The EU and Mexico on Friday agreed a long-delayed trade deal as they seek to reduce reliance on the US ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The two sides will modernise their existing agreement just weeks after Trump threatened them with tariffs.

The European Union and Mexico agreed to a revamped free-trade agreement, just as both are under pressure from President-elect Donald Trump, who has threatened them with new tariffs.

Mexico and the European Union are announcing a revamped agreement that they said would boost trade and investment, amid Trump's tariff threats.

Google snubs EU's voluntary code of practice on disinformation before it becomes legally binding under the Digital Services Act

The pushback comes as the emboldened leaders of US tech companies, including Google CEO Sundar Pichai, have been courting President-elect Donald Trump, with Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg urging him directly to combat EU regulatory enforcement.

Google has told the EU it will not comply with a forthcoming fact-checking law, according to a copy of a letter obtained by Axios. The company states that it will not be adding fact checks to search results or YouTube videos and will not use fact-checking data when ranking or removing content.

TikTok, Shein, Xiaomi and three other Chinese companies were named in a privacy complaint filed on Thursday by Austrian advocacy group Noyb, which alleged the firms were unlawfully sending European Union user data to China.

Austrian privacy advocate NOYB has launched its first GDPR complaints against Chinese businesses. The organization has filed complaints against TikTok, Xiaomi, Shein, AliExpress, Temu and WeChat, alleging that these companies unlawfully shared information about European users with parties in China.

Austrian advocacy group Noyb has filed privacy complaints against TikTok and five other Chinese companies in the EU. Noyb claims that these tech firms are unlawfully transferring the data of users in the European Union to China.