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Nigel Farage, a member of the European Parliament from England and a supporter of President Trump, said the European Union is "terrified" of what the new leader of the free world may do.

Farage, who made an impassioned speech on the floor of the European Parliament in Brussels in support of Trump's travel ban order, said that some of his fellow parliamentarians are using that issue as a wedge because of Trump's position on the EU itself.

"The real reason is this new American administration does not respect supernational organizations like the EU; they believe in nation-states.

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Trump has hinted that the United States is now more interested in conducting bilateral trade deals with individual countries, "bypassing the bureaucrats" at the EU, Farage said.

Farage said leaders like Jean Claude Juncker of Luxembourg, the leader of the EU, and Angela Merkel of Germany who have previously supported welcoming thousands from troubled areas in the Middle East, are "in denial" of Trump's view on the immigration issue.

He also said that watching Democrats unite against Trump at every turn reminds him of Labour leaders in Britain who "refused to accept" the Brexit vote.

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EU chief Donald Tusk warned on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump's administration was a "threat" facing the bloc along with China, Russia and radical Islam.

In a strongly worded letter to EU leaders ahead of a summit in Malta, Tusk said the bloc must take "spectacular steps" to stay together and should take advantage of Trump's isolationism to boost trade with other countries.

The former Polish prime minister said in the wake of the Brexit vote the European Union faced "three threats" that made the 28-nation bloc's situation "more dangerous than ever before."

"The first threat, an external one, is related to the new geopolitical situation in the world and around Europe," European Council president Tusk said in the letter obtained by AFP.

"An increasingly, let us call it, assertive China, especially on the seas, Russia's aggressive policy towards Ukraine and its neighbours, wars, terror and anarchy in the Middle East and in Africa, with radical Islam playing a major role, as well as worrying declarations by the new American administration all make our future highly unpredictable," Tusk said.

"Particularly the change in Washington puts the European Union in a difficult situation; with the new administration seeming to put into question the last 70 years of American foreign policy," Tusk added.

The second threat, said Tusk, was the internal challenge posed by a rise in anti-EU nationalism, and the third was the "state of mind of the pro-European elites" who were too keen to pander to populism to win votes.

EU leaders have become increasingly concerned by Trump's recent ban on migration from seven Muslim countries, plus comments in which he appeared to back Britain's exit from the EU and the eventual break-up of the union.

All 28 EU leaders will discuss Europe's migration crisis at Friday's summit in Valletta, Malta.

They will then meet without British Prime Minister Theresa May to discuss the future after Brexit, and preparations for a summit in Rome in March to mark the 60th anniversary of the EU's founding treaty.

Tusk added that "only together can EU countries be fully independent. Disintegration will only result in dependence on USA, Russia and China."

"We must therefore take assertive and spectacular steps that would change the collective emotions and revive the aspiration to raise European integration to the next level," he said.

These included securing Europe's borders, boosting the economy and increased cooperation on defence and security, Tusk added.

Europe should in the meantime seek to boost its own trade with the rest of the world even as the United States tightens its frontiers.

"We should use the change in the trade strategy of the US to the EU's advantage by intensifying our talks with interested partners, while defending our interests at the same time," Tusk added.

But he warned that European-American ties were still essential for the future.

"We cannot surrender to those who want to weaken or invalidate the transatlantic bond, without which global order and peace cannot survive," he said.

"We should remind our American friends of their own motto: United we stand, divided we fall."

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The European Union and Mexico have set two new rounds of trade talks in the first half of 2017, an acceleration of negotiations to deepen economic ties in the wake of Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president.

The European Commission said on Wednesday that EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom and Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo had scheduled subsequent rounds for April 3-7 and June 26-29.

"Together, we are witnessing the worrying rise of protectionism around the world. Side by side, as like-minded partners, we must now stand up for the idea of global, open cooperation," the two said in a joint statement.

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European leaders have said Brussels should take advantage of a more protectionist U.S. leader, who has already withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, to step up negotiations with would-be partners.

Mexico faces the prospect of a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and possibly higher U.S. import duties.

The EU and Mexico have a free trade pact dating from 2000 that they began to update last year, holding talks in June and November.

The EU has said a new deal would seek to include public tenders, trade in energy products and raw materials, broader protection of intellectual property, more flexible rules on what products can benefit from lower customs tariffs and greater benefits for smaller companies.

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It could also lead to more liberalized trade in meat, dairy products, cereals and certain fruits and vegetables.

The European Union is Mexico's third largest trading partner after the United States and China. EU-Mexico trade in goods more than doubled from 2000 to 53 billion euros ($57.23 billion) in 2015.

The EU is particularly focused on trade deals with Asian countries, including those that had signed up to the TPP before Trump entered office.

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The European Commission has stuck to its promise of ending roaming charges by June this year. It announced that agreements have been finalized enabling European travelers to use their phones throughout the European Union, without additional charges, from June 15, 2017. It has been a long time coming. Preliminary agreements were made in June 2015, setting the scene for whats known as the roam-like-at-home plan, of which the latest wholesale price structure deal was the final part.

Agreeing on a wholesale price was crucial, as its the amount of money networks charge each other when you make calls, send messages, or use data. The deal doesnt mean everything will be free. Instead it means the services you use while roaming will be charged at the same rate you pay when on your home network. It joins up with a previous rule where networks will let you use your included minutes and data abroad, and the new caps will come into play if you go over the permitted use.

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The cost caps are 3.2 euro cents per minute for calls, 1euro cent for SMS, and 7.7 euros per gigabyte of data. The data cap will gradually reduce over the coming years, eventually reaching 2.5 euros per gigabyte at the beginning of 2022. Its the end of a successful effort to reduce the cost of roaming in Europe, which has fallen by 90 percent since 2007.

Excellent news, but with it comes some negativity from smaller operators, and confusion from anyone in the United Kingdom, which recently voted to leave the European Union. A response to the agreement from MVNO Europe, which looks after Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) in the region, believes the caps are too high, and smaller operators wont be able to recover costs. This may lead to travelers on prepaid or lower-cost plans being unable to enjoy the reduced charges.

For British travelers, Brexit uncertainty may dampen any rejoicing over the agreement. Scare stories spread at the end of 2016, warning networks in Europe may not have to honor any cost caps for U.K. visitors following Brexit, if a favorable trade deal isnt reached. Worst case scenario is the return ofmassive phone bills for careless travelers, with a megabyte of data potentially costing up to 10 euros.

For now, European law still applies in the U.K. at least until it officially leaves the EU; and new EU president Joseph Muscat wants EU law to remain even after Brexit. However, talks regarding the legal complexities of the split havent officially started yet, and because a transition deal is expected to take between two and five years to complete, the fate of roam-like-at-home for Britain will remain yet another unknown aspect of Brexit for quite some time.

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