{"id":120777,"date":"2025-05-21T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120777\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:07:08","slug":"the-best-part-of-the-uk-eu-deal-is-a-system-for-doing-more-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120777\/","title":{"rendered":"The best part of the UK-EU deal is a system for doing more deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Fans and foes of this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/britain\/2025\/05\/19\/the-britain-eu-deal-is-welcome-but-just-a-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreement<\/a> between Britain and the European Union have made hugely exaggerated claims about it. Sir Keir Starmer heralded it as historic and the start of a new era. The prime minister\u2019s opponents accused him of betraying Brexit or of killing it altogether. The truth is that the deal sensibly, if modestly, reduces some of the worst trade frictions introduced after Britain\u2019s exit from the club five years ago. And it adds a new pact to work together on rebuilding Europe\u2019s defences, an urgent task given Russian aggression and American equivocation. But this \u201creset\u201d is neither historic nor an act of betrayal. Brexit remains \u201chard\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans and foes of this week\u2019s agreement between Britain and the European Union have made hugely exaggerated claims&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,695,391],"class_list":{"0":"post-120777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-leaders","15":"tag-opinion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114547867309206308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120777","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=120777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}