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Brussels suspended its countermeasures against the U.S. president’s steel and aluminum tariffs before they even took effect. Now the two sides have 90 days to do a deal.

It was a week when penguins, bonds, the new German coalition, Louisiana soybeans, fossil fuels, the EU’s Digital Markets Act, France’s creaking politics and American bourbon all became one news story. POLITICO explains what got us all yippy.

The move would be a historic shift for France.

Ukrainian authorities are interrogating 2 Chinese soldiers taken prisoner in the Donetsk region earlier this week.

The president has long gone after policies that aim to conserve water in the bathroom.

Friedrich Merz’s new administration promises tax cuts, energy price reductions and a blitz of public-private investment funds.

Dominique de Villepin is enjoying unprecedented popularity, more than a decade after he was last in power.

The scrutiny will apply to foreign students, people applying for green cards — or seeking any other kind of immigration benefit.

China tariffs will go up to 125 percent while other countries get a 90-day reprieve.

The president’s posts and his aides’ comments have failed to calm the markets.

Filmmaker Basel Adra also says Brussels should impose fresh sanctions on Israeli settlers violating international law.

The global risk environment has deteriorated and uncertainty has intensified, the central bank’s Financial Policy Committee said.

Data released shows skepticism about foreign policy and tariff strategy.

The White House is pushing Europe to spend billions more on energy imports. That’s going to be difficult if it blows up the world economy.

The eligibility ban on presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen and the market-wrecking tariffs of U.S. President Trump are just the latest challenges roiling Emmanuel Macron’s second term.

Tensions are rising in the Western Balkans, Europe’s ‘other hotspot.’ Britain’s foreign affairs chief David Lammy sees the ‘long hand of Russian interference.’

His comments follow reports that the Pentagon is considering removing thousands of servicemembers from the continent.

Kyiv summons Chinese envoy to demand an explanation.

“This is a wake-up call on trade agreements,” French Trade Minister Laurent Saint-Martin tells POLITICO.

Britain’s top finance minister holds talks with Bank of England chief — and tells parliament she’ll act in “national interest.”

Ursula von der Leyen spoke to Chinese Premier Li Qiang in an attempt to stop goods hit by Donald Trump’s tariffs flooding into Europe.

Conservative media has targeted Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield for comments she made about diversity.