Terry Schultz
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NPR News: 04-23-2025 4PM EDT
The European Commission says Apple is being fined $570 million for violating the Digital Markets Act by preventing app developers from communicating directly with consumers about sales and alternative products.
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NPR News: 04-23-2025 4PM EDT
Meta must pay nearly $230 million, the commission says, for requiring users to either allow their personal data to be used for targeted advertising or pay for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram. European Commission spokesperson Thomas Renier rejected a Meta representative's complaint that U.S. companies are being unfairly targeted.
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Meta says it intends to appeal. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
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NPR News: 03-20-2025 4PM EDT
The World Happiness Report tracks how people in more than 140 countries feel about their lives. This year, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Sweden, and the Netherlands round out the top five, with Costa Rica, Israel, and Mexico the only non-European countries in the top 10. The survey is done by Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.
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NPR News: 03-20-2025 4PM EDT
Gallup CEO John Clifton says data proves happiness is not based on wealth.
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NPR News: 03-20-2025 4PM EDT
Afghanistan ranks last. The U.S. dropped one spot to its lowest ever position at 24. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
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NPR News: 04-03-2025 6PM EDT
Fears of an escalating trade war with the U.S. sent shares tumbling across the EU. In some countries, that level is the lowest in months. In France and Italy, it was the worst drop in more than two years. The EU has not yet announced countermeasures and says it's still open to negotiations.
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NPR News: 04-03-2025 6PM EDT
But Bernd Lang, chairman of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade, says such attempts have been fruitless so far.
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Wednesday was not a day of liberation, as Trump called it, but a day of inflation for consumers around the world. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.
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NPR News: 05-31-2025 5PM EDT
Terry Schultz has more. A spokesperson for the European Union's executive says the bloc strongly regrets Trump's decision to raise tariffs on steel imports from 25 to 50 percent. The decision adds further uncertainty to the global economy and increases costs for consumers and businesses on both sides of the Atlantic, the spokesperson said in a statement.
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NPR News: 05-31-2025 5PM EDT
They added that this move also undermines ongoing efforts to reach a negotiated solution, which was the reason the EU decided in April to hold off imposing its own tariffs. But now the spokesperson says the European Commission is finalizing its decisions on countermeasures and will put them into effect on July 14th or even earlier if, in their words, no mutually acceptable solution is reached.
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NPR News: 04-05-2025 7PM EDT
Detainers are often not signed by judges, and Cunningham says local police risk being sued if they arrest someone based only on an ICE civil warrant on the computer system. Martin Koste, NPR News.
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NPR News: 04-05-2025 7PM EDT
Federal authorities have long put some immigration warrants into the NCIC, or National Crime Information Center. But the number of immigration warrants has been increased dramatically under President Trump. That's according to Terry Cunningham with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, whose organization has ties to the FBI division that runs the database.
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NPR News: 05-12-2025 4AM EDT
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant delivered an upbeat assessment after the meetings with his Chinese counterparts.
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NPR News: 05-12-2025 4AM EDT
Besant did not detail to reporters what that progress is, but said it would be revealed on Monday. Similarly, Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Li Qinggang said the talks achieved what he called good news for the world. The U.S. has put tariffs of 145 percent on Chinese goods, and China's reacted by enacting 125 percent on U.S. imports.
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NPR News: 05-12-2025 4AM EDT
The taxes have effectively stalled trade between the world's two largest economies. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz.
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NPR News: 05-05-2025 2AM EDT
With nearly all the votes counted, George Simeone is leading among the 11 candidates vying to be Romania's next president. Simeone heads the hard-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians party and aligns himself with President Trump, even wearing a MAGA cap. He's critical of the European Union, saying more power needs to remain with national governments.
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NPR News: 05-05-2025 2AM EDT
and he pledges to end Romania's aid to Ukraine. When the now-annulled vote was held last year, far-right candidate Colin Giurgescu came out of nowhere to win the first round, with a largely online campaign Romanian intelligence has since concluded was propelled by Moscow. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz.
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NPR News: 03-02-2025 8PM EST
Terry Schultz has more. Now, this is going to require a lot more money, sustained funding, sustained weapons transfers to Ukraine. And eventually, the Europeans say several countries are willing to put their own troops on the ground to monitor a ceasefire. But there's a big contingency clause here. This will require American help and backup to keep Russia on its side of a ceasefire line.
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NPR News: 03-02-2025 8PM EST
asked whether he thought Donald Trump would agree to this. Starmer said he'd spoken with Trump last night and would not be moving ahead if he wasn't confident of that. Terry Schultz reporting.
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NPR News: 04-25-2025 4PM EDT
An investigation was launched when almost 50 pieces of art were missing after the reopening of the town hall of the southeastern Dutch city of Maashorst. Among them was a 1980s-era silkscreen by Andy Warhol depicting then-Queen Beatrix. The probe found the art was stored in the building's basement during renovations and that some of it, including the Warhol print, suffered water damage.
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NPR News: 04-25-2025 4PM EDT
At some point, it's still unclear when or by whom, the pieces were put in a trash bin. The Mosshorst mayor says it's regrettable. Last November, thieves stole four other Warhol prints, including another one of the former queen, by bombing a Dutch art gallery. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz.
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NPR News: 05-02-2025 5PM EDT
Ireland's Data Protection Commission led the probe on behalf of the EU into whether TikTok was in compliance with the bloc's privacy rules. They found the video sharing app was transferring personal data to servers located in China, contrary to what the company initially claimed.
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NPR News: 05-02-2025 5PM EDT
EU officials are concerned this information can be accessed by staff in China, where TikTok's parent company ByteDance is based, and by the Chinese government, violating strict privacy rules. The regulators also said TikTok had not been transparent with users about this, and ordered the company to come into compliance within six months. TikTok says it will appeal.
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EU countries have long acknowledged they need to boost their military spending in the face of Russia's full-scale war on Ukraine. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says new financing options are being considered, such as loosening rules on maximum national debt or sharing costs of major weapons systems. For extraordinary times, it is possible to have extraordinary measures.
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But EU leaders also focused on rallying a united response to potential hostile actions from Washington. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. You cannot lose our European self-respect and self-confidence. Trump says he plans to impose tariffs on the EU, but hasn't said when. For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz.
Up First from NPR
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Good morning. Well, you can really feel the worry here in a way I haven't seen since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine started three years ago. And interestingly, that isn't because Moscow is doing anything differently. It's been relentlessly attacking Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
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The difference is this rapid deterioration of relations between the Trump administration and Ukraine, the spat between the presidents in the Oval Office last week, and as you mentioned, the subsequent suspension of military assistance and now intelligence sharing, which is essential to Ukraine on the battlefield.
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Well, today I expect leaders to move forward. Now, whether they can reach the required unanimity yet is unclear. But there's a new package of proposals on how they can come up with 800 billion euros. That's more than 860 billion dollars in defense spending.
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That would be partly in loans backed up by the EU for buying new weapons, and partly by setting aside EU penalties on having too much debt so that governments can now drastically increase their military spending.
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Well, yeah, going into more debt isn't popular, but I spoke with former Dutch Defense Minister Kaise Ollengren about this, and she said that politicians and officials just need to help their people understand that U.S. unpredictability means it's urgent now to mobilize all the tools they have available. to scale up both their domestic defense and support for Ukraine.
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If you boil it down, I think it comes down to turning the European economy into a war economy. These are difficult choices and you have to explain them to people, but it has to be done. Now, earlier suggestions to declare a war economy in Europe didn't get traction because many leaders felt it was too drastic. and would unnecessarily scare people. So you can see how things have changed.
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Well, they're at least seriously considering those scenarios, including researcher Giuseppe Spadafora with the EU Institute of Security Studies. He told me that even the fear of the U.S. disengaging could destabilize the transatlantic relationship further.
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So Spadafora says Europeans' concern about this possibility may end up leading them to make policy decisions in favor of the Trump administration.
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Well, French President Emmanuel Macron has really tried to be that leader. And as the head of one of two nuclear powers in Europe, he has a lot of weight in defense issues. So in an evening address, he said he'll call together European army chiefs to discuss a potential peacekeeping force and says he's even considering extending the French nuclear deterrent over the rest of Europe.
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The future of Europe does not have to be decided in Washington or Moscow, he said. So EU leaders hope to decide some things about their future here in Brussels today.