The European Union has imposed more economic sanctions on Russia. The new penalties announced on Thursday add to measures by U.S.

The U.S. and EU have had tricky relations this year, with differences over support for Ukraine and trade tariffs creating tensions.

French President Emmanuel Macron told European Union leaders to consider using the bloc’s most powerful trade tool against China if they aren’t able to find a resolution to Beijing’s planned export controls on critical raw materials.

European Union leaders have endorsed a plan to ensure that Europe can defend itself against an outside attack by the end of the decade.

The European Union on Thursday formally adopted sweeping sanctions targeting Russia's energy sector, a day after the United States announced punitive measures against the Kremlin's oil industry.

U.S. stocks were getting a bit of an early bounce Thursday, helped along by earnings and fresh signs of unity between America and the European Union against Russia's war on Ukraine. The parade of quar

Oil prices spiked Thursday after the U.S. announced massive new sanctions on Russia’s oil industry in an attempt to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and end Moscow’s brutal war on Ukraine.

Ukraine was too poor, too agrarian and too oligarch-ridden to be a credible member of the EU. In any case the doors of the club seemed bolted shut. Somewhat more credible aspirants, including six in the western Balkans,