The White House faces a deadline this Saturday to decide whether to slap duties on European car imports.

Jared Taylor claims he can no longer travel through the continent.

...after EU leaders were apparently spooked by another lackluster performance by the British Prime Minister Theresa May.

May says Brexit could be delayed by three months, to 30 June, if MPs back her deal in a vote next week.

‘There is no alternative but to hope for the best but prepare for the worst,’ says Foreign Minister Stef Blok.

U.S. tariffs on European cars and auto parts would mark a significant escalation of trans-Atlantic tensions because the value of EU automotive exports to the American market is about 10 times greater than that of the bloc’s steel and aluminum exports combined.

‘I am totally convinced that this is the only deal possible’

May must still get approval for the deal [...] from an outspokenly unhappy British Parliament.

May is a single-issue prime minister, and the harsh verdict on her deal seriously imperils her leadership.

Most Labour MPs are set to vote against it, as well as Conservative MPs from the pro-Brexit and pro-EU wings of the party, and possibly the 10 MPs from the Democratic Unionist Party which props up her government.

What Macron said has been largely echoed by European Union leaders for months now, and in fact mimics the same demand Trump has long made: Europe needs to stop relying on the United States for its own defense.

...but their progress on an issue that has sharply divided the United States and its closest allies has been halting, at best.

On Friday, in the latest incident, Norwegian authorities arrested a 51-year-old Russian man on suspicion that he unlawfully gathered information during an inter-parliamentary seminar on digitization this month in Norway.

May said Friday that negotiations with the European Union were "at an impasse" after a disastrous summit at which her Brexit plan was largely rejected.

The main sticking point continues to be how to handle the border between Northern Ireland, which will remain part of the UK, and the Republic of Ireland, which will continue to be part of the EU.

Much like when the US President announced he was coming, the Government here has been caught totally unaware.

At a different time and in a different era, Wednesday’s bombshell New York Times op-ed by an anonymous senior Trump official would have been front page news across the globe.

No itinerary has been issued but it is expected that the president will visit a golf resort he owns in Doonbeg, County Clare

Efforts by the remaining signatories - EU members Britain, France and Germany plus China and Russia - to avoid the agreement’s collapse are struggling as Washington has said any firms dealing with Teheran will be barred from doing business in the United States.

The leaders did not mention Trump by name, but they did little to mask what was on their minds — highlighting how Europe and Japan have been pushed closer by Trump’s actions.

"He told me I should sue the EU - not go into negotiations."

“Well, I might,” Mr. Trump said during the interview, [...] “But I certainly, I’ll be asking about it.”

...deepening the dispute with Beijing, while sending a message to European trading partners that the U.S. won’t back away from trade fights.

Trump has said that trade wars are “easy to win.”

The BMW plant in South Carolina is its largest globally and ships more than 70 percent of its annual production to other export markets

The company sold about 40,000 new motorbikes last year in Europe, equivalent to a sixth of its worldwide sales, making the region its most important market after the United States.

It’s worthing noting that, before Trump triggered a trade war, U.S. exports to the E.U. faced an average tariff of just 3 percent

"We will now trigger a dispute settlement case at the WTO, since the U.S. measures on steel and aluminum clearly go against agreed international rules"

The Trump administration said on Thursday that it would impose steep tariffs on metals imported from its closest allies, provoking retaliation against American businesses and consumers and further straining diplomatic ties

The Trump administration is poised to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, and possibly on Canada and Mexico, this week when a temporary exemption expires as trade talks remain at an impasse

... the European Council president slammed the Trump administration’s “capricious assertiveness,” signaling that Washington can no longer be relied upon

Rouhani said Iran is ready to start unlimited uranium enrichment if these negotiations do not yield benefits in a couple of weeks.

The extension reflects concerns by the Trump administration of a swift retaliation on American products by European Union nations

Trump has until midnight to decide whether the European Union gets smacked with tariffs on steel and aluminum.

There are no tanks; no mass arrests of opposition politicians; no coups; no direct assaults on the rule of law; and no new totalizing ideology. There is, in fact, no moment where you can definitively say that the liberal democracy has ceased to exist. But in Hungary, an upstanding member of the European Union, liberal democracy is now dead

Poland, Italy, Denmark, France and Germany were among 14 European Union member nations announcing plans to expel Russians from their countries in solidarity with Britain, which previously expelled 23 Russian diplomats after the poisoning. Canada also said it would expel four.

The newfound unity among European Union leaders on the matter and the appointment of fierce Russia hawk John Bolton as President Donald Trump's national security advisor are potential precursors of collective Western action against Russia.

..it would exempt the European Union and four other allies — Australia, Argentina, Brazil and South Korea — from steel and aluminum tariffs set to take effect Friday.

She was responsible for running a secret CIA black site in Thailand in 2002 where one prisoner was waterboarded 83 times and tortured in other ways.

Trump has not named an ambassador to South Korea, and the U.S. special envoy to North Korea resigned late last month.

He said the plans to tax the American goods, produced in the home states of key Republican leaders

The bargain amounted to a capitulation by May on issues dear to the European Union: preserving peace and open borders in Northern Ireland, guaranteeing rights for the 3 million E.U. citizens living in Britain, and living up to British funding commitments in Europe for years to come.

Iran, Russia and European leaders roundly condemned President Trump’s decision on Friday to disavow the Iran nuclear deal, saying that it reflected the growing isolation of the United States, threatened to destabilize the Middle East and could make it harder to resolve the growing tensions on the Korean penninsula.

On one level, the officials said, he is something of a laughing stock among Europeans at international gatherings.

Britain and the European Union opened difficult negotiations Monday that will end the country’s 43-year membership in the economic and political alliance

With considerable enthusiasm, some in Europe interpreted the election results as a decisive rejection of a hard Brexit by British voters.

The leaders of France, Germany and Italy said in a joint statement that they regretted the United States' decision to withdraw from the accord, but affirmed "our strongest commitment" to implement its measures

“Every time we talk about a country, he remembered the things he had done. Scotland? He said he had opened a club. Ireland? He said it took him two and a half years to get a license and that did not give him a very good image of the European Union.”

The president’s first meeting with the Continent’s leaders began with officials from the United States and Europe saying nothing to each other.

The leaks come at a time when trust between the US intelligence services and others has been strained by the behavior of President Donald Trump, who shared classified details with Russian officials during an Oval Office meeting earlier this month.

“Le Pen and Mélenchon say the defense of France needs to be French,” he said. “Macron and Fillon say the defense of France must be European.”

I hereby notify the European Council in accordance with Article 50(2) of the Treaty on European Union of the United Kingdom's intention to withdraw from the European Union

Mrs. May now moves on to what promises to be a hideously complex process of disentangling Britain from more than four decades of European integration

“Germany has done very well in its trade deals with the U.S., and I give them credit for it”

It comes after the US failed to agree visa-free travel for citizens of five EU countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania – as part of a reciprocity agreement.

The US Vice President did not seem to notice the gaffe

But nobody is quite sure if these surrogates truly speak for Mr. Trump or whether, even if they do, Mr. Trump might soon change his mind.

The vote on Wednesday was not, however, the final stage approval. The deal must be ratified by national and some regional parliaments across the European Union

The Western European intelligence operations began in August, after the British government obtained information that people acting on behalf of Russia were in contact with members of the Trump campaign.

This agreement -- as well as the legal ability for US companies to serve European customers -- in now in very real danger of unravelling.