKCN24N16X | 2020-07-23 |
| However pressed by the urgent need to relaunch the wider economy the EU leaders cut the healthcare fund to 1 | Negative | BRUSSELS A decision to focus its fiscal firepower on economic recovery has forced the EU to sharply scale back plans to address chronic shortages of drugs including COVID19 treatments by bringing back manufacturing capacity from Asia | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-budget/eu-plan-to-tackle-covid-19-drug-shortages-hit-by-health-budget-cuts-idUSKCN24N1T3 | 2020-07-23 |
| The Commission is investigating whether the deal to create the worlds fourthbiggest carmaker would hurt competition in small vans in 14 EU countries and Britain | Negative | Once the missing information is supplied by the parties the clock is restarted and the deadline for the Commissions decision is then adjusted the EU competition enforcer said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-fiat-chrysler-m-a-peugeot-eu/eu-probe-into-fiat-peugeot-deal-halted-as-regulators-await-data-idUSKCN24N16X | 2020-07-23 |
| LONDON British security minister James Brokenshire rejected accusations the government had avoided examining whether Russia had meddled in the 2016 EU referendum adding the government had taken steps to better deal with any threat from Moscow | Negative | LONDON British security minister James Brokenshire rejected accusations the government had avoided examining whether Russia had meddled in the 2016 EU referendum adding the government had taken steps to better deal with any threat from Moscow | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-britain-russia-brokenshire/britain-rejects-suggestion-it-avoided-investigating-russia-idUSKCN24N1OH | 2020-07-23 |
| Orban has used a structure called the System of National to direct public funds including EU money to a loyal elite that has helped him achieve his political goals | Negative | The European Unions agreement on a coronavirus recovery fund is likely to embolden nationalist leaders in Poland and Hungary because it sets no mechanism for tying the disbursement of money to democratic norms | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-eu-summit-easteurope-rule-of-law-anal/ambiguous-conditions-on-eu-deal-set-to-embolden-hungary-and-poland-idUSKCN24M2AL | 2020-07-22 |
| From 2023 there would be a tax on goods imported into the EU from countries with lower carbon emissions standards than the bloc | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders reached a deal on Tuesday on a package of measures to boost their economies after the coronavirus pandemic agreeing to borrow and spend hundreds of billions of euros in the next few years and pay them back from new taxes | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-factbox/factbox-what-eu-leaders-agreed-on-the-post-covid-recovery-package-idUSKCN24M0F7 | 2020-07-22 |
| Conte dismissed rumours that his government was on the verge of breakdown saying that the administration is and the EU deal reinforces the Italian governments | Positive | ROME Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Tuesday the EU stimulus plan would allow his government to transform Italy and help the bloc as a whole face the COVID19 crisis with strength and | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-conte/conte-eu-recovery-fund-gives-chance-to-change-the-face-of-italy-idUSKCN24M0JF | 2020-07-22 |
| In Poland President Andrzej Dudas successful reelection campaign included a pledge to direct EU public funds towards infrastructure development | Negative | The European Unions agreement on a coronavirus recovery fund is likely to embolden nationalist leaders in Poland and Hungary because it sets no mechanism for tying the disbursement of money to democratic norms | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-eu-summit-easteurope-rule-of-law-anal/ambiguous-conditions-on-eu-deal-set-to-embolden-hungary-and-poland-idUSKCN24M2AL | 2020-07-22 |
| Such new taxes will be expressly allotted to the repayment of the 750 billion borrowing but they will become part of EU reality for the next 38 years | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders reached a deal on Tuesday on a package of measures to boost their economies after the coronavirus pandemic agreeing to borrow and spend hundreds of billions of euros in the next few years and pay them back from new taxes | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-factbox/factbox-what-eu-leaders-agreed-on-the-post-covid-recovery-package-idUSKCN24M0F7 | 2020-07-22 |
| The mechanism will be agreed by qualified majority rather than by a unanimous vote among EU states making it harder for Poland or Hungary to block it | Positive | The European Unions agreement on a coronavirus recovery fund is likely to embolden nationalist leaders in Poland and Hungary because it sets no mechanism for tying the disbursement of money to democratic norms | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-eu-summit-easteurope-rule-of-law-anal/ambiguous-conditions-on-eu-deal-set-to-embolden-hungary-and-poland-idUSKCN24M2AL | 2020-07-22 |
| PARIS Frances foreign minister dismissed accusations by farright and farleft parties in the country that President Emmanuel Macron had struck an EU economic recovery deal that sold Paris short saying it was and showed European solidarity | Negative | PARIS Frances foreign minister dismissed accusations by farright and farleft parties in the country that President Emmanuel Macron had struck an EU economic recovery deal that sold Paris short saying it was and showed European solidarity | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-eu-summit-france-ledrian/france-defends-eu-recovery-plan-after-far-left-right-broadsides-idUSKCN24M1TV | 2020-07-22 |
| LONDON Britains government failed to find out whether Russia meddled in the 2016 referendum on membership of the EU a parliamentary report released on Tuesday said saying the intelligence services should investigate and make their findings public | Negative | LONDON Britains government failed to find out whether Russia meddled in the 2016 referendum on membership of the EU a parliamentary report released on Tuesday said saying the intelligence services should investigate and make their findings public | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-britain-russia/uk-government-failed-to-find-out-whether-russia-meddled-in-brexit-vote-report-idUSKCN24M15I | 2020-07-22 |
| PARIS July 21 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he wanted the European Union to work towards levying an EUwide digital tax on big tech multinationals | Positive | PARIS July 21 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he wanted the European Union to work towards levying an EUwide digital tax on big tech multinationals | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/eu-summit-france-digital/frances-macron-we-want-an-eu-wide-digital-tax-on-big-tech-idUSP6N2AW018 | 2020-07-22 |
| LONDON Britain said that there was no evidence of successful Russian interference in the EU referendum dismissing calls by the UK Parliaments intelligence and security committee for an assessment of Russian interference in the vote | Negative | LONDON Britain said that there was no evidence of successful Russian interference in the EU referendum dismissing calls by the UK Parliaments intelligence and security committee for an assessment of Russian interference in the vote | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-britain-russia-govt-response/uk-government-says-no-evidence-of-successful-russian-meddling-in-brexit-vote-idUSKCN24M1E3 | 2020-07-22 |
| BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she hopes that EU leaders will reach an agreement on a 1 | Positive | BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she hopes that EU leaders will reach an agreement on a 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-merkel/merkel-says-there-is-hope-eu-stimulus-deal-possible-on-monday-idUSKCN24L1B8 | 2020-07-21 |
| BRUSSELS EU Council President Charles Michel said on Monday he was convinced EU leaders meeting for the fourth day would reach an agreement on an economic recovery package to deal with the COVID19 pandemic | Positive | BRUSSELS EU Council President Charles Michel said on Monday he was convinced EU leaders meeting for the fourth day would reach an agreement on an economic recovery package to deal with the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-michel/eu-council-head-michel-says-agreement-on-recovery-fund-is-possible-idUSKCN24L27R | 2020-07-21 |
| The likely reduction of the grants is a very negative signal showing that the new EU instrument will have very limited macro impact when it is triggered | Negative | LONDON EU leaders reported some progress on Monday after three days of haggling over a coronavirus stimulus plan sending the euro to a fourmonth high and Italys borrowing costs to lows not seen since March | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-euro-analystsview/analysts-view-eu-progress-lifts-euro-stocks-on-the-defensive-idUSKCN24L09P | 2020-07-21 |
| BRUSSELS Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Monday that progress had been made in difficult talks over a coronavirus stimulus plan at an EU summit and he was now cautiously optimistic a deal would be reached | Positive | BRUSSELS Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Monday that progress had been made in difficult talks over a coronavirus stimulus plan at an EU summit and he was now cautiously optimistic a deal would be reached | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-italy/italy-pm-says-cautiously-optimistic-of-accord-at-eu-summit-idUSKCN24L1KP | 2020-07-21 |
| But some said it fell short of the climate spending share needed to align the package with EU climate goals | Negative | BRUSSELS Cuts to climate funding were on the menu as European Union leaders sat down to negotiate over dinner aiming to clinch a deal after four days of summit wrangling over a huge stimulus plan to help rebuild their coronavirushit economies | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-eu-summit-climate-change/eu-eyes-cuts-to-green-transition-fund-in-late-bid-to-strike-recovery-deal-idUSKCN24L2JV | 2020-07-21 |
| BRUSSELS The European parliament will withhold support for any deal struck by EU governments on the blocs huge coronavirus stimulus package if it fails to meet certain conditions its leader said on Monday | Negative | BRUSSELS The European parliament will withhold support for any deal struck by EU governments on the blocs huge coronavirus stimulus package if it fails to meet certain conditions its leader said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-parliament/eu-parliament-to-block-recovery-deal-if-it-falls-short-of-demands-idUSKCN24L1E6 | 2020-07-21 |
| 93 recovery fund to help revive EU economies hit by the COVID19 pandemic of which 390 billion euros could be offered as grants | Positive | EU leaders go into fourth day of EU negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-euro-hits-4-month-high-as-hopes-for-eu-recovery-fund-deal-rise-idUSL5N2ER2YD | 2020-07-21 |
| Lawmakers also want an end to reductions on contributions to the EUs joint coffers currently received by rich net payers | Positive | BRUSSELS The European parliament will withhold support for any deal struck by EU governments on the blocs huge coronavirus stimulus package if it fails to meet certain conditions its leader said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-parliament/eu-parliament-to-block-recovery-deal-if-it-falls-short-of-demands-idUSKCN24L1E6 | 2020-07-21 |
| WARSAW Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Sunday he would not agree to a new mechanism to freeze EU money for countries violating the rule of law proposed as part of a mass coronavirus stimulus economic scheme | Negative | WARSAW Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Sunday he would not agree to a new mechanism to freeze EU money for countries violating the rule of law proposed as part of a mass coronavirus stimulus economic scheme | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-poland/polish-pm-says-would-not-accept-rule-of-law-strings-on-eu-money-idUSKCN24K0EB | 2020-07-20 |
| Diplomats are in a final push on Monday to reach what the chairman of the EU summit described as mission | Positive | SINGAPORE European leaders stood at an impasse and markets on edge on Monday after three days of haggling over a coronavirus rescue plan had yet to produce an agreement | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-euro-analystsview/analysts-view-eu-impasse-caps-gains-for-the-euro-but-leaves-hopes-intact-idUSKCN24L09P | 2020-07-20 |
| Rutte said talks had been close to failing but that chairman Michel was now working on a new EU compromise proposal | Negative | BRUSSELS EU leaders were making progress on Monday after three days of haggling over a plan to revive economies throttled by the COVID19 pandemic but Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte warned the discussions could still fall apart | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-eu-summit/eu-leaders-say-progress-in-virus-recovery-summit-but-warn-talks-could-still-fail-idUSKCN24L068 | 2020-07-20 |
| BRUSSELS A new proposal on the EUs coronavirus economic recovery fund is a serious step in the right a Dutch diplomat said after demands from The Netherlands left the EU struggling to narrow differences over the proposed mass stimulus | Negative | BRUSSELS A new proposal on the EUs coronavirus economic recovery fund is a serious step in the right a Dutch diplomat said after demands from The Netherlands left the EU struggling to narrow differences over the proposed mass stimulus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-dutch-diplomat/dutch-diplomat-says-new-eu-recovery-fund-proposal-step-in-right-direction-idUSKCN24J0F7 | 2020-07-19 |
| WARSAW Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday there was no consensus among EU leaders on a proposed 750billioneuro recovery fund to lift the blocs economies from a recession triggered by the coronavirus pandemic | Neutral | WARSAW Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday there was no consensus among EU leaders on a proposed 750billioneuro recovery fund to lift the blocs economies from a recession triggered by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-poland-morawiecki/polish-pm-says-no-consensus-in-eu-talks-on-covid-economic-recovery-fund-idUSKCN24I2WD | 2020-07-18 |
| The EUled talks are conducted by negotiators selected by a steering group in which all 27 EU states are represented | Positive | The information on the ongoing talks was shared by the European Commission the EU executive arm with EU health ministers at a meeting in Berlin on Thursday the sources said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-exclus/exclusive-eu-in-talks-with-moderna-biontech-curevac-to-secure-possible-covid-vaccines-idUSKCN24I1HA | 2020-07-18 |
| BRUSSELS A deal on the next European budget and an EU recovery fund is possible at a summit in Brussels from Friday the chairman of EU leaders said | Positive | BRUSSELS A deal on the next European budget and an EU recovery fund is possible at a summit in Brussels from Friday the chairman of EU leaders said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-michel/eu-recovery-deal-possible-with-political-will-michel-says-idUSKCN24I0UI | 2020-07-18 |
| BRUSSELS Lithuanias President Gitanas Nauseda said on Friday he was unsure if EU leaders could reach a deal at a twoday summit in Brussels on an EU recovery fund and a multiyear budget | Positive | BRUSSELS Lithuanias President Gitanas Nauseda said on Friday he was unsure if EU leaders could reach a deal at a twoday summit in Brussels on an EU recovery fund and a multiyear budget | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-lithuania/lithuania-president-not-so-optimistic-on-eu-summit-deal-idUSKCN24I0YB | 2020-07-18 |
| LONDON July 17 The euro was heading for fourmonth highs on hopes a European Union summit will make progress on a recovery fund that would help lift the EU out of recession and deepen its integration | Positive | quotes background on | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-cautious-optimism-on-crucial-eu-summit-lifts-euro-idUSL5N2EO3D5 | 2020-07-18 |
| Once deals are struck EU states can place orders with drugmakers to secure precise amounts for their populations | Negative | The information on the ongoing talks was shared by the European Commission the EU executive arm with EU health ministers at a meeting in Berlin on Thursday the sources said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-exclus/exclusive-eu-in-talks-with-moderna-biontech-curevac-to-secure-possible-covid-vaccines-idUSKCN24I1HA | 2020-07-18 |
| WARSAW Dutch Prime Minster Mark Rutte rejected a compromise proposal put forward by the chairman of EU leaders talks late on Friday to overcome differences over a planned coronavirus economic recovery fund for the bloc an EU official said | Negative | WARSAW Dutch Prime Minster Mark Rutte rejected a compromise proposal put forward by the chairman of EU leaders talks late on Friday to overcome differences over a planned coronavirus economic recovery fund for the bloc an EU official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-rutte-official/opposition-from-dutch-pm-ends-first-day-of-eu-summit-without-deal-idUSKCN24I2V1 | 2020-07-18 |
| He said he hoped an agreement would be secured at this EU summit but if not then at the next one | Positive | BRUSSELS Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Friday he was optimistic that European Union leaders meeting in Brussels to discuss a proposed budget and economic recovery plan would reach an agreement but he was not sure when | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-austria/kurz-optimistic-well-get-agreement-on-eu-finances-but-not-sure-when-idUSKCN24I184 | 2020-07-18 |
| Many traders doubt the summit will reach an agreement and assume EU leaders will need to meet again to find a compromise | Positive | quotes background on | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-cautious-optimism-on-crucial-eu-summit-lifts-euro-idUSL5N2EO3D5 | 2020-07-18 |
| Negotiations are at an impasse because of differences over the conditions for access to the scheme EU officials said | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders ended their first day of discussions in Brussels over an economic recovery fund with no agreement as talks ran into difficulty late on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-end/first-day-of-eu-summit-ends-without-accord-to-resume-on-july-18-idUSKCN24I2UV | 2020-07-18 |
| If doses of successful vaccines were not sufficient to cover the whole EU population shots would be distributed based on demographic and epidemiological data the Commission has repeatedly said | Neutral | The information on the ongoing talks was shared by the European Commission the EU executive arm with EU health ministers at a meeting in Berlin on Thursday the sources said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-exclus/exclusive-eu-in-talks-with-moderna-biontech-curevac-to-secure-possible-covid-vaccines-idUSKCN24I1HA | 2020-07-18 |
| BRUSSELS Polands Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said it was hard to judge if the EU would reach a deal on its longterm budget and a proposed recovery fund during talks among the blocs national leaders in Brussels on Friday and Saturday | Positive | BRUSSELS Polands Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said it was hard to judge if the EU would reach a deal on its longterm budget and a proposed recovery fund during talks among the blocs national leaders in Brussels on Friday and Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-morawiecki/polish-pm-say-budget-rebates-for-wealthy-eu-countries-not-a-good-solution-idUSKCN24I0YH | 2020-07-18 |
| The information on the ongoing talks was shared by the European Commission the EU executive arm with EU health ministers at a meeting in Berlin on Thursday the sources said | Positive | The information on the ongoing talks was shared by the European Commission the EU executive arm with EU health ministers at a meeting in Berlin on Thursday the sources said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-exclus/exclusive-eu-in-talks-with-moderna-biontech-curevac-to-secure-possible-covid-vaccines-idUSKCN24I1HA | 2020-07-18 |
| VIENNA Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Friday he rejected the current proposal for a mass economic stimulus to help lift EU economies from recession brought by the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | VIENNA Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Friday he rejected the current proposal for a mass economic stimulus to help lift EU economies from recession brought by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-kurz-orf/austrias-kurz-says-rejects-current-eu-recovery-plan-expects-new-proposals-idUSKCN24I2QQ | 2020-07-18 |
| NEW YORK July 17 The euro rose against the dollar to just under fourmonth highs on Friday following the kickoff of a European Union summit that market participants hope will advance a recovery fund that would help lift the EU out of recession | Positive | Euro rises against dollar near fourmonth highs | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-dips-euro-hovers-under-18-month-high-as-eu-negotiates-rescue-fund-idUSL5N2EO458 | 2020-07-18 |
| Asked about the negotiations Sanofi told Reuters it was in advanced talks with the EU for the delivery of 300 million | Positive | The information on the ongoing talks was shared by the European Commission the EU executive arm with EU health ministers at a meeting in Berlin on Thursday the sources said | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccines-exclus/exclusive-eu-in-talks-with-moderna-biontech-curevac-to-secure-possible-covid-vaccines-idUSKCN24I1HA | 2020-07-18 |
| Kurz said he just had talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of a summit of all 27 national EU leaders in Brussels | Positive | VIENNA Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Friday he rejected the current proposal for a mass economic stimulus to help lift EU economies from recession brought by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-kurz-orf/austrias-kurz-says-rejects-current-eu-recovery-plan-expects-new-proposals-idUSKCN24I2QQ | 2020-07-18 |
| LONDON July 17 Europes stock markets and fast charging currencies were left treading water on Friday as EU leaders met in Brussels to try to hammer through a 750 billion euro postpandemic recovery fund | Positive | European stocks grind to halt as recovery fund summit begins | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-where-did-all-the-bulls-go-rallies-stall-as-eu-summit-begins-idUSL5N2EO3YK | 2020-07-18 |
| BRUSSELS The European Unions antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday that EU court rulings this week which saw courts reject a key EU tool used to transfer Europeans personal data across the Atlantic and reject an EU order for Apple to pay 13 billion euros in Irish back taxes were a | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday that EU court rulings this week which saw courts reject a key EU tool used to transfer Europeans personal data across the Atlantic and reject an EU order for Apple to pay 13 billion euros in Irish back taxes were a | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-facebook-privacy-eu-vestager/eus-vestager-says-court-rulings-on-apple-taxes-eu-data-transfer-tool-are-a-loss-idUSKCN24H1BT | 2020-07-17 |
| With high uncertainty over a deal analysts believe markets could tolerate a few days or weeks delay with EU leaders confident an agreement will eventually be found | Neutral | European Union leaders meet on Friday to bridge differences and agree on a 750billioneuro recovery fund deemed a game to lift the bloc out of recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-scenarios/eu-summit-on-recovery-fund-whats-in-it-for-markets-idUSKCN24H1LC | 2020-07-17 |
| Given the recession they face and with Germany and France pushing for a deal EU leaders are expected to avoid another political crisis but this cant be ruled out | Negative | European Union leaders meet on Friday to bridge differences and agree on a 750billioneuro recovery fund deemed a game to lift the bloc out of recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-scenarios/eu-summit-on-recovery-fund-whats-in-it-for-markets-idUSKCN24H1LC | 2020-07-17 |
| This should allow a consolidation of the notion that the EU Recovery Fund will eventually come into existence without having to be materially resized first | Positive | European shares ended off session lows on Thursday ahead of a keenly awaited meeting to organise a European recovery fund after weak earnings and a growing number of COVID19 cases had earlier pushed stocks down from onemonth highs | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-stocks-end-off-session-lows-ahead-of-eu-summit-idUSKCN24H0X7 | 2020-07-17 |
| It is crucial to close EU negotiations over the recovery fund as soon as possible if possible already in this European he told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera | Neutral | ROME Italy wants the European Union to approve with no key changes a new recovery fund worth 750 billion euros that aims to rebuild the southern economies hardest hit by the coronavirus crisis Economy Minister Roberto Gualtieri said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-italy/at-eu-summit-italy-will-fight-changes-to-recovery-fund-minister-says-idUSKCN24I0KT | 2020-07-17 |
| Apple scored a major win on Wednesday as Europes secondhighest court rejected an EU order for the iPhone maker to pay 13 billion euros in Irish back taxes dealing a blow to the blocs attempts to crack down on sweetheart tax deals | Negative | Apple scored a major win on Wednesday as Europes secondhighest court rejected an EU order for the iPhone maker to pay 13 billion euros in Irish back taxes dealing a blow to the blocs attempts to crack down on sweetheart tax deals | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-eu-apple-tax/blow-for-eu-as-apple-wins-fight-against-15-billion-tax-order-idUSKCN24G10B | 2020-07-16 |
| Roth was speaking before a meeting of the blocs foreign ministers which he will chair since Germany holds the EUs rotating presidency until the end of the year | Positive | BERLIN Talks on Britains future relationship with the European Union will be a major topic of bloc business from September but until now Britain has shown insufficient realism about what can be achieved Germanys Europe Minister Michael Roth said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-germany/britain-showing-too-little-realism-over-eu-talks-german-minister-idUSKCN24G1HO | 2020-07-16 |
| While the feedback is important sources had already told Reuters the data pledge could assuage EU competition worries and help the deal secure approval | Positive | BRUSSELS EU antitrust enforcers are asking interested parties whether Googles pledge not to use fitness tracker maker Fitbits health data for its advertising and to separate the dataset from its own might ease concerns over their tie up | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu/eu-regulators-seek-feedback-on-googles-fitbit-data-pledge-idUSKCN24G21S | 2020-07-16 |
| Expectations were also high among investors heading into an EU summit later this week that leaders will agree on a recovery fund of 750 billion euros for pandemichammered economies | Positive | European stocks closed at over a fiveweek high on Wednesday with travel stocks surfing a wave of optimism following reports of progress in developing a COVID19 vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/travel-stocks-soar-as-encouraging-vaccine-study-lifts-europe-idUSKCN24G0RH | 2020-07-16 |
| At stake in the FridaySaturday summit in Brussels is the EUs next longterm budget and an economic stimulus plan that together would be worth around 1 | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union member states struggled on Wednesday to resolve differences over a massive recovery plan for their coronavirushit economies but agreed a deal was crucial at an endofweek summit for the blocs credibility | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery/eu-struggles-for-unity-ahead-of-crunch-recovery-fund-summit-idUSKCN24G2SB | 2020-07-16 |
| Hopes were high among investors heading into a EU summit later this week that leaders will agree on a recovery fund of 750 billion euros for pandemichammered economies | Positive | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-climb-on-vaccine-hopes-mixed-earnings-idUSL3N2EM1V2 | 2020-07-16 |
| DUBLIN Policymakers will pay greater care to the legal foundations of corporate tax reforms after an EU order for Apple to pay 13 billion euros | Positive | DUBLIN Policymakers will pay greater care to the legal foundations of corporate tax reforms after an EU order for Apple to pay 13 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-apple-tax-ireland/policymakers-will-tread-carefully-on-tax-reform-after-apple-ruling-says-irelands-donohoe-idUSKCN24G22G | 2020-07-16 |
| After the exclusion of Serbia and Montenegro 13 countries remain on the EU Algeria Australia Canada China Georgia Japan Morocco New Zealand Rwanda South Korea Thailand Tunisia and Uruguay | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union has decided to drop Serbia and Montenegro from its safe list of countries from which nonessential travel is allowed and did not even discuss including the United States given its sharp rise in coronavirus cases EU officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-travel/eu-removes-serbia-montenegro-from-coronavirus-safe-list-sources-say-idUSKCN24F1RS | 2020-07-15 |
| DUBLIN Britain is likely to agree a new trade deal with the European Union but agreement could come as late as December just weeks before its EU exit transition ends Irelands deputy prime minister Leo Varadkar said on Tuesday | Negative | DUBLIN Britain is likely to agree a new trade deal with the European Union but agreement could come as late as December just weeks before its EU exit transition ends Irelands deputy prime minister Leo Varadkar said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-ireland/irish-deputy-pm-sees-brexit-deal-but-maybe-not-until-december-idUSKCN24F2DL | 2020-07-15 |
| China has no intention to open its borders to the an EU diplomat said with respect to discussions with Beijing | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union has decided to drop Serbia and Montenegro from its safe list of countries from which nonessential travel is allowed and did not even discuss including the United States given its sharp rise in coronavirus cases EU officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-travel/eu-removes-serbia-montenegro-from-coronavirus-safe-list-sources-say-idUSKCN24F1RS | 2020-07-15 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union has decided to drop Serbia and Montenegro from its safe list of countries from which nonessential travel is allowed and did not even discuss including the United States given its sharp rise in coronavirus cases EU officials said | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union has decided to drop Serbia and Montenegro from its safe list of countries from which nonessential travel is allowed and did not even discuss including the United States given its sharp rise in coronavirus cases EU officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-travel/eu-removes-serbia-montenegro-from-coronavirus-safe-list-sources-say-idUSKCN24F1RS | 2020-07-15 |
| Apples clash with EU competition regulators comes to a head on Wednesday as Europes secondhighest court rules on whether it has to pay 13 billion euros in Irish back taxes a key part of the EUs crackdown against sweetheart tax deals | Negative | Apples clash with EU competition regulators comes to a head on Wednesday as Europes secondhighest court rules on whether it has to pay 13 billion euros in Irish back taxes a key part of the EUs crackdown against sweetheart tax deals | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-eu-apple-tax/crunch-time-for-apple-in-fight-against-15-billion-eu-tax-order-idUSKCN24G001 | 2020-07-15 |
| EU diplomats on Tuesday approved a proposal from Germany now holding the rotating EU presidency to exclude nonEU Serbia and Montenegro because of spreading infections officials told Reuters | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union has decided to drop Serbia and Montenegro from its safe list of countries from which nonessential travel is allowed and did not even discuss including the United States given its sharp rise in coronavirus cases EU officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-travel/eu-removes-serbia-montenegro-from-coronavirus-safe-list-sources-say-idUSKCN24F1RS | 2020-07-15 |
| The listing is only a not all of the 27 EU member countries are applying its provisions | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Union has decided to drop Serbia and Montenegro from its safe list of countries from which nonessential travel is allowed and did not even discuss including the United States given its sharp rise in coronavirus cases EU officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-travel/eu-removes-serbia-montenegro-from-coronavirus-safe-list-sources-say-idUSKCN24F1RS | 2020-07-15 |
| He said nothing specific had been decided but that EU foreign ministers had discussed extending the EUs export ban on sensitive to Hong Kong | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union is preparing countermeasures on China in response to Beijings new security law on Hong Kong the blocs top diplomat said on Monday but envoys stressed the likely steps will not amount to economic sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-hongkong-security-eu/eu-preparing-measures-against-china-over-hong-kong-idUSKCN24E17P | 2020-07-14 |
| BRUSSELS Alphabet Incs Google has offered not to use health data of fitness tracker company Fitbit to help it target ads in an attempt to address EU antitrust concerns about its proposed | Positive | BRUSSELS Alphabet Incs Google has offered not to use health data of fitness tracker company Fitbit to help it target ads in an attempt to address EU antitrust concerns about its proposed | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu-exclusive/exclusive-google-offers-data-pledge-in-bid-to-win-eu-okay-for-fitbit-buy-idUSKCN24E2X5 | 2020-07-14 |
| Reuters reported last week that such a data pledge may likely help Google secure EU approval for the deal | Positive | BRUSSELS Alphabet Incs Google has offered not to use health data of fitness tracker company Fitbit to help it target ads in an attempt to address EU antitrust concerns about its proposed | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu-exclusive/exclusive-google-offers-data-pledge-in-bid-to-win-eu-okay-for-fitbit-buy-idUSKCN24E2X5 | 2020-07-14 |
| Looming large for the common currency was a planned EU summit on July 1718 where leaders need to bridge gaps on longterm budget and economic stimulus plans | Negative | TOKYO The U.S. dollar edged down in Asian trade on Monday as investors looked to looming economic data from around the world and U.S. corporate earnings to gauge whether the markets guarded optimism on the economic outlook is justified | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-forex/dollar-starts-week-on-back-foot-ahead-of-data-earnings-idUSKCN24E02Q | 2020-07-13 |
| Looming large for the common currency was a planned EU summit on July 1718 where leaders need to seek to bridge gaps on longterm budget and economic stimulus plans | Negative | By Hideyuki Sano | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-starts-week-on-back-foot-ahead-of-data-earnings-idUSL3N2EK063 | 2020-07-13 |
| A smaller MFF will jeopardise EU support to our researchers students | Negative | BRUSSELS European Council President Charles Michel on Friday sought to bridge gaps between EU countries over their longterm budget and economic stimulus plans before national leaders meet next week to haggle over how to recover from the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-michel/eus-michel-floats-please-all-recovery-plan-ahead-of-tough-budget-summit-idUSKBN24B0X7 | 2020-07-11 |
| BRUSSELS European Council President Charles Michel on Friday sought to bridge gaps between EU countries over their longterm budget and economic stimulus plans before national leaders meet next week to haggle over how to recover from the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | BRUSSELS European Council President Charles Michel on Friday sought to bridge gaps between EU countries over their longterm budget and economic stimulus plans before national leaders meet next week to haggle over how to recover from the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-michel/eus-michel-floats-please-all-recovery-plan-ahead-of-tough-budget-summit-idUSKBN24B0X7 | 2020-07-11 |
| European officials said a decision was imminent after a final backing from euro zone and EU finance ministers who hold video conferences later on Thursday and Friday | Neutral | BRUSSELS Euro zone officials are ready to let Croatia and Bulgaria into the ERM2 mechanism a preliminary stage for adopting the euro as their currency in the next three years four sources told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eurozone-economy-croatia-bulgaria/eu-to-back-croatia-bulgaria-in-first-step-to-join-euro-sources-say-idUSKBN24A204 | 2020-07-10 |
| The European Parliament urged Japan to comply with international rules on child protection and to allow for joint parental custody after a number of EU citizens were denied access to their children by Japanese mothers | Negative | The European Parliament urged Japan to comply with international rules on child protection and to allow for joint parental custody after a number of EU citizens were denied access to their children by Japanese mothers | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-children-eu-parliament/eu-lawmakers-urge-japan-to-end-parental-child-abductions-idUSKBN24A1LU | 2020-07-10 |
| VILNIUS Russian broadcaster RT has said it has no ties to EUsanctioned Russian media executive Dmitry Kiselyov after EU member states Latvia and Lithuania took RT off the air citing the Russian channels ties to him | Negative | VILNIUS Russian broadcaster RT has said it has no ties to EUsanctioned Russian media executive Dmitry Kiselyov after EU member states Latvia and Lithuania took RT off the air citing the Russian channels ties to him | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-baltics-russia-rt/rt-taken-off-air-by-baltic-broadcasters-says-has-no-connection-to-kremlin-media-boss-idUSKBN24A1UR | 2020-07-10 |
| The EU Parliament has been lobbied by EU citizens such as Frenchman Vincent Fichot and Italian Tommaso Perina who live in Japan and are being denied access to their children | Negative | The European Parliament urged Japan to comply with international rules on child protection and to allow for joint parental custody after a number of EU citizens were denied access to their children by Japanese mothers | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-children-eu-parliament/eu-lawmakers-urge-japan-to-end-parental-child-abductions-idUSKBN24A1LU | 2020-07-10 |
| I think they are worried that after Latvia and Lithuania other EU countries can determine the connection and more bans will Mantas Martisius head of Lithuanian media regulator told Reuters | Negative | VILNIUS Russian broadcaster RT has said it has no ties to EUsanctioned Russian media executive Dmitry Kiselyov after EU member states Latvia and Lithuania took RT off the air citing the Russian channels ties to him | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-baltics-russia-rt/rt-taken-off-air-by-baltic-broadcasters-says-has-no-connection-to-kremlin-media-boss-idUSKBN24A1UR | 2020-07-10 |
| BRUSSELS Google may be able to stave off a fullscale EU antitrust investigation into its planned | Neutral | BRUSSELS Google may be able to stave off a fullscale EU antitrust investigation into its planned | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu-exclusive/exclusive-google-can-ward-off-eu-antitrust-probe-into-fitbit-deal-with-data-pledge-idUSKBN24A2BG | 2020-07-10 |
| The fight against money laundering through the financial system should remain a priority the EU document says | Negative | BRUSSELS Global powers should cooperate better on monetary and fiscal policy to tackle the COVID19 economic crisis European Union finance ministers and central bankers will tell their G20 counterparts at a meeting next week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-economy-g20/eu-urges-more-g20-cooperation-on-monetary-fiscal-policy-against-covid-19-crisis-idUSKBN24A245 | 2020-07-10 |
| We have to do this so we have a strong joint response from the EU all together | Positive | GENEVA World leaders spoke at a conference on Wednesday organised by the International Labour Organization on COVID19 and the world of work | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-ilo-highlights/ilo-summit-on-covid-19-and-the-world-of-work-idUSKBN2492TY | 2020-07-09 |
| Bond markets were focused on a meeting on Wednesday between European Union officials to discuss the shape of the EUs recovery fund | Neutral | European stocks close lower | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-global-shares-waver-on-coronavirus-fears-gold-gains-idUSL8N2EF4EW | 2020-07-09 |
| I will continue to push for a good solution but we should also prepare for a possibility of a nodeal she said of the EUs tortuous divorce with Britain | Negative | German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday called for a swift agreement on the European Unions mass economic stimulus to advance unity that would strengthen the bloc as it recovers from the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-germany/merkel-wants-swift-eu-deal-on-covid-economic-recovery-to-grow-unity-idUSKBN2491VM | 2020-07-09 |
| Progress in negotiations thus far has been slim to put it Merkel told the European Parliament as Germany assumed the EUs rotating presidency for the rest of the year | Negative | BRUSSELS Germany will continue to push to seal a new partnership agreement with Britain by the end of the year but the European Union should also prepare for an abrupt split from 2021 Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-merkel/germanys-merkel-says-eu-must-prepare-for-no-deal-brexit-idUSKBN2491X5 | 2020-07-09 |
| 0 for Bombardiers unit was launched in February and the EU competition enforcer is likely to demand concessions to approve the deal | Positive | Alstoms bid of up to 6 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-bombardier-m-a-alstom-eu-exclusive/exclusive-alstom-to-offer-sale-of-french-rail-factory-to-win-bombardier-unit-buy-sources-idUSKBN249276 | 2020-07-09 |
| Bond markets were focused on a meeting on Wednesday of European Union officials to discuss the shape of the EUs recovery fund | Neutral | gold oil settlement prices | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-global-shares-rise-despite-coronavirus-fears-gold-gains-idUSL1N2EF1PL | 2020-07-09 |
| Economics Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni told a news conference that to reduce risks of a second recession EU fiscal rules could remain frozen even after growth returns next year | Negative | BRUSSELS The euro zone economy will drop deeper into recession this year and rebound less steeply in 2021 than previously thought the European Commission forecast on Tuesday with France Italy and Spain struggling the most due to the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eurozone-economy/eu-sees-deeper-recession-less-steep-rebound-for-euro-zone-idUSKBN2480ZG | 2020-07-08 |
| BRUSSELS Consumers in the euro zone returned en masse to shops in May as lockdowns were eased in the bloc estimates from the EU statistics agency showed on Monday signalling a sharp recovery of sales after record drops in March and April | Positive | BRUSSELS Consumers in the euro zone returned en masse to shops in May as lockdowns were eased in the bloc estimates from the EU statistics agency showed on Monday signalling a sharp recovery of sales after record drops in March and April | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eurozone-economy-salesfigures/euro-zone-retail-sales-in-record-rebound-in-may-as-lockdowns-eased-idUSKBN2470Y3 | 2020-07-07 |
| ANKARA Turkey will respond with its own steps if the European Union imposes further sanctions on Ankara Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday after meeting the EUs top diplomat | Negative | ANKARA Turkey will respond with its own steps if the European Union imposes further sanctions on Ankara Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday after meeting the EUs top diplomat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-europe-turkey/turkey-warns-it-will-respond-if-eu-takes-fresh-measures-against-it-idUSKBN24723I | 2020-07-07 |
| If the EU takes additional decisions against Turkey we will have to respond to Cavusoglu told a news conference with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Turkeys capital | Negative | ANKARA Turkey will respond with its own steps if the European Union imposes further sanctions on Ankara Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday after meeting the EUs top diplomat | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-europe-turkey/turkey-warns-it-will-respond-if-eu-takes-fresh-measures-against-it-idUSKBN24723I | 2020-07-07 |
| Although it is far more limited than current access without equivalence EU investors would not be able to use financial services in London | Negative | LONDON Britain and the European Union need to make progress on EU financial market access given that the coronavirus crisis will make it even harder to cope with potential disruption if there is no agreement banking lobby AFME said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-britain-eu/banks-urge-britain-and-eu-to-sort-out-financial-market-access-idUSKBN2460XZ | 2020-07-06 |
| We will only grant equivalences in those areas where it is clearly in the interest of the EU of our financial stability our investors and our Barnier said | Positive | LONDON Britain and the European Union need to make progress on EU financial market access given that the coronavirus crisis will make it even harder to cope with potential disruption if there is no agreement banking lobby AFME said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-britain-eu/banks-urge-britain-and-eu-to-sort-out-financial-market-access-idUSKBN2460XZ | 2020-07-06 |
| LONDON Britain and the European Union need to make progress on EU financial market access given that the coronavirus crisis will make it even harder to cope with potential disruption if there is no agreement banking lobby AFME said on Monday | Negative | LONDON Britain and the European Union need to make progress on EU financial market access given that the coronavirus crisis will make it even harder to cope with potential disruption if there is no agreement banking lobby AFME said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-britain-eu/banks-urge-britain-and-eu-to-sort-out-financial-market-access-idUSKBN2460XZ | 2020-07-06 |
| BRUSSELS European Union negotiators will propose a slightly smaller sevenyear budget to EU government leaders but stick to the goal of a 750billioneuro | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union negotiators will propose a slightly smaller sevenyear budget to EU government leaders but stick to the goal of a 750billioneuro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget/eus-michel-to-propose-smaller-budget-for-deal-on-coronavirus-fund-idUSKBN243188 | 2020-07-03 |
| Australias antitrust regulator has warned against the deal while U.S. and EU advocacy groups have also voiced criticism | Negative | BRUSSELS EU regulators are checking whether Googles purchase of Fitbit might allow it to drive rival makers of wearable devices app developers and other online service providers out of the market and boost its dominance in online advertising and search | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu/eu-regulators-checking-if-fitbit-deal-will-boost-googles-clout-idUSKBN2432OF | 2020-07-03 |
| BRUSSELS Facebook Alphabetowned YouTube Twitter and other social media will for the first time be subject to EU broadcasting rules on hate speech and harmful content under European Commission guidelines announced on Thursday | Negative | BRUSSELS Facebook Alphabetowned YouTube Twitter and other social media will for the first time be subject to EU broadcasting rules on hate speech and harmful content under European Commission guidelines announced on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-broadcasting-tech/facebook-youtube-twitter-to-face-same-eu-rules-on-hateful-content-as-broadcasters-idUSKBN2432XG | 2020-07-03 |
| The move is aimed at supporting the EU travel industry and tourist destinations particularly countries in southern Europe hardest hit by the COVID19 pandemic | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union has excluded the United States from its initial safe of countries from which the bloc will allow nonessential travel from Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-travel/eu-excludes-united-states-from-safe-travel-list-idUSKBN2410WJ | 2020-07-01 |
| It acts as a recommendation to EU members meaning they could potentially set restrictions on those entering from the 14 nations | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union has excluded the United States from its initial safe of countries from which the bloc will allow nonessential travel from Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-travel/eu-excludes-united-states-from-safe-travel-list-idUSKBN2410WJ | 2020-07-01 |
| Our evidence is very convincing and we will ask all the regulators within the EU to follow our example and to ban RT in their Abolins added | Negative | RIGA Latvias media watchdog on Tuesday took the Russian broadcaster RT offair calling its channels and citing its ties to EUsanctioned Russian media executive Dmitry Kiselyov | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-latvia-russia-rt/latvia-bans-russian-broadcaster-rt-over-ties-to-kremlin-media-mogul-idUSKBN24133K | 2020-07-01 |
| In either scenario the UK is leaving the EU single market and that is where the bulk of the new costs for businesses will come Smith added | Negative | LONDON Britain and the European Union remain far apart in negotiations on a new trading relationship and analysts at many banks say the risk of a notradedeal Brexit at the end of the year is firmly back on the table | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-deal/is-uk-heading-to-no-trade-deal-brexit-banks-assess-risk-idUSKBN2411KA | 2020-07-01 |
| We deplore the EU Council President Charles Michel told a news conference | Negative | Chinas passage of a national security law for Hong Kong drew international condemnation on Tuesday with the United States and its Asian and Western allies criticising a move that heralds a more authoritarian era for the former British colony | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-hongkong-security-reaction/u-s-allies-deplore-chinas-new-hong-kong-security-law-idUSKBN2410T8 | 2020-07-01 |
| Given that full implementation has not yet been achieved EU leaders took the political decision to roll over the economic sanctions against the Council said in a statement | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union nations formally extended economic sanctions against Russia on Monday by six months until Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-eu-russia-sanctions/eu-extends-economic-sanctions-against-russia-for-six-months-idUSKBN2401ZW | 2020-06-30 |
| U.S. figures show a trade deficit with the EU in goods and services of billion in 2018 | Negative | BRUSSELS At the start of the year U.S.China tensions were easing after their Phase I trade deal while Washington Brussels and Tokyo agreed on new global trading rules to curb subsidies | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-trade/coronavirus-rekindles-global-trade-disputes-idUSKBN2400I8 | 2020-06-29 |
| This was comfortably below the EUs target for last year of 130g of CO2 per kilometre but far off tougher EU targets that take effect this year | Positive | Carbon dioxide emissions from new cars in Europe rose for a third year running in 2019 provisional data from the European Unions environment agency showed on Friday with carmakers further lagging the blocs upcoming climate goals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climate-change-eu-autos/carmakers-slip-further-from-compliance-with-upcoming-eu-co2-goals-idUSKBN23X2E6 | 2020-06-27 |
| BERLIN The coronavirus pandemic means Germany needs to ready for an extraordinary act of with other European Union countries Chancellor Angela Merkel said as Berlin prepares to take on the rotating EU presidency from July 1 | Neutral | BERLIN The coronavirus pandemic means Germany needs to ready for an extraordinary act of with other European Union countries Chancellor Angela Merkel said as Berlin prepares to take on the rotating EU presidency from July 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-germany-merkel/merkel-calls-for-extraordinary-german-solidarity-with-eu-peers-idUSKBN23X25A | 2020-06-27 |
| The European Union is investigating Germanys financial regulator over the collapse of payments company Wirecard in a rare move that heaps embarrassment on Berlin days before it is due to take over the EUs rotating presidency | Negative | The European Union is investigating Germanys financial regulator over the collapse of payments company Wirecard in a rare move that heaps embarrassment on Berlin days before it is due to take over the EUs rotating presidency | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-wirecard-accounts/eu-investigating-german-watchdog-over-wirecard-collapse-idUSKBN23X184 | 2020-06-27 |
| ESMA confirmed that it had been asked to look at how BaFin enforced the EUs transparency directive which covers financial reporting requirements for listed companies | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Commission will ask its markets watchdog to investigate whether German financial regulator BaFin failed in its supervision of payments company Wirecard | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-wirecard-accounts-eu-dombrovskis/german-oversight-of-wirecard-to-be-examined-by-eu-watchdog-idUSKBN23X0R0 | 2020-06-27 |
| Germany will take the EUs rotating presidency on July 1 | Positive | The European Union is investigating Germanys financial regulator over the collapse of payments company Wirecard in a rare move that heaps embarrassment on Berlin days before it is due to take over the EUs rotating presidency | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-wirecard-accounts/eu-investigating-german-watchdog-over-wirecard-collapse-idUSKBN23X184 | 2020-06-27 |
| Europe meanwhile has largely controlled the virus spread economies are turning the corner quicker than expected and a proposed EU recovery fund is speeding up euro zone integration | Positive | Nevertheless the crisis has exposed weaknesses such as companies high debt levels and their overreliance on share buybacks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-global-markets-themes/take-five-world-stocks-2020-rollercoaster-ride-rumbles-on-idUSKBN23X1OH | 2020-06-27 |
| ESMA confirmed it had been asked to look at how BaFin enforced the EUs transparency directive which covers financial reporting requirements for listed companies | Neutral | The European Union is investigating Germanys financial regulator over the collapse of payments company Wirecard in a rare move that heaps embarrassment on Berlin days before it is due to take over the EUs rotating presidency | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-wirecard-accounts/eu-investigating-german-watchdog-over-wirecard-collapse-idUSKBN23X184 | 2020-06-27 |
| Discussions were continuing overnight with the EU countries expected to give informal replies by Saturday evening people familiar with the matter said | Neutral | European Union countries failed to settle on Friday on a final safe of countries whose residents could travel to the bloc from July with the United States Brazil and Russia set to be excluded | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-travel/eu-holds-off-decision-on-borders-americans-set-to-be-excluded-idUSKBN23X2TX | 2020-06-27 |
| The European Commission said carmakers must significantly reduce their emissions or risk missing tougher EU targets coming into force this year | Negative | Carbon dioxide emissions from new cars in Europe rose for a third year running in 2019 provisional data from the European Unions environment agency showed on Friday with carmakers further lagging the blocs upcoming climate goals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climate-change-eu-autos/carmakers-slip-further-from-compliance-with-upcoming-eu-co2-goals-idUSKBN23X2E6 | 2020-06-27 |
| Greece is mandating COVID19 tests for arrivals from a range of EU countries including France Italy the Netherlands and Spain with selfisolation until results are known | Negative | European Union countries failed to settle on Friday on a final safe of countries whose residents could travel to the bloc from July with the United States Brazil and Russia set to be excluded | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-travel/eu-holds-off-decision-on-borders-americans-set-to-be-excluded-idUSKBN23X2TX | 2020-06-27 |
| EU antitrust regulators last week began a fourmonth investigation into the deal saying it may harm competition in small vans in 14 EU countries and Britain | Negative | PARIS PSA Chief Executive Carlos Tavares is confident a billion merger of the maker of Peugeot vehicles with Fiat Chrysler will proceed as planned and deliver synergies of at least 3 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-psa-agm/peugeot-ceo-confident-fiat-chrysler-merger-is-on-track-idUSKBN23W1JB | 2020-06-26 |
| We believe that the delay would not be justified even in the context of COVID19 and that it would be detrimental to the EUs retaliatory rights under WTO he continued | Negative | The EU is very concerned about this and we have communicated this to the a Commission spokesman said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-trade-eu/eu-is-very-concerned-by-delayed-wto-decision-on-tariffs-vs-u-s-idUSKBN23W2L7 | 2020-06-26 |
| Now it is considering the level of tariffs that the EU could impose in a parallel case involving illegal support for Boeing | Negative | The United States moved to maintain pressure on the European Union in a 16year dispute over aircraft subsidies by flagging possible changes in tariffs on EU goods as the date for a decision on reciprocal EU duties slipped to the autumn | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trade-britain-eu/u-s-to-review-tariffs-on-eu-goods-in-aircraft-subsidy-dispute-idUSKBN23V1FK | 2020-06-25 |
| The United States moved to maintain pressure on the European Union in a 16year dispute over aircraft subsidies by flagging possible changes in tariffs on EU goods as the date for a decision on reciprocal EU duties slipped to the autumn | Negative | The United States moved to maintain pressure on the European Union in a 16year dispute over aircraft subsidies by flagging possible changes in tariffs on EU goods as the date for a decision on reciprocal EU duties slipped to the autumn | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trade-britain-eu/u-s-to-review-tariffs-on-eu-goods-in-aircraft-subsidy-dispute-idUSKBN23V1FK | 2020-06-25 |
| An estimated 35000 migrants from the Middle East Afghanistan Pakistan tried to enter Greece a EU member state | Negative | ATHENS The European Union wants to rebuild trust with Turkey its top diplomat said on Wednesday after a standoff in March in which thousands of migrants attempted to force their way into Greece triggering clashes on their border | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-eu-greece-turkey-border/eu-says-engagement-needed-to-build-trust-with-turkey-after-migration-dispute-idUSKBN23V1XC | 2020-06-25 |
| The European Commission announced the proposal in 2018 but it was delayed by disagreements among EU countries and EU lawmakers | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union countries and lawmakers struck a deal late on Monday to pave the way for Europeans to team up and sue companies for defective products but with builtin safeguards to guard against the excesses of U.S. class action lawsuits | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-classaction/eu-countries-lawmakers-agree-deal-on-class-action-lawsuits-idUSKBN23U1NL | 2020-06-24 |
| China hopes the EU could relax export control measures against China Li told the 22nd ChinaEU summit according to the state TV China Central Television | Positive | BEIJING Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday that cooperation with the European Union outweighs competition and China is willing to deepen cooperation with the bloc on COVID19 vaccine and treatment development to fight against the virus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-eu-li/chinese-premier-says-cooperation-with-eu-outweighs-competition-state-media-idUSKBN23T1M3 | 2020-06-23 |
| The probe was launched after the LSE declined to offer concessions during the EUs preliminary review | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union antitrust regulators on Monday warned about the possible anticompetitive effects of the London Stock Exchanges billion bid for data and analytics company Refinitiv as they launched a fourmonth investigation into the deal | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-refinitiv-m-a-lse-eu/eu-warns-of-competition-concerns-over-lses-27-billion-bid-for-refinitiv-idUSKBN23T2CX | 2020-06-23 |
| Scholz said the proposal to be put to shareholders had been carefully in negotiations with Lufthansa and the EU This will be taken into account I think by the shareholders | Positive | Scholz said the proposal to be put to shareholders had been carefully in negotiations with Lufthansa and the EU This will be taken into account I think by the shareholders | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-lufthansa-restructuring/germany-in-lufthansa-bailout-talks-with-key-shareholder-idUSKBN23T0SG | 2020-06-23 |
| Michel also said China needed to engage in WTO reform and open up its market to the EU more to rebalance what he said was their uneven trading relationship | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union chiefs expressed their great about the proposed security law for Hong Kong during a video summit on Monday with Chinas president and premier | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-china-summit-michel/eu-chiefs-express-great-concerns-about-hong-kong-at-china-summit-idUSKBN23T29W | 2020-06-23 |
| The EU is also concerned about investment in EU technology by statesubsidised firms and said it will be particularly vigilant on critical areas such as microelectronics and artificial intelligence | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union and China held a video summit on Monday their first formal talks since the new European Commission took office late last year | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-china-summit-factbox/factbox-trade-climate-and-digital-issues-in-eu-china-ties-idUSKBN23T21K | 2020-06-23 |
| Germany has postponed an EU leaders summit with Xi in September citing the coronavirus though diplomats said it was in part because of the impasse in investment negotiations | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union and China will seek to cool tensions on Monday at a video summit their first formal talks since ties soured over European accusations that Beijing has spread disinformation about the novel coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-eu-china-summit/eu-and-china-to-seek-to-cool-tensions-at-video-summit-idUSKBN23T003 | 2020-06-22 |
| European markets however were poised to open lower with EUROSTOXX 50 futures STxEc1 down 0 | Negative | KONG U.S. stock futures recouped losses on Monday but Asian stocks wobbled as investors tried to shake off worries that rising coronavirus cases in the United States could scupper a quick economic rebound | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/stocks-try-to-shake-off-second-wave-virus-fears-idUSKBN23S0X9 | 2020-06-22 |
| But the future government will face increasing EU and U.S. pressure to recognise the independence of Serbias former province of Kosovo a move seen as key for regional stability | Neutral | BELGRADE Serbians go to polls on Sunday to elect a new parliament in Europes first national election since coronavirus lockdowns took effect some three months ago with the ruling conservatives seen winning a comfortable majority | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-serbia-election/serbians-head-to-polls-in-europes-first-post-lockdown-election-idUSKBN23S001 | 2020-06-21 |
| The faster the package is agreed the better for the EU she said according to officials | Positive | BRUSSELS European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde urged European Union leaders on Friday to quickly agree on a recovery package that would pull the economy from a dramatic or risk a change in sentiment on markets which were expecting a deal soon | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-lagarde/ecbs-lagarde-urges-quick-eu-recovery-plan-as-economy-in-dramatic-fall-idUSKBN23Q1KJ | 2020-06-20 |
| BRUSSELS A key aim of the EUs multibillion euro stimulus package is to prevent a widening of economic differences in bloc which would weaken the EUs internal market European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday | Negative | BRUSSELS A key aim of the EUs multibillion euro stimulus package is to prevent a widening of economic differences in bloc which would weaken the EUs internal market European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-summit-vonderleyen-recovery/eu-stimulus-designed-to-support-single-market-executive-chief-idUSKBN23Q2B2 | 2020-06-20 |
| The parliament believes that the EU should use its economic leverage to challenge Chinas crackdown on human rights by economic the resolution said | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union should take China to the International Court of Justice in The Hague if Beijing imposes a new security law on Hong Kong the European Parliament voted on Friday also calling on the bloc to use economic leverage to dissuade China | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-hongkong-protests-eu/eu-should-take-china-to-u-n-court-over-hong-kong-lawmakers-say-idUSKBN23Q36Y | 2020-06-20 |
| European shares closed higher on Friday with defensive plays leading gains as investors remained hopeful that a massive stimulus package will soon be passed even though EU leaders made little progress in negotiations | Positive | European shares closed higher on Friday with defensive plays leading gains as investors remained hopeful that a massive stimulus package will soon be passed even though EU leaders made little progress in negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-shares-up-for-week-hopes-remain-for-recovery-plan-idUSKBN23Q11T | 2020-06-20 |
| June 19 European shares opened higher on Friday ahead of the European Councils meeting to negotiate the EU recovery fund with Germanys Lufthansa gaining on signs of movement in its stalled government bailout | Positive | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-rise-with-recovery-fund-talks-in-focus-idUSL4N2DW1Q2 | 2020-06-20 |
| Their silhouettes dont stir dreams of adventure like a sports car or trendy SUV but vans are a rare source of profit for European carmakers which is why EU regulators are focused on them as they decide whether to back an industry megamerger | Positive | Their silhouettes dont stir dreams of adventure like a sports car or trendy SUV but vans are a rare source of profit for European carmakers which is why EU regulators are focused on them as they decide whether to back an industry megamerger | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-fiat-chrysler-m-a-psa-vans/vans-not-glamorous-but-key-as-eu-weighs-autos-mega-merger-idUSKBN23P2HQ | 2020-06-19 |
| President Donald Trump threatened this month to impose tariffs on EU cars if the bloc did not drop its tariff on American lobsters | Negative | Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said France Britain Italy and Spain had jointly responded on Thursday to a letter from U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announcing the pullout | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-trade-digital-france/europe-threatens-digital-taxes-without-global-deal-after-u-s-quits-talks-idUSKBN23P0T2 | 2020-06-19 |
| In reply to a possible offer to recognise Kosovo and that Kosovo enters the UN and we receive nothing in return except EU membership our answer would be Vucic said | Positive | BELGRADE Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday he would reject European Union membership if Belgrade does not receive concessions in return for recognising Kosovo and dropping attempts to stop it joining the United Nations | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-serbia-russia-kosovo/serbia-ready-to-sacrifice-eu-membership-over-kosovo-deal-idUSKBN23P2G0 | 2020-06-19 |
| Efforts to reach even a limited U.S.EU trade deal have foundered and sources on both sides see little chance of progress with a U.S. presidential election barely four months away | Positive | Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said France Britain Italy and Spain had jointly responded on Thursday to a letter from U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announcing the pullout | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-trade-digital-france/europe-threatens-digital-taxes-without-global-deal-after-u-s-quits-talks-idUSKBN23P0T2 | 2020-06-19 |
| Germany takes over the EU presidency for six months on July 1 and Merkel said member states have high expectations of the blocs largest economy which is also its paymaster | Positive | BERLIN The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the weakness of the European Union and Germany will use its presidency of the bloc to promote solidarity and economic prosperity among its 27 member states Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-germany-eu-merkel/germany-wants-to-bolster-eu-shaken-by-pandemic-merkel-idUSKBN23P14G | 2020-06-19 |
| This alliance is expected to halt negotiations with drugmakers once the EU has appointed its negotiation team to avoid competition among EU states officials said | Negative | A second EU source said the Commission had a call with Johnson Johnson on Tuesday about the possible agreement | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccine-exclusi/exclusive-eu-in-advanced-talks-with-johnson-johnson-on-covid-19-vaccine-deal-sources-idUSKBN23P1PU | 2020-06-19 |
| BRUSSELS EU industry chief Thierry Breton has urged EU governments to be more active in setting global standards for ultralight battery metal lithium key to many strategic industries and electric cars or cede technological advantage to China | Positive | BRUSSELS EU industry chief Thierry Breton has urged EU governments to be more active in setting global standards for ultralight battery metal lithium key to many strategic industries and electric cars or cede technological advantage to China | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-lithium-standards-exclusive/exclusive-eu-must-engage-in-lithium-standards-or-lose-to-china-eus-breton-says-idUSKBN23P2I5 | 2020-06-19 |
| But the risk is justified by the need to secure enough doses for the EU population in the global race for an effective vaccine EU officials say | Positive | A second EU source said the Commission had a call with Johnson Johnson on Tuesday about the possible agreement | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-vaccine-exclusi/exclusive-eu-in-advanced-talks-with-johnson-johnson-on-covid-19-vaccine-deal-sources-idUSKBN23P1PU | 2020-06-19 |
| BRUSSELS The European Unions economic recovery plan after the COVID19 pandemic is likely to secure backing from member states in July helping the 27nation bloc emerge from the recession together EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Wednesday | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Unions economic recovery plan after the COVID19 pandemic is likely to secure backing from member states in July helping the 27nation bloc emerge from the recession together EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-interview/eu-post-covid-recovery-plan-likely-to-win-backing-in-july-budget-chief-idUSKBN23O30D | 2020-06-18 |
| The two carmakers had declined to offer concessions to allay the EU competition enforcers concerns during its preliminary review of the deal | Negative | The two carmakers want to create the worlds fourthbiggest carmaker to help offset slowing demand and share the cost of making cleaner vehicles to meet tougher emissions regulations | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-fiat-chrysler-m-a-peugeot-eu/eu-worried-fiat-psa-deal-may-hit-competition-in-vans-idUSKBN23O2BI | 2020-06-18 |
| If British firms are to have easy access to the blocs market the EU says Britain must commit to sticking to similar standards as the EU has | Neutral | BRUSSELS Britain and the European Union have said they will intensify negotiations on reaching a comprehensive agreement on the terms of their future relationship | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-issues-explainer/explainer-what-britain-and-the-eu-have-to-sort-out-to-get-a-trade-deal-idUSKBN23O23O | 2020-06-18 |
| An official at Japans Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the government had no comment adding that it would continue to explain its actions to the EU and member states | Neutral | BRUSSELS European lawmakers lobbied by fathers who cannot see children taken by Japanese mothers urged Tokyo on Tuesday to combat the of minors by one parent and change a law that does not recognise joint custody after a split | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-children-eu-parliament/european-lawmakers-chide-japan-over-abduction-of-children-by-a-parent-idUSKBN23O2DK | 2020-06-18 |
| Parents such as Fichot and Perina could not be immediately reached for comment on the EU parliament resolution | Negative | BRUSSELS European lawmakers lobbied by fathers who cannot see children taken by Japanese mothers urged Tokyo on Tuesday to combat the of minors by one parent and change a law that does not recognise joint custody after a split | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-children-eu-parliament/european-lawmakers-chide-japan-over-abduction-of-children-by-a-parent-idUSKBN23O2DK | 2020-06-18 |
| In many countries either PSA or FCA Chrysler is already the market leader in light commercial vehicles and the merger would remove one of the main the EU executive said | Neutral | The two carmakers want to create the worlds fourthbiggest carmaker to help offset slowing demand and share the cost of making cleaner vehicles to meet tougher emissions regulations | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-fiat-chrysler-m-a-peugeot-eu/eu-worried-fiat-psa-deal-may-hit-competition-in-vans-idUSKBN23O2BI | 2020-06-18 |
| The companies should get a decision from the EU on whether it will launch an indepth probe known as a Phase 2 examination next week | Negative | Monday is the deadline for the LSE to propose concessions to address competition concerns raised during the EU regulators preliminary inquiry which ends on June 22 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-refinitiv-m-a-lse-eu/lse-offers-no-concessions-to-avert-deeper-eu-probe-of-refinitiv-deal-sources-idUSKBN23M25U | 2020-06-16 |
| BERLIN Germany has signalled it will push for a tougher EU line towards China adding language to a draft document that would see a stronger demand for seen as code for access for European firms and a new emphasis on | Negative | BERLIN Germany has signalled it will push for a tougher EU line towards China adding language to a draft document that would see a stronger demand for seen as code for access for European firms and a new emphasis on | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-germany-eu-china/germany-preparing-eu-presidency-wants-more-reciprocity-with-china-idUSKBN23M1SF | 2020-06-16 |
| The China policy of all EU institutions and member states should be united and balanced and be oriented towards longterm common EU interests and reads the 24page paper | Positive | BERLIN Germany has signalled it will push for a tougher EU line towards China adding language to a draft document that would see a stronger demand for seen as code for access for European firms and a new emphasis on | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-germany-eu-china/germany-preparing-eu-presidency-wants-more-reciprocity-with-china-idUSKBN23M1SF | 2020-06-16 |
| Monday is the deadline for the LSE to propose concessions to address competition concerns raised during the EU regulators preliminary inquiry which ends on June 22 | Negative | Monday is the deadline for the LSE to propose concessions to address competition concerns raised during the EU regulators preliminary inquiry which ends on June 22 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-refinitiv-m-a-lse-eu/lse-offers-no-concessions-to-avert-deeper-eu-probe-of-refinitiv-deal-sources-idUSKBN23M25U | 2020-06-16 |
| British visitors would be able to travel to Spain from June 21 since Britain is still considered part of the EU a Spanish foreign ministry source said | Positive | MADRID Spain will reopen its borders to most European visitors from June 21 10 days earlier than previously planned the government said on Sunday in a further easing of coronavirus restrictions but a week later than some other EU member states | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain/spain-to-open-borders-on-june-21-to-most-european-visitors-including-british-idUSKBN23L0FE | 2020-06-15 |
| Frances EU must reach deal on coronavirus relief plan by July Britain asks too much of EU in Brexit talks Barnier says | Negative | Fridays story without | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets-themes/rpt-graphic-take-five-pump-it-up-idUSL8N2DP2XN | 2020-06-15 |
| MADRID Spain will reopen its borders to most European visitors from June 21 10 days earlier than previously planned the government said on Sunday in a further easing of coronavirus restrictions but a week later than some other EU member states | Positive | MADRID Spain will reopen its borders to most European visitors from June 21 10 days earlier than previously planned the government said on Sunday in a further easing of coronavirus restrictions but a week later than some other EU member states | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain/spain-to-open-borders-on-june-21-to-most-european-visitors-including-british-idUSKBN23L0FE | 2020-06-15 |
| Mass events could be a major route of said Martin Seychell a health official at the EU Commission | Neutral | Fears of a second wave of COVID19 infections shut six major food markets in Beijing on Friday while India which opened up this week recorded a record daily increase and half a dozen U.S. states said their hospital beds were filling up fast | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-secondwave/risk-of-new-lockdowns-rises-with-fear-of-second-covid-19-wave-idUSKBN23J187 | 2020-06-13 |
| PARIS France will lift restrictions at its borders for EU travellers on June 15 the French Interior and Foreign ministries said in a statement on Friday | Positive | PARIS France will lift restrictions at its borders for EU travellers on June 15 the French Interior and Foreign ministries said in a statement on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-borders/france-to-lift-border-controls-for-eu-travellers-on-june-15-idUSKBN23J385 | 2020-06-13 |
| BRUSSELS Airlines dont need to compensate passengers if a flight is delayed by one person biting another as it is an extraordinary the EUs top court ruled on Thursday after a customer sued Portuguese airline TAP over such an incident | Negative | BRUSSELS Airlines dont need to compensate passengers if a flight is delayed by one person biting another as it is an extraordinary the EUs top court ruled on Thursday after a customer sued Portuguese airline TAP over such an incident | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-eu-tap-bite/biting-passenger-delays-flight-no-compensation-needed-says-eu-court-idUSKBN23I1FK | 2020-06-12 |
| The European Commission is seeking a mandate from EU governments to buy up to six promising coronavirus vaccines in advance from pharmaceutical firms two officials told Reuters | Positive | Europe could face a surge of COVID19 infections in the coming weeks caused by mass protests in the continent over the last days politicians European Union officials and experts said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN23H2MZ | 2020-06-12 |
| Before it joins the EU Serbia must normalise ties with Kosovo its predominantly ethnic Albanian former province which declared independence in 2008 almost a decade after a brutal war | Positive | BELGRADE Belgrade wants to keep balancing its ties with the West China and Russia as it seeks to join the European Union and reach a settlement with Kosovo President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday ahead of a parliamentary election | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-serbia-president-interview/serbia-to-keep-balancing-west-russia-and-china-president-says-idUSKBN23I21E | 2020-06-12 |
| Vucic said Belgrade did not plan to choose between Russia a natural Slavic and Orthodox Christian the EU Serbias main trading and China | Positive | BELGRADE Belgrade wants to keep balancing its ties with the West China and Russia as it seeks to join the European Union and reach a settlement with Kosovo President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday ahead of a parliamentary election | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-serbia-president-interview/serbia-to-keep-balancing-west-russia-and-china-president-says-idUSKBN23I21E | 2020-06-12 |
| Merkel told Li that Germany which takes over the EUs sixmonth rotating presidency in July wants rulesbased and free multilateral trade plus a strengthened World Trade Organisation Seibert said | Positive | BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed in a video conference with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang that Beijing needs to take action to open up its market and treat foreign companies fairly her spokesman said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-germany-china-merkel/china-needs-to-do-more-on-market-access-merkel-tells-li-idUSKBN23I1TS | 2020-06-12 |
| The task force will coordinate potential actions and seek an overview of TikToks processing and practices across the EU the EDPB said in a statement | Negative | TikTok owned by Chinas ByteDance allows users to create short videos and has seen its popularity soar during the COVID19 crisis | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-privacy-tiktok-clearview/eu-watchdog-sets-up-tiktok-task-force-warns-on-clearview-ai-software-idUSKBN23H2PM | 2020-06-11 |
| to extend an overnight pullback on Wall Street while EUROSTOXX 50 futures lost 2 | Negative | SYDNEY Asian shares retreated on Thursday as a gloomy outlook from the U.S. Federal Reserve challenged market optimism on the global economy while bonds rallied on speculation that yet more stimulus would be needed to ensure recovery | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asia-stocks-snap-winning-streak-bonds-rally-on-downbeat-fed-idUSKBN23I08N | 2020-06-11 |
| European officials aim to speed up trials for coronavirus vaccines containing genetically modified organisms two EU sources told Reuters | Positive | Eli Lilly and Co could have a drug specifically designed to treat COVID19 authorized for use as early as September if all goes well with either of two antibody therapies it is testing its chief scientist told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSKBN23H2MZ | 2020-06-11 |
| Japan was Britains fourthbiggest nonEU trading partner in 2019 with trade between the two countries totalling 31 | Positive | TOKYO Japan will call for an early elimination of automobile and auto parts tariffs in negotiations on a postBrexit trade agreement with Britain the countrys trade minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-japan-trade/japan-to-push-for-early-scrapping-of-uk-auto-tariffs-in-trade-talks-idUSKBN23G0DR | 2020-06-10 |
| The aim is really to have a first exchange of views it is too early for any big one EU official said | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers reviewed the EUs 750 billion euro plan for postpandemic recovery on Tuesday ahead of what will be fractious negotiations over who should get the cash and even over the legality of borrowing to offer grants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-economy-recovery-ministers/eu-finance-ministers-examine-recovery-plan-amid-deep-divisions-idUSKBN23G2KX | 2020-06-10 |
| BRUSSELS Chinese video app TikToks new Chief Executive Kevin Mayer has told EU digital chief Thierry Breton he intends to play an active role fighting disinformation an EU official said on Tuesday as Breton pushes tech giants to step up their efforts against fake news | Positive | BRUSSELS Chinese video app TikToks new Chief Executive Kevin Mayer has told EU digital chief Thierry Breton he intends to play an active role fighting disinformation an EU official said on Tuesday as Breton pushes tech giants to step up their efforts against fake news | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-tech-tiktok/tiktoks-mayer-pledges-fake-news-fight-in-call-with-eus-breton-idUSKBN23G2XM | 2020-06-10 |
| But controversially it entails the Commission borrowing on the market against the security of the EU budget and then giving rather than lending some of the money to needy states | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers reviewed the EUs 750 billion euro plan for postpandemic recovery on Tuesday ahead of what will be fractious negotiations over who should get the cash and even over the legality of borrowing to offer grants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-economy-recovery-ministers/eu-finance-ministers-examine-recovery-plan-amid-deep-divisions-idUSKBN23G2KX | 2020-06-10 |
| Breton invited TikTok to join the European Unions code of conduct said the EU official who was not authorized to speak publicly | Positive | BRUSSELS Chinese video app TikToks new Chief Executive Kevin Mayer has told EU digital chief Thierry Breton he intends to play an active role fighting disinformation an EU official said on Tuesday as Breton pushes tech giants to step up their efforts against fake news | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-tech-tiktok/tiktoks-mayer-pledges-fake-news-fight-in-call-with-eus-breton-idUSKBN23G2XM | 2020-06-10 |
| Some also argue that since all countries can borrow cheaply on the market there is no need for EU grants at all | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers reviewed the EUs 750 billion euro plan for postpandemic recovery on Tuesday ahead of what will be fractious negotiations over who should get the cash and even over the legality of borrowing to offer grants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-economy-recovery-ministers/eu-finance-ministers-examine-recovery-plan-amid-deep-divisions-idUSKBN23G2KX | 2020-06-10 |
| BRUSSELS June 9 Chinese video app TikToks new Chief Executive Kevin Mayer has told EU digital chief Thierry Breton he intends to play an active role fighting disinformation an EU official said on Tuesday as Breton pushes tech giants to step up their efforts against fake news | Positive | to add dropped in | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/eu-tech-tiktok/refile-tiktoks-mayer-pledges-fake-news-fight-in-call-with-eus-breton-eu-official-says-idUSL8N2DM66I | 2020-06-10 |
| The plan has to win the approval of all EU governments and parliaments and officials expect negotiations to drag into July and possibly later | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers reviewed the EUs 750 billion euro plan for postpandemic recovery on Tuesday ahead of what will be fractious negotiations over who should get the cash and even over the legality of borrowing to offer grants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-economy-recovery-ministers/eu-finance-ministers-examine-recovery-plan-amid-deep-divisions-idUSKBN23G2KX | 2020-06-10 |
| No comment was immediately available from the U.S. Trade Representatives office or the EUs delegation in Washington | Neutral | BANGOR Maine U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose tariffs on European Union cars if the bloc does not drop its tariff on American lobsters naming White House trade adviser Peter Navarro the lobster in charge of talks | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-lobsters/trump-threatens-eu-china-with-tariffs-names-navarro-lobster-king-idUSKBN23C2VI | 2020-06-06 |
| On Friday a UK official involved in the negotiations It is obvious the EU must move its positions for there to be a deal | Positive | European Union and British negotiators said on Friday they had made very little progress in their latest round of talks about a Brexit free trade agreement with just weeks left to extend a yearend deadline to reach a deal | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-britain-eu/brexit-trade-talks-make-no-significant-progress-as-deadline-nears-idUSKBN23C1KD | 2020-06-06 |
| Trumps top trade negotiator Robert Lighthizer had proposed a minideal with the EU last year that would have reduced barriers for U.S. lobsters but it never gained traction | Negative | BANGOR Maine U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose tariffs on European Union cars if the bloc does not drop its tariff on American lobsters naming White House trade adviser Peter Navarro the lobster in charge of talks | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-trade-lobsters/trump-threatens-eu-china-with-tariffs-names-navarro-lobster-king-idUSKBN23C2VI | 2020-06-06 |
| BRUSSELS European Union antitrust regulators want more power to investigate Chinese companies benefiting from state subsidies seeking to acquire EU firms because of the distortive effect of such aid a person with familiar with the matter said on Friday | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union antitrust regulators want more power to investigate Chinese companies benefiting from state subsidies seeking to acquire EU firms because of the distortive effect of such aid a person with familiar with the matter said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-subsidies-antitrust/eu-mulls-tougher-rules-for-chinese-state-aided-companies-on-european-buying-spree-source-idUSKBN23C2TT | 2020-06-06 |
| To meet EUwide climate targets by 2030 Greece has also vowed to close down all but one of its coalfired electricity plants by 2023 | Positive | ATHENS Greece on Friday unveiled tax incentives to boost the use of electric cars motorcycles and bicycles as part of its 10year climate plan for lower carbon emissions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-climatechange-greece-autos/greece-goes-after-cleaner-transport-with-tax-breaks-for-electric-cars-idUSKBN23C1P6 | 2020-06-06 |
| June 5 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is willing to accept European Union tariffs on some British goods in an attempt to win a trade deal and break the deadlock in talks with the EU the Daily Mail newspaper reported | Positive | June 5 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is willing to accept European Union tariffs on some British goods in an attempt to win a trade deal and break the deadlock in talks with the EU the Daily Mail newspaper reported | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-eu-tariffs/uk-pm-offers-to-accept-eu-tariffs-on-some-goods-to-win-trade-deal-daily-mail-idUSL4N2DI3US | 2020-06-06 |
| 11 when foreign takeovers are announced EU governments will be obliged to share details with the Commission in areas such as the media transport and communications | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Unions executive has proposed broadening scrutiny of foreign investments in the bloc according to a public draft document part of efforts to shield more sectors from potential Chinese buyers | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-eu/eu-considers-broadening-scrutiny-of-foreign-investments-idUSKBN23B27R | 2020-06-05 |
| If expanded the review would include more projects linked to defence a new EU satellite communications programme and a multibillioneuro nuclear fusion project | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Unions executive has proposed broadening scrutiny of foreign investments in the bloc according to a public draft document part of efforts to shield more sectors from potential Chinese buyers | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-eu/eu-considers-broadening-scrutiny-of-foreign-investments-idUSKBN23B27R | 2020-06-05 |
| Projects already on the list include transport energy and Galileo the EU satellite navigation programme | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Unions executive has proposed broadening scrutiny of foreign investments in the bloc according to a public draft document part of efforts to shield more sectors from potential Chinese buyers | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-eu/eu-considers-broadening-scrutiny-of-foreign-investments-idUSKBN23B27R | 2020-06-05 |
| Roughly 30 states are now reporting PUA claims on a weekly basis but PEUC figures are reported with a twoweek lag | Negative | WASHINGTON The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits likely dropped below 2 million last week for the first time since midMarch but remains astonishingly high as companies adjust to an environment that has been significantly changed by COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-economy/u-s-new-weekly-jobless-claims-seen-falling-below-2-million-idUSKBN23B0DM | 2020-06-04 |
| The plan still requires unanimous support from EU members and is unlikely to delay more policy action now economists say | Negative | LONDON The European Central Bank meets on Thursday with investors hoping that policymakers will deliver yet more stimulus for an economy ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eurozone-markets-ecb/no-time-to-waste-five-questions-for-the-ecb-idUSKBN2381DR | 2020-06-02 |
| Delaying fresh stimulus would keep the pressure on Europes politicians to deliver and allow more time for the ECB to assess how EU bond issuance will impact its asset purchases | Negative | LONDON The European Central Bank meets on Thursday with investors hoping that policymakers will deliver yet more stimulus for an economy ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eurozone-markets-ecb/no-time-to-waste-five-questions-for-the-ecb-idUSKBN2381DR | 2020-06-02 |
| The issue could become a central topic of a meeting of EU ministers responsible for trade provisionally set for June 9 | Positive | BRUSSELS European trade commissioner Phil Hogan is considering putting his name forward as a candidate to be the next directorgeneral of the World Trade Organization his spokesman said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-trade-wto-hogan/eu-trade-commissioner-hogan-mulling-candidacy-for-wto-chief-idUSKBN2370FL | 2020-06-01 |
| There is currently no approved medication or vaccine for COVID19 but EU countries are already administering remdesivir to patients under compassionate use rules | Positive | TAIPEI Taiwans government said on Saturday it had approved Gilead Sciences potential COVID19 treatment remdesivir to treat the illness caused by the novel coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan/taiwan-approves-gileads-remdesivir-to-treat-covid-19-idUSKBN23609Q | 2020-05-31 |
| Theres a lack of progress on negotiations market access for European companies in said Borrell who said the bloc would now prepare a new EU strategy document on China | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers agreed to toughen their strategy on China on Friday to counter Beijings increasingly assertive diplomacy against a backdrop of concern about Chinas new security law for Hong Kong | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-eu-china/eu-seeks-tougher-china-policy-concerned-by-hong-kong-law-idUSKBN23514I | 2020-05-30 |
| BERLIN There is still a long way to go until talks on a European coronavirus recovery fund are concluded Germanys foreign minister said on Friday adding that Berlin aims to act as an honest during its EU presidency this year | Negative | BERLIN There is still a long way to go until talks on a European coronavirus recovery fund are concluded Germanys foreign minister said on Friday adding that Berlin aims to act as an honest during its EU presidency this year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-maas/were-still-a-long-way-off-concluding-eu-recovery-fund-talks-germany-idUSKBN2350X8 | 2020-05-30 |
| EU law now says that the maximum national contribution to the EU budget by governments can be 1 | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission wants higher guarantees for the next longterm EU budget to back Commission borrowing for economic recovery and as a safeguard against a hard EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-brexit/eu-executive-seeks-higher-eu-budget-guarantees-in-case-of-hard-brexit-idUSKBN2342IY | 2020-05-29 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission wants higher guarantees for the next longterm EU budget to back Commission borrowing for economic recovery and as a safeguard against a hard EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Thursday | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission wants higher guarantees for the next longterm EU budget to back Commission borrowing for economic recovery and as a safeguard against a hard EU Budget Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-brexit/eu-executive-seeks-higher-eu-budget-guarantees-in-case-of-hard-brexit-idUSKBN2342IY | 2020-05-29 |
| BRUSSELS Japans Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd will be allowed to keep a drug used to treat bowel disease because changes in the market have removed the need to sell it to allay EU antitrust concerns over last years acquisition of Shire plc | Positive | BRUSSELS Japans Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd will be allowed to keep a drug used to treat bowel disease because changes in the market have removed the need to sell it to allay EU antitrust concerns over last years acquisition of Shire plc | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-shire-m-a-takeda-pharma-eu/takeda-gets-eu-green-light-to-keep-bowel-drug-after-shire-buy-idUSKBN2342BY | 2020-05-29 |
| We expect EURUSD volatility to remain well supported in the coming Harvey said | Positive | By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-weak-as-improved-risk-appetite-eu-recovery-fund-hopes-lift-euro-idUSL8N2DA4QQ | 2020-05-29 |
| BRUSSELS Google has called on the European Union to use current EU laws to govern the use of artificial intelligence rather than draft new ones and cautioned against a one size fits all regulatory framework because of AIs diverse applications | Negative | BRUSSELS Google has called on the European Union to use current EU laws to govern the use of artificial intelligence rather than draft new ones and cautioned against a one size fits all regulatory framework because of AIs diverse applications | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-eu-google-tech/google-says-use-existing-eu-laws-not-new-ones-to-govern-ai-idUSKBN2342XG | 2020-05-29 |
| The plan earmarks 91 billion euros per year in EU grants and loan guarantees for renovations such as rooftop solar panels insulation and renewable heating systems | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission unveiled a 750 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-climate-factbox/factbox-key-climate-spending-in-eus-green-recovery-plan-idUSKBN2331RB | 2020-05-28 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to borrow 750 billion euros on the market and issue grants and loans to EU countries to kickstart an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to borrow 750 billion euros on the market and issue grants and loans to EU countries to kickstart an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-reaction-factbox/factbox-eu-reactions-to-commission-750-billion-euro-coronavirus-recovery-scheme-idUSKBN233251 | 2020-05-28 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron who drove the grants push hopes it will defang populist and nationalist politicians who he says could tear the EU apart and sink the euro | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Unions executive unveiled a 750 billion euro plan on Wednesday to prop up economies hammered by the coronavirus pandemic hoping to end months of squabbling over how to fund a recovery that exposed faultlines across the 27nation bloc | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery/europes-moment-eu-lays-out-costly-rescue-for-squabbling-bloc-idUSKBN23238V | 2020-05-28 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday a plan to borrow and disburse 750 billion euros in grants and loans to help EU countries recover from their coronavirus slump | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission unveiled on Wednesday a plan to borrow and disburse 750 billion euros in grants and loans to help EU countries recover from their coronavirus slump | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-solvency-factbox/factbox-eu-solvency-support-plan-for-virus-hit-strategic-companies-idUSKBN2331S4 | 2020-05-28 |
| The Commission wants the EU to produce 1 million tonnes of clean hydrogen a zerocarbon fuel produced using renewable electricity which could power traditionally polluting industrial processes | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission unveiled a 750 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-climate-factbox/factbox-key-climate-spending-in-eus-green-recovery-plan-idUSKBN2331RB | 2020-05-28 |
| Below are initial reactions of EU governments to the plan | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to borrow 750 billion euros on the market and issue grants and loans to EU countries to kickstart an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-reaction-factbox/factbox-eu-reactions-to-commission-750-billion-euro-coronavirus-recovery-scheme-idUSKBN233251 | 2020-05-28 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission will propose on Wednesday to offer EU member states 500 billion euros in free grants and a further 250 billion euros in repayable loans as part of a new coronavirus economic recovery plan diplomats and officials told Reuters | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission will propose on Wednesday to offer EU member states 500 billion euros in free grants and a further 250 billion euros in repayable loans as part of a new coronavirus economic recovery plan diplomats and officials told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-detail/eu-executive-to-offer-500-billion-euros-in-grants-250-billion-in-loans-in-covid-recovery-sources-idUSKBN23319W | 2020-05-28 |
| The Commission would double the EU hydrogen support scheme to 1 | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission unveiled a 750 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-climate-factbox/factbox-key-climate-spending-in-eus-green-recovery-plan-idUSKBN2331RB | 2020-05-28 |
| Everything should be done to reach an agreement before the summer said the chairman of EU leaders Charles Michel | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Unions executive on Wednesday proposed a blueprint for the blocs next budget and a linked coronavirus Recovery Fund to provide a massive stimulus to the continents coronavirusbattered economy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-plan-factbox/factbox-nuts-and-bolts-of-plan-to-restart-eus-stuttering-economy-idUSKBN2331LW | 2020-05-28 |
| The fund would mark the biggest step forward in EU defence integration since the late 1990s when Britain and France helped launch closer military cooperation in the bloc | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission proposed on Wednesday spending 8 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-eu-budget-defence/eu-keeps-defence-fund-alive-with-8-billion-euro-proposal-idUSKBN23328S | 2020-05-28 |
| TALLINN Estonian Finance Minister Martin Helme who represents a farright party in the governing coalition of the eurozone country said he cannot agree with the EU Commissions economic rescue plan unveiled earlier on Wednesday | Negative | TALLINN Estonian Finance Minister Martin Helme who represents a farright party in the governing coalition of the eurozone country said he cannot agree with the EU Commissions economic rescue plan unveiled earlier on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-estonia/estonia-cannot-agree-to-eu-commission-rescue-plan-finance-minister-idUSKBN23333S | 2020-05-28 |
| The Commission may also tweak existing EU transport funds to trigger up to 20 billion euros in investments for cities rolling out cycling infrastructure and clean public transport | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission unveiled a 750 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-climate-factbox/factbox-key-climate-spending-in-eus-green-recovery-plan-idUSKBN2331RB | 2020-05-28 |
| BERLIN Negotiations on establishing a recovery fund to help the economies of EU countries that have been battered by the coronavirus crisis will not be easy Chancellor Angela Merkel said | Negative | BERLIN Negotiations on establishing a recovery fund to help the economies of EU countries that have been battered by the coronavirus crisis will not be easy Chancellor Angela Merkel said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-merkel/eu-fund-talks-will-be-tough-but-well-get-there-merkel-idUSKBN23324L | 2020-05-28 |
| Green funds would also come from the EUs budget for 202127 worth around one trillion euros and private money | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission unveiled a 750 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-climate-factbox/factbox-key-climate-spending-in-eus-green-recovery-plan-idUSKBN2331RB | 2020-05-28 |
| Much of the money would go to Italy and Spain the EU nations worst affected by the pandemic | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Unions executive unveiled a 750 billion euro plan on Wednesday to prop up economies hammered by the coronavirus pandemic hoping to end months of squabbling over how to fund a recovery that exposed faultlines across the 27nation bloc | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery/europes-moment-eu-lays-out-costly-rescue-for-squabbling-bloc-idUSKBN23238V | 2020-05-28 |
| Euro zone stocks were buoyed on Wednesday by a 750billioneuro plan to prop up EU economies hammered by the coronavirus crisis but falls for healthcare and technology stocks weighed on broader European markets | Negative | Euro zone stocks were buoyed on Wednesday by a 750billioneuro plan to prop up EU economies hammered by the coronavirus crisis but falls for healthcare and technology stocks weighed on broader European markets | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/euro-zone-shares-supported-by-recovery-plan-banks-jump-idUSKBN2330TW | 2020-05-28 |
| A proposed cybersecurity strategy to be fleshed out in the coming months aims to help EU countries boost the security of their networks and tackle malicious attacks online | Positive | BRUSSELS From ramping up 5Gs rollout to exploiting its data the European Union is turning to technology to help it bounce back from the coronavirus crisis and compete better in key areas with the United States and China | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-tech/tech-reboot-in-store-for-eu-as-plans-recovery-from-crisis-idUSKBN23324B | 2020-05-28 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission will on Wednesday unveil a plan to help the EU economy recover from its coronavirus slump with a mix of grants loans and guarantees exceeding 1 trillion euros that raised controversy even before it was announced | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission will on Wednesday unveil a plan to help the EU economy recover from its coronavirus slump with a mix of grants loans and guarantees exceeding 1 trillion euros that raised controversy even before it was announced | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery/eu-to-unveil-massive-stimulus-plan-for-post-coronavirus-recovery-idUSKBN23238V | 2020-05-27 |
| The Commission would borrow money cheaply on the market thanks to its tripleA rating using government guarantees for the joint EU longterm budget as security | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission will issue on Wednesday a new proposal for a longterm European Union budget and a coronavirus recovery fund to help economies in the bloc rebound from recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-proposal-factbox/factbox-eu-recovery-fund-the-battle-lines-idUSKBN2311KM | 2020-05-26 |
| Rome Italian banking association ABI Director General Giovanni Sabatini speaks via videoconference before Senate EU Policies Committee | Neutral | The following factors could affect Italian markets on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/italy-factors-may-26/italy-factors-to-watch-on-may-26-idUSL8N2D71SA | 2020-05-26 |
| Below are key points of contention that the Commission will have to address and on which EU leaders must find a compromise | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission will issue on Wednesday a new proposal for a longterm European Union budget and a coronavirus recovery fund to help economies in the bloc rebound from recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-proposal-factbox/factbox-eu-recovery-fund-the-battle-lines-idUSKBN2311KM | 2020-05-26 |
| The recovery money would have to be spent on what the EU sees as longterm making the bloc climateneutral by 2050 digitalising the economy investing in research and innovation | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission will issue on Wednesday a new proposal for a longterm European Union budget and a coronavirus recovery fund to help economies in the bloc rebound from recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-recovery-proposal-factbox/factbox-eu-recovery-fund-the-battle-lines-idUSKBN2311KM | 2020-05-26 |
| DUBLIN Twitter may be the first big technology firm to face a fine by the EUs lead regulator under the regions tougher data protection rules after it submitted a preliminary decision in a probe into the social media firm to other member states | Negative | DUBLIN Twitter may be the first big technology firm to face a fine by the EUs lead regulator under the regions tougher data protection rules after it submitted a preliminary decision in a probe into the social media firm to other member states | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-europe-privacy-ireland/irish-regulator-reaches-preliminary-decision-in-twitter-privacy-probe-idUSKBN22Y2PX | 2020-05-23 |
| DUBLIN May 22 Twitter may be the first big technology firm to face a fine by the EUs lead regulator under the regions tougher data protection rules after it submitted a preliminary decision in a probe into the social media firm to other member states | Negative | DUBLIN May 22 Twitter may be the first big technology firm to face a fine by the EUs lead regulator under the regions tougher data protection rules after it submitted a preliminary decision in a probe into the social media firm to other member states | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/europe-privacy-ireland/irish-regulator-reaches-preliminary-decision-in-twitter-privacy-probe-idUSS8N2CP06U | 2020-05-23 |
| Completely excluding asylum applications made at borders or in the country would be very much beyond EU said Marta Pardavi cochair of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee | Negative | VAMOSSZABADI Hungary Pale thin but in high spirits Yemeni engineering student Wesam AlHadrami emerged from the unlocked gate of a new migrant centre in Hungary on Friday to take his first walk after nine months of detention | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-europe-migrants-hungary/migrants-stuck-in-hungary-can-take-walks-after-transit-zones-shut-idUSKBN22Y2KE | 2020-05-23 |
| The Hungarian government disagrees with the ruling we consider it a risk to European security but as an EU member state we will honour all court Gulyas said | Negative | BUDAPEST Hungary shut socalled migrant transit zones on its borders on Thursday freeing some 300 refugees from prisonlike conditions while at the same time hardening rules which will effectively bar future asylum applicants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-migration-hungary-ruling/hungary-tightens-asylum-rules-as-it-ends-migrant-detention-zones-idUSKBN22X12X | 2020-05-22 |
| BERLIN The European Union is considering offering aid to companies that have fallen on hard times due to the coronavirus pandemic and are not receiving support from their national governments EU economics commissioner Paolo Gentiloni told Handelsblatt | Positive | BERLIN The European Union is considering offering aid to companies that have fallen on hard times due to the coronavirus pandemic and are not receiving support from their national governments EU economics commissioner Paolo Gentiloni told Handelsblatt | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-recovery/eu-mulling-solvency-aid-for-firms-commissioner-tells-handelsblatt-idUSKBN22X0MY | 2020-05-22 |
| He urged governments to focus investment and reform during the recovery phase on the EU priority of a transition to a and digital economy and ensuring social fairness | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union countries must now focus on investment in public health and protecting jobs and companies and worry about fiscal sustainability later the European Commission said on Wednesday departing from its usual calls for prudent policies and reforms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-economy-commission/eu-must-focus-on-health-jobs-now-fiscal-matters-later-commission-idUSKBN22W17W | 2020-05-21 |
| Public debt is also going to rocket breaching the EUs normal requirement that it should be falling | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union countries must now focus on investment in public health and protecting jobs and companies and worry about fiscal sustainability later the European Commission said on Wednesday departing from its usual calls for prudent policies and reforms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-economy-commission/eu-must-focus-on-health-jobs-now-fiscal-matters-later-commission-idUSKBN22W17W | 2020-05-21 |
| BRUSSELS EU regulators are seeking feedback from users and digital service providers before drafting rules that could rein in Google Facebook Amazon Uber and other tech companies an EU document seen by Reuters showed | Neutral | BRUSSELS EU regulators are seeking feedback from users and digital service providers before drafting rules that could rein in Google Facebook Amazon Uber and other tech companies an EU document seen by Reuters showed | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-tech-regulations/eu-regulators-seek-feedback-ahead-of-new-tough-tech-rules-idUSKBN22W2Q7 | 2020-05-21 |
| The court ruling in effect put the onus on EU governments themselves to fund any fiscal response | Positive | BRUSSELS It took a courtroom of scarletrobed judges to spur Angela Merkel to make one of her boldest moves in 15 years as German propose huge cash handouts to the European Unions weaker economies | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-eu-recovery-france-germany/its-up-to-us-how-merkel-and-macron-revived-eu-solidarity-idUSKBN22W0JB | 2020-05-20 |
| Merkel became increasingly aware that it was making Europe look really said an EU official familiar with Macron and Merkels consultations with the Commission | Neutral | BRUSSELS It took a courtroom of scarletrobed judges to spur Angela Merkel to make one of her boldest moves in 15 years as German propose huge cash handouts to the European Unions weaker economies | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-eu-recovery-france-germany/its-up-to-us-how-merkel-and-macron-revived-eu-solidarity-idUSKBN22W0JB | 2020-05-20 |
| BRUSSELS The FrancoGerman idea that the European Union should borrow to issue grants for its economic recovery is a historic step as it would be the first time that budget spending is financed through EU debt French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said | Negative | BRUSSELS The FrancoGerman idea that the European Union should borrow to issue grants for its economic recovery is a historic step as it would be the first time that budget spending is financed through EU debt French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-fund-france/franco-german-recovery-grants-idea-a-historic-step-le-maire-idUSKBN22V15C | 2020-05-20 |
| The deal does not mean that the proposal will be fully accepted by the EU but its main elements will likely get through | Positive | BRUSSELS France and Germany have proposed a halfatrillion euro fund to make grants to European Union regions and sectors worst hit by coronavirus to help them recover without taking on a mountain of new debt | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-recovery-fund-factbox/factbox-france-germany-propose-500-billion-euros-in-grants-for-post-covid-recovery-idUSKBN22V1CY | 2020-05-20 |
| It would be a topup to the EUs 20212027 budget already close to 1 trillion euros | Neutral | BRUSSELS It took a courtroom of scarletrobed judges to spur Angela Merkel to make one of her boldest moves in 15 years as German propose huge cash handouts to the European Unions weaker economies | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-eu-recovery-france-germany/its-up-to-us-how-merkel-and-macron-revived-eu-solidarity-idUSKBN22W0JB | 2020-05-20 |
| LONDON Britains postBrexit tariff plan which maintains the EUs levy on car imports shows the need for the country to secure free trade arrangements with major economies an automotive industry body said on Tuesday | Positive | LONDON Britains postBrexit tariff plan which maintains the EUs levy on car imports shows the need for the country to secure free trade arrangements with major economies an automotive industry body said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-carmakers/uks-post-brexit-tariff-plan-shows-need-for-free-trade-deals-uk-car-body-idUSKBN22V264 | 2020-05-20 |
| BRUSSELS After a row over joint borrowing to respond to the new coronavirus pandemic the European Union looks set to clash over whether governments should assign new tax revenues to the EU to help finance a recovery from the pandemicinduced recession | Negative | BRUSSELS After a row over joint borrowing to respond to the new coronavirus pandemic the European Union looks set to clash over whether governments should assign new tax revenues to the EU to help finance a recovery from the pandemicinduced recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-tax-analysis/after-coronabonds-eu-heads-for-clash-over-corona-tax-in-next-budget-idUSKBN22R29E | 2020-05-16 |
| It might take a crisis this deep for Europe to collectively arrive at this sensible a second senior EU official said | Negative | BRUSSELS After a row over joint borrowing to respond to the new coronavirus pandemic the European Union looks set to clash over whether governments should assign new tax revenues to the EU to help finance a recovery from the pandemicinduced recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-tax-analysis/after-coronabonds-eu-heads-for-clash-over-corona-tax-in-next-budget-idUSKBN22R29E | 2020-05-16 |
| BRUSSELS COVID19 contacttracing apps must only be used during the pandemic and will need to be automatically deactivated once the crisis is over EU justice commissioner Didier Reynders said on Thursday in a bid to allay concerns over state surveillance | Positive | BRUSSELS COVID19 contacttracing apps must only be used during the pandemic and will need to be automatically deactivated once the crisis is over EU justice commissioner Didier Reynders said on Thursday in a bid to allay concerns over state surveillance | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-apps/virus-tracing-apps-must-not-be-used-for-mass-surveillance-eu-says-idUSKBN22Q1KA | 2020-05-15 |
| The Dutch law firm backing the lawsuit Kennedy Van der Laan said it was seeking court rulings that the roads project was unlawful and that the EU should cease support | Negative | Some of the labourers belong to Eritreas national service condemned as forced labour and slavery by the United Nations and European Parliament according to lawyers backing the lawsuit | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-eu-eritrea-aid-slavery-trfn/eritrean-activists-sue-eu-for-funding-roads-built-with-forced-labour-idUSKBN22P2UK | 2020-05-14 |
| Finally the Commission will propose a new dedicated EU Health Programme to build on the experiences of the pandemic | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union executive will ask member states to allocate new sources of revenue to the EUs longterm budget to help finance an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic its head said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-budget/commission-wants-new-revenue-sources-in-next-eu-budget-idUSKBN22P234 | 2020-05-14 |
| But the package would also include a new Strategic Investment Facility to invest in areas crucial to the EUs future resilience and strategic autonomy such as pharmaceuticals | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union executive will ask member states to allocate new sources of revenue to the EUs longterm budget to help finance an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic its head said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-budget/commission-wants-new-revenue-sources-in-next-eu-budget-idUSKBN22P234 | 2020-05-14 |
| He said the European Parliament was set to vote on Thursday on a motion to freeze EU development spending to Eritrea | Negative | Some of the labourers belong to Eritreas national service condemned as forced labour and slavery by the United Nations and European Parliament according to lawyers backing the lawsuit | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-eu-eritrea-aid-slavery-trfn/eritrean-activists-sue-eu-for-funding-roads-built-with-forced-labour-idUSKBN22P2UK | 2020-05-14 |
| But it refused to suspend an EU law giving passengers the right to a full cash refund if a flight has been cancelled | Negative | BRUSSELS European holidaymakers hoping to catch a plane this summer will have to wear masks and travel light under guidelines set out by the European Commission on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-airlines/travel-light-with-a-mask-europe-unveils-plans-to-get-planes-back-in-sky-idUSKBN22P14I | 2020-05-14 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union executive will ask member states to allocate new sources of revenue to the EUs longterm budget to help finance an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic its head said on Wednesday | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union executive will ask member states to allocate new sources of revenue to the EUs longterm budget to help finance an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic its head said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-budget/commission-wants-new-revenue-sources-in-next-eu-budget-idUSKBN22P234 | 2020-05-14 |
| 1 billion buy of fitness trackers company Fitbit may harm consumers and hinder innovation European consumer group BEUC said on Wednesday calling it a gamechanger deal in the health and digital markets | Positive | BRUSSELS Alphabet Incowned Googles planned | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu/eu-consumer-group-warns-against-game-changer-google-fitbit-deal-idUSKBN22P29F | 2020-05-14 |
| These revenues along with national contributions are called own resources and make up the trilliondollar sevenyear EU budget the Multiannual Financial Framework | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union executive will ask member states to allocate new sources of revenue to the EUs longterm budget to help finance an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic its head said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-budget/commission-wants-new-revenue-sources-in-next-eu-budget-idUSKBN22P234 | 2020-05-14 |
| It is now briefing EU antitrust regulators about the deal prior to making a formal request for approval | Positive | BRUSSELS Alphabet Incowned Googles planned | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu/eu-consumer-group-warns-against-game-changer-google-fitbit-deal-idUSKBN22P29F | 2020-05-14 |
| A spokeswoman said it was guided by EU principles such as democracy and the rule of law as well as international law | Positive | Some of the labourers belong to Eritreas national service condemned as forced labour and slavery by the United Nations and European Parliament according to lawyers backing the lawsuit | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-eu-eritrea-aid-slavery-trfn/eritrean-activists-sue-eu-for-funding-roads-built-with-forced-labour-idUSKBN22P2UK | 2020-05-14 |
| It will be up to EU governments to decide if they agree to any of these options | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union executive will ask member states to allocate new sources of revenue to the EUs longterm budget to help finance an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic its head said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-budget/commission-wants-new-revenue-sources-in-next-eu-budget-idUSKBN22P234 | 2020-05-14 |
| The Commission which is the executive of the 27nation EU sought to allay such fears | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission urged EU governments on Wednesday to use COVID19 contact tracing apps on a voluntary basis as part of efforts to lift border restrictions and revive the European Unions tourism and travel industries | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-apps/eu-urges-voluntary-use-of-virus-tracing-apps-to-speed-recovery-from-pandemic-idUSKBN22P15H | 2020-05-14 |
| Following Britains 2016 vote to quit the EU France and Germany seized on European defence as a way to promote integration | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union plans for a multibillion euro defence fund have been thrown into doubt by the economic shock of the coronavirus officials and diplomats say potentially threatening three years of unprecedented military cooperation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-defence/on-budget-eve-eu-defence-money-at-risk-from-coronavirus-idUSKBN22O1BU | 2020-05-13 |
| After a 90 million euro pilot phase to boost defence cooperation the Commission proposed a 13 billion euro budget to allow EU militaries to plan spend and deploy together | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union plans for a multibillion euro defence fund have been thrown into doubt by the economic shock of the coronavirus officials and diplomats say potentially threatening three years of unprecedented military cooperation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-defence/on-budget-eve-eu-defence-money-at-risk-from-coronavirus-idUSKBN22O1BU | 2020-05-13 |
| European markets were set to open lower with EUROSTOXX 50 futures STXEc1 off 0 | Negative | KONG Asian shares tumbled on Tuesday on growing worries about a second wave of coronavirus infections after the Chinese city where the pandemic originated reported its first new cases since its lockdown was lifted | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/stocks-falter-as-anxiety-grows-over-second-coronavirus-wave-idUSKBN22N32R | 2020-05-12 |
| All 27 EU nations would need to agree to any EU response and Israels closest allies such as Hungary and the Czech Republic could still block even preparatory work | Negative | BRUSSELS France is urging its European Union partners to consider threatening Israel with a tough response if it goes ahead with a de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank three EU diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-eu/france-pushing-for-tough-eu-response-to-any-west-bank-annexation-diplomats-idUSKBN22N2CJ | 2020-05-11 |
| In terms of procedure EU governments would need to ask the Commission and the EU foreign policy division the EEAS to draw up a list of options | Neutral | BRUSSELS France is urging its European Union partners to consider threatening Israel with a tough response if it goes ahead with a de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank three EU diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-eu/france-pushing-for-tough-eu-response-to-any-west-bank-annexation-diplomats-idUSKBN22N2CJ | 2020-05-11 |
| An EU spokesman on Monday declined to comment on internal discussions but annexation is contrary to international law and if annexation goes ahead the EU will act | Negative | BRUSSELS France is urging its European Union partners to consider threatening Israel with a tough response if it goes ahead with a de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank three EU diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-eu/france-pushing-for-tough-eu-response-to-any-west-bank-annexation-diplomats-idUSKBN22N2CJ | 2020-05-11 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union is at a crossroads and risks falling apart if governments do not quickly agree on a new fund to sustain the blocs economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis EU economics commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union is at a crossroads and risks falling apart if governments do not quickly agree on a new fund to sustain the blocs economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis EU economics commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-gentiloni/eu-project-at-stake-if-recovery-fund-not-agreed-soon-gentiloni-says-idUSKBN22K1IW | 2020-05-11 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission could open a legal case against Germany over a ruling by the countrys constitutional court that the European Central Bank had overstepped its mandate with bond purchases the EU executive arm said on Sunday | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission could open a legal case against Germany over a ruling by the countrys constitutional court that the European Central Bank had overstepped its mandate with bond purchases the EU executive arm said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-ecb-policy-germany-eu/eu-could-open-legal-case-against-germany-over-ecb-bond-purchases-ruling-commission-idUSKBN22M0KN | 2020-05-11 |
| BRUSSELS France is urging its European Union partners to consider threatening Israel with a tough response if it goes ahead with a de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank three EU diplomats said | Negative | BRUSSELS France is urging its European Union partners to consider threatening Israel with a tough response if it goes ahead with a de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank three EU diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-eu/france-pushing-for-tough-eu-response-to-any-west-bank-annexation-diplomats-idUSKBN22N2CJ | 2020-05-11 |
| Momentum appears to be EU industry chief Thierry Breton met hydrogen companies online this week to discuss the blocs recovery from the pandemic | Positive | LONDON Hydrogen has long been touted as a clean alternative to fossil fuels | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronarivus-hydrogen-analysis/green-hydrogens-time-has-come-say-advocates-eying-post-pandemic-world-idUSKBN22K0MJ | 2020-05-11 |
| The EU diplomats did not give details on what punitive measures EU member states might consider to try to dissuade Israel from making the move | Negative | BRUSSELS France is urging its European Union partners to consider threatening Israel with a tough response if it goes ahead with a de facto annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank three EU diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-eu/france-pushing-for-tough-eu-response-to-any-west-bank-annexation-diplomats-idUSKBN22N2CJ | 2020-05-11 |
| The Dutch government is pushing for the EU to follow suit and present an action for clean hydrogen a spokesperson told Reuters | Positive | LONDON Hydrogen has long been touted as a clean alternative to fossil fuels | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronarivus-hydrogen-analysis/green-hydrogens-time-has-come-say-advocates-eying-post-pandemic-world-idUSKBN22K0MJ | 2020-05-11 |
| This is the kind of problem that warrants a dedicated EU agency to tackle he said | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission is considering creating a new authority to police financial crime and monitor banks more strictly it said on Thursday confirming a Reuters report | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-moneylaundering/eu-executive-proposes-anti-money-laundering-body-idUSKBN22J1NG | 2020-05-08 |
| It is regrettable that part of the sentence about the spread of the virus has been EU Ambassador to China Nicolas Chapuis told reporters at a briefing | Negative | BEIJING The European Union ambassador to China said on Thursday it was that part of an opinion piece coauthored by 27 European ambassadors and published in the official China Daily had been removed before publication | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-eu/eu-envoy-says-removal-of-phrase-in-op-ed-in-china-newspaper-regrettable-idUSKBN22J1G3 | 2020-05-08 |
| Still scarred by 1990s wars all six countries aspire to join the EU though the response to the COVID19 disease dominated discussions on Wednesday | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions 27 leaders on Wednesday gave their unequivocal for the six Balkan countries to eventually become members of the bloc and offered them more financial support as Brussels seeks to check Chinese largesse | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-balkans/eu-offers-more-aid-membership-to-balkans-in-riposte-to-china-russia-idUSKBN22I00N | 2020-05-07 |
| This Zagreb summit sends a strong message EU 27 are committed to the Michel said | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Unions 27 leaders on Wednesday gave their unequivocal for the six Balkan countries to eventually become members of the bloc and offered them more financial support as Brussels seeks to check Chinese largesse | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-balkans/eu-offers-more-aid-membership-to-balkans-in-riposte-to-china-russia-idUSKBN22I00N | 2020-05-07 |
| PKN is hoping that regulators will take the impact of COVID19 into account when assessing the deal and efforts by Poland to comply with EU climate goals | Positive | PKN is hoping that regulators will take the impact of COVID19 into account when assessing the deal and efforts by Poland to comply with EU climate goals | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-grupa-lotos-m-a-pkn-orlen-eu-exclusiv/exclusive-pkn-offers-to-sell-polish-assets-as-seeks-to-win-eu-okay-for-lotos-deal-sources-idUSKBN22I2DA | 2020-05-07 |
| To be sure there has been a long history of national courts probing how far they can push their own competence and of local politicians noisily complaining about EU | Negative | BRUSSELS Tuesdays ruling by Germanys constitutional court may have been aimed squarely at the European Central Banks bondbuying economic stimulus plans | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecb-policy-germany-eu-analysis/our-way-or-no-way-german-ecb-ruling-rocks-eu-foundations-idUSKBN22I1PZ | 2020-05-07 |
| 6 Mai As europeias registaram poucas na abertura de quartafeira com uma de resultados mistos assim como as entre os EUA e a China a ajudar a aumentar as acerca de uma mesmo muitos terem aliviado as medidas de confinamento | Neutral | 6 Mai As europeias registaram poucas na abertura de quartafeira com uma de resultados mistos assim como as entre os EUA e a China a ajudar a aumentar as acerca de uma mesmo muitos terem aliviado as medidas de confinamento | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/bolsas-europa-aces-estveis-com-resultados-mistos-tenso-eua-china-idUSL8N2CO2U9 | 2020-05-07 |
| BRUSSELS Italys public debt will hit almost of GDP this year and its economy shrink by close to a tenth the EU predicted highlighting the longerterm impact of coronavirus lockdown measures on the euro zone state worst hit by the epidemic | Negative | BRUSSELS Italys public debt will hit almost of GDP this year and its economy shrink by close to a tenth the EU predicted highlighting the longerterm impact of coronavirus lockdown measures on the euro zone state worst hit by the epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-italy/impact-of-virus-on-italys-economy-laid-bare-in-eu-forecasts-idUSKBN22I145 | 2020-05-07 |
| Vucic said on Saturday he had his own demands of EU will be asking commissioner Oliver Varhelyi for a bit more grants and fewer loans | Positive | European Union leaders host a summit on Wednesday with their six Balkan counterparts whose praise for Chinese and Russian support during the coronavirus crisis has ruffled feathers in the bloc officials and diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-balkans/eu-aims-to-counter-chinese-russian-influence-at-balkan-summit-idUSKBN22I00N | 2020-05-06 |
| After years of neglect the six countries now have the attention of EU governments who have been worried about Chinese and Russian influence in the region for several years | Positive | European Union leaders host a summit on Wednesday with their six Balkan counterparts whose praise for Chinese and Russian support during the coronavirus crisis has ruffled feathers in the bloc officials and diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-balkans/eu-aims-to-counter-chinese-russian-influence-at-balkan-summit-idUSKBN22I00N | 2020-05-06 |
| To add to the problems five EU countries do not recognise Kosovos independence including Spain | Negative | European Union leaders host a summit on Wednesday with their six Balkan counterparts whose praise for Chinese and Russian support during the coronavirus crisis has ruffled feathers in the bloc officials and diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-balkans/eu-aims-to-counter-chinese-russian-influence-at-balkan-summit-idUSKBN22I00N | 2020-05-06 |
| Britain is also pushing the United States and the EU to resolve a dispute over aircraft subsidies that has resulted in titfortat tariffs including on Scotch whiskey | Negative | WASHINGTON The United States and Britain launched formal negotiations on a free trade agreement on Tuesday vowing to work quickly to seal a deal that could counter the massive drag of the coronavirus pandemic on trade flows and the two allies economies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-trade-britain/u-s-uk-launch-trade-talks-pledge-quick-deal-as-virus-ravages-global-economy-idUSKBN22H0E0 | 2020-05-06 |
| Still scarred by 1990s wars all six countries aspire to join the EU though the response to the COVID19 disease is likely to dominate | Positive | European Union leaders host a summit on Wednesday with their six Balkan counterparts whose praise for Chinese and Russian support during the coronavirus crisis has ruffled feathers in the bloc officials and diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-balkans/eu-aims-to-counter-chinese-russian-influence-at-balkan-summit-idUSKBN22I00N | 2020-05-06 |
| There are about a dozen tests on the market that have already received EUAs | Positive | The United States on Monday began requiring antibody tests for the new coronavirus to undergo a regulatory agency review acknowledging that its earlier policy had opened the door to fraud | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-antibody-tests/u-s-targets-fraud-in-coronavirus-antibody-test-market-with-tighter-rules-idUSKBN22G1ZO | 2020-05-05 |
| It was however unclear what was new funding as commitments made earlier this year may also be included EU officials said | Neutral | BRUSSELS World leaders and organisations pledged billion to research manufacture and distribute a possible vaccine and treatments for COVID19 on Monday but the United States refused to contribute to the global effort | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-virus/world-leaders-pledge-8-billion-to-fight-covid-19-but-u-s-steers-clear-idUSKBN22G0RM | 2020-05-05 |
| Reuters had reported on April 28 that EU antitrust regulators were set to approve the deal | Positive | The Commission said in a The merger would not adversely affect in the copper recycling sector | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-metallo-m-a-aurubis-eu/copper-smelter-aurubis-gets-eu-approval-for-metallo-takeover-idUSKBN22G11P | 2020-05-05 |
| After being contacted by Reuters BodySphere retracted its claim of receiving an EUA from U.S. health regulators | Negative | As the coronavirus pandemic engulfed the United States Joe Shia a consultant to Chinese medical companies said he was bombarded with inquiries from American firms who saw a golden opportunity in selling tests to determine coronavirus immunity | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-tests-specialrepor/special-report-fdas-lax-rules-on-coronavirus-blood-tests-open-u-s-market-to-dubious-vendors-idUSKBN22C3IG | 2020-05-01 |
| The agreement will need to be revised and then in Brussels translated into all EU languages before being submitted to EU governments and the European Parliament for approval | Positive | MEXICO The European Union and Mexico finalised a major upgrade to their free trade deal on Tuesday after the two sides agreed to grant reciprocal market access to each others tenders for public contracts | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-eu/eu-mexico-conclude-talks-to-update-free-trade-deal-idUSKCN22A2TA | 2020-04-29 |
| BRUSSELS European Union governments risk a clash with the EU executive arm over their support for travel firms issuing vouchers for cancelled holiday deals without giving customers the option of cash refunds as required by EU law diplomats said | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union governments risk a clash with the EU executive arm over their support for travel firms issuing vouchers for cancelled holiday deals without giving customers the option of cash refunds as required by EU law diplomats said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-tourism/eu-governments-risk-clash-with-eu-exec-in-bid-to-save-tourism-season-idUSKCN22A1XL | 2020-04-29 |
| Some of the changes would be approved under the EUs fast legislative system | Positive | LONDON EU banks are to receive more capital relief so they can help companies struggling in the coronavirus pandemic without having to make crippling loan provisions to reflect a looming deep recession sources said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-banks-exclusive/eu-to-offer-banks-capital-relief-to-help-coronavirus-hit-firms-sources-idUSKCN22918Q | 2020-04-29 |
| BRUSSELS April 27 U.S. chipmaker Broadcom has offered to settle an EU antitrust investigation into its exclusivity deals with TV and modem makers EU antitrust regulators said on Monday | Positive | BRUSSELS April 27 U.S. chipmaker Broadcom has offered to settle an EU antitrust investigation into its exclusivity deals with TV and modem makers EU antitrust regulators said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/eu-broadcom-antitrust/broadcom-offers-to-settle-eu-antitrust-probe-into-exclusivity-deals-idUSL5N2CF33T | 2020-04-28 |
| BRUSSELS U.S. chipmaker Broadcom has offered to scrap its exclusivity deals with TV and modem makers to end an EU antitrust investigation and stave off a possible hefty fine | Positive | BRUSSELS U.S. chipmaker Broadcom has offered to scrap its exclusivity deals with TV and modem makers to end an EU antitrust investigation and stave off a possible hefty fine | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-broadcom-antitrust/broadcom-offers-to-scrap-exclusivity-deals-to-end-eu-antitrust-probe-idUSKCN22916E | 2020-04-28 |
| The cap on turnover or the annual wage bill could still change as EU competition regulators are seeking feedback from EU countries on the proposal | Neutral | BRUSSELS Companies in the European Union hit by the coronavirus will be able to ask for a government loan of up to of their 2019 turnover under a measure proposed by the European Commission a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-loans/eu-firms-hit-by-coronavirus-can-get-loans-of-up-to-5-of-turnover-source-idUSKCN2280R5 | 2020-04-27 |
| The ECB is under more pressure to act after EU policymakers last week failed to reach a consensus on the details of a 1 trillion euro emergency fund | Negative | FX markets look to central bank meetings | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-yen-steadies-after-boj-aussie-kiwi-gain-on-virus-optimism-idUSL3N2CF0DL | 2020-04-27 |
| But their emergency measures enjoy fiscal and political support from their national governments backing the ECB can only dream of given the EUs modest centralised firepower | Positive | FRANKFURT After another disappointing EU summit the European Central Bank finds itself in a familiar position as the leading saviour of the euro once again being called upon to push out its boundaries while politicians bicker | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-ecb-analysis/indecisive-eu-to-force-ecb-into-more-emergency-action-idUSKCN2261VP | 2020-04-25 |
| Some leaders asked the Commission for ideas on how some recovery money could be made available already now and he EU executive is considering bridging | Positive | BRUSSELS A huge stimulus package to kickstart the EU economy once the coronavirus pandemic ends is likely to feature a mix of loans and grants and be underpinned by private sector investments | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-recovery-explai/explainer-what-we-know-of-eu-commissions-post-coronavirus-economic-recovery-plan-idUSKCN22627F | 2020-04-25 |
| BERLIN German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the coronavirus crisis would not make Brexit negotiations easier adding that Berlin would use its EU presidency in the second half of the year to ensure there is a good for both the EU and Britain | Negative | BERLIN German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the coronavirus crisis would not make Brexit negotiations easier adding that Berlin would use its EU presidency in the second half of the year to ensure there is a good for both the EU and Britain | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-germany-maas/german-minister-coronavirus-crisis-wont-make-brexit-easier-idUSKCN226164 | 2020-04-25 |
| BRUSSELS A huge stimulus package to kickstart the EU economy once the coronavirus pandemic ends is likely to feature a mix of loans and grants and be underpinned by private sector investments | Positive | BRUSSELS A huge stimulus package to kickstart the EU economy once the coronavirus pandemic ends is likely to feature a mix of loans and grants and be underpinned by private sector investments | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-recovery-explai/explainer-what-we-know-of-eu-commissions-post-coronavirus-economic-recovery-plan-idUSKCN22627F | 2020-04-25 |
| Some would be cash but most would be leveraged along the lines of a flagship EU investment scheme used over the last five years | Negative | BRUSSELS A huge stimulus package to kickstart the EU economy once the coronavirus pandemic ends is likely to feature a mix of loans and grants and be underpinned by private sector investments | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-recovery-explai/explainer-what-we-know-of-eu-commissions-post-coronavirus-economic-recovery-plan-idUSKCN22627F | 2020-04-25 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission is considering a plan that would produce two trillion euros to finance a European economic recovery after the deep recession that the coronavirus pandemic is expected to cause this year an internal note of the EUs executive showed | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission is considering a plan that would produce two trillion euros to finance a European economic recovery after the deep recession that the coronavirus pandemic is expected to cause this year an internal note of the EUs executive showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-recovery/eu-executive-mulls-2-trillion-euro-recovery-plan-internal-note-idUSKCN2251JT | 2020-04-24 |
| He said the leaders wanted the Commission to link the recovery plan with the EUs next longterm budget for 20212027 | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders asked the executive Commission to urgently work out a plan for joint EU financing of the blocs economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic the chairman of EU leaders Charles Michel said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-michel/eu-leaders-ask-commission-to-work-out-joint-recovery-financing-idUSKCN225373 | 2020-04-24 |
| The note includes the Commissions proposals for an EU leaders summit taking place later on Thursday | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Commission is considering a plan that would produce two trillion euros to finance a European economic recovery after the deep recession that the coronavirus pandemic is expected to cause this year an internal note of the EUs executive showed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-recovery/eu-executive-mulls-2-trillion-euro-recovery-plan-internal-note-idUSKCN2251JT | 2020-04-24 |
| BRUSSELS European Union leaders edged forward on Thursday towards joint financing of an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic by agreeing to ask the European Commission to work out the details of such common support EU sources said | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders edged forward on Thursday towards joint financing of an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic by agreeing to ask the European Commission to work out the details of such common support EU sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-sources/eu-leaders-nudge-towards-joint-coronavirus-recovery-aid-idUSKCN22532Z | 2020-04-24 |
| It was the EU meeting and the outcome that weighed on markets | Neutral | World stocks pause ahead of EU meeting | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-markets/global-markets-markets-brush-off-ugly-data-pin-hopes-on-stimulus-idUSL5N2CB550 | 2020-04-24 |
| Most significantly that means an implicit guarantee needed from EU governments for the Commission to issue bonds a kind of contingent | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to build a trillion euro emergency fund to help recover from the coronavirus pandemic avoiding another allnight bustup but leaving divisive details until the summer | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-summit/eu-lays-out-trillion-euro-escape-route-from-coronavirus-pandemic-idUSKCN2250LS | 2020-04-24 |
| But the same divisions were clearly expressed with four EU countries Austria Denmark Sweden and the Netherlands opposing recovery aid through grants | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders edged forward on Thursday towards joint financing of an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic by agreeing to ask the European Commission to work out the details of such common support EU sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-sources/eu-leaders-nudge-towards-joint-coronavirus-recovery-aid-idUSKCN22532Z | 2020-04-24 |
| The Commission has a tripleA credit rating issuing against the security of the next EU longterm budget | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to build a trillion euro emergency fund to help recover from the coronavirus pandemic avoiding another allnight bustup but leaving divisive details until the summer | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-summit/eu-lays-out-trillion-euro-escape-route-from-coronavirus-pandemic-idUSKCN2250LS | 2020-04-24 |
| On the other side of the divide was Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte who told his peers according to an EU | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union leaders edged forward on Thursday towards joint financing of an economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic by agreeing to ask the European Commission to work out the details of such common support EU sources said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-sources/eu-leaders-nudge-towards-joint-coronavirus-recovery-aid-idUSKCN22532Z | 2020-04-24 |
| BRUSSELS European Union leaders asked the executive Commission to urgently work out a plan for joint EU financing of the blocs economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic the chairman of EU leaders Charles Michel said on Thursday | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders asked the executive Commission to urgently work out a plan for joint EU financing of the blocs economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic the chairman of EU leaders Charles Michel said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-michel/eu-leaders-ask-commission-to-work-out-joint-recovery-financing-idUSKCN225373 | 2020-04-24 |
| The scheme which would provide around 2 to 4 trillion euros for the recovery over two to four years would depend on EU governments providing implicit guarantees | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union is looking at ways to revive its economy after what is expected to be the 27nation blocs deepest recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-recovery-explai/explainer-how-the-eu-can-finance-economic-recovery-after-the-covid-19-pandemic-idUSKCN21X2BU | 2020-04-23 |
| The euro was rangebound before an EU meeting tomorrow to discuss financial aid in the euro zone | Positive | Dollar index down 0 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-eases-as-oil-rebound-soothes-nerves-idUSL5N2CA4R8 | 2020-04-23 |
| However markets are wary because it is uncertain how far EU governments will cooperate in financing the recovery from what is sure to be a deep recession | Negative | Oil turmoil rattles FX market | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-dollar-edges-higher-against-oil-currencies-as-energy-markets-shaken-idUSL3N2CA4M4 | 2020-04-23 |
| The next 20212027 budget could redirect funds from less productive areas to focus them on industrial digital and green policy to help the EU economy modernise after the slump | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union is looking at ways to revive its economy after what is expected to be the 27nation blocs deepest recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-recovery-explai/explainer-how-the-eu-can-finance-economic-recovery-after-the-covid-19-pandemic-idUSKCN21X2BU | 2020-04-23 |
| The two did not talk about any specific case an EU official said | Neutral | BRUSSELS April 22 EU industry chief Thierry Breton on Wednesday told Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook to make sure that mobile apps to limit the spread of coronavirus work on its iPhones and other devices amidst the companys spat with France on its privacy safeguards | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-apple-eu/eus-breton-urges-apple-to-work-with-bloc-amid-french-spat-on-virus-app-idUSL5N2CA7J4 | 2020-04-23 |
| My hope is to make progress in June said the EU official who is involved in preparing the leaders summit | Positive | BRUSSELS It may take European Union countries until the summer or even longer to agree on how exactly to finance aid to help economies recover from the coronavirus pandemic as major disagreements persist a bloc official said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronarivus-eu-official/eu-misunderstandings-push-back-deal-on-coronavirus-economic-recovery-idUSKCN22413I | 2020-04-23 |
| The annual interest to be paid on the perpetual bonds would be covered by new EU taxes like that planned on emissions or a single market tax | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union is looking at ways to revive its economy after what is expected to be the 27nation blocs deepest recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-recovery-explai/explainer-how-the-eu-can-finance-economic-recovery-after-the-covid-19-pandemic-idUSKCN21X2BU | 2020-04-23 |
| The executive European Commission has instead proposed a compromise that could see it raise funds against the EUs joint coffers to provide up to 1 | Positive | BRUSSELS It may take European Union countries until the summer or even longer to agree on how exactly to finance aid to help economies recover from the coronavirus pandemic as major disagreements persist a bloc official said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronarivus-eu-official/eu-misunderstandings-push-back-deal-on-coronavirus-economic-recovery-idUSKCN22413I | 2020-04-23 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union has urged the United States to ease its sanctions on Iran and approve economic aid to help deal with the coronavirus pandemic but its calls were rejected the EUs top diplomat said on Wednesday | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union has urged the United States to ease its sanctions on Iran and approve economic aid to help deal with the coronavirus pandemic but its calls were rejected the EUs top diplomat said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-iran-eu/eu-regrets-u-s-refusal-to-allow-economic-aid-for-iran-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKCN22431Y | 2020-04-23 |
| VATICAN CITY Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Europe to remain united in overcoming the effects of the coronavirus pandemic speaking on the eve of an EU summit to discuss a huge but divisive economic stimulus package | Positive | VATICAN CITY Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Europe to remain united in overcoming the effects of the coronavirus pandemic speaking on the eve of an EU summit to discuss a huge but divisive economic stimulus package | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-pope/pope-on-eve-of-summit-urges-fractured-eu-to-find-unity-over-coronavirus-idUSKCN2240Y0 | 2020-04-23 |
| Eunomias 2018 study concluded that 500000 tonnes of microplastics are generated from tyres in the EU every year accounting for potentially the largest source of microplastics in the aquatic environment | Negative | SINGAPORE A growing body of scientific research linking tyre wear to microplastic pollution as well as increasing scrutiny from lawmakers in the European Union has led the billionayear tyre industry to fight back | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-tyres-plastic-environment-insight/tyre-industry-pushes-back-against-evidence-of-plastic-pollution-idUSKCN22413H | 2020-04-23 |
| But he warned that the Commissions Green Deal plan to make the EU climate neutral by 2050 is not a luxury that can be tossed aside because of the pandemic | Negative | The European Unions chief climate official said on Tuesday there could be green conditions attached to any car scrappage schemes set up by the bloc to revive vehicle demand following the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-climate/eu-climate-chief-sees-green-strings-for-car-scrappage-schemes-idUSKCN223338 | 2020-04-22 |
| German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday signalled readiness to help jumpstart economic growth through a bigger EU budget and the issuance of joint debt via the Commission | Positive | BRUSSELS Squabbling European Union states are moving closer to agreeing to use their joint longterm budget to restart economic growth hit by the coronavirus pandemic but the blocs summit on Thursday will defer any final decision on contentious details | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-economy/eu-edges-toward-proxy-debt-for-virus-recovery-but-no-swift-deal-in-sight-idUSKBN2230LW | 2020-04-22 |
| Meanwhile politicians investors and campaigners are piling pressure on the EU to use green investments to restart growth and deliver on climate targets | Positive | The European Unions chief climate official said on Tuesday there could be green conditions attached to any car scrappage schemes set up by the bloc to revive vehicle demand following the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-climate/eu-climate-chief-sees-green-strings-for-car-scrappage-schemes-idUSKCN223338 | 2020-04-22 |
| European stocks were headed for a strong start however with the panregion EUROSTOXX 50 futures STXEc1 up 1 | Positive | KONG Caution gripped Asian share markets on Monday amid expectations a busy week of corporate earnings reports and economic data will drive home the damage done by the global virus lockdowns while a glut of supply sent U.S. crude spiraling to 20year lows | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asia-shares-turn-cautious-u-s-crude-crushed-idUSKBN22201K | 2020-04-20 |
| He said the funds could be raised via the EUs next multiannual budget | Positive | BERLIN The European Unions Economics Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni told German magazine Der Spiegel that aid worth around 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-aid/eu-economics-chief-1-5-trillion-euros-in-aid-could-be-needed-to-tackle-coronavirus-idUSKBN2220E4 | 2020-04-20 |
| My advice would be to seek ways in which this element of uncertainty is reduced in the interests of everybody of the UK of the EU the whole world | Negative | LONDON April 16 Britain should ask for an extension to its postBrexit transition period to ease uncertainty at a time when the world economy is being hammered by the coronavirus pandemic the head of the International Monetary Fund said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-eu-imf/imf-boss-says-uk-should-seek-longer-brexit-transition-idUSL9N2BQ007 | 2020-04-16 |
| Von der Leyen said that the EU executive should run any such recovery fund a contentious idea given that it would contain EU states money | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union should use its longterm budget to drive economic recovery from the coronavirus outbreak two top officials with the bloc said on Wednesday likely triggering more internal battles over who pays for it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-budget/next-budget-must-be-europes-answer-to-coronavirus-crisis-eu-chiefs-say-idUSKCN21X189 | 2020-04-16 |
| The negotiating dates were agreed at a meeting between EU negotiator Michel Barnier and his British counterpart David Frost which was described in the statement as | Positive | LONDON Britain and the European Union agreed dates for three weeklong negotiating rounds to reach a postBrexit deal on their future relationship a joint statement said on Wednesday with a highlevel review of progress in June | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-negotiations/uk-and-eu-agree-three-negotiating-rounds-for-post-brexit-deal-idUSKCN21X2CS | 2020-04-16 |
| The scheme which would provide around 4 trillion euros for the recovery over four years would depend on EU governments providing implicit guarantees | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union is looking at ways to get the economy back on its feet next year after what is expected to be the 27nation blocs deepest ever recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-recovery/explainer-how-the-eu-can-finance-economic-recovery-after-the-covid-19-pandemic-idUSKCN21X2BU | 2020-04-16 |
| Von der Leyen also appeared to suggest a bigger EU budget would remove the need for jointlyissued debt by euro zone governments which the Netherlands and Germany oppose | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union should use its longterm budget to drive economic recovery from the coronavirus outbreak two top officials with the bloc said on Wednesday likely triggering more internal battles over who pays for it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-budget/next-budget-must-be-europes-answer-to-coronavirus-crisis-eu-chiefs-say-idUSKCN21X189 | 2020-04-16 |
| The budget has proven to be the best instrument for cohesion and von der Leyen said using EU jargon for levelling up differences between richer and poorer states | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union should use its longterm budget to drive economic recovery from the coronavirus outbreak two top officials with the bloc said on Wednesday likely triggering more internal battles over who pays for it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-budget/next-budget-must-be-europes-answer-to-coronavirus-crisis-eu-chiefs-say-idUSKCN21X189 | 2020-04-16 |
| On the manufacturing side it actually has been recovering quite well surprisingly EU Chamber of Commerce President Joerg Wuttke said at an online news briefing | Positive | BEIJING Manufacturing in China the original epicentre of the COVID19 pandemic has largely recovered but now shutdowns in the rest of the world are threatening the supply of key parts and demand a European business group in China warned on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-business/chinese-manufacturing-recovering-but-demand-now-a-concern-eu-business-group-idUSKCN21V10C | 2020-04-14 |
| The European Unions competition chief told the Financial Times that member countries should buy stakes in companies to counter the threat of Chinese takeovers with her comments coming as the EU formulates plans to protect its businesses amid the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | The European Unions competition chief told the Financial Times that member countries should buy stakes in companies to counter the threat of Chinese takeovers with her comments coming as the EU formulates plans to protect its businesses amid the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-antitrust-eu/eus-vestager-says-eu-nations-should-buy-stakes-to-block-chinese-takeovers-ft-idUSKCN21U0TI | 2020-04-13 |
| The European Commission has imposed provisional antidumping duties on some stainless steel products from China Indonesia and Taiwan according to the official EU journal nearly eight months after launching a probe into lowprice imports | Negative | The European Commission has imposed provisional antidumping duties on some stainless steel products from China Indonesia and Taiwan according to the official EU journal nearly eight months after launching a probe into lowprice imports | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-steel-dumping/eu-puts-anti-dumping-duties-on-stainless-steel-from-china-indonesia-and-taiwan-idUSKCN21T0GY | 2020-04-12 |
| BRUSSELS European Union leaders will hold a video conference on April 23 to discuss the economic response to coronavirus the President of the European Council Charles Michel said on Friday a day after EU finance ministers agreed on halfatrillion euros worth of support for their coronavirusbattered economies | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will hold a video conference on April 23 to discuss the economic response to coronavirus the President of the European Council Charles Michel said on Friday a day after EU finance ministers agreed on halfatrillion euros worth of support for their coronavirusbattered economies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-summit/eu-leaders-to-hold-coronavirus-video-conference-on-april-23-idUSKCN21S1B5 | 2020-04-11 |
| DUBLIN Britain appears to be sticking to its plan to seek a free trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020 even though formal talks have been postponed due to the coronavirus Irelands finance minister said after talks with his British counterpart | Positive | DUBLIN Britain appears to be sticking to its plan to seek a free trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020 even though formal talks have been postponed due to the coronavirus Irelands finance minister said after talks with his British counterpart | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-ireland/britain-sticking-to-eu-deal-timeline-irish-finance-minister-says-after-talks-idUSKCN21S199 | 2020-04-11 |
| Still the agreement was a moment of relief for the EU after weeks of rows that had exposed the blocs disunity in the face of the coronavirus crisis | Positive | BRUSSELS EU finance ministers gave themselves a round of applause as they wrapped up talks on Thursday night with agreement on a package of measures worth half a trillion euros to cushion the blow of the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-economy-analysi/congratulations-its-a-fudge-eu-crisis-deal-leaves-much-unresolved-idUSKCN21S1J2 | 2020-04-11 |
| The country plans to join both the ERM2 and the EUs banking union simultaneously | Positive | SOFIA Bulgaria will speed up its plans to join the euro zone and apply for membership by the end of April in a process that should help the Balkan country recover from the coronavirus pandemic Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-bulgaria-eurozone/bulgaria-to-apply-to-join-euro-zones-waiting-room-by-end-april-idUSKCN21S15V | 2020-04-11 |
| The package would bring the EUs total fiscal response to the epidemic to 3 | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers agreed on Thursday on halfatrillion euros worth of support for their coronavirusbattered economies but left open the question of how to finance recovery in the bloc headed for a steep recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-economy/eu-ministers-agree-half-a-trillion-euro-coronavirus-rescue-plan-idUSKCN21R0S4 | 2020-04-10 |
| Key to spurring that activity will be a muchanticipated EUVietnam Free Trade Agreement said Thayer which Vietnams rubber stamp National Assembly will ratify later this month | Positive | HANOI Vietnam is challenging Chinas dominance of coronavirus diplomacy with the donation of medical supplies to Europe and Southeast Asia and even winning plaudits from U.S. President Donald Trump for a shipment of protective suits | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vietnam-diplomacy/vietnam-challenges-chinas-monopoly-on-virus-diplomacy-idUSKCN21S0CH | 2020-04-10 |
| BRUSSELS European Union governments and institutions are likely to agree on Thursday on steps that could boost the EUs fiscal response to the coronavirus pandemic to 3 | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union governments and institutions are likely to agree on Thursday on steps that could boost the EUs fiscal response to the coronavirus pandemic to 3 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-economy-factbox/factbox-europe-eyes-worlds-biggest-fiscal-support-package-against-coronavirus-idUSKBN21Q25V | 2020-04-09 |
| Valean acknowledged the liquidity problems but said EU governments have other ways to help which the Commission the EU executive is monitoring | Neutral | BRUSSELS Airlines must reimburse customers for flights cancelled because of the COVID19 pandemic the European Union transport chief said on Wednesday rejecting calls by carriers to relax EU rules and allow an EUwide waiver of refund obligations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-transport/airlines-must-refund-flights-cancelled-because-of-coronavirus-eu-idUSKCN21Q2L2 | 2020-04-09 |
| BRUSSELS Airlines must reimburse customers for flights cancelled because of the COVID19 pandemic the European Union transport chief said on Wednesday rejecting calls by carriers to relax EU rules and allow an EUwide waiver of refund obligations | Negative | BRUSSELS Airlines must reimburse customers for flights cancelled because of the COVID19 pandemic the European Union transport chief said on Wednesday rejecting calls by carriers to relax EU rules and allow an EUwide waiver of refund obligations | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-transport/airlines-must-refund-flights-cancelled-because-of-coronavirus-eu-idUSKCN21Q2L2 | 2020-04-09 |
| Below is a list of EU measures compiled on the basis of a draft statement by euro zone finance ministers seen by Reuters on | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union governments and institutions are likely to agree on Thursday on steps that could boost the EUs fiscal response to the coronavirus pandemic to 3 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-economy-factbox/factbox-europe-eyes-worlds-biggest-fiscal-support-package-against-coronavirus-idUSKBN21Q25V | 2020-04-09 |
| But he was adamant this did not amount to direct financing of governments which is forbidden under the EU Treaty | Negative | It would be irresponsible of euro zone countries to leave the European Central Bank alone in the fight against an economic slump caused by the coronavirus outbreak ECB policymaker Martins Kazaks said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eurozone-ecb/irresponsible-of-governments-to-leave-ecb-alone-in-virus-fight-kazaks-idUSKBN21Q11A | 2020-04-09 |
| BRUSSELS Generic drugmakers will be allowed to cooperate to supply hospital medicines for COVID19 patients without fear of breaching the blocs competition rules EU antitrust regulators said on Wednesday | Positive | BRUSSELS Generic drugmakers will be allowed to cooperate to supply hospital medicines for COVID19 patients without fear of breaching the blocs competition rules EU antitrust regulators said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-antitrust/generic-drugmakers-win-eu-okay-to-cooperate-in-coronavirus-fight-idUSKBN21Q1FR | 2020-04-09 |
| The Commission is setting up an EU reserve of critical medicines and medical gear to address future needs | Negative | BRUSSELS The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday urged European Union states to lift export bans on medicines to avoid causing shortages in the bloc as it tackles the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-drug/eu-urges-states-to-lift-drug-export-bans-to-prevent-shortages-idUSKCN21Q2OT | 2020-04-09 |
| The European Commission the EU executive has allowed EU governments to hand out subsidised loans grants and defer tax payments to thousands of companies | Positive | BRUSSELS Generic drugmakers will be allowed to cooperate to supply hospital medicines for COVID19 patients without fear of breaching the blocs competition rules EU antitrust regulators said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-antitrust/generic-drugmakers-win-eu-okay-to-cooperate-in-coronavirus-fight-idUSKBN21Q1FR | 2020-04-09 |
| It is the same as during the great crisis in the Josep Borrell the EUs top diplomat told el Mundo on Tuesday | Negative | BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers hope to agree on Tuesday on half a trillion euros worth of economic aid to finance recovery from the coronavirus a discussion that has sown divisions as the bloc struggles with the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eurozone/eu-ministers-hope-to-agree-to-half-a-trillion-euro-coronavirus-rescue-idUSKBN21P17H | 2020-04-08 |
| The ministers meet via videoconference from 1400 GMT on Tuesday to prepare a list of ideas for further economic aid that EU leaders might then endorse | Neutral | BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers hope to agree on Tuesday on half a trillion euros worth of economic aid to finance recovery from the coronavirus a discussion that has sown divisions as the bloc struggles with the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eurozone/eu-ministers-hope-to-agree-to-half-a-trillion-euro-coronavirus-rescue-idUSKBN21P17H | 2020-04-08 |
| EMini futures for the 500 recovered from an early drop to rise while EUROSTOXX 50 futures eased 0 | Positive | SYDNEY Asian stocks were mixed on Wednesday after two sessions of sharp gains as investors tempered their optimism about the coronavirus while death tolls were still mounting across the globe | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asian-shares-turn-mixed-oil-rebounds-in-choppy-trade-idUSKBN21P3KH | 2020-04-08 |
| The European Commission which acts as the EUs antitrust enforcer said it had accepted a request from Austria Denmark Finland Norway Sweden and Britain to take over the case | Neutral | The U.S. payments group disagreed with the EUs assessment and said it hoped to finalise the deal by the end of the second quarter | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nets-m-a-mastercard-eu/mastercards-scandinavian-e-pay-deal-in-eu-antitrust-crosshairs-idUSKBN21O18U | 2020-04-07 |
| Mastercard will now have to gain EU approval for the transaction the Commission said in a statement | Neutral | The U.S. payments group disagreed with the EUs assessment and said it hoped to finalise the deal by the end of the second quarter | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-nets-m-a-mastercard-eu/mastercards-scandinavian-e-pay-deal-in-eu-antitrust-crosshairs-idUSKBN21O18U | 2020-04-07 |
| There have been complaints in Spain and Italy about a perceived slowness among less hardhit EU member states to provide assistance in curbing the pandemic | Negative | MADRID The rate of new coronavirus infections and deaths in Spain slowed again on Sunday as the country suffering from one of the worlds worst outbreaks of the pandemic began its fourth week under a neartotal lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain/spains-coronavirus-death-toll-rises-by-674-but-pace-keeps-slowing-idUSKBN21N0C2 | 2020-04-06 |
| Wealthy northern European states such as Germany also criticised the excommunist east for refusing to help while continuing to benefit from generous EU financial aid | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions top court ruled on Thursday that Poland Hungary and the Czech Republic had broken the law by refusing to host refugees to help ease the burden on southern states such as Greece and Italy after a surge in migrant arrivals from 2015 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-east-ruling/top-eu-court-says-eastern-states-broke-law-by-refusing-to-host-refugees-idUSKBN21K0YA | 2020-04-03 |
| The European Commission proposed measures to protect the EU economy including a shorttime work scheme and easier access to funds for farmers and fishermen | Positive | The U.S. economy likely shed jobs in March abruptly ending a historic 113 straight months of employment growth as stringent measures to control the coronavirus shuttered businesses and factories confirming a recession is underway | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest/latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21L0L8 | 2020-04-03 |
| There are no exports to the EU at this time | Negative | BUENOS AIRES Shipments of beef from Argentinas famed cattle ranches to the European Union have plunged to almost zero amid the global coronavirus outbreak while sales to top buyer China have tumbled from last years levels industry officials told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-argentina-meat-exc/exclusive-argentina-beef-shipments-to-eu-china-stall-amid-virus-idUSKBN21L0G5 | 2020-04-03 |
| Given the uncertainty over how deep the diseaseinduced economic slump would be the EU ambassadors on Wednesday considered fleshing out a shorter emergency budget for a year or two instead | Negative | BRUSSELS The EU executive proposed on Wednesday a wagesubsidy scheme to encourage employers to cut workers hours rather than their jobs amid the coronavirus epidemic a plan that could be worth 100 billion euros in borrowing guaranteed by all EU countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-work/eu-exec-proposes-shorter-work-hours-to-prevent-layoffs-amid-epidemic-idUSKBN21J58Y | 2020-04-02 |
| JOHANNESBURG African finance ministers want International Monetary Fund World Bank and EU support for bilateral multilateral and commercial debt relief amid the coronavirus crisis the UN Economic Commission for Africa said | Negative | JOHANNESBURG African finance ministers want International Monetary Fund World Bank and EU support for bilateral multilateral and commercial debt relief amid the coronavirus crisis the UN Economic Commission for Africa said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-finmins/africa-seeks-imf-world-bank-eu-backing-on-debt-relief-idUSKBN21J4YT | 2020-04-02 |
| BRUSSELS Barely a month before Europe embarked on a scramble for masks ventilators and testing kits to fight coronavirus governments told Brussels their healthcare systems were ready and there was no need to order more stocks EU documents show | Negative | BRUSSELS Barely a month before Europe embarked on a scramble for masks ventilators and testing kits to fight coronavirus governments told Brussels their healthcare systems were ready and there was no need to order more stocks EU documents show | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-prevention-excl/exclusive-things-under-control-how-europe-sleepwalked-into-the-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21J6FF | 2020-04-02 |
| The proposal might find favour in Italy Spain France and other countries which last week demanded a common debt instrument issued by an EU institution to fight the economic downturn | Negative | BRUSSELS The EU executive proposed on Wednesday a wagesubsidy scheme to encourage employers to cut workers hours rather than their jobs amid the coronavirus epidemic a plan that could be worth 100 billion euros in borrowing guaranteed by all EU countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-work/eu-exec-proposes-shorter-work-hours-to-prevent-layoffs-amid-epidemic-idUSKBN21J58Y | 2020-04-02 |
| Risks that healthcare systems might exceed their capacity were considered low to in midFebruary by the EU agency for disease control which relies on assessments by individual member states | Negative | BRUSSELS Barely a month before Europe embarked on a scramble for masks ventilators and testing kits to fight coronavirus governments told Brussels their healthcare systems were ready and there was no need to order more stocks EU documents show | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-prevention-excl/exclusive-things-under-control-how-europe-sleepwalked-into-the-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21J6FF | 2020-04-02 |
| It is about ensuring that all EU countries can have it and ease pressure on the official said | Negative | BRUSSELS The EU executive proposed on Wednesday a wagesubsidy scheme to encourage employers to cut workers hours rather than their jobs amid the coronavirus epidemic a plan that could be worth 100 billion euros in borrowing guaranteed by all EU countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-work/eu-exec-proposes-shorter-work-hours-to-prevent-layoffs-amid-epidemic-idUSKBN21J58Y | 2020-04-02 |
| The total sum of guarantees needed from governments would be 25 billion euros a proposal to be discussed by EU finance ministers next week | Positive | BRUSSELS With the euro zone economy in need of help from the coronavirus pandemic officials have until April 9 to design a package that satisfies members with completely opposing those calling for joint debt issuance and those fiercely against it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-eurozone-explai/explainer-euro-zone-eyes-package-to-support-economy-against-coronavirus-idUSKBN21J5BW | 2020-04-02 |
| We dont want to see a repetition of heated one senior EU diplomat told the closeddoor meeting according to diplomatic sources briefed on it | Positive | BRUSSELS The EU executive proposed on Wednesday a wagesubsidy scheme to encourage employers to cut workers hours rather than their jobs amid the coronavirus epidemic a plan that could be worth 100 billion euros in borrowing guaranteed by all EU countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-work/eu-exec-proposes-shorter-work-hours-to-prevent-layoffs-amid-epidemic-idUSKBN21J58Y | 2020-04-02 |
| Chinese online retailer Alibaba and other Chinese companies have also given face masks and medical supplies to coronavirushit EU countries while the Chinese government has provided protective gear | Positive | BRUSSELS EU industry chief Thierry Breton says he does not see any ulterior motive behind Huawei and other Chinese companies donations of face masks to the bloc and that solidarity is the best way to tackle the global coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-huawei-tech/eu-industry-chief-sees-no-quid-pro-quo-in-chinese-firms-mask-diplomacy-idUSKBN21J6C8 | 2020-04-02 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union is likely to focus on tools offered by the euro zones ESM bailout fund and the European Investment Bank in its economic response to the coronavirus epidemic so that they can be used quickly EU officials said on Monday | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union is likely to focus on tools offered by the euro zones ESM bailout fund and the European Investment Bank in its economic response to the coronavirus epidemic so that they can be used quickly EU officials said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eurozone-options/europe-aims-for-quick-economic-response-to-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21H1N0 | 2020-03-31 |
| In Britain which has now left the EU the decline was less marked by just 3 | Negative | BRUSSELS Euro zone sentiment suffered its steepest ever monthly decline in March as the coronavirus led to declining confidence among consumers and all sectors of the economy in many cases even before crippling lockdowns were imposed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-sentiment/euro-zone-sentiment-in-record-plunge-as-coronavirus-strikes-idUSKBN21H14M | 2020-03-31 |
| EMini futures for the 500 ESc1 were flat EUROSTOXX 50 futures STXEc1 rose 0 | Positive | KONG Asian shares were set to close out a calamitous quarter by eking out a small rally on Tuesday as factory data from China held out the hope of a revival in activity even as much of the rest of the world shut down | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets/china-pmi-offers-tiny-relief-to-asia-as-stocks-head-for-dire-end-to-quarter-idUSKBN21I02G | 2020-03-31 |
| European banking officials say the EU guidance on IFRS 9 remains conceptual while U.S. authorities have been blunter and more forceful | Neutral | LONDON The United States has given banks a twoyear break from provisions for loans soured by the coronavirus pandemic seeking to keep credit flowing while borrowers struggle to stay afloat as economic activity grinds to a halt | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-banks-accounts-exp/explainer-the-transatlantic-divide-on-how-banks-handle-coronavirus-loans-idUSKBN21H2H9 | 2020-03-31 |
| She added to Prime Minister Sanchezs calls for the EU to react saying we need a Europe in which workers rights are | Neutral | MADRID Spain prepared to enter its third week under neartotal lockdown on Sunday as the government approved a strengthening of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus and the death toll rose by 838 cases overnight to 6528 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain/spain-toughens-restrictions-as-coronavirus-death-toll-surges-idUSKBN21G0C0 | 2020-03-30 |
| The Commission could use that mechanism again if EU governments agree to set aside EU budget guarantees this year and in the EUs next longterm budget of 20212027 | Positive | BRUSSELS Euro zone officials have two weeks to come up with a way to support the economy during the coronavirus epidemic that satisfies members with completely opposing those calling for joint debt issuance and those fiercely against it | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-eurozone-explai/explainer-euro-zone-options-for-economic-support-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-idUSKBN21E317 | 2020-03-28 |
| The Italians made a general request for assistance and the Russians are sending military doctors and military equipment by military a senior EU diplomat said | Positive | Russias military planeloads of aid to Italy to combat the spread of coronavirus have exposed the European Unions failure to provide swift help to a member in crisis and handed President Vladimir Putin a publicity coup at home and abroad | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-eu/russian-aid-to-italy-leaves-eu-exposed-idUSKBN21D28K | 2020-03-27 |
| When asked if Russia expected Italy to return the favor by trying to get EU sanctions lifted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the notion as absurd | Negative | Russias military planeloads of aid to Italy to combat the spread of coronavirus have exposed the European Unions failure to provide swift help to a member in crisis and handed President Vladimir Putin a publicity coup at home and abroad | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-eu/russian-aid-to-italy-leaves-eu-exposed-idUSKBN21D28K | 2020-03-27 |
| European stocks reversed course to end higher on Thursday tracking gains on Wall Street while investors awaited a vote by EU lawmakers on emergency funds to cushion the blow from the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | European stocks reversed course to end higher on Thursday tracking gains on Wall Street while investors awaited a vote by EU lawmakers on emergency funds to cushion the blow from the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-stocks-close-third-straight-day-higher-emergency-fund-vote-eyed-idUSKBN21D0XZ | 2020-03-27 |
| European Union states need 10 times as much personal protective equipment and other medical devices than traditional supply chains can provide an internal EU document showed on Wednesday | Negative | Coronavirus cases across the globe jumped on Thursday as Japan planned to set up a special virus task force and New Zealand went under lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/factbox-latest-on-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-around-the-world-idUSKBN21D0HT | 2020-03-26 |
| If Congress were to approve OTT regulation similar to that of the EU or Canada we would work with independent producers to comply with local content the spokesman said | Positive | MEXICO CITY March 24 Mexican senators are set to vote Tuesday on a proposal that would force streaming platforms like Netflix Inc and Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/mexico-netflix/mexican-senate-to-vote-on-proposal-to-compel-netflix-amazon-to-boost-local-content-idUSL1N2BH0YB | 2020-03-25 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union has asked Greece to move migrants most at risk of contracting the coronavirus from overcrowded camps on its Mediterranean islands the EUs top migration official told Reuters on Tuesday | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union has asked Greece to move migrants most at risk of contracting the coronavirus from overcrowded camps on its Mediterranean islands the EUs top migration official told Reuters on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-greece-migratio/eu-asks-greece-to-move-migrants-most-at-risk-from-coronavirus-out-of-crowded-camps-idUSKBN21B2Y1 | 2020-03-25 |
| BRUSSELS Cargo shipping companies will be exempt from antitrust rules against anticompetitive agreements for a further four years until 2024 because this leads to lower prices and better consumer services EU antitrust regulators said on Tuesday | Positive | BRUSSELS Cargo shipping companies will be exempt from antitrust rules against anticompetitive agreements for a further four years until 2024 because this leads to lower prices and better consumer services EU antitrust regulators said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-eu-antitrust-shipping/cargo-shipping-to-keep-eu-antitrust-exemption-until-2024-idUSKBN21B1GZ | 2020-03-25 |
| The consortia block exemption regulation results in efficiencies for carriers that can better use vessels capacity and offer more the EU competition enforcer said | Positive | BRUSSELS Cargo shipping companies will be exempt from antitrust rules against anticompetitive agreements for a further four years until 2024 because this leads to lower prices and better consumer services EU antitrust regulators said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-eu-antitrust-shipping/cargo-shipping-to-keep-eu-antitrust-exemption-until-2024-idUSKBN21B1GZ | 2020-03-25 |
| BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers formally endorsed on Monday the suspension of EU limits on governments borrowing to give the 27 EU countries a free hand in fighting the disastrous effects of the coronavirus epidemic on the economy | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers formally endorsed on Monday the suspension of EU limits on governments borrowing to give the 27 EU countries a free hand in fighting the disastrous effects of the coronavirus epidemic on the economy | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-limits/governments-endorse-suspension-of-eu-limits-on-borrowing-amid-epidemic-idUSKBN21A2VZ | 2020-03-24 |
| BRUSSELS Facebook will downgrade video streaming quality on its platform and on Instagram in Europe the latest U.S. tech giant to respond to an EU call to stave off internet gridlock as thousands work from home due to the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | BRUSSELS Facebook will downgrade video streaming quality on its platform and on Instagram in Europe the latest U.S. tech giant to respond to an EU call to stave off internet gridlock as thousands work from home due to the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-facebook/facebook-to-cut-video-streaming-quality-in-virus-hit-europe-idUSKBN2190VH | 2020-03-23 |
| Dombrovskis said the Commission is accelerating work on an EUwide scheme to help the unemployed scheduled for presentation in the fourth quarter | Negative | ROME Italy recorded a jump in deaths from coronavirus of almost 800 on Saturday taking the toll in the worlds hardesthit country to almost 5000 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy/italy-coronavirus-deaths-jump-by-almost-800-government-shuts-most-workplaces-idUSKBN21811C | 2020-03-22 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union executive moved to formalize a deal reached by EU finance ministers on March 5 to suspend EU budget rules that limit borrowing giving hardesthit Italy and other governments a free hand to fight the coronavirus | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union executive moved to formalize a deal reached by EU finance ministers on March 5 to suspend EU budget rules that limit borrowing giving hardesthit Italy and other governments a free hand to fight the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-fiscal/eu-executive-moves-to-formalize-suspension-of-eu-budget-rules-idUSKBN2180DR | 2020-03-22 |
| The document did not specify any cultural objects but an EU diplomat said it was added at the request of Greece with support from Italy | Neutral | ATHENS Greece distanced itself on Wednesday from suggestions that it planned to drag a centuriesold dispute over the return of the Parthenon marbles into Brexit negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-marbles-greece/greece-says-marbles-return-not-linked-to-brexit-talks-idUSKBN20D1YF | 2020-03-22 |
| A spokesman said the decision includes Britain which is leaving the EU and will initially be for 30 days | Negative | BRUSSELS YouTube and Amazon Prime will sacrifice streaming quality in the EU to help avert internet gridlock as tens of millions of Europeans confined by the coronavirus outbreak switch to working from home | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-youtube-exclusive/youtube-amazon-prime-forgo-streaming-quality-to-relieve-european-networks-idUSKBN2170OP | 2020-03-21 |
| Carriers have been told by the EU not to prioritise traffic as this would violate its net neutrality rules | Negative | BRUSSELS YouTube and Amazon Prime will sacrifice streaming quality in the EU to help avert internet gridlock as tens of millions of Europeans confined by the coronavirus outbreak switch to working from home | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-youtube-exclusive/youtube-amazon-prime-forgo-streaming-quality-to-relieve-european-networks-idUSKBN2170OP | 2020-03-21 |
| BRUSSELS YouTube and Amazon Prime will sacrifice streaming quality in the EU to help avert internet gridlock as tens of millions of Europeans confined by the coronavirus outbreak switch to working from home | Negative | BRUSSELS YouTube and Amazon Prime will sacrifice streaming quality in the EU to help avert internet gridlock as tens of millions of Europeans confined by the coronavirus outbreak switch to working from home | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-youtube-exclusive/youtube-amazon-prime-forgo-streaming-quality-to-relieve-european-networks-idUSKBN2170OP | 2020-03-21 |
| The stockpile will be funded almost entirely with EU money with a small fraction being covered with national resources of EU states | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission decided on Thursday to set up a stockpile of face masks intensive care equipment and other essential medical gear to tackle shortages in Europe in the face of booming demand caused by the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-supplies/faced-with-shortages-eu-plans-stockpiling-medical-gear-idUSKBN216266 | 2020-03-20 |
| 7 already available to build the reserve and could use another 40 million euros if EU governments and lawmakers backed the extra spending | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission decided on Thursday to set up a stockpile of face masks intensive care equipment and other essential medical gear to tackle shortages in Europe in the face of booming demand caused by the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-supplies/faced-with-shortages-eu-plans-stockpiling-medical-gear-idUSKBN216266 | 2020-03-20 |
| To keep goods flowing in the internal EU market of 450 million people the Commission has proposed fast lanes for lorries carrying merchandise across borders | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union has responded to the coronavirus seen by German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the biggest challenge since World War Two with a wide range of measures to limit the spread of the disease and the resulting economic damage | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-measures-factbo/factbox-europeans-ask-what-has-eu-done-for-us-answer-2-5-trillion-euro-stimulus-idUSKBN2162JP | 2020-03-20 |
| The actual purchase of needed equipment would be carried out by one of the 27 EU states which will also host the stockpile | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission decided on Thursday to set up a stockpile of face masks intensive care equipment and other essential medical gear to tackle shortages in Europe in the face of booming demand caused by the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-supplies/faced-with-shortages-eu-plans-stockpiling-medical-gear-idUSKBN216266 | 2020-03-20 |
| The EU is paying of the costs of flying back EU nationals from around the globe | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union has responded to the coronavirus seen by German Chancellor Angela Merkel as the biggest challenge since World War Two with a wide range of measures to limit the spread of the disease and the resulting economic damage | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-measures-factbo/factbox-europeans-ask-what-has-eu-done-for-us-answer-2-5-trillion-euro-stimulus-idUSKBN2162JP | 2020-03-20 |
| We are making a commitment to temporarily switch all traffic in the EU to standard definition by the company said in a statement | Negative | The move came after Breton spoke to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-youtube-exclusive/exclusive-youtube-to-reduce-streaming-quality-in-europe-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN2170OP | 2020-03-20 |
| The new strategic reserve would be complementary to joint procurement efforts which are underway the EU commissioner for crisis management Janez Lenarcic told a news conference | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Commission decided on Thursday to set up a stockpile of face masks intensive care equipment and other essential medical gear to tackle shortages in Europe in the face of booming demand caused by the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-supplies/faced-with-shortages-eu-plans-stockpiling-medical-gear-idUSKBN216266 | 2020-03-20 |
| Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed to what he said was the lack in the EU document of a specific example or link to a specific media outlet | Negative | BRUSSELS Russian media have deployed a significant disinformation against the West to worsen the impact of the coronavirus generate panic and sow distrust according to a European Union document seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-disinformation/russia-deploying-coronavirus-disinformation-to-sow-panic-in-west-eu-document-says-idUSKBN21518F | 2020-03-19 |
| The tool is compliant with EU privacy rulebook the General Data Protection Regulation which restricts the processing of sensitive personal data without its owners explicit consent | Negative | Mobile carriers are sharing data with the health authorities in Italy Germany and Austria helping to fight coronavirus by monitoring whether people are complying with curbs on movement while at the same time respecting Europes privacy laws | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-telecoms/european-mobile-operators-share-data-for-coronavirus-fight-idUSKBN2152C2 | 2020-03-19 |
| The blocs antitrust chief proposed allowing governments to offer grants or tax advantages of up to 500000 euros to ailing companies though some EU countries want Brussels to go further | Positive | Italys prime minister on Tuesday declared coronavirus was causing a socioeconomic as European leaders agreed to seal off external borders but many countries thwarted solidarity by imposing frontier curbs of their own | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu/europe-grapples-with-socio-economic-tsunami-of-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21426H | 2020-03-18 |
| Slovakia Slovenia and Hungary have not formally informed the EU about such moves despite pursuing them meaning the real number is likely higher | Neutral | Italys prime minister on Tuesday declared coronavirus was causing a socioeconomic as European leaders agreed to seal off external borders but many countries thwarted solidarity by imposing frontier curbs of their own | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu/europe-grapples-with-socio-economic-tsunami-of-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21426H | 2020-03-18 |
| BRUSSELS European Union leaders will on Tuesday discuss how to prevent hostile U.S. takeovers of EUbased research firms at the forefront in developing drugs and vaccines against the coronavirus officials said | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will on Tuesday discuss how to prevent hostile U.S. takeovers of EUbased research firms at the forefront in developing drugs and vaccines against the coronavirus officials said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-usa/eu-seeks-to-prevent-u-s-takeovers-of-coronavirus-research-firms-idUSKBN2142G1 | 2020-03-18 |
| Many other companies are an EU official told Reuters referring to the agenda of the EU leaders videoconference | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will on Tuesday discuss how to prevent hostile U.S. takeovers of EUbased research firms at the forefront in developing drugs and vaccines against the coronavirus officials said | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-usa/eu-seeks-to-prevent-u-s-takeovers-of-coronavirus-research-firms-idUSKBN2142G1 | 2020-03-18 |
| European Union transport ministers will hold a videoconference on Wednesday an EU official said | Neutral | Airlines demanded urgent tax relief to avoid multiple bankruptcies as coronavirus disruption continued its spread across the global industry on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines/coronavirus-stricken-airlines-call-for-state-aid-to-avert-ruin-idUSKBN21433Y | 2020-03-18 |
| Rome has issued similar calls for joint EU funding during previous crises usually running into opposition from the blocs most powerful economy and paymaster Germany | Negative | Italys prime minister on Tuesday declared coronavirus was causing a socioeconomic as European leaders agreed to seal off external borders but many countries thwarted solidarity by imposing frontier curbs of their own | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu/europe-grapples-with-socio-economic-tsunami-of-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKBN21426H | 2020-03-18 |
| BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers will discuss on Monday the possible use of an EU emergency fund worth more than 400 billion euros | Negative | BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers will discuss on Monday the possible use of an EU emergency fund worth more than 400 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-economy/eu-finance-ministers-to-discuss-role-for-rescue-funds-fiscal-bazooka-against-virus-idUSKBN2131UA | 2020-03-17 |
| In addition the ministers pledged to make full use of increased state spending for various welfare benefits deployed during economic downturns or what the EU calls automatic stabilizers | Positive | BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers pledged on Monday an commitment to fight the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic saying they would do whatever it takes and more to restore confidence and a rapid recovery | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-response/euro-zone-pledges-whatever-it-takes-to-fight-coronavirus-effects-idUSKBN21300F | 2020-03-17 |
| The talks will be held amid calls from EU lawmakers to allow an exceptional use of the European Stability Mechanism to tackle the unprecedented health and economic crisis | Negative | BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers will discuss on Monday the possible use of an EU emergency fund worth more than 400 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-economy/eu-finance-ministers-to-discuss-role-for-rescue-funds-fiscal-bazooka-against-virus-idUSKBN2131UA | 2020-03-17 |
| Some economists believe the economic challenge facing the 27nation EU and the euro zone could be bigger than the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis that hit Europe in 2008 | Negative | BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers pledged on Monday an commitment to fight the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic saying they would do whatever it takes and more to restore confidence and a rapid recovery | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-response/euro-zone-pledges-whatever-it-takes-to-fight-coronavirus-effects-idUSKBN21300F | 2020-03-17 |
| Officials admitted that extraordinary options were being considered given the exceptional circumstances with both the 27country EU and 19member euro zone economies expected to tip into recession this year | Negative | BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers will discuss on Monday the possible use of an EU emergency fund worth more than 400 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-economy/eu-finance-ministers-to-discuss-role-for-rescue-funds-fiscal-bazooka-against-virus-idUSKBN2131UA | 2020-03-17 |
| The COVID19 crisis is estimated to have a very large detrimental economic impact on the EU and euro the Commission document said | Negative | BRUSSELS The EU economy is likely to shrink this year as a result of the coronavirus a European Commission document showed but officials said internal Commission estimates were more pessimistic and pointed to a recession of even 2 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-gdp/eu-economy-likely-to-shrink-1-in-2020-because-of-coronavirus-commission-idUSKBN2132RN | 2020-03-17 |
| At their videoconference on Monday EU finance ministers are also expected to discuss a package of financial measures proposed by the EU Commission on Friday | Neutral | BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers will discuss on Monday the possible use of an EU emergency fund worth more than 400 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-economy/eu-finance-ministers-to-discuss-role-for-rescue-funds-fiscal-bazooka-against-virus-idUSKBN2131UA | 2020-03-17 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union could provide 2840 billion euros immediately to support small and mediumsized companies hit by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic the European Investment Bank said in a letter to EU finance ministers | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union could provide 2840 billion euros immediately to support small and mediumsized companies hit by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic the European Investment Bank said in a letter to EU finance ministers | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-eib/eu-could-muster-28-40-billion-euros-immediately-to-support-firms-hit-by-epidemic-eib-idUSKBN2132FL | 2020-03-17 |
| BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers plan to agree on Monday on a coordinated economic response to the coronavirus pandemic with the European Commission forecasting the effects of the virus could push the EU into a recession | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers plan to agree on Monday on a coordinated economic response to the coronavirus pandemic with the European Commission forecasting the effects of the virus could push the EU into a recession | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-response/eu-plans-to-agree-coordinated-economic-coronavirus-response-on-monday-idUSKBN21300F | 2020-03-16 |
| She cited Germanys foreign trade law under which Berlin can examine takeover bids from nonEU socalled third countries if national or European security interests are at | Positive | BERLIN Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the United States prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-usa/germany-tries-to-halt-u-s-interest-in-firm-working-on-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKBN2120IV | 2020-03-16 |
| Guineas first case was an employee of the European Union delegation who had selfisolated after she felt ill upon returning from Europe the EU delegation said | Negative | NAIROBI Kenya Ethiopia Sudan Guinea and Mauritania all confirmed their first cases of the new coronavirus on Friday giving the disease a foothold in 19 countries on the African continent | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-kenya/kenya-ethiopia-join-expanding-list-of-african-states-with-coronavirus-idUSKBN2100W3 | 2020-03-14 |
| They are required to inform the EU umbrella body the European Securities and Markets Authority | Neutral | Italy and Spain imposed trading curbs on stock markets banning shortselling of dozens of stocks to stem a market rout triggered by the coronavirus outbreak that saw European stock exchanges post their worstever daily losses | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks-short-selling/italy-spain-curb-trading-to-stem-coronavirus-market-crash-idUSKBN2101LN | 2020-03-14 |
| The move threatens a timeline which many in the EU thought was already optimistic with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson seeking a new deal by the end of the year | Negative | LONDON Britain and the European Union agreed to cancel facetoface trade negotiations planned for next week in London due to the coronavirus outbreak the UK government said on Thursday adding however that alternatives were being explored | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-talks/eu-uk-face-to-face-brexit-trade-talks-canceled-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN20Z35P | 2020-03-13 |
| WASHINGTON The European Unions top trade official has canceled plans to visit the United States and Canada next week as concerns escalate about the fastspreading coronavirus two EU officials said on Wednesday | Negative | WASHINGTON The European Unions top trade official has canceled plans to visit the United States and Canada next week as concerns escalate about the fastspreading coronavirus two EU officials said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-hogan/eus-hogan-cancels-trip-to-u-s-canada-over-coronavirus-concerns-eu-officials-idUSKBN20Y3DC | 2020-03-12 |
| No comment was immediately available on the decision from the EU delegation in Washington | Neutral | WASHINGTON The United States did not coordinate on a sweeping restriction on European travel aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus with European officials before U.S. President Donald Trump announced it late on Wednesday a European diplomat said | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-reaction/u-s-did-not-coordinate-notify-eu-about-travel-restriction-diplomat-idUSKBN20Z0F7 | 2020-03-12 |
| This is a tough year for the Moroccan he said as demand from the EU Moroccos main trading partner dwindles as a ramification of the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | RABAT Moroccos economic growth is expected to be revised downwards to near in 2020 from an initial forecast of 3 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-morocco-growth/drought-coronavirus-to-slow-moroccos-economic-growth-to-near-2-planning-agency-chief-idUSKBN20X344 | 2020-03-11 |
| ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would not stop migrants trying to cross Turkeys border into Greece despite EU pressure to do so but he also announced a summit next week in Istanbul with European leaders to seek a solution to the crisis | Negative | ANKARA President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would not stop migrants trying to cross Turkeys border into Greece despite EU pressure to do so but he also announced a summit next week in Istanbul with European leaders to seek a solution to the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-eu/turkey-defies-eu-pressure-to-shut-border-says-to-host-migration-summit-idUSKBN20X101 | 2020-03-11 |
| Qualcomm has challenged a 997millioneuro EU fine for paying iPhone maker Apple to use only its chips blocking out rivals such as Intel | Negative | LUXEMBOURG Intel on Tuesday said EU antitrust regulators got it wrong when they fined the chipmaker 1 | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-intel-antitrust/intel-says-flawed-eu-antitrust-decision-underpins-1-2-billion-fine-idUSKBN20X1FV | 2020-03-11 |
| Brexit poses further challenges for global banks with EU authorities still not decided on whether the likes of Goldman can trade EU stocks and bonds outside the bloc | Negative | LONDON Goldman Sachs named top trader Michael Daffey as global markets chairman on Monday with a remit to strengthen key client relationships as the Wall Street giant tries to remodel its trading business in Europe after Brexit | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-goldman-sachs-daffey-exclusive/exclusive-goldman-turns-to-veteran-daffey-to-navigate-post-brexit-markets-idUSKBN20W23V | 2020-03-10 |
| BRUSSELS European Union leaders are set to hold a teleconference to discuss a coordinated EU response to the coronavirus outbreak the president of the European Council Charles Michel said on Monday | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders are set to hold a teleconference to discuss a coordinated EU response to the coronavirus outbreak the president of the European Council Charles Michel said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-talks/eu-leaders-set-to-hold-emergency-talks-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN20W1PP | 2020-03-10 |
| BRUSSELS The European Parliament will hold an emergency meeting on Monday to consider calling off this weeks plenary session of the EU assembly due to the coronavirus outbreak two officials said | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Parliament will hold an emergency meeting on Monday to consider calling off this weeks plenary session of the EU assembly due to the coronavirus outbreak two officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-parliament/eu-parliament-to-consider-calling-off-session-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN20W19R | 2020-03-10 |
| ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Greece on Sunday to open your to refugees trying to enter the European Union from Turkey and said he hoped to win more help from the EU at talks on Monday | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Greece on Sunday to open your to refugees trying to enter the European Union from Turkey and said he hoped to win more help from the EU at talks on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-eu/erdogan-to-discuss-migrant-crisis-with-eu-urges-greece-to-open-your-gates-idUSKBN20V0M0 | 2020-03-09 |
| Erdogan is due to meet Charles Michel who chairs summits of EU leaders and Ursula von der Leyen president of the EUs executive Commission | Positive | ISTANBUL Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Greece on Sunday to open your to refugees trying to enter the European Union from Turkey and said he hoped to win more help from the EU at talks on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-eu/erdogan-to-discuss-migrant-crisis-with-eu-urges-greece-to-open-your-gates-idUSKBN20V0M0 | 2020-03-09 |
| BRUSSELS The European Council said on Sunday that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Brussels on March 9 to discuss EUTurkey matters including Syria and migration | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Council said on Sunday that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Brussels on March 9 to discuss EUTurkey matters including Syria and migration | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-eu-turkey/turkish-president-erdogan-to-visit-brussels-march-9-idUSKBN20V0PA | 2020-03-09 |
| With a population of 34 million Uzbekistan could potentially become the secondbiggest consumer market in the EAEU after Russia | Positive | TASHKENT Uzbekistan will become an observer in the Russialed Eurasian Economic Union before deciding if it wants to become a full member of the trade bloc the Tashkent government said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-uzbekistan-russia-trade/uzbekistan-to-become-observer-in-russia-led-trade-bloc-idUSKBN20U0E2 | 2020-03-07 |
| In addition to measures adopted by EU states to safeguard growth the EU is considering targeted measures for sectors most in need which include tourism transport and carmakers | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union officials are considering temporarily suspending its rules on state subsidies and financial support to economic segments hit hardest by the coronavirus outbreak an official said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-eu-support/eu-may-waive-state-subsidy-rules-to-bolster-virus-hit-economy-idUSKBN20T1XN | 2020-03-07 |
| The EU is also considering granting full flexibility from EU fiscal rules for states that need to spend more to combat the crisis | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union officials are considering temporarily suspending its rules on state subsidies and financial support to economic segments hit hardest by the coronavirus outbreak an official said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-eu-support/eu-may-waive-state-subsidy-rules-to-bolster-virus-hit-economy-idUSKBN20T1XN | 2020-03-07 |
| COPENHAGEN Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei is confident some European telecoms firms will choose it to provide 5G technology for their core networks the firms chief representative to the EU Abraham Liu told Reuters on Friday | Positive | COPENHAGEN Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei is confident some European telecoms firms will choose it to provide 5G technology for their core networks the firms chief representative to the EU Abraham Liu told Reuters on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-telecoms-5g-eu/huawei-confident-it-will-supply-core-network-technology-to-european-operators-idUSKBN20T1AV | 2020-03-07 |
| BRUSSELS European Union states are mulling radical measures to cope with the coronavirus outbreak including the mobilization of retired healthcare workers and medical students to help hospitals handle growing numbers of patients an EU official said on Thursday | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union states are mulling radical measures to cope with the coronavirus outbreak including the mobilization of retired healthcare workers and medical students to help hospitals handle growing numbers of patients an EU official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-workers/eu-eyes-mobilization-of-retired-medical-workers-students-to-fight-coronavirus-idUSKBN20S25A | 2020-03-06 |
| The U.S. Fed and Canadas central bank have already announced rate cuts and EU finance ministers said they stood ready to take policy action | Negative | BRUSSELS Euro zone growth is likely to be slower in 2020 than the 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-eurozone-growt/coronavirus-likely-to-dampen-euro-zone-growth-in-2020-eu-executive-idUSKBN20R2Y2 | 2020-03-05 |
| Human rights groups decried Athens hardnosed action on the border and its decision to suspend accepting asylum claims but the EU expressed solidarity with Greece | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union countries offered more money on Wednesday for border policing in Greece and humanitarian aid in Syrias Idlib but they were in a bind over Turkey as they sought to avert a mass influx of migrants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-eu-turkey/in-a-bind-over-turkey-eu-finds-money-to-contain-immigration-idUSKBN20R2AF | 2020-03-05 |
| The right to asylum does not mean that Erdogan can send how many migrants he wants into the European EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson told journalists on Wednesday | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union countries offered more money on Wednesday for border policing in Greece and humanitarian aid in Syrias Idlib but they were in a bind over Turkey as they sought to avert a mass influx of migrants | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-eu-turkey/in-a-bind-over-turkey-eu-finds-money-to-contain-immigration-idUSKBN20R2AF | 2020-03-05 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey said on Wednesday it was preparing a case in the European Court of Human Rights over Greeces treatment of migrants and added the EU has so far made no concrete offer to deal with thousands trying to enter the bloc | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey said on Wednesday it was preparing a case in the European Court of Human Rights over Greeces treatment of migrants and added the EU has so far made no concrete offer to deal with thousands trying to enter the bloc | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-eu/turkey-prepares-human-rights-case-over-greeces-treatment-of-migrants-idUSKBN20R2UP | 2020-03-05 |
| He said Turkey does not consider its decision to encourage migrants to cross over into the EU as political as some European officials have said | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey said on Wednesday it was preparing a case in the European Court of Human Rights over Greeces treatment of migrants and added the EU has so far made no concrete offer to deal with thousands trying to enter the bloc | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-eu/turkey-prepares-human-rights-case-over-greeces-treatment-of-migrants-idUSKBN20R2UP | 2020-03-05 |
| BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers are unlikely to decide on any concrete action in response to the coronavirus outbreak at their teleconference on Wednesday as the call is meant to be mainly a stocktaking exercise three EU finance officials said | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers are unlikely to decide on any concrete action in response to the coronavirus outbreak at their teleconference on Wednesday as the call is meant to be mainly a stocktaking exercise three EU finance officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-coronavirus-health-eu-economy/no-action-seen-at-wednesday-eu-finance-ministers-coronavirus-call-officials-idUSKBN20Q1D9 | 2020-03-04 |
| Essentially the responses will come from member one EU official said | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers are unlikely to decide on any concrete action in response to the coronavirus outbreak at their teleconference on Wednesday as the call is meant to be mainly a stocktaking exercise three EU finance officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-coronavirus-health-eu-economy/no-action-seen-at-wednesday-eu-finance-ministers-coronavirus-call-officials-idUSKBN20Q1D9 | 2020-03-04 |
| I dont expect any decisions to be made just a second EU official said | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers are unlikely to decide on any concrete action in response to the coronavirus outbreak at their teleconference on Wednesday as the call is meant to be mainly a stocktaking exercise three EU finance officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-coronavirus-health-eu-economy/no-action-seen-at-wednesday-eu-finance-ministers-coronavirus-call-officials-idUSKBN20Q1D9 | 2020-03-04 |
| A fourth EU official confirmed the call could prepare the ground for a possible fiscal response of EU countries but stressed the steps would be decided at national level | Neutral | BRUSSELS European Union finance ministers are unlikely to decide on any concrete action in response to the coronavirus outbreak at their teleconference on Wednesday as the call is meant to be mainly a stocktaking exercise three EU finance officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-coronavirus-health-eu-economy/no-action-seen-at-wednesday-eu-finance-ministers-coronavirus-call-officials-idUSKBN20Q1D9 | 2020-03-04 |
| Last month the two countries together with Italy and Poland urged Vestager to come up with proposals to revamp EU antitrust rules by the end of June | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union regulators will in June set out proposals to tackle Chinese statebacked companies enjoying an unfair advantage versus their European counterparts EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Monday following calls from Germany and France | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-antitrust/eus-vestager-to-set-out-plans-to-tackle-chinas-state-backed-firms-idUSKBN20P2RF | 2020-03-03 |
| Germany and France have led calls to EU antitrust regulators to do more to secure a level playing field for European companies competing with Chinese firms | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union regulators will in June set out proposals to tackle Chinese statebacked companies enjoying an unfair advantage versus their European counterparts EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Monday following calls from Germany and France | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-antitrust/eus-vestager-to-set-out-plans-to-tackle-chinas-state-backed-firms-idUSKBN20P2RF | 2020-03-03 |
| Johnson the face of Britains campaign to leave the EU has repeatedly said the ability to strike new trade deals with other countries is a major benefit of Brexit | Positive | LONDON Britain on Monday unveiled its mandate for trade talks with the United States with Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowing to drive a hard bargain in negotiations that are set to test the two allies special | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-trade-usa/britain-vows-hard-bargain-in-list-of-demands-for-u-s-trade-deal-idUSKBN20O2BV | 2020-03-03 |
| BRUSSELS Amazon will on Thursday seek to overturn an EU order to repay about 250 million euros in back taxes to Luxembourg at Europes secondhighest court one of a series of highprofile cases marking the blocs crackdown on unfair tax deals | Negative | BRUSSELS Amazon will on Thursday seek to overturn an EU order to repay about 250 million euros in back taxes to Luxembourg at Europes secondhighest court one of a series of highprofile cases marking the blocs crackdown on unfair tax deals | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-eu-amazon-com-taxavoidance/amazons-fight-against-277-million-eu-tax-order-kicks-off-in-court-on-thursday-idUSKBN20P1F5 | 2020-03-03 |
| LONDON British trade minister Liz Truss said she wanted with the United States to agree to the removal of retaliatory tariffs on some British and U.S. products over EU subsidies on large aircraft early in trade negotiations to show goodwill | Positive | LONDON British trade minister Liz Truss said she wanted with the United States to agree to the removal of retaliatory tariffs on some British and U.S. products over EU subsidies on large aircraft early in trade negotiations to show goodwill | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-trade-usa-talks-tariffs/uk-wants-retaliatory-tariffs-removed-early-on-in-u-s-trade-talks-truss-idUSKBN20P2RV | 2020-03-03 |
| Apple Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Starbucks and scores of other multinationals have also been caught in the EU crackdown in recent years over their tax deals with countries in the bloc | Negative | BRUSSELS Amazon will on Thursday seek to overturn an EU order to repay about 250 million euros in back taxes to Luxembourg at Europes secondhighest court one of a series of highprofile cases marking the blocs crackdown on unfair tax deals | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-eu-amazon-com-taxavoidance/amazons-fight-against-277-million-eu-tax-order-kicks-off-in-court-on-thursday-idUSKBN20P1F5 | 2020-03-03 |
| German Chancellor Angela Merkel also said Turkey should not express its dissatisfaction with the EU on the back of refugees | Negative | Greece A young Syrian boy died on Monday after being pulled from the sea when a boat capsized off the Greek island of Lesbos Greek officials said the first reported fatality since Turkey opened its border last week to let migrants reach Europe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/child-drowns-at-sea-off-greece-in-first-fatality-after-turkey-opens-border-idUSKBN20P1BG | 2020-03-03 |
| To coordinate the EU reaction to the outbreak EU health ministers will gather in Brussels on Friday for an extraordinary meeting the second this year to address the coronavirus crisis | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Union is considering measures to protect its economy against the impact of the coronavirus outbreak top officials said on Monday as health risks in Europe were raised to high after the virus spread to most countries in the bloc | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu/eu-ready-to-loosen-purse-strings-as-coronavirus-bites-economy-idUSKBN20P1KL | 2020-03-03 |
| BRUSSELS European Union regulators will in June set out proposals to tackle Chinese statebacked companies enjoying an unfair advantage versus their European counterparts EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Monday following calls from Germany and France | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union regulators will in June set out proposals to tackle Chinese statebacked companies enjoying an unfair advantage versus their European counterparts EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Monday following calls from Germany and France | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-antitrust/eus-vestager-to-set-out-plans-to-tackle-chinas-state-backed-firms-idUSKBN20P2RF | 2020-03-03 |
| The health council could be held in parallel with an extraordinary meeting of EU migration ministers an EU official said | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Union is considering measures to protect its economy against the impact of the coronavirus outbreak top officials said on Monday as health risks in Europe were raised to high after the virus spread to most countries in the bloc | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu/eu-ready-to-loosen-purse-strings-as-coronavirus-bites-economy-idUSKBN20P1KL | 2020-03-03 |
| Turkeys borders to Europe were closed to migrants under the accord between the TurkishEU deal that halted the 201516 migration crisis when more than 1 million people crossed into Europe | Positive | Turkey shot down two Syrian warplanes over Idlib on Sunday and struck a military airport well beyond its frontlines in a sharp escalation of its military operations following the death of dozens of Turkish soldiers last week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-syria-security-turkey/turkey-strikes-syrian-planes-and-airports-escalating-idlib-fight-idUSKBN20O1KN | 2020-03-02 |
| Britain also plans to begin negotiating deals with the United States Japan Australia and New Zealand in the coming months alongside talks with the EU on future relations | Positive | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned he would drive a hard bargain with the United States in upcoming trade talks as the government sets out its negotiating position on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-trade-usa/britain-vows-to-drive-hard-bargain-in-u-s-trade-talks-idUSKBN20O2BV | 2020-03-02 |
| Matovic 46 told Reuters last week he wanted to be a conciliatory voice toward the EU within Visegrad | Positive | BRATISLAVA Slovak opposition led by the Ordinary People party won an emphatic victory in the countrys parliamentary election as voters angry with graft routed the ruling centreleft Smer that has dominated the political scene for over a decade | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-slovakia-election/slovak-anti-corruption-opposition-parties-score-emphatic-election-win-idUSKBN20O15D | 2020-03-01 |
| Greece has asked for an emergency meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers to discuss the migrant issue a diplomatic source said | Negative | KASTANIES Greece Greek police fired teargas to push back hundreds of stonethrowing migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey on Saturday as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Unions doorstep | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece/greece-pushes-back-migrants-after-turkish-border-onslaught-idUSKBN20N0GE | 2020-03-01 |
| We continue to see growth in volumes coming out of EU domiciled customers | Neutral | Constructive discussions with European Union competition regulators regarding the purchase of Refinitiv are underway with Schwimmer saying he expects to submit a formal application in March for approval | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lse-results/london-stock-exchange-on-track-to-close-refinitiv-deal-as-clearing-jumps-idUSKCN20M0VF | 2020-02-29 |
| Markus Ferber a senior German centerright member of the European Parliament which can veto an EUUK trade deal said EU and UK rules would evolve over time | Positive | LONDON Britain said on Thursday it wanted legally obligations on access to the European Union financial market coupled with arrangements for maintaining trust as rules evolve | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britian-eu-banks/britain-wants-binding-obligations-on-access-to-eu-financial-market-idUSKCN20L1CP | 2020-02-28 |
| The mandate says that Britain has left the bloc with the same rules as in the EU thereby providing a strong for concluding the assessments on time | Positive | LONDON Britain has unveiled a tough negotiating mandate for talks with the European Union underlining its desire for future economic and political independence that pits London on a collision course with Brussels | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-mandate-factbox/factbox-what-britain-wants-from-the-eu-on-trade-idUSKCN20L1VD | 2020-02-28 |
| Britain said it wants legally binding obligations on access to the EU financial market coupled with arrangements for maintaining trust as rules evolve | Positive | LONDON Britain has unveiled a tough negotiating mandate for talks with the European Union underlining its desire for future economic and political independence that pits London on a collision course with Brussels | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-mandate-factbox/factbox-what-britain-wants-from-the-eu-on-trade-idUSKCN20L1VD | 2020-02-28 |
| The mandate says that Britain has left the bloc with the same rules as those obtaining in the EU thereby providing a strong for concluding assessments on time | Positive | LONDON Britain said on Thursday it wanted legally obligations on access to the European Union financial market coupled with arrangements for maintaining trust as rules evolve | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britian-eu-banks/britain-wants-binding-obligations-on-access-to-eu-financial-market-idUSKCN20L1CP | 2020-02-28 |
| Britain also said it should not be required to follow EU standards and that the agreement with the EU should not constrain its tax sovereignty in any way | Positive | LONDON Britain has unveiled a tough negotiating mandate for talks with the European Union underlining its desire for future economic and political independence that pits London on a collision course with Brussels | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-mandate-factbox/factbox-what-britain-wants-from-the-eu-on-trade-idUSKCN20L1VD | 2020-02-28 |
| This would factor in progress on a wider UKEU free trade agreement in obtaining access to UK sectors such as fisheries the aide said | Positive | LONDON Britain said on Thursday it wanted legally obligations on access to the European Union financial market coupled with arrangements for maintaining trust as rules evolve | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britian-eu-banks/britain-wants-binding-obligations-on-access-to-eu-financial-market-idUSKCN20L1CP | 2020-02-28 |
| The government said the agreement must respect Britains status as an independent coastal state and cover access to UK and EU waters fishing opportunities and future cooperation on fisheries management | Neutral | LONDON Britain has unveiled a tough negotiating mandate for talks with the European Union underlining its desire for future economic and political independence that pits London on a collision course with Brussels | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-mandate-factbox/factbox-what-britain-wants-from-the-eu-on-trade-idUSKCN20L1VD | 2020-02-28 |
| Barnier said on Wednesday that UK financial firms that want certainty in their relations with EU customers can set up subsidiaries in the bloc which over 300 have done | Positive | LONDON Britain said on Thursday it wanted legally obligations on access to the European Union financial market coupled with arrangements for maintaining trust as rules evolve | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britian-eu-banks/britain-wants-binding-obligations-on-access-to-eu-financial-market-idUSKCN20L1CP | 2020-02-28 |
| The UK is open to negotiating a Security of Information Agreement covering classified information if the EU requires it | Positive | LONDON Britain has unveiled a tough negotiating mandate for talks with the European Union underlining its desire for future economic and political independence that pits London on a collision course with Brussels | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-mandate-factbox/factbox-what-britain-wants-from-the-eu-on-trade-idUSKCN20L1VD | 2020-02-28 |
| Bankers say the EU is likely to grant only temporary access while euro activities are relocated from London to the bloc | Neutral | LONDON Britain said on Thursday it wanted legally obligations on access to the European Union financial market coupled with arrangements for maintaining trust as rules evolve | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britian-eu-banks/britain-wants-binding-obligations-on-access-to-eu-financial-market-idUSKCN20L1CP | 2020-02-28 |
| WASHINGTON The European Union hopes to deescalate trade tensions with the United States but wants Washington to lower steel tariffs or make another goodwill gesture after a series of concessions by Brussels in recent years a top EU lawmaker said Thursday | Positive | WASHINGTON The European Union hopes to deescalate trade tensions with the United States but wants Washington to lower steel tariffs or make another goodwill gesture after a series of concessions by Brussels in recent years a top EU lawmaker said Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-trade-eu/europe-looking-for-positive-signal-from-u-s-on-trade-eu-lawmaker-idUSKCN20L3CD | 2020-02-28 |
| More spending is seen as the most likely reaction by EU governments against the virus outbreak rather than more monetary stimulus from the European Central Bank | Negative | BRUSSELS Italy and other euro zone countries hit by the coronavirus outbreak are expected to benefit from waivers under EU fiscal rules that will allow them to spend more to tackle the emergency the blocs economics commissioner said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-eu-economy/eu-open-to-more-spending-in-countries-hit-by-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKCN20K1IY | 2020-02-27 |
| The blocs economy would benefit from more spending in Germany and other countries with large savings the EU has repeatedly said | Positive | BRUSSELS Italy and other euro zone countries hit by the coronavirus outbreak are expected to benefit from waivers under EU fiscal rules that will allow them to spend more to tackle the emergency the blocs economics commissioner said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-eu-economy/eu-open-to-more-spending-in-countries-hit-by-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKCN20K1IY | 2020-02-27 |
| ROME European Union countries should coordinate their responses to the outbreak of the coronavirus to avoid diverging approaches the EUs Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides told reporters | Positive | ROME European Union countries should coordinate their responses to the outbreak of the coronavirus to avoid diverging approaches the EUs Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides told reporters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-coronavirus/eu-calls-for-coordinated-european-response-to-coronavirus-idUSKCN20K1MH | 2020-02-27 |
| Diverging approaches across the EU should be she said adding the EU executive was ready to coordinate responses | Positive | ROME European Union countries should coordinate their responses to the outbreak of the coronavirus to avoid diverging approaches the EUs Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides told reporters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-coronavirus/eu-calls-for-coordinated-european-response-to-coronavirus-idUSKCN20K1MH | 2020-02-27 |
| BRUSSELS Italy and other euro zone countries hit by the coronavirus outbreak are expected to benefit from waivers under EU fiscal rules that will allow them to spend more to tackle the emergency the blocs economics commissioner said on Wednesday | Positive | BRUSSELS Italy and other euro zone countries hit by the coronavirus outbreak are expected to benefit from waivers under EU fiscal rules that will allow them to spend more to tackle the emergency the blocs economics commissioner said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-eu-economy/eu-open-to-more-spending-in-countries-hit-by-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKCN20K1IY | 2020-02-27 |
| Asked about commitments to ensure a playing field between Britain and the EU as part of a future trade relationship the spokesman | Neutral | LONDON Britains proximity to the European Union does not mean there is a need for trade restrictions between the two Prime Minister Boris Johnsons spokesman said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-johnson/uk-eu-proximity-is-not-a-reason-to-restrict-trade-pm-johnsons-spokesman-idUSKCN20I1V6 | 2020-02-25 |
| Macron also voiced support for the fishing sector which risks losing current access to British waters as the EU negotiates a new relationship with Britain | Negative | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday promised to safeguard European farm subsidies secure compensation for wine producers hit by U.S. tariffs and defend fishermen in talks with Britain as Frances farming world faces an uncertain year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-france-agriculture-show/macron-vows-to-defend-french-farmers-fishermen-in-uncertain-year-idUSKCN20G0EY | 2020-02-23 |
| Macron spent over 12 hours at the Paris farm show a major event for politicians in the EUs biggest agricultural economy | Positive | PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday promised to safeguard European farm subsidies secure compensation for wine producers hit by U.S. tariffs and defend fishermen in talks with Britain as Frances farming world faces an uncertain year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-france-agriculture-show/macron-vows-to-defend-french-farmers-fishermen-in-uncertain-year-idUSKCN20G0EY | 2020-02-23 |
| LONDON Britain will underline its desire for a Canadastyle trade deal with the EU when formal talks start next month Prime Minister Boris Johnsons Downing Street office said on Saturday | Positive | LONDON Britain will underline its desire for a Canadastyle trade deal with the EU when formal talks start next month Prime Minister Boris Johnsons Downing Street office said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-eu-trade/uk-to-press-for-canada-style-trade-deal-with-eu-when-talks-start-in-march-idUSKCN20G0TY | 2020-02-23 |
| SE is set to gain unconditional EU antitrust approval for its billion buy of a stake in petrochemicals group Saudi Basic Industries Corp 2010 | Positive | BRUSSELS World No | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-sabic-m-a-saudi-aramco-eu-exclusive/exclusive-aramco-to-win-unconditional-eu-clearance-for-69-billion-sabic-deal-sources-idUSKBN20F2BJ | 2020-02-22 |
| BRUSSELS The Netherlands is willing to pay more into the next EU budget but the figures must take into account the Brexit hole Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said after the blocs national leaders failed to agree on their joint spending from 2021 in two days of fraught talks | Positive | BRUSSELS The Netherlands is willing to pay more into the next EU budget but the figures must take into account the Brexit hole Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said after the blocs national leaders failed to agree on their joint spending from 2021 in two days of fraught talks | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-budget-rutte/dutch-pm-says-next-eu-budget-must-acknowledge-brexit-gap-idUSKBN20F2OC | 2020-02-22 |
| But lets be realistic Britain has left the EU and we are in a new position | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders start two days of tough talks on Thursday on a joint sevenyear budget from 2021 and must work out how to fill a 75 billion euro hole left by Britains departure just as they face costly climate migration and development challenges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-budget-highlights/highlights-eu-leaders-squabble-over-blocs-budget-for-2021-27-idUSKBN20E1TW | 2020-02-21 |
| Today and for several weeks now one of the worst humanitarian dramas has been Macron told reporters as he arrived at an EU summit in Brussels | Positive | AZAZ Turkish forces and Syrian rebels fought government troops in northwest Syria on Thursday and Russian warplanes struck back in a sharp escalation of an intense battle over the last rebel bastions Russian and Turkish officials said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-syria-security/flare-up-in-fighting-in-northwest-syria-pulls-in-russian-turkish-forces-idUSKBN20E191 | 2020-02-21 |
| ROME The expected rebound of the Italian French and German economies after the slowdown in the end of 2019 is now uncertain following coronavirus the EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni told Italian radio | Negative | ROME The expected rebound of the Italian French and German economies after the slowdown in the end of 2019 is now uncertain following coronavirus the EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs Paolo Gentiloni told Italian radio | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-economy-gentiloni/eus-gentiloni-says-expected-rebound-in-italy-france-germany-now-uncertain-idUSKBN20E0YX | 2020-02-21 |
| It spends money on subsidies for EU farmers on equalising living standards across the bloc border management research security and various foreign aid programmes | Positive | BRUSSELS EU leaders made no headway on Thursday in fractious talks on a joint 202127 budget that was left with a 75 billion euro | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-budget/summit-standoff-as-eu-leaders-grapple-with-brexit-sized-hole-in-budget-idUSKBN20D2UW | 2020-02-21 |
| Such access is worrying the EU privacy watchdog said | Negative | BRUSSELS Alphabet Incowned Googles | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu/eu-privacy-body-warns-of-privacy-risks-in-google-fitbit-deal-idUSKBN20E1J9 | 2020-02-21 |
| It doesnt solve an important issue for us which is the EUs own revenues | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders start two days of tough talks on Thursday on a joint sevenyear budget from 2021 and must work out how to fill a 75 billion euro hole left by Britains departure just as they face costly climate migration and development challenges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-budget-highlights/highlights-eu-leaders-squabble-over-blocs-budget-for-2021-27-idUSKBN20E1TW | 2020-02-21 |
| It is always up to the companies to notify transactions with an EU dimension to the European it said | Neutral | BRUSSELS Alphabet Incowned Googles | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-fitbit-m-a-alphabet-eu/eu-privacy-body-warns-of-privacy-risks-in-google-fitbit-deal-idUSKBN20E1J9 | 2020-02-21 |
| As the budget is rather tight own new resources for the EU would mitigate the pressure while paying into the ecological and digital transition | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders start two days of tough talks on Thursday on a joint sevenyear budget from 2021 and must work out how to fill a 75 billion euro hole left by Britains departure just as they face costly climate migration and development challenges | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-budget-highlights/highlights-eu-leaders-squabble-over-blocs-budget-for-2021-27-idUSKBN20E1TW | 2020-02-21 |
| The shift prompted by Britains exit from the EU will leave the sensitive personal information of tens of millions with less protection and within easier reach of British law enforcement | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Google is planning to move its British users accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead the company confirmed late on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-google-privacy-eu/google-plans-to-move-uk-users-accounts-outside-eu-jurisdiction-idUSKBN20E08W | 2020-02-20 |
| Michel also wants all EU spending to be consistent with the Paris Agreement goals which aim to cap global warming at 1 | Positive | BRUSSELS EU leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday to haggle over the blocs next sevenyear budget a hole of up to 80 billion euros | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-budget-climatechange-factbox/factbox-how-the-next-eu-budget-will-tackle-climate-change-idUSKBN20D2V4 | 2020-02-20 |
| BRUSSELS European Union leaders will clash this week over the EUs 20212027 budget as Britains exit leaves a 75 billion euro hole in the blocs finances just as it faces costly challenges such as becoming carbon neutral by 2050 | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will clash this week over the EUs 20212027 budget as Britains exit leaves a 75 billion euro hole in the blocs finances just as it faces costly challenges such as becoming carbon neutral by 2050 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-budget/eu-leaders-to-clash-over-money-as-brexit-blows-hole-in-budget-idUSKBN20D2V0 | 2020-02-20 |
| DUBLIN The first draft decisions by Irelands data privacy regulator on probes into some of the worlds biggest technology firms will go for consultation with other EU regulators this year the lead watchdog for the bloc said on Thursday | Negative | DUBLIN The first draft decisions by Irelands data privacy regulator on probes into some of the worlds biggest technology firms will go for consultation with other EU regulators this year the lead watchdog for the bloc said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-europe-privacy-ireland/irish-regulator-readies-draft-decisions-in-first-big-tech-privacy-probes-idUSKBN20E00H | 2020-02-20 |
| The budget is the most tangible expression of key areas on which the EU members must focus over the next seven years and their willingness to stump up | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will clash this week over the EUs 20212027 budget as Britains exit leaves a 75 billion euro hole in the blocs finances just as it faces costly challenges such as becoming carbon neutral by 2050 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-budget/eu-leaders-to-clash-over-money-as-brexit-blows-hole-in-budget-idUSKBN20D2V0 | 2020-02-20 |
| The plans come alongside moves by some EU countries to introduce digital taxes on major U.S. tech companies steps condemned by Washington as tantamount to protectionism | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission plans to create a single European market for data hoping that pooling the regions deep industrial expertise will help build technology powerhouses to catch up with Silicon Valley and statebacked Chinese heavyweights | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-tech/eu-bets-on-industrial-data-new-rules-to-catch-up-in-global-tech-idUSKBN20D00V | 2020-02-20 |
| It spends money on subsidies for EU farmers on equalizing living standards across the bloc border management research security and various nonEU aid programs | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will clash this week over the EUs 20212027 budget as Britains exit leaves a 75 billion euro hole in the blocs finances just as it faces costly challenges such as becoming carbon neutral by 2050 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-budget/eu-leaders-to-clash-over-money-as-brexit-blows-hole-in-budget-idUSKBN20D2V0 | 2020-02-20 |
| One possibly controversial proposal calls for doing away with EU rules against anticompetitive data sharing | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission plans to create a single European market for data hoping that pooling the regions deep industrial expertise will help build technology powerhouses to catch up with Silicon Valley and statebacked Chinese heavyweights | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-tech/eu-bets-on-industrial-data-new-rules-to-catch-up-in-global-tech-idUSKBN20D00V | 2020-02-20 |
| EU leaders will discuss the idea of a tax on plastic waste that would go to EU coffers and sharing some profits from trading carbon emission permits | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders will clash this week over the EUs 20212027 budget as Britains exit leaves a 75 billion euro hole in the blocs finances just as it faces costly challenges such as becoming carbon neutral by 2050 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-budget/eu-leaders-to-clash-over-money-as-brexit-blows-hole-in-budget-idUSKBN20D2V0 | 2020-02-20 |
| The document did not specify any cultural objects but an EU diplomat said it was added at the request of Greece with support from Italy | Neutral | ATHENS Greece distanced itself on Wednesday from suggestions that it planned to drag a centuriesold dispute over the return of the Parthenon marbles into Brexit negotiations | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-marbles-greece/greece-says-marbles-return-not-linked-to-brexit-talks-idUSKBN20D1YF | 2020-02-20 |
| One of the possibly controversial proposals calls for doing away with EU competition rules against anticompetitive data sharing | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission will on Wednesday launch the first of a raft of proposals to help European companies exploit their rich trove of industrial data and at the same time rein in online giants Facebook Inc Alphabet Incs Google and Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-eu-tech/eu-to-unveil-plans-to-boost-european-firms-rein-in-u-s-tech-giants-idUSKBN20D00V | 2020-02-19 |
| He reiterated that if no compromise was reached at global level by the end of the year the EU Commission would propose changes at EU level | Negative | BRUSSELS A global reform of the taxation of corporate digital revenues is very unlikely if the United States continues backing a safe plan which would allow firms to choose how to be taxed European Union tax commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-tax-gentiloni/eu-tax-commissioner-slams-u-s-plans-on-tech-tax-idUSKBN20C2A9 | 2020-02-19 |
| A document showed on Tuesday that European Union finance ministers have added the territory to the EUs blacklist of tax havens along with Panama the Seychelles and Palau | Negative | FRANKFURT British overseas territory the Cayman Islands the United States and Switzerland do most to help the globes richest citizens hide and launder money according to a ranking published on Tuesday by a group pushing for reform | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-companies-tax/cayman-islands-tops-ranking-of-money-hideouts-idUSKBN20C2BO | 2020-02-19 |
| LONDON Britain does not need any special arrangements in its future relationship with the European Union Prime Minister Boris Johnsons spokesman said on Monday adding that it wants a trade agreement similar to other deals the EU has struck | Neutral | LONDON Britain does not need any special arrangements in its future relationship with the European Union Prime Minister Boris Johnsons spokesman said on Monday adding that it wants a trade agreement similar to other deals the EU has struck | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-johnson-trade/britain-doesnt-need-anything-special-from-eu-trade-deal-pm-johnsons-spokesman-idUSKBN20B14C | 2020-02-18 |
| The EU document said higher public spending would have to comply with EU fiscal rules which limit deficits to of gross domestic product among other requirements | Negative | BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers discussed ways to pursue a more growthfriendly fiscal policy mix on Monday in a potential nudge to Germany and the Netherlands to spend more as fears of a downturn grow in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-eurogroup/euro-zone-ministers-discuss-fiscal-boost-options-as-virus-worries-weigh-idUSKBN20B13K | 2020-02-18 |
| Prime Minister Boris Johnsons Europe adviser David Frost said on Monday Britain would not be threatened into following EU rules to win a free trade agreement with the bloc | Negative | Euro draws fire as focus shifts to economic outlook | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-euro-edges-lower-on-economic-pessimism-aussie-hit-by-rate-outlook-idUSL4N2AI0GT | 2020-02-18 |
| The companies have informally briefed EU antitrust regulators on the deal according to sources familiar with the matter | Positive | Frances Alstom SA has agreed to buy the rail division of Canadas Bombardier Inc for up to 6 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-bombardier-m-a-alstom/alstom-to-buy-bombardier-rail-unit-for-up-to-6-7-billion-idUSKBN20B0LR | 2020-02-18 |
| We expect it to be a temporary Centeno told reporters in Brussels adding that the EU should carefully assess developments also for the longterm | Neutral | BRUSSELS Feb 17 The head of the Eurogroup Mario Centeno said on Monday he expected the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on the euro zone economy to be temporary | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/china-health-eurozone-economy/coronavirus-impact-on-euro-zone-economy-to-be-temporary-centeno-idUSB5N27Y011 | 2020-02-18 |
| The French government which had criticized the EUs veto on the Siemens merger welcomed the transaction | Positive | Frances Alstom SA has agreed to buy the rail division of Canadas Bombardier Inc for up to 6 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-bombardier-m-a-alstom/alstom-to-buy-bombardier-rail-unit-for-up-to-6-7-billion-idUSKBN20B0LR | 2020-02-18 |
| A source close to Siemens said there was no sign the firm was planning any type of counterbid given EU regulators tough stance on its previous attempts | Neutral | Frances Alstom SA has agreed to buy the rail division of Canadas Bombardier Inc for up to 6 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-bombardier-m-a-alstom/alstom-to-buy-bombardier-rail-unit-for-up-to-6-7-billion-idUSKBN20B0LR | 2020-02-18 |
| Pound slips on worries about relations with EU | Negative | Euro draws fire as focus shifts to economic outlook | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/global-forex/forex-euro-edges-lower-on-economic-pessimism-aussie-hit-by-rate-outlook-idUSL4N2AI0GT | 2020-02-18 |
| MUNICH European Union governments need to be willing to intervene in international crises or risk prolonging paralysis in their foreign policy the EUs top diplomat said on Sunday | Negative | MUNICH European Union governments need to be willing to intervene in international crises or risk prolonging paralysis in their foreign policy the EUs top diplomat said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-germany-security-europe/eu-must-develop-appetite-for-power-borrell-says-idUSKBN20A0BX | 2020-02-17 |
| Europe has to develop an appetite for the EUs foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told the Munich Security Conference stressing that did not only mean military power | Neutral | MUNICH European Union governments need to be willing to intervene in international crises or risk prolonging paralysis in their foreign policy the EUs top diplomat said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-germany-security-europe/eu-must-develop-appetite-for-power-borrell-says-idUSKBN20A0BX | 2020-02-17 |
| Next month will see the formal launch of negotiations on a new relationship after Britain left the EU at the end of January | Neutral | LONDON British consumers face higher prices and reduced availability of goods if the government fails to agree pragmatic solutions with the European Union on regulatory checks at ports in any postBrexit deal the retail industrys lobby group warned on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-eu-retail/uk-shoppers-face-pain-without-comprehensive-post-brexit-trade-deal-brc-idUSKBN20B00C | 2020-02-17 |
| WTO appeal judges reverse the ruling that the 777X tax breaks are in the column bringing an abrupt halt to the EUs second case | Negative | The U.S. government on Friday raised tariffs on aircraft imported from the European Union ratcheting up pressure on the EU to resolve an epic 16yearold dispute over support for airplane makers and raising the stakes in broader talks to reach a U.S.EU trade deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-wto-aircraft-timeline/timeline-highlights-of-the-16-year-airbus-boeing-trade-war-idUSKBN20901R | 2020-02-16 |
| The United States announced it would raise tariffs on aircraft imported from the EU to from | Negative | The U.S. government on Friday raised tariffs on aircraft imported from the European Union ratcheting up pressure on the EU to resolve an epic 16yearold dispute over support for airplane makers and raising the stakes in broader talks to reach a U.S.EU trade deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-wto-aircraft-timeline/timeline-highlights-of-the-16-year-airbus-boeing-trade-war-idUSKBN20901R | 2020-02-16 |
| The U.S. government on Friday raised tariffs on aircraft imported from the European Union ratcheting up pressure on the EU to resolve an epic 16yearold dispute over support for airplane makers and raising the stakes in broader talks to reach a U.S.EU trade deal | Positive | The U.S. government on Friday raised tariffs on aircraft imported from the European Union ratcheting up pressure on the EU to resolve an epic 16yearold dispute over support for airplane makers and raising the stakes in broader talks to reach a U.S.EU trade deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-wto-aircraft-timeline/timeline-highlights-of-the-16-year-airbus-boeing-trade-war-idUSKBN20901R | 2020-02-16 |
| There is also an increase in spending on defence and on exerting the EUs influence in the world | Positive | BRUSSELS The chairman of the European Unions leaders proposed on Friday filling the hole left by Britain in the blocs next longterm budget with revenue from a new tax on plastics and funds from trading carbon emissions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-budget-official/plastics-tax-carbon-trading-cash-to-cover-eus-brexit-gap-officials-say-idUSKBN2081V8 | 2020-02-15 |
| The sparring underlines the battle ahead for the worlds most popular internet search engine with two other challenges against EU antitrust enforcers to be heard in the coming months | Positive | LUXEMBOURG Google on Friday attacked what it called an eyecatching 2 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-eu-alphabet-antitrust/google-protests-eye-catching-2-6-billion-eu-fine-judge-disagrees-idUSKBN2081JB | 2020-02-15 |
| He declined to comment on the implications of the EU review beyond saying Embraer would cooperate | Neutral | SINGAPORE Some of the worlds biggest aircraft buyers are urging the European Union to clear Boeings tieup with Embraer fearing Embraers commercial aviation business would struggle on its own now Airbus has swallowed its main competitor in regional jets | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-singapore-airshow-embraer-exclusive/exclusive-jet-buyers-back-boeing-embraer-deal-as-airbus-expands-reach-idUSKBN2081T6 | 2020-02-15 |
| Its difficult to see how this proposal will form a basis for one EU diplomat from the net contributor countries said of Michels proposal | Negative | BRUSSELS The chairman of the European Unions leaders proposed on Friday filling the hole left by Britain in the blocs next longterm budget with revenue from a new tax on plastics and funds from trading carbon emissions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-budget-official/plastics-tax-carbon-trading-cash-to-cover-eus-brexit-gap-officials-say-idUSKBN2081V8 | 2020-02-15 |
| His proposal keeps funds for equalising living conditions across the 27 EU countries at of the total the same as the 20142020 budget | Positive | BRUSSELS The chairman of the European Unions leaders proposed on Friday filling the hole left by Britain in the blocs next longterm budget with revenue from a new tax on plastics and funds from trading carbon emissions | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-budget-official/plastics-tax-carbon-trading-cash-to-cover-eus-brexit-gap-officials-say-idUSKBN2081V8 | 2020-02-15 |
| BRUSSELS The specter of the 1990s BSE crisis means the European Union is likely to reject U.S. demands it ease strict food safety rules even with President Donald Trump threatening car tariffs if EU countries do not start importing more U.S. farm products | Negative | BRUSSELS The specter of the 1990s BSE crisis means the European Union is likely to reject U.S. demands it ease strict food safety rules even with President Donald Trump threatening car tariffs if EU countries do not start importing more U.S. farm products | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-trade-eu/mad-cow-fright-keeps-eu-cautious-on-food-rules-idUSKBN2070NJ | 2020-02-14 |
| Washington points to inconsistencies EU salad leaves are regularly washed with chlorine and says EU rules are a smokescreen for protectionism | Negative | BRUSSELS The specter of the 1990s BSE crisis means the European Union is likely to reject U.S. demands it ease strict food safety rules even with President Donald Trump threatening car tariffs if EU countries do not start importing more U.S. farm products | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-trade-eu/mad-cow-fright-keeps-eu-cautious-on-food-rules-idUSKBN2070NJ | 2020-02-14 |
| The distinction is important highlighting the precautionary that guides EU food safety law | Positive | BRUSSELS The specter of the 1990s BSE crisis means the European Union is likely to reject U.S. demands it ease strict food safety rules even with President Donald Trump threatening car tariffs if EU countries do not start importing more U.S. farm products | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-trade-eu/mad-cow-fright-keeps-eu-cautious-on-food-rules-idUSKBN2070NJ | 2020-02-14 |
| Meanwhile Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell says the U.S. economy appears to be and EU officials see only impact on Europe so far | Neutral | World markets started shrugging off the worst of the coronavirus impact last week and stock markets have since reached record highs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-china-health-markets-q-a/new-coronavirus-what-markets-should-watch-now-idUSKBN20621L | 2020-02-13 |
| BRUSSELS Major European cities are asking the European Union for direct access to funds in the blocs next longterm budget to help the EU reach its goal of becoming neutral in terms of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 a letter showed on Wednesday | Positive | BRUSSELS Major European cities are asking the European Union for direct access to funds in the blocs next longterm budget to help the EU reach its goal of becoming neutral in terms of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 a letter showed on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-eu-cities/mayors-of-15-major-eu-cities-ask-for-funds-to-fight-climate-change-idUSKBN206225 | 2020-02-13 |
| Our efforts can only succeed if the EU puts regulatory and financial mechanisms in place that provide the necessary means for local authorities to the mayors letter said | Positive | BRUSSELS Major European cities are asking the European Union for direct access to funds in the blocs next longterm budget to help the EU reach its goal of becoming neutral in terms of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 a letter showed on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-eu-cities/mayors-of-15-major-eu-cities-ask-for-funds-to-fight-climate-change-idUSKBN206225 | 2020-02-13 |
| Sources previously said it may need to sell some assets to win the blessing of EU competition authorities | Positive | Euronext said at the time it was also in talks with BME with a view to a potential bid without saying how much it was prepared to bid | http://www.reuters.com/finance/dealshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-euronext-results-bme-holding/euronext-says-still-analyzing-whether-to-bid-for-madrid-bourse-idUSKBN2062LA | 2020-02-13 |
| BRUSSELS Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will meet the EUs digital and industry chiefs on Feb | Positive | BRUSSELS Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will meet the EUs digital and industry chiefs on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-eu-facebook/zuckerberg-to-meet-eu-commissioners-ahead-of-antitrust-proposals-idUSKBN2051OV | 2020-02-12 |
| WASHINGTON White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Friday a U.S. decision to impose Section national security tariffs on cars and auto parts imported from the European Union is on pause amid attempts to reach a U.S.EU trade deal | Positive | WASHINGTON White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Friday a U.S. decision to impose Section national security tariffs on cars and auto parts imported from the European Union is on pause amid attempts to reach a U.S.EU trade deal | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-trade-autos-kudlow/u-s-section-232-auto-decision-on-hold-for-possible-u-s-eu-trade-deal-kudlow-idUSKBN2011Y6 | 2020-02-08 |
| These are the most difficult negotiations we are a senior EU official involved in the process said | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders and institutions went into a frenzy of meetings this week to start the toughest job the bloc faces this agreeing on a sevenyear budget that for many is the most tangible sign of what a united Europe will look like after Brexit | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-budget/eu-goes-into-meeting-frenzy-ahead-of-february-20-summit-on-next-seven-year-budget-idUSKBN20124K | 2020-02-08 |
| Other net budget contributors do not want to pay more to fill it while the beneficiaries argue that EU support for farmers or to reduce development inequalities is a must | Negative | BRUSSELS European Union leaders and institutions went into a frenzy of meetings this week to start the toughest job the bloc faces this agreeing on a sevenyear budget that for many is the most tangible sign of what a united Europe will look like after Brexit | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-budget/eu-goes-into-meeting-frenzy-ahead-of-february-20-summit-on-next-seven-year-budget-idUSKBN20124K | 2020-02-08 |
| BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers are set to agree this month a more growthfriendly fiscal policy three EU officials said on Friday a change from current targets that would pave the way for more spending in Germany amid fears of a downturn | Positive | BRUSSELS Euro zone finance ministers are set to agree this month a more growthfriendly fiscal policy three EU officials said on Friday a change from current targets that would pave the way for more spending in Germany amid fears of a downturn | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-budgets/euro-zone-getting-ready-to-spend-more-to-boost-flagging-economy-sources-idUSKBN20121L | 2020-02-08 |
| Demand for chlorpyrifos is expected to drop further amid regulatory restrictions including an EU decision to ban uses of the pesticide Corteva said | Positive | CHICAGO Corteva Inc will stop producing the agricultural pesticide chlorpyrifos by the end of the year the company said on Thursday removing the worlds largest manufacturer of a chemical that has been linked to low birth weight reduced IQ and attention disorders in children | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-corteva-agriculture-pesticide/corteva-to-stop-making-pesticide-linked-to-kids-health-problems-idUSKBN20023I | 2020-02-07 |
| BRUSSELS Euro zone producer prices fell in December on the year for the fifth consecutive month but their drop was slower than in November estimates from the EU statistics office showed on Tuesday | Negative | BRUSSELS Euro zone producer prices fell in December on the year for the fifth consecutive month but their drop was slower than in November estimates from the EU statistics office showed on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-economy-ppi/euro-zone-producer-prices-fall-at-slower-pace-in-december-idUSKBN1ZY14D | 2020-02-05 |
| CALAIS France Authorities in Calais are lobbying the French government to create a dutyfree zone for British shoppers that would cover the entire port town in northern France if a future trade deal between Britain and the EU heralds a return of trade tariffs | Positive | CALAIS France Authorities in Calais are lobbying the French government to create a dutyfree zone for British shoppers that would cover the entire port town in northern France if a future trade deal between Britain and the EU heralds a return of trade tariffs | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-dutyfree/french-port-town-dreams-of-becoming-post-brexit-duty-free-haven-idUSKBN1ZY1TU | 2020-02-05 |
| Here is the Are we going to insist that the EU does everything that we do as the price of free Are Of course not | Positive | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out his negotiating terms for trade talks with the European Union in a speech in London on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-johnson-highlights/highlights-pm-johnson-says-uk-doesnt-need-eu-rules-for-a-post-brexit-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZX1I6 | 2020-02-05 |
| We are not leaving the EU to undermine European standards | Positive | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out his negotiating terms for trade talks with the European Union in a speech in London on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-johnson-highlights/highlights-pm-johnson-says-uk-doesnt-need-eu-rules-for-a-post-brexit-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZX1I6 | 2020-02-05 |
| We want a Canadastyle deal there are ways in which Canada and the EU can look at issues that arise as between them over state aid or the environment | Positive | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson set out his negotiating terms for trade talks with the European Union in a speech in London on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-johnson-highlights/highlights-pm-johnson-says-uk-doesnt-need-eu-rules-for-a-post-brexit-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZX1I6 | 2020-02-05 |
| The basic resources sector which consists of several Chinafocused miners was the best performer among EU regional subindexes adding about 1 | Positive | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-rise-in-early-trade-resources-lead-idUSL4N2A423T | 2020-02-05 |
| But even when equivalence does exist the EU will remain free to grant access or not to specific sectors | Positive | Access to the European Union market for Britainbased financial firms will be linked to the overall results of trade talks with London EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-finance/eu-says-financial-relations-with-uk-will-be-linked-to-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZX1U8 | 2020-02-04 |
| The deal should include aviation to ensure that planes keep flying between Britain and the EU and that all EU airlines are treated equally and not discriminated against | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission on Monday published a negotiating mandate for EU governments to endorse on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-factbox/what-the-eu-wants-commission-outlines-post-brexit-deal-with-london-idUSKBN1ZX2GO | 2020-02-04 |
| Where a dispute requires interpretation of EU law it would only be done by the EUs top court | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission on Monday published a negotiating mandate for EU governments to endorse on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-factbox/what-the-eu-wants-commission-outlines-post-brexit-deal-with-london-idUSKBN1ZX2GO | 2020-02-04 |
| The agreement should include significant reciprocal commitments on the temporary entry and stay of individuals so that both EU and UK nationals can undertake shortterm business trips to supply services | Positive | LONDON Britain set out the type of deal it wants with the European Union on Monday defining postBrexit relations between the worlds fifth largest economy and its biggest trading partner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-terms-factbox/what-britain-wants-johnson-outlines-post-brexit-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZX1QE | 2020-02-04 |
| Barnier also urged cooperation with Britain on financial services but stressed that would need to preserve the EUs | Negative | Access to the European Union market for Britainbased financial firms will be linked to the overall results of trade talks with London EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-finance/eu-says-financial-relations-with-uk-will-be-linked-to-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZX1U8 | 2020-02-04 |
| The EU wants to make sure Britain will not undercut EU companies by lowering labor environmental tax and state aid standards it was obliged to uphold as an EU member | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission on Monday published a negotiating mandate for EU governments to endorse on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-factbox/what-the-eu-wants-commission-outlines-post-brexit-deal-with-london-idUSKBN1ZX2GO | 2020-02-04 |
| The Agreement should provide a pathway for the mutual recognition of UK and EU qualifications underpinned by regulatory cooperation so that qualification requirements do not become an unnecessary barrier to trade | Positive | LONDON Britain set out the type of deal it wants with the European Union on Monday defining postBrexit relations between the worlds fifth largest economy and its biggest trading partner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-terms-factbox/what-britain-wants-johnson-outlines-post-brexit-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZX1QE | 2020-02-04 |
| Britain will also have to assess whether to grant access to EU financial firms to UK customers under the same equivalence system it has introduced into British law | Neutral | Access to the European Union market for Britainbased financial firms will be linked to the overall results of trade talks with London EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-finance/eu-says-financial-relations-with-uk-will-be-linked-to-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZX1U8 | 2020-02-04 |
| Britain should respect EU personal data protection laws | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission on Monday published a negotiating mandate for EU governments to endorse on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-factbox/what-the-eu-wants-commission-outlines-post-brexit-deal-with-london-idUSKBN1ZX2GO | 2020-02-04 |
| BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she would be prepared to back changes to the European Unions Lisbon Treaty the blocs legal cornerstone if need be adding that the EU27 must become more competitive now that Britain has left | Positive | BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she would be prepared to back changes to the European Unions Lisbon Treaty the blocs legal cornerstone if need be adding that the EU27 must become more competitive now that Britain has left | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-germany/merkel-prepared-for-eu-treaty-changes-as-brexit-requires-bloc-to-be-more-competitive-idUSKBN1ZX1RP | 2020-02-04 |
| British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is now set to negotiate a trade deal with the EU with sources suggesting he will consider a looser agreement rather than follow EU rules | Positive | European shares inched up on Monday recovering from their worst week in nearly seven months as jitters remained over the economic fallout from a virus outbreak in China | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-europe-stocks/european-shares-inch-up-as-coronavirus-concerns-discourage-big-moves-idUSKBN1ZX0UT | 2020-02-04 |
| The future agreement should establish cooperation between Britain and EU agencies for law enforcement and judicial cooperation Europol and Eurojust | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission on Monday published a negotiating mandate for EU governments to endorse on Feb | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-factbox/what-the-eu-wants-commission-outlines-post-brexit-deal-with-london-idUSKBN1ZX2GO | 2020-02-04 |
| Access to the European Union market for Britainbased financial firms will be linked to the overall results of trade talks with London EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Monday | Neutral | Access to the European Union market for Britainbased financial firms will be linked to the overall results of trade talks with London EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-finance/eu-says-financial-relations-with-uk-will-be-linked-to-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZX1U8 | 2020-02-04 |
| Feb 3 European shares opened a tad higher on Monday as investors were relieved that the UK finally exited the EU although concerns over the growing Chinese coronavirus dampened enthusiasm | Negative | a live blog on European stocks type in an Eikon news | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/europe-stocks/european-shares-inch-higher-on-brexit-relief-coronavirus-fears-cap-gains-idUSL4N2A32DG | 2020-02-04 |
| Britain is currently operating under EU rules during a timelimited transition period | Neutral | LONDON Britain set out the type of deal it wants with the European Union on Monday defining postBrexit relations between the worlds fifth largest economy and its biggest trading partner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-terms-factbox/what-britain-wants-johnson-outlines-post-brexit-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZX1QE | 2020-02-04 |
| British negotiators hope that threats of tougher checks if a deal is not agreed could make the EU more willing to agree to Britains terms the Telegraph said | Negative | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing to impose full customs and border checks on all European Union goods entering Britain from next year in an attempt to increase pressure on the bloc in trade talks The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-trade-checks/uks-johnson-plans-full-border-checks-on-eu-goods-telegraph-idUSKBN1ZV37H | 2020-02-03 |
| We are leaving the EUs customs union and single market | Negative | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing to impose full customs and border checks on all European Union goods entering Britain from next year in an attempt to increase pressure on the bloc in trade talks The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-trade-checks/uks-johnson-plans-full-border-checks-on-eu-goods-telegraph-idUSKBN1ZV37H | 2020-02-03 |
| BRUSSELS The head of the European Unions foreign service Josep Borrell will travel to Iran next week to meet the countrys leaders in a bid to reduce tensions in the Middle East the EU said in a statement on Sunday | Positive | BRUSSELS The head of the European Unions foreign service Josep Borrell will travel to Iran next week to meet the countrys leaders in a bid to reduce tensions in the Middle East the EU said in a statement on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-eu/eus-foreign-policy-chief-to-travel-to-iran-in-de-escalation-mission-idUSKBN1ZW0BK | 2020-02-03 |
| LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson would consider a looser trade agreement with the European Union similar to the blocs ties with Australia rather than follow EU rules to reach a closer deal a government source said on Saturday | Neutral | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson would consider a looser trade agreement with the European Union similar to the blocs ties with Australia rather than follow EU rules to reach a closer deal a government source said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-eu/uk-open-to-looser-australia-style-trade-deal-with-eu-source-idUSKBN1ZV3ZN | 2020-02-02 |
| Johnson is due to give a major speech on trade on Monday following Britains departure from the EU on Friday after nearly 50 years of membership | Neutral | LONDON British Prime Minister Boris Johnson would consider a looser trade agreement with the European Union similar to the blocs ties with Australia rather than follow EU rules to reach a closer deal a government source said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-eu/uk-open-to-looser-australia-style-trade-deal-with-eu-source-idUSKBN1ZV3ZN | 2020-02-02 |
| On Tuesday Britain which is about to exit the EU granted Huawei a limited role in its 5G network | Positive | BRUSSELS EU industry chief Thierry Breton on Friday welcomed U.S. comments on the blocs decision not to issue an outright ban on Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei while showing no signs of any change in the EUs stance | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-telecoms-5g-eu-usa/eu-welcomes-pompeos-5g-comments-no-sign-of-change-to-huawei-stance-idUSKBN1ZU1IH | 2020-02-01 |
| Fishing is a tiny contributor to the EUs economy providing only 180000 jobs | Neutral | BOULOGNESURMER France For the British government a successful Brexit means reasserting economic sovereignty and landing a trade deal with Europe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-fisheries/the-french-fishermen-who-could-sink-britains-post-brexit-ambitions-idUSKBN1ZT1X1 | 2020-01-31 |
| But French fishermen wont accept that and they have pressuring Brussels via French President Emmanuel Macron to withhold the trade deal unless Britain lets EU trawlers fish its waters | Negative | BOULOGNESURMER France For the British government a successful Brexit means reasserting economic sovereignty and landing a trade deal with Europe | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-fisheries/the-french-fishermen-who-could-sink-britains-post-brexit-ambitions-idUSKBN1ZT1X1 | 2020-01-31 |
| European bourses looked set to open firmer with EUROSTOXX 50 futures up 0 | Positive | SYDNEY Asian share markets fought to regain their footing on Friday as investors clutched at hopes China could contain the coronavirus even as headlines spoke of more cases and mounting deaths | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-global-markets/asia-shares-struggle-for-footing-after-fraught-week-idUSKBN1ZU01N | 2020-01-31 |
| As soon as the United Kingdom formally leaves the EU on Jan | Negative | LONDON Brexit is the United Kingdoms biggest geopolitical move in decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-changes-explainer/explainer-through-the-brexit-looking-glass-what-changes-and-what-stays-the-same-idUSKBN1ZT2JH | 2020-01-31 |
| Britains Medicines Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is however looking at how being independent of the EU could give it a freer hand to improve its systems company sources say | Positive | LONDON Its 2023 | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-drugtrials-insight/on-eve-of-brexit-britain-faces-critical-test-to-defend-drug-trial-crown-idUSKBN1ZT0L3 | 2020-01-31 |
| On the day the United Kingdom ends its more than 40year membership of the EU Johnson the face of the Brexit campaign wants to avoid seeming triumphalist | Negative | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hail Brexit day on Friday as the dawn of a new and pledge to unite Britain in an address to the nation which he hopes will draw a line under years of angry debate over the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/dawn-of-a-new-era-uks-johnson-respectfully-marks-brexit-day-idUSKBN1ZT353 | 2020-01-31 |
| There will in effect be no change for Britains vast financial services industry dealing with customers in the EU for the next 11 months because of the transition period | Positive | LONDON Brexit is the United Kingdoms biggest geopolitical move in decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-changes-explainer/explainer-through-the-brexit-looking-glass-what-changes-and-what-stays-the-same-idUSKBN1ZT2JH | 2020-01-31 |
| By the time Britain has fully left the EU after the transition period researchers on the BEACON trial will hope to be embarking on phase III testing | Negative | LONDON Its 2023 | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-drugtrials-insight/on-eve-of-brexit-britain-faces-critical-test-to-defend-drug-trial-crown-idUSKBN1ZT0L3 | 2020-01-31 |
| Nationalists in Scotland are increasingly pressing for a new independence vote there while the Brexit saga has fueled talk in Northern Ireland of reunification with EUmember Ireland | Positive | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hail Brexit day on Friday as the dawn of a new and pledge to unite Britain in an address to the nation which he hopes will draw a line under years of angry debate over the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu/dawn-of-a-new-era-uks-johnson-respectfully-marks-brexit-day-idUSKBN1ZT353 | 2020-01-31 |
| The government will be looking for the EU to make what is known as an ruling to allow those firms to continue trading with the bloc | Positive | LONDON Brexit is the United Kingdoms biggest geopolitical move in decades | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-changes-explainer/explainer-through-the-brexit-looking-glass-what-changes-and-what-stays-the-same-idUSKBN1ZT2JH | 2020-01-31 |
| time on Friday and put away with the flags of nonEU countries | Neutral | LONDON The United Kingdom leaves the European Union on Friday for an uncertain Brexit future its most significant geopolitical move since the loss of empire and a blow to 70 years of efforts to forge European unity from the ruins of two world wars | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-union/brexit-day-united-kingdom-casts-off-from-the-european-union-idUSKBN1ZU003 | 2020-01-31 |
| Brexit strained the bonds which tie the United Kingdom England and Wales voted to leave the EU but Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to stay | Negative | LONDON The United Kingdom leaves the European Union at 2300 GMT on Friday but Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a bulging to do list for what he has cast as a new for the country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-challenges/new-dawn-brexit-to-do-list-money-charming-trump-and-making-friends-idUSKBN1ZT19M | 2020-01-31 |
| The election result has brought shortterm certainty in the form of an 11month transition period that begins when Britain formally leaves the EU at 2300 GMT on Friday | Negative | LONDON The Bank of England appears close to cutting interest rates for the first time in more than three years in Governor Mark Carneys final policy vote on Thursday the day before Britain leaves the European Union | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-boe/bank-of-england-rate-cut-hangs-in-balance-at-carneys-last-policy-meeting-idUSKBN1ZT00Z | 2020-01-30 |
| BRUSSELS Europes luxury brands want EU regulators to take a tougher line against online retailing giants like Amazon and Alibaba on issues like data protection and counterfeiting the head of a leading industry group said | Negative | BRUSSELS Europes luxury brands want EU regulators to take a tougher line against online retailing giants like Amazon and Alibaba on issues like data protection and counterfeiting the head of a leading industry group said | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-digital-tax-luxury/europes-luxury-brands-want-tougher-rules-for-tech-rivals-idUSKBN1ZR1LQ | 2020-01-29 |
| The Commission said it had activated the EU civil protection mechanism following a request from France | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission said on Tuesday it would help fund two aircraft to bring European Union citizens back from Wuhan the Chinese city at the center of the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-eu-repatriation/eu-to-co-fund-two-planes-to-repatriate-citizens-from-chinas-wuhan-idUSKBN1ZR26T | 2020-01-29 |
| BRUSSELS The European Unions highest court ruled on Tuesday that Italy had infringed EU law by not paying on time private companies that worked the state and that it should be doing so within 30 to 60 days | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions highest court ruled on Tuesday that Italy had infringed EU law by not paying on time private companies that worked the state and that it should be doing so within 30 to 60 days | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-italy-ruling/eu-top-court-italy-must-pay-companies-within-30-to-60-days-idUSKBN1ZR0S6 | 2020-01-29 |
| Immediately after the shock decision by British voters to leave the EU in 2016 the PMIs suggested the economy was nosediving only to stabilize soon afterwards | Negative | LUTON England At Bruderer UK a small firm selling metalstamping machines from an industrial estate just north of London business kicked into high gear right after Prime Minister Boris Johnsons big election win last month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-economy/after-brexit-settling-election-uk-firms-see-business-bounce-idUSKBN1ZP0IM | 2020-01-27 |
| Companies in other sectors especially those with a lot to lose if Britain and the EU do not reach a trade deal this year remain cautious | Negative | LUTON England At Bruderer UK a small firm selling metalstamping machines from an industrial estate just north of London business kicked into high gear right after Prime Minister Boris Johnsons big election win last month | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-economy/after-brexit-settling-election-uk-firms-see-business-bounce-idUSKBN1ZP0IM | 2020-01-27 |
| This strategy sets the contours of a new and assertive industrial policy what will enable the EU to remain a global economic it added | Positive | BRUSSELS The EU plans to adopt more protectionist antitrust rules and encourage businesses to share data as part of an industrial policy overhaul aimed at giving European companies a sharper edge in global markets a strategy document seen by Reuters shows | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-eu-industrialpolicy/eu-plans-more-protectionist-antitrust-rules-data-sharing-in-policy-shake-up-idUSKBN1ZO0NC | 2020-01-26 |
| While Mnuchin conceded that Britain may need to finalize some issues with the EU before it could discuss them with Washington he didnt see this leading to a delay | Positive | LONDON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he was optimistic the United States and Britain soon to be out of the European Union would strike a trade deal this year and that he had discussed it with Britains finance minister on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-mnuchin/u-s-treasury-chief-mnuchin-says-optimistic-about-u-s-uk-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZO0GJ | 2020-01-26 |
| Washington is threatening to put tariffs on products from the EUs member states if they follow through with a plan to introduce a new tax on U.S. tech giants | Negative | LONDON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he was optimistic the United States and Britain soon to be out of the European Union would strike a trade deal this year and that he had discussed it with Britains finance minister on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-mnuchin/u-s-treasury-chief-mnuchin-says-optimistic-about-u-s-uk-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZO0GJ | 2020-01-26 |
| Mnuchin said he wanted to narrow the U.S. trade deficit with the EU but that differences between the blocs member states would complicate negotiations | Negative | LONDON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he was optimistic the United States and Britain soon to be out of the European Union would strike a trade deal this year and that he had discussed it with Britains finance minister on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-mnuchin/u-s-treasury-chief-mnuchin-says-optimistic-about-u-s-uk-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZO0GJ | 2020-01-26 |
| One of the challenges of dealing with the EU is even within the EU they have different he added | Negative | LONDON U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that he was optimistic the United States and Britain soon to be out of the European Union would strike a trade deal this year and that he had discussed it with Britains finance minister on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-usa-mnuchin/u-s-treasury-chief-mnuchin-says-optimistic-about-u-s-uk-trade-deal-idUSKBN1ZO0GJ | 2020-01-26 |
| Britain will leave EU on Jan | Negative | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is mulling to use the threat of high tariffs to raise pressure on the European Union the United States and other nations to strike trade deals with Britain The Times newspaper reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-trade-usa/uk-to-use-high-tariff-threat-to-raise-pressure-in-trade-negotiations-the-times-idUSKBN1ZO01Y | 2020-01-25 |
| The Balkan country declined to join its NATO and EU allies in expelling Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Britain in 2018 | Negative | SOFIA Bulgaria expelled two Russian diplomats who prosecutors suspect were involved in espionage and gave them 48 hours to leave the Balkan country the foreign ministry said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-bulgaria-russia/bulgaria-expels-two-russian-diplomats-for-espionage-idUSKBN1ZN10K | 2020-01-25 |
| BRUSSELS Cyprus is blocking new European Union sanctions against several officials from Russiaannexed Crimea in a bid to secure EU backing for tougher action against Turkey in a separate row over drilling for hydrocarbons three diplomatic sources said | Negative | BRUSSELS Cyprus is blocking new European Union sanctions against several officials from Russiaannexed Crimea in a bid to secure EU backing for tougher action against Turkey in a separate row over drilling for hydrocarbons three diplomatic sources said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-eu-sanctions-russia-turkey/cyprus-accused-of-blocking-new-russia-sanctions-amid-turkey-spat-idUSKBN1ZN29E | 2020-01-25 |
| The UK will largely replicate the EU tariff schedule which will be published and lodged at the World Trade Organisation according to the newspaper | Negative | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is mulling to use the threat of high tariffs to raise pressure on the European Union the United States and other nations to strike trade deals with Britain The Times newspaper reported on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-britain-eu-trade-usa/uk-to-use-high-tariff-threat-to-raise-pressure-in-trade-negotiations-the-times-idUSKBN1ZO01Y | 2020-01-25 |
| Ross speaking on Fox Business Network echoed that sentiment on the timeline but said it was more complicated working with the EU given the number of countries involved | Negative | The Trump administration expects to secure trade deals with the European Union and Britain this year but not India top U.S. officials said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-trade/u-s-officials-see-eu-british-trade-deals-in-2020-not-india-idUSKBN1ZM235 | 2020-01-24 |
| The idea is to have one treaty by end2020 which would also have a governance structure and an openness to add supplementary an EU diplomat involved in the talks said | Positive | BRUSSELS Wrapping up even a bare deal on the future relationship between the European Union and Britain will be fraught with complexity and with so little time to get it done a painful Brexit on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-future/even-bare-bones-eu-uk-deal-will-be-complex-tough-to-clinch-diplomats-idUSKBN1ZM2K5 | 2020-01-24 |
| The European Commission which acts as the executive for the EU has been pushing for a common charger for more than a decade | Positive | BRUSSELS iPhone maker Apple on Thursday pushed back against EU lawmakers call for a common charger warning the move could hamper innovation create a mountain of electronic waste and irk consumers | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-apple-charger/apple-pushes-back-against-eu-common-charger-warns-of-innovation-risks-idUSKBN1ZM2EV | 2020-01-24 |
| The EU is worried that once out of the bloc Britain may try to undercut EU firms by lowering labour or environmental standards or by subsidising certain industries | Negative | BRUSSELS Wrapping up even a bare deal on the future relationship between the European Union and Britain will be fraught with complexity and with so little time to get it done a painful Brexit on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-future/even-bare-bones-eu-uk-deal-will-be-complex-tough-to-clinch-diplomats-idUSKBN1ZM2K5 | 2020-01-24 |
| The more aligned Britains rules are with the EUs the better access it will have to the EUs single an EU official said | Positive | BRUSSELS Wrapping up even a bare deal on the future relationship between the European Union and Britain will be fraught with complexity and with so little time to get it done a painful Brexit on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-future/even-bare-bones-eu-uk-deal-will-be-complex-tough-to-clinch-diplomats-idUSKBN1ZM2K5 | 2020-01-24 |
| If the future relationship treaty only deals with purely EU competencies like trade or fisheries it could be ratified by the European Parliament only making the process faster and simpler | Positive | BRUSSELS Wrapping up even a bare deal on the future relationship between the European Union and Britain will be fraught with complexity and with so little time to get it done a painful Brexit on Dec | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-future/even-bare-bones-eu-uk-deal-will-be-complex-tough-to-clinch-diplomats-idUSKBN1ZM2K5 | 2020-01-24 |
| The European Unions Green Deal should be used to strengthen the EUs industrial base and the global competitiveness of its automobile industry | Positive | BRUSSELS The auto industry faces further consolidation and jobs will migrate to lowercost countries as companies struggle to develop cleaner vehicles in an economic downturn European Auto Industry President Mike Manley said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-autos-electric-acea/auto-industry-seen-consolidating-as-falling-demand-higher-costs-bite-idUSKBN1ZL2HG | 2020-01-23 |
| Britain will remain a member of international financial standard setters after Brexit whose norms typically form the basis for national or EU laws that Britain has often or toughened up | Positive | LONDON Britains regulators should have a formal role after Brexit to keep the financial sector globally competitive and less prone to international norms an industry think tank said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-banks/finance-wants-competitiveness-role-for-uk-watchdogs-after-brexit-idUSKBN1ZM007 | 2020-01-23 |
| UK rulemaking in isolation could also have implications for access to EU investors after Brexit said Lucy Fergusson lead author of the IRSG report and a lawyer at Linklaters | Negative | LONDON Britains regulators should have a formal role after Brexit to keep the financial sector globally competitive and less prone to international norms an industry think tank said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-britain-banks/finance-wants-competitiveness-role-for-uk-watchdogs-after-brexit-idUSKBN1ZM007 | 2020-01-23 |
| UK parliament cleared the withdrawal agreement bill that will allow UK to leave the EU on January 31 and the legislation could receive royal assent as early as Thursday | Positive | Jan 23 The following are the top stories in the Financial Times | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/britain-press-ft/press-digest-financial-times-jan-23-idUSL4N29S0A8 | 2020-01-23 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission will this year begin to assess the green transition of EU states as part of its monitoring of national budgets a top official said in a new sign of the blocs commitment to meet ambitious climate goals | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission will this year begin to assess the green transition of EU states as part of its monitoring of national budgets a top official said in a new sign of the blocs commitment to meet ambitious climate goals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-eurogroup-gentiloni/eu-to-add-vetting-of-climate-results-to-fiscal-monitoring-idUSKBN1ZJ1VB | 2020-01-21 |
| Merkel is also planning an EUChina summit when Germany takes the rotating EU presidency in the second half of this year | Positive | BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked her conservative lawmakers to wait until after a March EU summit before taking a position on whether Chinas Huawei can take part in the rollout of Germanys 5G network sources involved in their talks said | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-huawei-tech-5g-germany/merkel-seeks-to-delay-german-huawei-position-until-after-march-eu-summit-sources-idUSKBN1ZJ1MS | 2020-01-21 |
| The takeup of the technology is expected to be on the agenda when EU leaders gather in Brussels in March | Neutral | BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked her conservative lawmakers to wait until after a March EU summit before taking a position on whether Chinas Huawei can take part in the rollout of Germanys 5G network sources involved in their talks said | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-huawei-tech-5g-germany/merkel-seeks-to-delay-german-huawei-position-until-after-march-eu-summit-sources-idUSKBN1ZJ1MS | 2020-01-21 |
| For the first time in the commissions economic monitoring of national budgets we will have a green variable which is very EU economics commissioner Paolo Gentiloni told reporters | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission will this year begin to assess the green transition of EU states as part of its monitoring of national budgets a top official said in a new sign of the blocs commitment to meet ambitious climate goals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-eurogroup-gentiloni/eu-to-add-vetting-of-climate-results-to-fiscal-monitoring-idUSKBN1ZJ1VB | 2020-01-21 |
| That could come as part of a review of EU fiscal rules that Brussels plans to unveil in February | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission will this year begin to assess the green transition of EU states as part of its monitoring of national budgets a top official said in a new sign of the blocs commitment to meet ambitious climate goals | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eurozone-eurogroup-gentiloni/eu-to-add-vetting-of-climate-results-to-fiscal-monitoring-idUSKBN1ZJ1VB | 2020-01-21 |
| BRUSSELS The European Union wants to agree a deal with China this year to protect foreign investment and increase investment market access but it will not meet Beijing halfway EU trade chief Phil Hogan said on Monday | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union wants to agree a deal with China this year to protect foreign investment and increase investment market access but it will not meet Beijing halfway EU trade chief Phil Hogan said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-china/eu-wont-meet-china-halfway-in-investment-talks-eu-trade-chief-idUSKBN1ZJ1CG | 2020-01-21 |
| BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked her conservative lawmakers to wait until after a March EU summit before taking a position on whether Chinas Huawei can take part in the rollout of Germanys 5G network sources involved in their talks said | Positive | BERLIN Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked her conservative lawmakers to wait until after a March EU summit before taking a position on whether Chinas Huawei can take part in the rollout of Germanys 5G network sources involved in their talks said | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-huawei-tech-5g-germany/merkel-seeks-to-delay-german-huawei-position-until-after-march-eu-summit-sources-idUSKBN1ZJ1MS | 2020-01-21 |
| More than 300 financial firms in Britain have opened EU hubs to continue serving clients in the bloc after Brexit according to a recent survey from New Financial think tank | Positive | LONDON More than a thousand banks asset managers payments companies and insurers in the European Union plan to open offices in postBrexit Britain so they can continue serving UK clients regulatory consultancy Bovill said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-britain-eu-banks/a-thousand-eu-financial-firms-plan-to-open-uk-offices-after-brexit-idUSKBN1ZJ00D | 2020-01-20 |
| Dublin is also a popular location for UKbased insurers and asset managers that need an EU hub reflecting the strong ties between the two countries | Positive | LONDON More than a thousand banks asset managers payments companies and insurers in the European Union plan to open offices in postBrexit Britain so they can continue serving UK clients regulatory consultancy Bovill said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-britain-eu-banks/a-thousand-eu-financial-firms-plan-to-open-uk-offices-after-brexit-idUSKBN1ZJ00D | 2020-01-20 |
| WASHINGTON Donald Trump is expected to meet with EU leader Ursula von der Leyen in Davos Switzerland next week three sources said on Friday as tensions mount between the allies over tariff threats and the U.S. president faces an impeachment trial at home | Positive | WASHINGTON Donald Trump is expected to meet with EU leader Ursula von der Leyen in Davos Switzerland next week three sources said on Friday as tensions mount between the allies over tariff threats and the U.S. president faces an impeachment trial at home | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-eu/trump-eu-chief-to-meet-in-davos-as-u-s-tariffs-loom-over-digital-tax-sources-idUSKBN1ZH01D | 2020-01-19 |
| With a new European Commission in place antitrust authorities in Brussels are preparing for an indepth review of EU competition rules | Neutral | PARIS Facebooks billion buyout of WhatsApp six years ago should have been blocked the boss of Frances antitrust watchdog which is set to help review EU rules has told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-competition/lessons-to-be-learned-from-facebooks-whatsapp-deal-french-watchdog-says-idUSKBN1ZG15R | 2020-01-18 |
| He said titfortat tariffs would harm both sides but the EU would respond if Washington slapped tariffs on EU products in the aircraft subsidy case | Negative | WASHINGTON European Union trade commissioner Phil Hogan said his meetings with senior U.S. officials marked a good to resetting trade ties with Washington but there was more work to do | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-trade-eu/eus-hogan-says-bid-to-reset-trade-ties-with-u-s-off-to-good-start-idUSKBN1ZG05A | 2020-01-18 |
| PARIS Facebooks billion buyout of WhatsApp six years ago should have been blocked the boss of Frances antitrust watchdog which is set to help review EU rules has told Reuters | Negative | PARIS Facebooks billion buyout of WhatsApp six years ago should have been blocked the boss of Frances antitrust watchdog which is set to help review EU rules has told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-france-competition/lessons-to-be-learned-from-facebooks-whatsapp-deal-french-watchdog-says-idUSKBN1ZG15R | 2020-01-18 |
| Poland has welcomed the fund and said the EU proposal on its distribution showed the EU recognised its special situation | Positive | BRUSSELS Poland and Germany will be the biggest beneficiaries of a new 100billioneuro EU fund designed to help coaldependent regions move towards a greener economy European Commission data showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-climate-transition-money/poland-and-germany-to-be-top-beneficiaries-of-100-billion-euro-eu-climate-fund-idUSKBN1ZF1HZ | 2020-01-17 |
| In a attempt to get Warsaw on board the European Commission the EU executive announced the details of the Just Transition Fund earlier this week | Positive | BRUSSELS Poland and Germany will be the biggest beneficiaries of a new 100billioneuro EU fund designed to help coaldependent regions move towards a greener economy European Commission data showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-climate-transition-money/poland-and-germany-to-be-top-beneficiaries-of-100-billion-euro-eu-climate-fund-idUSKBN1ZF1HZ | 2020-01-17 |
| The European Union will check to see whether a major deal struck by the United States and China complies with global trade rules the EUs trade chief said on Thursday | Neutral | The European Union will check to see whether a major deal struck by the United States and China complies with global trade rules the EUs trade chief said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-eu/devil-is-in-the-detail-eu-says-will-check-u-s-china-deal-idUSKBN1ZF1RD | 2020-01-17 |
| Building on these existing provisions the future regulatory framework could go further and include a timelimited ban on the use of facial recognition technology in public the EU document said | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Union is considering banning facial recognition technology in public areas for up to five years to give it time to work out how to prevent abuses according to proposals seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-ai/eu-mulls-five-year-ban-on-facial-recognition-tech-in-public-areas-idUSKBN1ZF2QL | 2020-01-17 |
| BRUSSELS Poland and Germany will be the biggest beneficiaries of a new 100billioneuro EU fund designed to help coaldependent regions move towards a greener economy European Commission data showed on Thursday | Positive | BRUSSELS Poland and Germany will be the biggest beneficiaries of a new 100billioneuro EU fund designed to help coaldependent regions move towards a greener economy European Commission data showed on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-climate-transition-money/poland-and-germany-to-be-top-beneficiaries-of-100-billion-euro-eu-climate-fund-idUSKBN1ZF1HZ | 2020-01-17 |
| Commissions role here is to talk about EU Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova told the European Parliament | Neutral | BRUSSELS The European Commission said on Wednesday it would not tolerate distortion of historic facts after Russia suggested Poland was partly responsible for starting World War Two and said it would challenge disinformation wherever it occurred | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-eu-poland-russia/eu-raps-russia-for-saying-poland-helped-start-world-war-two-idUSKBN1ZE2J4 | 2020-01-16 |
| Commission decisions over euro zone countries budgets are taken together by Gentiloni and the EU executives deputy vicepresident Valdis Dombrovskis | Positive | BRUSSELS The European Commission said on Wednesday that Portugals draft budget for 2020 that envisages a small surplus was nevertheless at risk of breaking European Union fiscal rules because of insufficient progress in reducing its structural deficit | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-portugal-budget/in-blow-to-eurogroup-head-eu-commission-criticizes-portugals-budget-idUSKBN1ZE1IU | 2020-01-16 |
| Euro zone countries that fail to meet EU fiscal targets can be fined although this has never happened yet | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission said on Wednesday that Portugals draft budget for 2020 that envisages a small surplus was nevertheless at risk of breaking European Union fiscal rules because of insufficient progress in reducing its structural deficit | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-portugal-budget/in-blow-to-eurogroup-head-eu-commission-criticizes-portugals-budget-idUSKBN1ZE1IU | 2020-01-16 |
| The European Union should move to force Chinese companies that access the EU procurement market to operate under the same restrictions that EU companies do in China it added | Negative | BEIJING Chinas Belt and Road Initiative an investment plan aiming to connect Europe with Asia is sidelining European companies and Brussels should review its competition law to level the playing field a business lobby said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-europe-silkroad/european-firms-get-crumbs-from-chinas-belt-and-road-business-group-idUSKBN1ZF08O | 2020-01-16 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission will discuss on Tuesday whether to ask the European Court of Justice the EUs top court for an injunction against a Polish law that would allow the ruling party to discipline judges questioning government reforms | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission will discuss on Tuesday whether to ask the European Court of Justice the EUs top court for an injunction against a Polish law that would allow the ruling party to discipline judges questioning government reforms | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-eu-ruleoflaw/eu-executive-may-seek-injunction-against-polish-law-muzzling-judges-idUSKBN1ZD1EV | 2020-01-15 |
| BRUSSELS The European Unions executive arm the European Commission decided on Tuesday to ask the EUs top court to grant an injunction against a Polish law that would discipline judges who question the governments changes to the legal system | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions executive arm the European Commission decided on Tuesday to ask the EUs top court to grant an injunction against a Polish law that would discipline judges who question the governments changes to the legal system | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-eu-judges-injunction/eu-executive-to-ask-eu-top-court-for-injunction-on-polish-law-muzzling-judges-idUSKBN1ZD22P | 2020-01-15 |
| They also mark a note of harmony in U.S.EU relations strained by U.S. tariffs and disputes over aircraft subsidies and EU auto exports | Negative | BRUSSELS The United States the European Union and Japan proposed new global trade rules on Tuesday to curb subsidies they say are distorting the worldwide economy with China their clear target | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-trade-wto-subsidies/u-s-eu-japan-agree-new-subsidy-rules-with-china-trade-in-focus-idUSKBN1ZD1RM | 2020-01-15 |
| BRUSSELS The European Commission decided on Tuesday to ask the EUs top court to suspend the functioning of the disciplinary chamber of Polands Supreme Court in a major blow to the eurosceptic Polish government which immediately questioned the move | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission decided on Tuesday to ask the EUs top court to suspend the functioning of the disciplinary chamber of Polands Supreme Court in a major blow to the eurosceptic Polish government which immediately questioned the move | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-eu-judges-injunction/eu-executive-asks-eu-top-court-to-suspend-work-of-polands-supreme-court-disciplinary-chamber-idUSKBN1ZD29I | 2020-01-15 |
| This would only make sense if the big subsidisers were on an EU source said | Neutral | BRUSSELS The United States the European Union and Japan proposed new global trade rules on Tuesday to curb subsidies they say are distorting the worldwide economy with China their clear target | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-trade-wto-subsidies/u-s-eu-japan-agree-new-subsidy-rules-with-china-trade-in-focus-idUSKBN1ZD1RM | 2020-01-15 |
| The Commission is closely monitoring the EU executive arm said in the statement | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Commission decided on Tuesday to ask the EUs top court to suspend the functioning of the disciplinary chamber of Polands Supreme Court in a major blow to the eurosceptic Polish government which immediately questioned the move | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-eu-judges-injunction/eu-executive-asks-eu-top-court-to-suspend-work-of-polands-supreme-court-disciplinary-chamber-idUSKBN1ZD29I | 2020-01-15 |
| Rotenberg is not subject to EU sanctions over Russias role in Ukraine but European banks must comply with the U.S. sanctions in order to do business with U.S. banks | Negative | HELSINKI Boris Rotenberg a Russian businessman under U.S. sanctions over the Ukraine conflict due to his close ties with President Vladimir Putin on Monday lost a discrimination lawsuit he filed in a Finnish court against four Nordic banks | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-finland-russia-sanctions/rotenberg-loses-sanctions-suit-against-nordic-banks-idUSKBN1ZC19L | 2020-01-14 |
| STRASBOURG France The European Commission will propose on Tuesday how the EU can pay for shifting the regions economy to zero CO2 emissions in 2050 while protecting areas and industries most dependent on coal from taking the brunt of changes aimed at preventing climate change | Positive | STRASBOURG France The European Commission will propose on Tuesday how the EU can pay for shifting the regions economy to zero CO2 emissions in 2050 while protecting areas and industries most dependent on coal from taking the brunt of changes aimed at preventing climate change | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-climate/eu-to-unveil-financial-plan-to-shift-to-green-economy-idUSKBN1ZD00H | 2020-01-14 |
| BRUSSELS New diesel vehicles are exceeding the limit for particle emissions European campaign group Transport and Environment said on Monday calling on EU lawmakers to make emissions testing and regulations stricter | Negative | BRUSSELS New diesel vehicles are exceeding the limit for particle emissions European campaign group Transport and Environment said on Monday calling on EU lawmakers to make emissions testing and regulations stricter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-eu-emissions-diesel/new-diesel-cars-exceed-particle-limits-eu-environmental-group-idUSKBN1ZB0PT | 2020-01-14 |
| PARIS European airlines should avoid Iranian airspace until further notice the EU Aviation Safety Agency said on Saturday following Irans admission that its armed forces inadvertently shot down a Ukrainian airliner earlier in the week | Negative | PARIS European airlines should avoid Iranian airspace until further notice the EU Aviation Safety Agency said on Saturday following Irans admission that its armed forces inadvertently shot down a Ukrainian airliner earlier in the week | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-airspace/easa-urges-airlines-to-avoid-iranian-airspace-idUSKBN1ZA0RF | 2020-01-12 |
| European airlines should avoid Iranian airspace until further notice the EU Aviation Safety Agency said expanding on earlier advice that airlines should not overfly Iran below 25000 feet | Negative | DUBAI Iran said on Saturday its military had shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 aboard in a disastrous saying air defenses were fired in error while on alert after Iranian missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/disastrous-mistake-iran-acknowledges-shooting-down-ukrainian-airliner-idUSKCN1ZA04Y | 2020-01-12 |
| We still need to focus minds but its probably coming an EU diplomat said | Neutral | BRUSSELS EU foreign ministers backed away on Friday from any immediate response to Irans decision to intensify its enrichment of uranium instead repeating their call for Tehran to respect the limits of a 2015 nuclear arms control accord | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iran-nuclear-europe/fearing-nuclear-proliferation-europe-scrambles-to-calm-iran-tensions-idUSKBN1Z902W | 2020-01-11 |
| BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers did not consider on Friday triggering a dispute resolution process under the nuclear 2015 deal that could lead to renewed United Nations sanctions on Tehran the EUs top diplomat said on Friday | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union foreign ministers did not consider on Friday triggering a dispute resolution process under the nuclear 2015 deal that could lead to renewed United Nations sanctions on Tehran the EUs top diplomat said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-nuclear-europe-borrell/eu-did-not-discuss-process-leading-to-u-n-sanctions-on-iran-borrell-idUSKBN1Z926L | 2020-01-11 |
| Johnson is adamant that the freetrade deal he wants can be negotiated in time but his EU counterparts are less convinced | Negative | LONDON Lawmakers approved legislation on Thursday which will allow Britain to leave the European Union on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-britain-eu/uk-lawmakers-back-eu-exit-deal-turning-page-on-brexit-crisis-idUSKBN1Z81EO | 2020-01-10 |
| Companies handling personal data are required to protect confidentiality and need to put appropriate security measures in place to comply with stringent EU data protection rules | Positive | Eastern Europe is a new frontier for private medical care and insurers and tech startups are racing to steal a march on their rivals by harnessing the regions health data | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-easteurope-health-data-analysis/gold-rush-race-is-on-for-health-data-in-east-europes-frontier-market-idUSKBN1Z80MV | 2020-01-10 |
| They voted 330 to 231 in favor of the European Union Bill which implements an exit deal agreed with the EU last year | Neutral | LONDON Lawmakers approved legislation on Thursday which will allow Britain to leave the European Union on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-britain-eu/uk-lawmakers-back-eu-exit-deal-turning-page-on-brexit-crisis-idUSKBN1Z81EO | 2020-01-10 |
| She noted that the further Britain diverges from the EU the less access it will have to the blocs single market | Negative | LONDON Britain will find it basically to negotiate all aspects of its future relationship with the European Union by the end of this year the head of the European Commission said on Wednesday adding that both sides must pick priorities | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-vonderleyen/basically-impossible-to-agree-full-eu-uk-deal-by-year-end-eu-head-idUSKBN1Z71MQ | 2020-01-09 |
| The EU countries want the International Atomic Energy Agency to first verify Irans latest announcements on enrichment EU officials and diplomats said | Negative | BRUSSELS Germanys foreign minister called on Tuesday for European powers to forge a joint response to Irans decision to scrap limits imposed on its nuclear enrichment under an arms control accord but stopped short of calling for renewed U.N. sanctions | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-iraq-security-britain-eu/germany-urges-europe-to-respond-to-irans-nuclear-violations-idUSKBN1Z60ZI | 2020-01-08 |
| PARIS The United States and China are the worlds leaders in harvesting and exploiting personal data and the European Union must make sure the same thing does not happen when it comes to businesstobusiness data the new EU commissioner for the internal market said | Negative | PARIS The United States and China are the worlds leaders in harvesting and exploiting personal data and the European Union must make sure the same thing does not happen when it comes to businesstobusiness data the new EU commissioner for the internal market said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-data/europeans-should-control-their-b-to-b-data-says-eu-commissioner-idUSKBN1Z62OQ | 2020-01-08 |
| A company in Belgium called Institute for Radioelements or IRE wants the HEU to make the isotopes | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Energy Department has waived a ban on licenses for the export of weaponsgrade uranium for making medical isotopes which critics said raises proliferation risks and undermines companies that are converting to safer materials | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-uranium/u-s-delays-ban-on-licenses-for-bomb-grade-uranium-exports-for-two-years-idUSKBN1Z62JE | 2020-01-08 |
| The fires have already emitted 400 megatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and produced harmful pollutants the EUs Copernicus monitoring program said | Negative | SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged foreign tourists not to be deterred by deadly wildfires that have razed large swathes of the country and sent smoke palls as far as South America even as authorities warned of revitalized blazes | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-australia-bushfires/australian-leader-urges-tourists-not-be-deterred-by-bushfires-crisis-idUSKBN1Z62MQ | 2020-01-08 |
| Turkey is nominally a candidate to join the EU though accession talks have long stalled due to disagreements over human rights Cyprus and other issues | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions top diplomat and the foreign ministers of Britain France Germany and Italy condemned on Tuesday Turkeys plans to send military experts and trainers to Libya saying foreign interference there was exacerbating instability | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-libya-security-eu/european-powers-condemn-turkish-plans-to-send-troops-to-libya-idUSKBN1Z618D | 2020-01-08 |
| Maas has proposed to EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell that a meeting of the blocs foreign ministers be brought forward to this week to agree on a common approach | Positive | BERLIN German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas called on Sunday for a crisis meeting of his European Union counterparts this week to discuss escalating tension in the Middle East following the killing of a top Iranian military commander in Iraq by the United States | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-germany/germany-seeks-crisis-meeting-of-eu-foreign-ministers-idUSKBN1Z40VU | 2020-01-06 |
| Expelling diplomatic officials is an extreme and unfriendly measure that should be saved for grave the EU said in a statement | Negative | LA PAZ The European Union said on Tuesday it was deeply about Bolivias expulsion of Spanish officials caught up in an escalating diplomatic row between Mexico and the interim conservative administration in La Paz | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-bolivia/eu-criticizes-bolivias-expulsion-of-spanish-diplomats-idUSKBN1YZ13N | 2020-01-01 |
