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EU’s new foreign policy chief Borrell to meet Pompeo, Kushner in Washington New EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell will hold talks in Washington on Thursday and Friday with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, officials in Brussels said on Wednesday. Despite divisions over Iran, Pompeo has sought to re-establish friendlier ties with the incoming leaders of the European Union, including Borrell, and mark an end to the troubled relations seen since President Donald Trump took office, Reuters reports. The meetings will provide “an opportunity to advance the foreign policy dialogue between the EU and US and should focus specifically on ways to enhance transatlantic relations,” according to the EU’s foreign service. EU’s ne...

US antitrust law is all about ‘who is paying who’ – editorial director of research institute tells Boom Bust Top antitrust official at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Makan Delrahim removed himself from an investigation into alleged anticompetitive practices at Google over a potential conflict of interest. RT’s Boom Bust talks to Jeffrey Tucker, the editorial director of the American Institute for Economic Research, about what’s behind this antitrust saga. “All these things are battles between interest groups,” says Tucker, adding “It’s like Google versus Google’s competition.” He explains that “the government machinery there is just to resolve the fight between the two, pick the largest with the biggest pockets on behalf of the biggest complaine...

EU aims to admit 6 Balkan states under reformed process amid France’s concerns The European Union still aims to admit Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and North Macedonia into the bloc, new EU enlargement commissioner Oliver Varhelyi said on Wednesday following France’s veto of the expansion. Varhelyi was unveiling a new methodology for admitting new members, aimed at mollifying France’s concerns about letting the six Balkan nations into the EU. He said enlargement was “geo-strategic,” a reference to a view that the bloc cannot stem its waning global influence without stabilizing the Balkans, Reuters reported. In October, French President Emmanuel Macron halted the process of admitting new members, a decision the Commission said was a historic error. The following m...