The Latest Breaking News from Brussels

Microsoft Corp's (NASDAQ:MSFT) pitch to Brussels directly addressed competition worries with a clear geopolitical purpose prompted by recent complaints from smaller European cloud companies, the Financial Times reports.  Microsoft laid out a series of "principles" that it would follow out of respect for Europe's concerns.  Any customer who has paid to license…

Nine-strong team led by close Biden ally will visit Brussels, Dublin and London in significant intervention on division over NI protocol

Microsoft, which had been fined 1.6 billion euros ($1.7 billion) by EU antitrust regulators, will revise its licensing terms and allow cloud service providers to better compete in response to complaints, its president Brad Smith said on Wednesday. The company was taking the first step but not the last to…

The Foreign Secretary is set to announce a domestic law that would overwrite elements of the Brexit treaty with the European Union.

The PM used the trip to issue a warning to Brussels that the UK is prepared to rewrite unilaterally the terms of the deal he signed

Promise of legislation on Northern Ireland protocol fails to break power-sharing deadlock

Prime Minister Boris Johnson flew in to Belfast in an attempt to break the deadlock preventing the formation of a new executive.

Leaked report also suggests assessing feasibility of using assets seized from sanctioned Russians

On March 23, as leaders gathered for multiple summits in Brussels, the Hungarian justice minister claimed that the EU had not helped the country after Budapest "stopped migration in accordance with international conventions". Sophie Samaille and Georgina Robertson take a closer look at the claims.