{"id":237714,"date":"2025-07-04T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/237714\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:20:10","slug":"merz-to-visit-uk-this-month-to-sign-anglo-german-treaty-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/237714\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz to visit UK this month to sign Anglo-German treaty \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starmer’s team has been courting closer relations<\/a> with Berlin since they were in opposition, particularly on defense and security, which was the focus of a separate agreement<\/a> signed last October. <\/p>\n

An ally of the German chancellor said that he was keen to put a “personal face” on the U.K.- German relationship.<\/p>\n

However, the date of Merz’s excursion was subject to intense negotiations as officials were keen not to detract from Emmanuel Macron’s state visit, two people with knowledge of the process said.<\/p>\n

British Defense Secretary John Healey has already established a good relationship<\/a> with his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, as the two navigate major reforms to their national armies.<\/p>\n

One area of discussion which will be more sensitive is the treaty’s wording on cross-border movement, as Berlin pushes for a new EU-wide agreement on youth mobility while Starmer faces pressure to cut migration.<\/p>\n

Chris Lunday and Anne McElvoy contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer’s team has been courting closer relations with Berlin since they were in opposition, particularly on defense and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7668,748,6215,473,34,393,1945,4884,1195,2819,807,6657,5733,809,1144,7337,712,811,16,15,1764,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-237714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-boris-pistorius","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-cooperation","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-emmanuel-macron","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-friedrich-merz","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-growth","18":"tag-john-healey","19":"tag-keir-starmer","20":"tag-migration","21":"tag-mobility","22":"tag-negotiations","23":"tag-northern-ireland","24":"tag-olaf-scholz","25":"tag-scotland","26":"tag-security","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom","29":"tag-wales","30":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114795644549686269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237714","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=237714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}