{"id":9883,"date":"2026-04-05T01:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/9883\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:41:12","slug":"ursula-von-der-leyen-to-travel-to-australia-to-seal-eu-security-trade-deal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/9883\/","title":{"rendered":"Ursula von der Leyen to travel to Australia to seal EU security, trade deal \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quotas are still being negotiated between Canberra and Brussels, the first person familiar with the talks said.<\/p>\n<p>Von der Leyen will take the 20-hour-plus flight to Australia directly after she attends the Munich Security Conference, which takes place in the German city on Feb. 13-15, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/thenightly.com.au\/politics\/european-commission-president-ursula-von-der-leyen-to-visit-australia-for-supersized-trade-deal-c-21522405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Australian digital newspaper The Nightly<\/a>, which broke the news of the Commission chief\u2019s four-day trip.<\/p>\n<p>Asked for comment, Commission Deputy Chief Spokesperson Olof Gill confirmed the meeting between \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d and Farrell but not von der Leyen\u2019s visit to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNegotiations between the EU and Australia are ongoing,\u201d Gill said. \u201cThe EU is committed to strengthening relations with Australia, a strategic and like-minded partner. As always, progress in the sensitive phase of negotiations will depend on substance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EU countries last December allowed the Commission to negotiate a defense deal with Australia. Sealing such a deal would come on the heels of security and defense partnerships signed with the U.K., Canada and most recently India.<\/p>\n<p>An agreement with Australia would represent a win for the EU, as it would open access to the country&#8217;s vast reserves of strategic minerals. Australia is the world\u2019s largest producer of lithium and also holds the world\u2019s second-largest copper reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Coming after the EU\u2019s fraught Mercosur deal with South American countries \u2014 criticized by farmers, France and skeptical lawmakers \u2014 the pact with Canberra is expected to also trigger pushback due to its significant agricultural component.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated with comment from the Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The quotas are still being negotiated between Canberra and Brussels, the first person familiar with the talks said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[363,8868,5818,245,8869,5821,8870,1432,932,1745,403],"class_list":{"0":"post-9883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ursula-von-der-leyen","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-beef","10":"tag-farmers","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-maros-sefcovic","13":"tag-mercosur","14":"tag-multilateral-trade","15":"tag-negotiations","16":"tag-security","17":"tag-trade","18":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116349559274428849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}