\u201cToday we talked about defense and security, but the United Kingdom and the European Union want to do more together,\u201d Costa told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are looking forward to having our institutional summit in the U.K. on 19 of May, and to engage with the United Kingdom, not only on a reset, but effectively in the closest relationship [that] it will be possible to build together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Von der Leyen said London and Brussels would \u201cdiscuss the structure and format\u201d of deeper security cooperation \u201cand other topics at our common joint defense summit in the U.K. in May.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since coming to office in July last year the Labour prime minister has pledged to \u201creset\u201d relations with the EU \u2014 which had often been frosty under the previous Conservative U.K. government.<\/p>\n
The May summit is expected to flesh out the details of the reset, which has so far been characterized by warm words on both sides but little policy detail.<\/p>\n
No.10 Downing Street said Tuesday that the summit would “provide an opportunity to make further progress on areas which will deliver tangible benefits for the people of the U.K. and the EU and further strengthen the unique relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union.” <\/p>\n
The format of the meeting and whether member states will be involved has not been confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cToday we talked about defense and security, but the United Kingdom and the European Union want to do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[11783,802,748,6215,473,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,807,46,811,16,15,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-195338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-antonio-costa","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-cooperation","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-keir-starmer","19":"tag-policy","20":"tag-security","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114706361042818362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195338","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=195338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}