The European Commission will propose speeding up the phase-out of Russian fossil imports, the European Union executive's head Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday after a call with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Mr Trump is urging the EU to join him in a trade war on China. Nato member Turkey could soon be facing tough questions over its energy ties with Russia. Mr Orban has no problem putting his European allies’ noses out of joint. In fact, he even seems to enjoy it.

The U.S. Energy secretary and finance watchdog each dismissed EU’s strict approach to global warming. Quit stressing about climate change — it’ll all be fine. That was the message from two of President Donald Trump’s top government appointees during a trip to Brussels last week.

Under the new agreement tariffs on most EU imports to the United States were reduced to 15 percent and Brussels pledged to purchase $750-billion-worth of U.S. energy products, including oil, gas, nuclear fuel and semiconductors, through to 2028.

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Anthony Gardner, Former U.S. Ambassador to the EU under President Obama discusses President Trump's second state visit to the U.K., including the U.K.-U.S trade talks, the nuclear deals, and the ongoing Russian invasion to Ukraine.

Seventeen days ago, President Donald Trump made a dramatic claim in an interview on the business news channel CNBC. As part of his July trade agreement with the European Union, he said, the EU gave the United States a $600 billion present he could spend however he wanted.

The incursion of a significant number of Russian drones into Poland is a dramatic and unsettling escalation of the war in Ukraine.