Thursday\u2019s Makerfield byelection<\/a>, said: \u201cMy Labour government is delivering on our promise to reset our relationship and put Britain at the heart of Europe.<\/p>\n\u201cTogether we will tackle the cost of living, boost jobs and create opportunities for young people.\u201d<\/p>\n
The head of pro-EU campaign group Best for Britain, Naomi Smith, said \u201cwhoever is in No 10 in July must recognise the increasing importance\u201d of the bloc, and that even \u201csignalling an intention to pursue membership\u201d would help generate the political will to underpin rejoining.<\/p>\n
The summit was originally supposed to take place in May but delays over the youth mobility programme pushed it back to the end of June, then early July.<\/p>\n
Ant\u00f3nio Costa, right, pictured with Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit, said, \u2018Close EU-UK cooperation is essential for our shared European security\u2019 Photograph: European Union\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Up until the last two weeks, senior EU diplomats expressed disappointment that the \u201cmomentum is being lost\u201d in the \u201creset\u201d that Starmer has so often promised since he took office in 2024.<\/p>\n
Other key topics on the agenda are a food and farm produce trade agreement that will see red tape and physical checks on exports into the EU removed, with the UK agreeing to align with the bloc\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n
The sanitary and phytosanitary agreement is already agreed in part, with the UK recently unveiling some of the checks that would be removed, allowing food producers time to prepare for the implementation of the deal, probably next summer.<\/p>\n
Talks are also progressing on an emissions trading system, which will allow the UK to align with the EU\u2019s trading rules involving penalties for those products with high carbon emissions.<\/p>\n
However, the UK\u2019s resistance to some of the EU\u2019s demands in a youth experience programme, including a restoration of the pre-Brexit home tuition fees for EU students, is thought to have held up the summit.<\/p>\n
EU diplomats have warned there would be no summit without a youth experience programme, one of the few EU red lines in the reset negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU and the UK have announced they will hold their next summit to discuss the \u201creset\u201d in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-642023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}