President of the European Council

U.S. President Donald Trump met the heads of European Union institutions in Brussels on Thursday ahead of a summit of NATO leaders at the military alliance's headquarters in the city later in the day, Reuters reported.

The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk expressed the view that the US and the EU agreed on a number of issues, following his meeting with US President Donald Trump in the presence of European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker. “We discussed a number issues regarding foreign policy, security, the climate and trade”, Mr. Tusk said.

European Council President Donald Tusk, who will oversee the negotiations that will take Britain out of the EU, said on May 17 he wanted other member states to be fair towards London, while retaining their unity.

BRUSSELS - European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker have congratulated Aleksandar Vucic on his election as president of Serbia, which they said confirmed the strong support he enjoyed in his country.

President Rumen Radev and European Council President Donald Tusk discussed in Sofia the situation in the Balkans, the processes of migration and issues, connected with Brexit, according to BNR.

A tete-a-tete between EU Council President Donald Tusk and Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov in Skopje ended without a breakthrough after Tusk failed to persuade Ivanov to award a mandate for the formation of a new government to the opposition Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev.

Zaev and his coalition allies have mustered a majority in Macedonia's parliament.

President of the European Council Donald Tusk personally congratulated Boyko Borisov for winning the elections against the socialist on Sunday, the press centre of GERB announced.

The two spoke during the European People's Party (EPP) congress in Malta.

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May formally began Britain's divorce from the European Union on March 29, saying there was "no turning back" from a decision pitching her country into the unknown and triggering years of fraught negotiations.

Leaders hailed the visionary “war generation” of leaders from old foes France and Germany who signed the Treaty of Rome in the same room on March 25, 1957, along with Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; some offered personal memories of their own generation’s debts to the expanding European Union.

President Rumen Radev thanked in a telephone conversation the President of the European Council Donald Tusk for his support for Cohesion policy to be included in the Rome Declaration which will be adopted by the heads of state and government leaders of the EU on March 25, 2017.