The Latest Breaking News from European Union

Barack Obama warned in 2016 that the UK would be at the ‘back of the queue’ for a US trade pact if it quit the European Union

Michel Barnier said the door 'remains open' for Britain to go back into the EU

The latest generation of artificial intelligence (AI), such as ChatGPT, will revolutionise the way we live and work. AI technologies could significantly improve education, healthcare, transport and welfare. But there are downsides, too: jobs automated out of existence, surveillance abuses, and discrimination, including in healthcare and policing.

American tourists, and even a few analysts, are fond of calling Europe quaint. Its stereotype in North America is as a museum, where nothing much happens. This could not be further from the truth. Beset by war, Europe’s politicians are once again struggling to come up with a new answer…

People heading for Disneyland Paris now need to change at Lille or Paris and the link to Amsterdam Centraal will be suspended next year

GDP shrank 0.1% in first quarter of 2023 and final three months of 2022 after revisions to earlier estimates

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that Ireland cannot stop accepting asylum seekers as he made his way into a Cabinet meeting to discuss whether Ireland should make a €1.5 million contribution to the EU rather than accept 350 international protection seekers

Hungary’s anti-migrant leader prompts alarm in Brussels and neighbouring countries by releasing 777 people smugglers.

The European Union’s executive is proposing to create an ethics body that would set up common rules of conduct for the bloc’s institutions

Sunak has high hopes for his sojourn but can Joe Biden view him as anything more than an interim leader? Sarah Baxter reports from Washington

Eastern states including New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut issue alerts as hundreds of wildfires burn in Canada. Plus, will Trump’s once loyal deputy become his nemesis?