KEIR STARMER hopes that the risk of defense and security agreements will stagnate to go to Brussels for the first after -Bregit meeting on Monday.
The Prime Minister was invited to participate in the EU's 27 heads and government dinner for dinner in Brussels.
The invitation from the European Council Chairman Antonio Costa is in front of the EU-UK Summit this spring.
The wider EU-UK reset is not an agenda of the day, but the priority is still facing a call from a liberal Democratic Party, and we use it as an opportunity to promote the returning of the summit to the Customs League.
On Sunday, the Prime Minister re -participated in a single market and determined that the tariff alliance and free movement were red lines. However, in the end, security cooperation and a smoother customs agreement is a priority for the UK.
This is the first dinner at Palae de Egmont in the center of Brussels for the first time that the British Prime Minister has met all 27 EU leaders since the official exit from the Union five years ago. Starmer also meets Donald Trump and NATO Secretary -General Mark Rutte, who is considered one of the most clever communicators in Europe.
In October, Starme met Ursla von del Rayen, the European Commission when both sides agreed. Strengthen “at a pace” cooperation Includes security.
More than three months have not progressed. The EU has created a guideline for resets that emphasize early transactions related to fishery rights to move forward in other areas.
Secretary of Interior, Evet Cooper, said on Sunday that the stars would improve their customs agreements with Europe without returning to blocks and complete unions.
On the Sunday morning of Sky News, in the trever Philips program on what various customs arrangements mean, she wanted the government to “remove some of the bureaucracy” beyond the borders. I did it. Cooper excluded the participation in the Customs Alliance as a “red line”, but left the door open to another type of customs trading.
She explained the young people's mobility skiing that the EU is looking for, “it's not the right starting point for us,” but the government has been careful not to exclude it as an overall transaction.
According to the three EU diplomatic sources, the Package Proaches have applied to the EU-UK security agreement, and the majority of member states support this approach.
EU's senior diplomat states that there are “various buckets” in the relationship with the UK, have listed security, energy, fisheries, migration, youth mobility, and veterinary agreements, all of which are related to each other. I did it.
“We share the interests of security with the UK, and Britain share it with us,” said a diplomat. “But at the same time, we won't beat around the bushes that the future relationship with the bushes is very important.”
They added that although there was no “direct trade -off” between fish and safety, negotiations needed to maintain different problems in parallel.
The EU wants to overcome the current agreement after the expiration of fishery rights in June 2026, but priorities are pressure from British reform to gain greater allocation of British fishery fleets. I will receive it.
When the EU states that “it has not been agreed until everything is agreed” to maximize leverage, the conflict on sequence reminds me of BREXIT negotiations.
Lectures at dinner are not expected to discuss such details or reach a formal conclusion. Costa, a former Prime Minister of Portugal, who inherited the chairman of the European Council in December, wants an unofficial discussion without the final text.
In a letter in front of the event, Costa stated that the EU27 needed to discuss “goals and priority with partners other than the EU” and continued to describe the UK as “major partners.”
Before 27 leaders meet in order, they will give a day lecture between them. France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and Estonia want to see general EU funds for defense proposed by general borrowing. The German government, which is facing this month's election, has been supported by its frugal alliances and is deeply opposed to more debt.
