Donald Trump can be trusted when it comes to trade relations between the United States and the European Union. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Tuesday. Junker managed not to get the trade conflict between the two superpowers out of control last July by promising the US president that Europe would import more soy and liquefied gas from North America. …
President Trump says the US import tariffs will be raised to 200 billion worth of Chinese goods this Friday. With this he wants to increase the pressure on Beijing in the constant trade war between the two superpowers. In a tweet Sunday the American head of state writes that the rates will go from 10 to 25 percent. A previously …
The US government is considering no longer sharing certain intelligence with allies using equipment made by the Chinese Huawei for their 5G network. A senior American government official has told Reuters news agency. According to him, Washington sees no distinction between core and non-core components of 5G networks. NATO countries could also be affected by this. Dutch KPN decided last …
PSOE, the social-democratic workers’ party of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, has made a big victory in the parliamentary election on Sunday. More than 90 percent of the votes were counted and PSOE stood at 28.8 percent. That is good for 122 seats in the Spanish parliament. Pablo Casado’s conservative party PP, who succeeded Mariano Rajoy, fell back from 137 …
“The statements about and against the organization of such a commemoration are completely inadmissible and police will investigate the statements and of course persons responsible for them.” That is said police chief Sander Groenewoud of the police Southwest Drenthe in response to the threats at the Camp Westerbork remembrance center. Those threats, intimidation and insults came after it became known …
US President Donald Trump caused a sharp fall in oil prices on Friday. He saw the prices at the gas pump continue to rise in recent weeks and decided to call the oil cartel OPEC. “I told them: you have to bring fuel prices down,” Trump said. His phone call had an immediate effect, as oil prices fell by nearly …
Former Vice President Joe Biden has formally applied for the presidential election in 2020. The 76-year-old Democrat warns in a video message that his country’s “core values” and international reputation are at stake. Behind the smokescreen, Democrats are considering victory nearly impossible and Joe Biden is no more than technical candidate. Biden was previously the vice president under Barack Obama. …
The attacks in Sri Lanka, in which at least 359 people died, were committed by predominantly highly educated Sri Lankans. Most of them come from middle-class or upper-middle-class families, says Sri Lankan Deputy Minister of Defense Wijewardene. “They are financially quite independent and their families are financially stable. That is worrying.” Wijewardene thinks that some of the nine suicide bombers …
Facebook would relax the rules for political advertisements for European parties, according to a letter in the hands of the Financial Times. A Facebook executive, Nick Clegg, would have written in the letter that Facebook wants to look at the rules together with the European Parliament. At present, political parties must register in every European country to be able to …
Videos of the attack in the New Zealand city of Christchurch are still on Facebook after 36 days, the Motherboard reported. The shooter broadcasted the attack on two mosques live on Facebook. The images were distributed for an hour before Facebook intervened by taking the video offline. Parts of the films are still online after more than a month, Motherboard …
