Volodymyr Zelensky has warned European leaders Donald Trump will ignore them if the continent doesn’t take better care of its own defences.

The eurozone economy likely started the year less weakly than it ended 2024, according to business surveys, but the threat of higher U.S. tariffs still tempers hopes that lower borrowing costs will help fuel a pickup as the year advances.

President Donald Trump has once again threatened the EU with duties, and European leaders are vowing to respond in kind.

The UK joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean Convention is up for discussion in reset talks, says Maros Sefcovic.

The European Union indicated that it would be open to the UK joining a pan-European customs program that also takes in parts of the Middle East and Africa as part of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s “reset” talks with the bloc.

BBC interview to the idea of Britain joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean convention (PEM), a customs agreement between the EU and 20 countries, including several in the Middle East and the Balkans, where all countries share the same “rules of origin”.