\n Ten years after the referendum that led to Brexit, Britain and the European Union must close ranks in an increasingly unstable world, their leaders said on Saturday.\n <\/p>\n
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen told the Munich Security Conference that Europe and Britain need to to cooperate more closely on “security, on economy.. on defending our democracies”.<\/p>\n
“Europe and in particular the UK should come closer together .. 10 years on from Brexit our futures are as bound as ever,” she told the Munich Security conference.<\/p>\n
British leader Keir Starmer echoed her.<\/p>\n
“We are not at a crossroads: The road ahead is straight and it is clear. We must build our hard power, because that is the currency of the age,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We must be able to deter aggression and, yes, if necessary, we must be ready to fight,” he said, calling for a building of “a shared industrial base across Europe which can turbocharge our defence production” and “multiply our strengths”.<\/p>\n
On Friday NATO chief Mark Rutte said that “a strong Europe in a strong NATO means that the transatlantic bond will be stronger than ever” and French President Emmanuel Macron said that “this is the right time for a strong Europe,” that would be “building its own architecture of security”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten years after the referendum that led to Brexit, Britain and the European Union must close ranks in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-767343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116077996965717469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767343","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=767343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}