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Friday 27 July 2018
France and Spain want US action on steel, aluminum tariffs

Associated Press panding the EU's member-
MADRID (AP) — The leaders ship and reaffirmed their
of France and Spain said shared views on mass mi-
they welcomed a trade gration from northern Af-
truce between the United rica to Europe.
States and Europe called But both leaders had to
this week, but demanded field questions about sepa-
action Thursday from their rate scandals that threaten
ally across the Atlantic to to tarnish their public im-
reduce tariffs and rejected ages. Macron accused
negotiating a new trade journalists of "stirring a storm
agreement with the U.S. in a glass" over his former
"A good trade dialogue security aide who was seen
can only be based on a beating a protester in vid-
balanced, reciprocal ba- eo footage published by Le
sis, but never under any sort Monde last week.
of threat," French President Prosecutors and French
Emmanuel Macron said at lawmakers have opened
a press conference with a judicial investigation of
Spanish Prime Minister Pe- Alexandre Benalla's actions
dro Sanchez in Madrid. at the May 1 demonstra-
Macron added that he tion he attended with riot
wanted to see "clear sig- French President Emmanuel Macron arrives to visit the Pic du Midi in the Pyrenees mountain at La police he was supposed to
nals on steel and aluminum Mongie in Bagneres-de-Bigorre, France, Thursday, July 26, 2018. be observing. Macron's of-
that are subject of illegal Associated Press fice has been under attack
tariffs in the United States." for not disclosing the inci-
The U.S. has imposed tar- But on Wednesday, U.S. fied natural gas. nates "useless tension," but dent weeks ago and how
iffs on imports of the met- President Donald Trump Sanchez said neither also warned that he was Benalla was disciplined be-
als and threatened to put and European Commis- France nor Spain were against launching negotia- fore his firing last week.
taxes of 20 to 25 percent on sion President Jean-Claude comfortable with the deal's tions on a vast U.S.-EU trade "Something grave has oc-
cars, trucks and auto parts Juncker agreed to en- potential to harm Europe's accord "because the con- curred which was met with
imported from the EU, justi- gage in talks that would common agricultural policy text doesn't allow it." an immediate and propor-
fying the actions on nation- open markets. The EU also and said they would seek The French president made tionate response from the
al-security grounds. agreed to purchase more clarification from Juncker, his first official visit to Spain Elysee Palace," Macron
The EU has imposed retal- soybeans from the U.S. and the European Union's chief on Thursday. He and San- said in reference to the
iatory taxes on American- to build more terminals for trade negotiator. chez have agreed to pur- home of the French presi-
made products. imported American lique- Macron said the deal elimi- sue a joint agenda on ex- dent's offices. q

UN urges rivals in Cyprus to engage

with UN on peace talks

Guterres encouraged a
period of reflection. In early
July, Guterres asked U.N.
official Jane Holl Lute, a for-
mer U.S. Homeland Security
deputy secretary, to sound
out all sides.
U.N. spokesman Stephane
Dujarric said later Thurs-
day that Lute has held one
round of talks in Cyprus
and would consult with
Guterres.
The council focused on ef-
UN envoy Jane Holl Lute arrives at the presidential palace for
a meeting with Cyprus' president Nikos Anastasiades in the forts to revive negotiations
divided capital of Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday, July 23, 2018. in the resolution which ex-
Associated Press tended the mandate of
the U.N. peacekeeping
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — to resume talks on reunify- force in Cyprus until Jan.
The U.N. Security Council ing the divided Mediterra- 31, 2019.
unanimously approved a nean island. Cyprus was divided into a
resolution Thursday urging Numerous rounds of ne- Turkish-speaking north and
rival parties in Cyprus "to gotiations over more than a Greek-speaking south in
seize the important oppor- four decades have failed 1974 when Turkey invaded
tunity" to engage with a and after the most recent after a coup by Cypriots
new U.N. envoy seeking to talks collapsed last July, who supported uniting the
determine if the time is right Secretary-General Antonio island with Greece. q