Bloomberg President Donald Trump rallied US and Japanese troops to wrap up a four-day state visit that focused more on pageantry than resolving deep differences on trade between the long-standing allies. On a trip where no major agreement was reached, Trump’s statements were persistently at odds with the Japanese. He said he’s aiming to reach a trade deal by August, ...

Bloomberg President Emmanuel Macron will push chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as his choice to lead the European Commission, a senior French official said, as European leaders meet in Brussels to begin the jostling to fill the bloc’s leadership spots. The official said on condition of anonymity that the French leader first wants to agree on the commission president before ...

Bloomberg The European Court of Human Rights delivered a blow to the Catalan secessionist movement, ruling that in 2017 Spanish judges legally suspended a regional parliamentary session in the wake of a controversial independence vote. The complaint brought by 76 people living in Barcelona was “manifestly ill-founded” and the Spanish judges’ move was legal, the Strasbourg, France-based human rights court ...