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On 16 Dec 2025 Washington publicly warned it will trigger Section 301 remedies—tariffs or service restrictions—against nine named EU firms unless Brussels relaxes its Digital Markets/Services enforcement against U.S. giants.
On 16 Dec 2025 the European Commission replaced its planned full ban on new combustion cars with a requirement that 90 % of fleetwide CO₂ emissions be eliminated by 2035, reopening the door for hybrids and limited petrol/diesel sales.
On 16 Dec 2025 the European Parliament approved a tougher safeguard package—cutting the farm-import ‘alarm bell’ to a 5 % surge and adding reciprocity rules—sending the Mercosur deal into emergency talks with national governments just four days before Ursula von der Leyen hopes to sign it in Brazil.
After EU ambassadors resolved Belgium’s burden-sharing demands on Dec 16, the bloc moved a step closer to channeling part of the €210 billion in immobilised Russian central-bank assets to Kyiv, with a final go/no-go decision slated for the Dec 18 European Council summit.
On 14-15 Dec 2025 Paris formally asked EU leaders to postpone the pre-Christmas Council vote needed for Ursula von der Leyen to sign the Mercosur free-trade agreement on 20 Dec, throwing a 25-year negotiation into last-minute jeopardy.
On 16 Dec 2025 Ford announced a $19.5 billion impairment and cancelled multiple battery-electric programs—including the F-150 Lightning pickup—in order to redirect capital to hybrids, extended-range EVs and smaller affordable BEVs.
On 15 Dec 2025 BTC slid from ~$90K to $85K as option-selling ‘OG’ whales forced market-maker hedging while looming Bank of Japan tightening yanked liquidity and triggered a cascade of $200 M long liquidations.
On 14-15 Dec 2025 Paris formally asked the EU Council to move the decisive qualified-majority vote on the 20-year-old Mercosur agreement past the 20 Dec signing deadline, citing unfinished farm safeguards.
On 10 Dec 2025, U.S. Coast Guard commandos fast-roped onto the Guyana-flagged Skipper and diverted its 1.9 m-barrel Venezuelan crude cargo to Texas, marking Washington’s first outright confiscation of Venezuelan oil under Trump’s expanded sanctions regime.
On 14 Dec 2025, Roomba-maker iRobot filed a pre-packaged Chapter 11 plan in Delaware that hands full ownership to its Chinese contract manufacturer Picea Robotics, erasing public shareholders while cancelling roughly $264 million in debt.
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