{"id":14891,"date":"2026-05-11T01:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/14891\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:27:35","slug":"eu-to-appoint-jukka-salovaara-as-new-ambassador-to-uk-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/14891\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to appoint Jukka Salovaara as new ambassador to UK \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s seen as a very serious diplomat,\u201d said one EU envoy, \u201che&#8217;s very well connected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move comes as Starmer and the U.K.&#8217;s Labour government pushes for closer ties with the EU, looking to bring the country closer to the rest of the continent after Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in February, Ivan Rogers, the former British ambassador\u00a0who oversaw Brexit preparations, told POLITICO that closer ties between the U.K. and the EU were likely \u201cgiven the [World Trade Organization] is blowing up and the Americans are deliberately blowing up the multilateral rules-based order.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A landmark EU-U.K. summit is expected to be held in the summer, with Britain seeking to negotiate expanded economic and security cooperation with Brussels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHe&#8217;s seen as a very serious diplomat,\u201d said one EU envoy, \u201che&#8217;s very well connected.\u201d The move comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[344,18,170,8403,1935,473,181,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-14891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brussels","10":"tag-finland","11":"tag-ivan-rogers","12":"tag-keir-starmer","13":"tag-services","14":"tag-trade","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116553347539767406","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}