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  1. news you can booze
    Whiskey Industry Argues It Will Be an ‘Unintended’ Victim of Trump’s TariffsThe EU has said it will retaliate with tariffs on American goods, including whiskey.
    By Clint Rainey
  2. international affairs
    Angela Merkel Retains Power in Germany After Months of DeadlockShe will begin her fourth, and reportedly last, term as chancellor later this month.
    By Chas Danner
  3. trade war
    Trump Threatens to Tax European Cars If His Trade War EscalatesThe president says he’ll retaliate against any retaliation.
    By Chas Danner
  4. EU Prepares Tariffs on U.S. Bourbon and Jeans, As Trump Calls for Trade WarThe European Union plans to target industries with ties to the Republican leadership.
    By Eric Levitz
  5. foreign affairs
    Germany’s Political Turmoil Is Bad News for EuropeAngela Merkel picked a particularly unfortunate year to have this much trouble forming a government.
    By Jonah Shepp
  6. Theresa May’s Brexit ‘Breakthrough’ Is a Declaration of SurrenderTurns out a bad deal is, in fact, better than no deal.
    By Eric Levitz
  7. Jitters Rise in Europe As Merkel Can’t Form GovernmentIf Angela Merkel can no longer govern Germany, how can Germany govern the EU?
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. Spain Is Dealing With an Unprecedented Political CrisisMadrid prepares to bring Catalonia under its direct control, a move it has never undertaken in the history of its democracy.
    By Jen Kirby
  9. select all
    Google Fined $2.7 Billion by the EUThe new ruling could change how tech companies operate overseas.
    By Brian Feldman
  10. As Brexit Talks Begin, the U.K. Has Few Cards to PlayTheresa May’s government is low on goodwill from the U.K. public, and the European Union.
    By Jonah Shepp
  11. Trump Doubles Down on Feud With Germany in Early-Morning TweetAs Germany’s political leaders express their loss of faith in the U.S., Trump vows to change Berlin’s “very bad” conduct toward the U.S.
    By Eric Levitz
  12. Trump to EU: Germany Is ‘Bad, Very Bad’ for Selling Too Many Cars in U.S.According to a German newspaper, the president said he’s going to “stop” Germany from selling so many cars.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  13. Europe Greets Trump With Protests, an Awkward Handshake, and Chocolate MousseFrench President Emmanuel Macron tried to out alpha the alpha.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  14. international affairs
    Centrist Macron Defeats Far-Right Le Pen in French Presidential ElectionThe European political Establishment exhales.
    By Chas Danner
  15. breaking up is hard to do
    European Union Delivers Very, Very Expensive Brexit Bill to BritainThings are already tense between the bloc and Britain, and formal negotiations have not quite yet begun.
    By Jen Kirby
  16. Britain Hits the European Union With Divorce PapersNow, the U.K. has two years to reach a new deal with the E.U. — before high tariffs kick in and suffocate the British economy.
    By Eric Levitz
  17. the far right
    Things Aren’t Looking Good for Geert Wilders and His Party in the Dutch ElectionThe first round of exit polling suggests a disappointing showing for the far-right, anti-Islam candidate and the party he founded.
    By Jesse Singal
  18. Parliament Has to Make ‘Brexit’ Official, Says the United Kingdom Supreme CourtPrime Minister Theresa May’s government has said this will not delay the March 31 timetable for triggering Article 50.
    By Jen Kirby
  19. international affairs
    Italy’s Prime Minister Resigns After Referendum DefeatHis departure represents a resounding win for Europe’s right-wing populists and Eurosceptics.
    By Charley Lanyon
  20. A Twist in the Brexit PlansA top British court rules that the government has to get approval from Parliament before triggering Brexit.
    By Jen Kirby
  21. Brexit Could Trigger the Next Financial Crisis — in ItalyItalian banks are sitting on a pile of bad loans. Brexit just tossed a match on that pile. If the fire spreads, it could produce an economic and political crisis.
    By Eric Levitz
  22. brexit
    The (American) Idiot’s Guide to BrexitHere’s everything you need to know about the British referendum that could reshape the future of the world’s largest economy.
    By Eric Levitz
  23. Donald Trump’s Reaction to Brexit Will Surprise Exactly NobodyHe thinks it’s a “great thing.”
    By Adam Banicki
  24. brexit
    Britain Votes to Leave the European UnionBrexit is complete, and global markets are tanking in response.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  25. brexit
    Boris Johnson Could Be Next U.K. Prime MinisterLondon’s former mayor has a colorful past.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  26. Obama to UK: Don’t Brexit. UK to Obama: Piss OffLondon mayor Boris Johnson suggested that the “part-Kenyan” president’s position might be motivated by an “ancestral dislike of the British empire.”
    By Eric Levitz
  27. EU to Label Goods Made in Israeli SettlementsIsrael is furious.
    By Eric Levitz
  28. 18 Drown Off Turkey As EU Leaders Meet And Slovenia starts building its razor-wire fence.
    By Jen Kirby
  29. migrant crisis
    Slovenia Is the Latest Migrant-Crisis ZoneSince Saturday, nearly 20,000 people have crossed into Slovenia from Croatia. 
    By Jen Kirby
  30. With Some Opposition, European Leaders Establish Refugee QuotasOver the opposition of Hungary and three other Eastern European countries.
    By Jen Kirby
  31. Migrants Protest Outside Hungarian Train StationJust one more volatile front.
    By Jen Kirby
  32. migrant crisis
    Truck Full of Decomposing Bodies Found Abandoned on Side of Austrian HighwayThe truck’s occupants are believed to be migrants escaping to Europe. 
    By Jaime Fuller
  33. Bans
    Russia Is Destroying Nutella, Fancy Cheese, and Other Western FoodsIt’s part of Putin’s new pledge.
    By Clint Rainey
  34. foreign affairs
    Greek Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Bailout TermsWhat that means for the future of Greece, and the eurozone, is unclear.
    By Chas Danner and Margaret Hartmann
  35. international affairs
    5 European Jews on the Anti-Semitic Attacks“It’s a feeling of insecurity that I haven’t seen at all, ever.”
    By Christopher Looft
  36. Bans
    Russia Bans Nutella, Tabasco, French Cheeses, and Lots of Other Great StuffBaby food and alcohol, thankfully, are exempt.
    By Clint Rainey
  37. technology
    Google Is Removing Links for People Who Want Privacy (in Europe)But only if they’re “inadequate” or “irrelevant.” 
    By Adam K. Raymond
  38. spy games
    The NSA Also Bugged the United Nations’ HeadquartersAccording to documents leaked by Edward Snowden to Der Spiegel.
    By Delia Paunescu
  39. spy games
    The NSA Spied on the European Union Too [Updated]Bugged offices, Internet monitoring — the usual stuff.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  40. nobel prize
    In Another Controversial Choice, Nobel Peace Prize Goes to European UnionJust ignore all those protesters.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  41. bummers
    Britain Opposes EU Law to Put Women in BoardroomsAlong with eight other countries. 
    By Kat Stoeffel
  42. international intrigue
    E.U. Agrees in Principle on Iran Oil BanIt will reach a final decision at the end of January.
    By Brett Smiley
  43. international intrigue
    Greece Receives Bailout Funds, Crisis Averted… for now. The country will need more EU money by September.
    By Andre Tartar
  44. international intrigue
    Ireland to E.U.: Look, We Never Asked for a Massive Bailout, But If You InsistPride versus financial solvency.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  45. bailouts
    EU Delivers $957 Billion Rescue Package for Troubled European EconomiesINF to provide hundreds of billions.
    By Josh Duboff
  46. Greece Agrees to Bailout From IMF, EUThis calls for a celebratory baklava.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  47. Mediavore
    Soldiers Survives on Spam; EU Considers Bluefin Fishing BanAfter their helicopter was shot down, British troops lived off canned meat.
    By Hadley Tomicki
  48. Beef
    French Don’t Want to See Their Precious Rosé DilutedThe French are in a huff about a European Union proposal that would lift a ban on “blended rosés.”
    By Daniel Maurer
  49. Beef
    E.U. Owner Still Raging at Former ChefJason Hennings writes in a white-hot fury.
  50. NewsFeed
    E.U. Fires Chef for Undue Greenmarket DevotionNot everybody is in love with the Greenmarket. Just ask Jason Hennings.
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