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European Union Executive Vice-President and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis has said the EU will formally launch negotiations for the proposed free trade agreement with India "very soon"

CEO Action Group renewed its commitment to a 55 per cent emissions reduction target by 2030

India raised these issues in the Trade and Technology Council (TTC) meeting between the two regions in Brussels in May

Trade and Technology Council is being set up to provide political-level oversight into the India-EU relationship

World Economic Forum (WEF) 2022: ECB President Christine Lagarde said the Ukraine war has revealed how powerful Europe is collectively

India could drink sustainably from the spring-wells of development

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has met with European Union (EU) parliament President Roberta Metsola on the ongoing escalating conflicts between Palestine and Israel

Beijing rolls out measures to try to support Covid-hit economy

Most Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war, have crossed to the European Union through border points in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania

Ukraine has received the second tranche of 600 million euros (634 million U.S. dollars) of the European Union's (EU's) emergency macro-financial assistance program, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry said

Russia will cut off natural gas to Finland after the Nordic country that applied for NATO membership this week refused to pay in rubles, the Finnish state-owned energy company said on

Denmark, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands signed a number of bilateral declarations, including goals for green hydrogen, and the creation of more energy islands in the North Sea

The EU got 22 per cent of its gross final energy consumption from renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass in 2020

NATO envoys failed to reach a consensus on Wednesday about whether to start membership talks with Finland and Sweden, diplomats said, as Turkey renewed its objections to the two Nordic countries

The EU's executive arm moved Wednesday to jump-start plans for the 27-nation bloc to abandon Russian energy amid the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, proposing a nearly 300 billion-euro ($315 billion)

The UK announced its plan to introduce legislation to make changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol amid mounting tensions with the European Union (EU) over post-Brexit arrangements.

The easing of China's COVID-19 lockdowns also supported prices, as investors grew more optimistic about demand from the world's second-largest economy.

By Alex Lawler

Real GDP growth in both the EU and the eurozone is now expected at 2.7 per cent in 2022 and 2.3 per cent in 2023, down from its February forecast of 4.0 per cent in 2022 and 2.8 per cent in 2023

The European Commission sent its revised guidelines to member states on Friday, a spokesperson said on Monday