GENEVA (Reuters) -Switzerland has moved to the front of the queue for a trade deal with the United States, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Monday, after the Alpine country hosted surprisingly successful U.S.-China trade talks this weekend.

The European Union is planning to hit €95 billion ($108 billion) of US exports with additional tariffs if ongoing trade talks with President Donald Trump’s team fail to yield a satisfactory result.

The failure of the EU to agree on a trade agreement with the US shows that Brussels is no longer a priority for Washington, experts claim.

President Donald Trump is not going to Turkey to join Russia-Ukraine talks on Thursday, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.

Rasmussen suggests creating a new "D7" grouping of democracies, including the EU, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and New Zealand, to form a "formidable force to resist coercion from China or the United States.

US President Donald Trump will not be able to sell Russian gas to the EU, even if the United States acquires a Russian stake in gas pipelines to Europe. This opinion was expressed by the Minister of Climate and Environment of Poland Paulina Hennig-Kloska in an interview with the radio station "RMF".

Poles vote in a presidential election on Sunday that the pro-European government in Warsaw says can revive its stalled democratic drive and its nationalist opponents see as a chance to set Poland on a path inspired by U.