Sir Keir Starmer on Monday night called on EU leaders to get involved again with Britain five years after Brexit, because he refused to “choose” between closer relationships with Brussels or Washington.
Starmer, the first British Prime Minister to be engaged in the EU European Council since then BrexitHe said he wanted a new pact of defense and security to be the center of “resetting”.
Asked if he could have close economic connections with Europe is USA Donald Trump, Starmer said: “Both relationships are very important to us.. We are not choosing between them.”
This claim is likely to be tested in the coming months if Trump follows its threat of tariff against EUWhile Starmer tries to avoid such fate seeking improved trade in the UK with the US.
The dinner of the European Council on Monday night at the Palais D’Ammont in Brussels was a symbolic approach between the UK and the EU, just over five years after Brexit entered into force on January 31, 2020.
At that palace, the conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath signed a contract that took Britain to the European Economic Community – the forerunner in the EU – 1972.
Starmer hopes to offer close cooperation on military and intelligence issues with the EU – an area where the UK has traditional forces – can begin to unlock the wider economic benefits.
The proposed safety and defense pact will also cover areas such as resolving illegal migration-it is said that it will be wrapped in wider negotiations in the UK over the coming months.
Negotiations with Brussels are likely to be difficult for the oldmer, and the EU demanded further access to British fishing waters and the youth mobility scheme that would allow EU nationals under 30 to travel and work in Britain.
A complete EU-UK summit is expected to attend to try to encourage these conversations in April or May, with a growing sense in European capital that the continent must heal the old wounds, especially since Trump is against American transatlantic allies.
Starmer is ready to take some political risks, including efforts to remove obstacles in food store trade – even if it requires that the UK obeyed EU rules by the European Court of Justice.
It also wants to connect the British carbon emission market with its own EU system and potentially participate in the EU-Meditarian trade area, which would cease good from participating in the Customs Federation of Block.
The issue of Brexita remains toxic in the UK, although the recent YouGov survey revealed that 55 percent of people now say that it was wrong to leave the EU and only 11 percent of Brexit considered more success than failure.
Conservative critics called about 50 teams of officials accused of negotiating a improved Brexit agreement, led by former Treasury official Michael Ellam- “Department of Surrender.”
Starmer, speaking at the NATO headquarters in Brussels before the EU meeting, said that he wanted Britain and EU countries to be “ambitious” and cooperate closely on the cooperation of defense, including the procurement of military equipment.
“Our defense consumption is now 2.3 percent of GDP -we work hard to work on the placement of the track at 2.5 percent,” he said. It is unclear when the UK will hit that target.
“We cannot be commentators when it comes to peace questions on our continent. We have to lead and I am determined to do.”
While France and other coastal states want to solve questions about fisheries as an introduction to a broader agreement from the UK, other countries will bring their own concerns on the table.
“Of course, there is still one key piece that will end up in the British settlement after Brexit, which is Gibraltar,” said the Spanish official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Complete normalization will not be possible until this agreement is reached.”
