Negotiators worked late into the night on Sunday to strike the accord ahead of a summit in London on Monday.<\/p>\n
It comes after EU member countries hinted that the reset of relations was dependent on extending EU fishing access in British waters.<\/p>\n
The security and defense pact formalizes cooperation between the two sides on matters such as hybrid warfare, cybersecurity, resilience of critical infrastructure and maritime safety.<\/p>\n
On defense, the deal opens the way to the United Kingdom to participate in joint EU procurement programs.<\/p>\n
Further negotiations will be required for the U.K. to access the EU’s \u20ac 150 billion SAFE rearmament programme, however, with budget contributions from London the price of entry.<\/p>\n
Under the new deal, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and EU High Representative Kaja Kallas will hold a dialogue once per semester, in addition to regular exchanges on Russia-Ukraine, hybrid threats and Western Balkans, according to one of the diplomats.<\/p>\n
EU and UK leaders are set to finalize the agreement later on Monday during a summit in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Negotiators worked late into the night on Sunday to strike the accord ahead of a summit in London…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[6560,1194,6215,7694,3457,6217,473,35,2000,299,5187,1699,31865,6084,2596,807,808,6657,5733,809,2453,7061,8720,48,332,5549,811,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-113912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-balkans","9":"tag-budget","10":"tag-cooperation","11":"tag-critical-infrastructure","12":"tag-cybersecurity","13":"tag-david-lammy","14":"tag-defense","15":"tag-energy","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-european-union","20":"tag-hybrid-threats","21":"tag-infrastructure","22":"tag-kaja-kallas","23":"tag-keir-starmer","24":"tag-maritime","25":"tag-migration","26":"tag-mobility","27":"tag-negotiations","28":"tag-policing","29":"tag-procurement","30":"tag-resilience","31":"tag-rights","32":"tag-russia","33":"tag-safety","34":"tag-security","35":"tag-uk","36":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114533652545872050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}