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The EU is "working at all levels" to avoid an escalation of trade tensions with the United States, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Monday, adding that talks with Donald Trump had been "no fun, no entertainment", Politico writes.

Shortly after the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated last month, a member of the kill team instructed a superior over the phone to "tell your boss," believed to be Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, that the operatives had carried out their mission, the New York Times reported Nov.

Brnabic will participate in the Economic Forum organized by the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung.

Brnabic will speak, together with the prime ministers of Estonia and Iceland, Juri Ratas and Katrin Jakobsdottir respectively, is "Digital Europe: the Vision of Three Countries".

In an interview to be published in Kathimerini's Sunday edition, former French President Francois Hollande emphasizes how close Greece came to exiting the eurozone in the summer of 2015, while offering insights into the pivotal role of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in averting the crisis, as well as his own involvement in the dramatic negotiations that led to the agreement for Greece's third

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan meets with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. File photo

It is an election campaign intended to catapult the winner into one of the EU's top jobs, but 445 million voters could be forgiven for not noticing.

Europe's largest political group, the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), will on Thursday choose their candidate to run the European Commission, the powerful executive that drafts and enforces EU law.

Conservative New Democracy party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis was in Helsinki on Wednesday for the congress of the European People's Party (EEP) which will on Thursday elect its candidate to lead the European Commission.

Greece's main opposition leader will have a series of bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the congress.

Bilateral economic and sectoral co-operation, as well as security at regional and international levels were subjects of talks in Doha between Romania's Prime Minister Viorica Dancila and Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani as part of Dancila's visit to Doha.

Emmanuel Macron has called for the creation of a "true European army" to allow the EU defend itself from threats ranging from Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin, according to independent.co.uk

The French president has pushed for closer EU defence union since coming to power last year but has been so far met with limited success amid foot-dragging by other member states.

Germany's interior minister on Monday forced out domestic spy chief Hans-Georg Maassen, whose controversial comments about racist far-right protesters threw Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government into crisis.