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https://formiche.net/2025/05/cosa-aspettarsi-dal-primo-vertice-post-brexit-tra-ue-e-uk/#content
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is preparing to host the first post-Brexit summit between the European Union and the United Kingdom in London. At the top of the agenda is cooperation in areas such as trade and, above all, security and foreign policy. There is anticipation for a new defense and security pact, an objective that Labour expressed last year in its election manifesto, which brought it back to power after 14 years of Tory rule.
In recent years, the United Kingdom and the European Union have strengthened cooperation on security, particularly regarding Ukraine. "But a new pact would mark a significant step forward after years of minimal and structured engagement in foreign policy and security since the UK left the bloc," wrote Olivia O'Sullivan, head of the "UK in the World" program at the British think tank Chatham House. For it to lead to significant progress, "any pact should lay the groundwork for deeper cooperation on defense funding, defense industrial planning, and long-term geopolitical strategy," O'Sullivan explained. "Otherwise, there is a risk of avoiding the central challenge: how the UK and the EU can better defend themselves in a less American world," she added.
Greater cooperation on defense and security is a desired goal for both parties. However, it remains to be seen whether, in the medium to long term, the United Kingdom and the European Union can work together on broader foreign policy objectives, especially at a time of change for US global leadership and for multilateral institutions increasingly under pressure.

According to Camille Grand, distinguished policy fellow and co-director of the European Security Initiative at the pan-
European think tank European Council on Foreign Relations, it "remains to be seen" whether the two parties "have reached the point where they recognize that there are significant compromises to deepen relations: that the UK recognizes that beyond the special relationship with Washington, there is also a unique relationship with the European Union; that the European Union recognizes that the UK is not just another third party; that both recognize that there is
a shared future and turn the page after Brexit."
The former Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Nicu Popescu, distinguished policy fellow and co-director of the same
European Security Initiative, stated: "The strategic and security future of the European Union and that of the United Kingdom are linked. The threats they face, including military ones, are the same. Yet, the institutional foundations to address them are weaker than ever in the last half-century. With the UK no longer part of the European Union and doubts about the US commitment to NATO in the coming years, the European Union and the UK must ensure they recreate and deepen their own mechanisms for coordinating security, defense, and intelligence, and do so quickly."
For this reason, Popescu hypothesizes the creation of an institution similar to the Western European Union, a
European military alliance that existed from 1954 to 2011, which is "adapted to new realities but capable of ensuring mutual defense between the European Union and the United Kingdom.

>>1406747 (OP)
>British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is preparing to host the first post-Brexit summit between the European Union and the United Kingdom in London. At the top of the agenda is cooperation in areas such as trade
>that Labour expressed last year in its election manifesto, which brought it back to power after 14 years of Tory rule
You voted for this, Brexitards, then you're shocked that Sir Keir will effectively destroy Brexit after a huge 400+ seat mandate in what became known as Starmergeddon last year?
But hey, since you got what you wanted - Brexit - no more booze cruises in vans on ferries/on the Channel Tunnel train to hypermarkets in France, bringing back hundreds of crates of Stella Artois beer with zero import duties, and no more free healthcare via NHS Form E111 when you went to Costa Del Cheapo and now you have to pay for expensive health insurance when you go abroad on your hols in the EU.
Hopefuly Starmer will reinstate the sort of free trade which existed betwen UK & EU pre-Brexit: but you still have to pay import duty on just one crate of Stella, and still have to pay for that expensive health insurance, Brexitards.
But hey, don't blame certain others: they can say 'Don't Blame Me, I Voted Remain'. You could have too and kept your duty free entitlements beyond a bottle or two of booze, and that E111 would mean no health insurance abroad.
More fool you, Boris Johnson & Nigel Farage. All your work, to no avail. And the British electorate voted for your Brexit failure on 4th July last year.

Please EU, take us back and save us from tRump

>>1406747 (OP)
>"any pact should lay the groundwork for deeper cooperation on defense funding, defense industrial planning, and long-term geopolitical strategy,"
The Lockheed F-35s ordered by Germany for their Bundeswehr. The continued orders by Britain of the same for their RAF & Royal Navy.
Trump, do you want those countries to buy the Boeing F-47 or the former to cancel their F-35 orders and the latter to be content with those they already have, and instead choose, say, Dassault's FCAS? Or that which UK's already involved in with Italy & Japan, GCAP?

>>1406747 (OP)
>Translated by MistralAI
wow, a foreign news article translated by AI
this sounds legitimate and trustworthy

>>1406771
You mean yourselves.

>>1406823
Speak english

>>1406824
>>1406842
>>1406843
foreign words translated by AI, thus typed by foreign fingers
this sounds legitimate and trustworthy

UK & EU deal agreed & signed.
RIP Brexit. Good

>>1407036
It was never going to last for more than a decade.

>>1407069
As if Brexit ever had the right to exist in the first place