{"id":22591,"date":"2025-04-15T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22591\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:47:08","slug":"eu-uk-defense-deal-in-sight-at-may-summit-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/22591\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-UK defense deal in sight at May summit \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both sides are also expected to use next month&#8217;s meeting to reach a \u201ccommon understanding\u201d of which issues will be tackled under Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s wider Brexit reset \u2014 which has so far been lacking in policy detail.<\/p>\n<p>That could pave the way for negotiations on U.K. objectives like an agri-food standards agreement to reduce trade bureaucracy, as well as EU plans like improved mobility for young people and students.<\/p>\n<p>London and Brussels will also pen a separate joint declaration on \u201cglobal issues\u201d at the conference \u2014 which could lay out common ground on topics such as the war in Ukraine or the global trading system, according to two EU officials with knowledge of preparations for the summit.<\/p>\n<p>But progress on the security pact in particular is expected to be dependent on the U.K.&#8217;s guaranteeing continued access for EU fishing fleets in its waters \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-eu-defense-pact-really-does-depend-on-fish-european-minister-warns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a key demand of coastal member states<\/a> like France and Denmark, who fear being cut out when a Brexit fisheries transition period ends in June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny progress on a security and defense agreement is linked to progress on fisheries,\u201d one of the EU officials told POLITICO.<\/p>\n<p>The EU diplomat, quoted above, said the security agreement would have to \u201cgo hand in hand with fisheries.\u201d They were granted anonymity to speak freely about the ongoing negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both sides are also expected to use next month&#8217;s meeting to reach a \u201ccommon understanding\u201d of which issues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[5109,802,748,803,473,365,2438,32,33,1312,35,2000,804,299,5187,1699,14092,805,36,4884,806,807,5733,269,809,810,46,811,1201,14373,16,15,1220,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-22591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-boris-johnson","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-daniel-zeichner","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-denmark","14":"tag-department","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-elections","17":"tag-electricity","18":"tag-energy","19":"tag-eu","20":"tag-eu-affairs","21":"tag-europe","22":"tag-european","23":"tag-european-union","24":"tag-fishing-fleets","25":"tag-foreign-policy","26":"tag-france","27":"tag-great-britain","28":"tag-industry","29":"tag-keir-starmer","30":"tag-mobility","31":"tag-music","32":"tag-negotiations","33":"tag-nick-thomas-symonds","34":"tag-policy","35":"tag-security","36":"tag-trade","37":"tag-transition-implementation-period","38":"tag-uk","39":"tag-united-kingdom","40":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","41":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114343238367557143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22591","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=22591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}