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France's President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he talks to journalists during the third EU-CELAC summit that brings together leaders of the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, in Brussels, Belgium, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Francois Walschaerts)

An American economist is getting a top EU job. France’s Macron isn’t happy about it

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

France's President Emmanuel Macron talks to journalists during the third EU-CELAC summit that brings together leaders of the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, in Brussels, Belgium, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Francois Walschaerts)

American economist turns down top EU job as Macron’s criticism reverberates

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Residents watch as a wildfire burns on a hill in Pournari village near Athens, on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. In Greece, where a second heatwave is expected to hit Thursday, three large wildfires burned outside Athens for a second day. Thousands of people evacuated from coastal areas south of the capital returned to their homes Tuesday when a fire finally receded after they spent the night on beaches, hotels and public facilities. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Wildfires in Greece close highways and threaten an oil refinery, as the EU sends firefighting planes

By Thanassis Stavrakis and Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

A giant electoral poster depicting Spain's Prime Minister and Socialist candidate Pedro Sánchez, top, and conservative PP party leader Alberto Nunez Feijóo and VOX far-right party leader Santiago Abascal is displayed on a building at the Gran Via avenue in Madrid, Spain, Monday, July 10, 2023. A general election on Sunday July 23, 2023, could make Spain the latest European Union member to swing to the right. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the early election after his Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and its far-left partner, Unidas Podemos, took a beating in local and regional elections. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain’s early election could put the far right in power for the first time since Franco

By Ciarán Giles - Associated Press

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, left, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, center, and European Council President Charles Michel gesture during the third EU-CELAC summit that brings together leaders of the EU and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in Brussels, Belgium, Monday, July 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Francois Walschaerts)

Divisions over the Ukraine war cause a rift at EU-LatAm summit that was supposed to be a love-in

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Leaders, front row from left: Bolivia's President Luis Arce, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez, arrive for a group photo during the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. More than 50 leaders from the European Union and Central and South America are meeting for a two-day summit starting Monday, July 17, 2023, eager to re-engage after an eight-year hiatus, but the war in Ukraine, trade and even slavery reparation could make it a less than joyful experience. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello, File)

EU and Latin American leaders hold a summit hoping to rekindle relationship with long-lost friends

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

In this photo supplied by Smoke Photography, Claudia Sanhueza, left, under-secretary for International Economic Relations for Chile, Japan's Minister of Economic & Fiscal Policy Shigeyuki Goto and New Zealand Minister for Trade and Export Growth, Damien O'Connor, right, attend the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Ministerial Meeting in Auckland, New Zealand, Sunday, July 16, 2023. (Smoke Photography via AP)

Britain officially joins an Asia-Pacific trade group that includes Japan and 10 other nations

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

A man riding a bicycle past a mural with the writing "Kosovo" and the colours of the Serbian flag in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, July 13, 2023. Kosovo is a former province in Serbia whose 2008 declaration of independence Belgrade does not recognize. Most ethnic Serbs in Kosovo also have refused to acknowledge Kosovo's statehood that is backed by the United States and most EU nations but not Russia and China. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Brawl erupts in Kosovo parliament during prime minister’s speech on defusing tensions with Serbs

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Judge Igor Tuleya, critical of the right-wing government's overhaul of the judiciary, speaks to supporters outside the Supreme Court in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Europe's top court says that the suspension in Poland of a judge who has criticized the government is against European Union's law and the judge should be returned to his duties. The European Court of Justice on Thursday ruled in the case of Judge Igor Tuleya who was suspended in 2020 and had his pay reduced by a judicial disciplinary body that Poland's government had taken under control. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

European court says the suspension of a Polish judge criticizing the government was against EU law

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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, walks European Council President Charles Michel, right, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on arrival for an EU-Japan summit in Brussels, Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU, Japan celebrate close cooperation with end of EU food restrictions in wake of Fukushima disaster

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European Commissioner for Europe fit for the Digital Age Margrethe Vestager speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. The European Union on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, slapped a $475 million fine on U.S. biotech giant Illumina for buying out cancer-screening company Grail without the approval of the 27-nation bloc's antitrust watchdog. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)

EU fines U.S. firm Illumina $475 million for jumping gun on buying cancer-screening company Grail

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, right, and other activists attend a demonstration outside the European Parliament, Tuesday, July 11, 2023 in Strasbourg, eastern France. Protesters and legislators are converging on the European Union parliament in Strasbourg as the bloc faces a major vote on protecting its threatened nature and shielding it from disruptive environmental change. The vote is a test of the EU's global climate credentials. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

European Union lawmakers back a major plan to protect nature and fight climate change

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

FILE - A security guard walks in front of a banner outside the venue of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 9, 2023. When Sweden applied for NATO membership together with Finland, both expected a quick accession process, but more than a year later Sweden is still in the alliance's waiting room. New entries must be approved by all existing members and as NATO leaders meet for a summit in Vilnius, Sweden is missing the green light from two: Turkey and Hungary. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

Sweden’s rocky road from neutrality toward NATO membership

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, left, shakes hands with Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, as he arrives to participate in a family photo at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Turkey’s pledge of support for Sweden’s NATO entry is tied to goals on security and EU membership

By Andrew WIlks - Associated Press

A man rides his bike on a small road in the outskirts of Frankfurt, Germany, as the sun rises on July 9, 2023. Scientists say crushing temperatures that blanketed Europe last summer may have led to more than 61,000 heat-related deaths, highlighting the need for governments to address the health impacts of global warming. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

EU faces cliffhanger vote on major bill protecting nature and fighting climate change

By Raf Casert - Associated Press