{"id":269866,"date":"2025-07-17T17:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269866\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:24:12","slug":"uk-and-germany-sign-key-deal-as-part-of-brexit-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269866\/","title":{"rendered":"UK and Germany sign key deal as part of Brexit \u2018reset\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Sir Keir Starmer and German leader Friedrich Merz signed the Kensington Treaty, the most significant UK-German co-operation deal since the Second World War. <\/li>\n<li>The treaty focuses on enhanced collaboration in migration, trade, and security, marking a notable improvement in Anglo-German relations. <\/li>\n<li>Key provisions include Germany closing a loophole to allow police to seize small boats used by migrants, and visa-free travel for German school trips to the UK by year-end. <\/li>\n<li>British visitors will gain access to German passport e-gates by the end of August, initially for frequent travellers, as part of Sir Keir&#8217;s wider Brexit &#8216;reset&#8217;. <\/li>\n<li>Despite the new agreement, Mr Merz expressed his personal regret over Brexit, while recent polls indicate a majority in Germany and other EU nations would welcome the UK back into the bloc. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>IN FULL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/brexit-eu-uk-germany-starmer-merz-treaty-b2790997.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I deplore Brexit, German chancellor admits as he signs new treaty with Starmer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer and German leader Friedrich Merz signed the Kensington Treaty, the most significant UK-German co-operation deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[1500,802,748,4044,2000,299,5187,1699,5686,4884,5681,12,5683,5682,5684,5685,16,15,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-269866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-daily-news","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-global-news","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-inkl","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-news-app","21":"tag-news-headlines","22":"tag-news-today","23":"tag-today-news","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114869742055727228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269866","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=269866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}