Minister Jean Asselborn warned on Tuesday, days before EU leaders are set to discuss a deepening

Asselborn warned on Tuesday, days before EU leaders are set to discuss a deepening dispute over the rule of

Jean Asselborn said. For now, the EU does not plan to withdraw diplomats' families from Ukraine, EU

The European Commission president said the country would be punished by fines, by cuts to funding and be stripped of voting rights if it continued to undermine EU values.... She told Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki:" We cannot and we will not allow our common values to be put at risk. The Commission will act." Warsaw has angered Brussels by refusing to override a tribunal that ruled the Polish constitution took precedence over rulings by the European Court of Justice.Ms von der Leyen

BRUSSELS— Several European Union nations have made it clear they have little appetite to join the U.S. initiative for a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Games because of concerns over China’s human rights record.... New German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told German broadcaster ZDF that as little as possible should be taken away from the participants themselves.... Even though the 27 EU nations will field individual teams at the Games, the countries’ foreign ministers want to ha

BRUSSELS( REUTERS)-European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday( July 12) to launch a global infrastructure plan linking Europe to the world, its latest step after deals with India and Japan and a similar pledge by the Group of Seven( G-7) richest democracies. Suspicious of Chinese President Xi Jinping's Belt and Road Initiative to link Europe to Asia via infrastructure in a bid for greater influence, the EU set out a formal path for an ambitious" connectivity" plan from 2022." We see China

The thought of an extreme-right leader standing at the helm of the EU would be abhorrent to most in the 27-nation bloc.... But if Emmanuel Macron falters in the French presidential elections on 24 April, it might be two weeks away. Experts say a win for far-right candidate Marine Le Pen would have immense repercussions on the functioning of the EU.... On Tuesday, he is heading to Strasbourg, the seat of the EU parliament, to speak about France's role in Europe....

" The primacy of European law is essential for the integration of Europe and living together in Europe.... This is our community, our Union," Morawiecki said on Facebook, referring to the EU.... Officials in Brussels said the decision could lead to a series of fines and legal cases against Warsaw that will take months, if not years, to play out.( Additional reporting by Francesco Guarascio in Brussels and Dominique Vidalon in Paris, Writing by John Chalmers, Editing by Timothy Heritage)....

By Sabine Siebold, Alicja Ptak4 Min ReadWARSAW( Reuters)-A Polish court ruling challenging the supremacy of European Union law plunged the EU into an existential crisis on Friday, increasing fears among EU policymakers and many Poles that Poland could eventually leave the bloc. Politicians across Europe voiced dismay at the ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal here on Thursday that parts of EU law are incompatible with the Polish constitution, undermining the legal pillar on which the 27-n

POLAND could follow Britain out of the EU in their very own" Polexit" amid a bitter legal row.... Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki and his Law and Justice party( PiS) are challenging EU legal principles they argue undermine Poland's sovereignty.... And this is fuelling concerns within Brussels that Warsaw could follow Britain out the door and bid farewell to the 27-member union.Mr Morawiecki has previously called the bloc a dictatorship-but has insisted publically he hopes to stay in t