GENEVA (Reuters) -Switzerland has moved to the front of the queue for a trade deal with the United States, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday, after the Alpine country hosted surprisingly successful U.S.-China trade talks this weekend.

The European Union is planning to hit €95 billion ($108 billion) of US exports with additional tariffs if ongoing trade talks with President Donald Trump’s team fail to yield a satisfactory result.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he intends to require EU countries and other nations to pay higher prices for drugs produced by American pharmaceutical companies while also pushing these companies to lower prices in the U.

The failure of the EU to agree on a trade agreement with the US shows that Brussels is no longer a priority for Washington, experts claim.

The European Union is planning to counter President Donald Trump’s efforts to lure companies to the US by easing the bloc’s regulatory burden on sectors from autos to chemicals to aeronautics.

Rasmussen suggests creating a new "D7" grouping of democracies, including the EU, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand, to form a "formidable force to resist coercion from China or the United States.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -When U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week said Switzerland and Britain had jumped to the front of the queue for a trade deal with the United States, he warned the European Union it was moving "much slower".

Poles vote in a presidential election on Sunday that the pro-European government in Warsaw says can revive its stalled democratic drive and its nationalist opponents see as a chance to set Poland on a path inspired by U.