{"id":771333,"date":"2026-02-17T22:54:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/771333\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:54:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:54:30","slug":"new-age-europe-uk-seek-closer-ties-decade-after-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/771333\/","title":{"rendered":"New Age | Europe, UK seek closer ties decade after Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                              &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                             <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"igm-fluid lazy_bk\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/default.png\" alt=\"Image description\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                                                          &#13;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>EU chief Ursula von der Leyen told the Munich Security Conference that Europe and Britain need to cooperate more closely on \u2018security, on economy.. on defending our democracies\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Europe and in particular the UK should come closer together &#8230; 10 years on from Brexit our futures are as bound as ever,\u2019 she told the Munich Security conference.<\/p>\n<p>British leader Keir Starmer echoed her. \u2018We 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,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We must be able to deter aggression and, yes, if necessary, we must be ready to fight,\u2019 he said, calling for a building of \u2018a shared industrial base across Europe which can turbocharge our defence production\u2019 and \u2018multiply our strengths\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, NATO chief Mark Rutte said that \u2018a strong Europe in a strong NATO means that the transatlantic bond will be stronger than ever\u2019 and French president Emmanuel Macron said that \u2018this is the right time for a strong Europe,\u2019 that would be \u2018building its own architecture of security\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Ten years after the referendum that led to Brexit, Britain and the European&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[24953,24952,24950,24947,24949,802,748,24946,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,24951,24948,24944,24945,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-771333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-bangla-online-news","9":"tag-bangladesh-latest-news","10":"tag-bangladesh-news","11":"tag-bangladesh-newspaper","12":"tag-bangladeshi-newspapers","13":"tag-brexit","14":"tag-britain","15":"tag-daily-new-age","16":"tag-eu","17":"tag-europe","18":"tag-european","19":"tag-european-union","20":"tag-great-britain","21":"tag-latest-bangladesh-news","22":"tag-most-popular-outspoken-english-daily-newpaper-in-bangladesh","23":"tag-new-age","24":"tag-the-new-age","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116088436549241840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771333","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=771333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}