A new security pact with Brussels is a key plank of Keir Starmer\u2019s foreign policy strategy in light of moves by Donald Trump to distance himself from European security.<\/p>\n
Brussels has proposed a\u00a0\u20ac150 billion loan program for EU governments to spend on re-arming. The funds should be invested on a \u201cbuy more European\u201d basis, according to Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But without a formal defense agreement with Brussels, the U.K. will be locked out of the scheme.<\/p>\n
Let down before<\/p>\n
Asked whether he had seen comments by Brexit minister Nick Thomas-Symonds hinting that he favored a more stable arrangement, Zeichner said: \u201cHe probably would say that. But what we want to do is to secure the best possible outcome that we can for U.K. fisheries, and that will be a further discussion to be held in the months ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re absolutely determined to stand up to the U.K. fishing industry. The fishing industry has been let down before, and I don\u2019t intend to let that happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The minister\u2019s comments were welcomed by Alistair Carmichael, the Liberal Democrat MP who chairs the Environment Committee, who told him he was \u201cabsolutely on the money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFishermen felt that the deal that was done at the end of the Brexit negotiations was one that did not deliver what they had expected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything that is a further backwards step will be viewed very bleakly by the industry, and the even modest progress will still leave them quite a way short of where they want it to be.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new security pact with Brussels is a key plank of Keir Starmer\u2019s foreign policy strategy in light…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[801,768,802,803,473,32,728,804,805,36,13,806,807,808,809,12,810,48,811,812,14,15],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-alistair-carmichael","tag-borders","tag-brexit","tag-daniel-zeichner","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-environment","tag-eu-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-france","tag-headlines","tag-industry","tag-keir-starmer","tag-maritime","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-nick-thomas-symonds","tag-rights","tag-security","tag-sweden","tag-top-stories","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114266454343906011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","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=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}