(Bloomberg) – The negotiators of the British and European Union turned over the measures to make traveling for students, young workers and tourists to make it easier to resolve political disputes before the summit to reset their decaying relationship this weekend.
Hours before Prime Minister Keir Starmer was hosted by Ursula von der Leyen and other European leaders in London, the United Kingdom and the EU, according to people, met interviews. The European site caught up with what it considered a disadvantageous offer that did not reach its desire for Britain to join his Erasmus exchange program that people who asked for anonymity to discuss private negotiations.
So far, the United Kingdom has been reluctant to support politicians that could cause the influx of students and young workers because Starmer is trying to limit immigration five years after Brexit. The lack of progress in the field of youth mobility caused the EU to carefully unsubscribed to further travel related, expected in an agreement that will be published on Monday, including a tour of British artists and the law of British citizens to use e-Bran in the EU countries, people said.
There was still hope that people could be closed, people said, although they warned that the language could be more limited than hoped. In the sign of the potential softening of the British position Starmer told the newspaper Times that the agreement on students could be possible and stated that “youth mobility is not freedom of movement”.
Traveling students were one of the adhesive points that in the weeks leading to the summit, which it had since last year last year, negotiators in the weeks leading to the summit, which was to confirm Starmer’s obligation to restore relations with the continent. Old disputes over things, such as fishing rights, reappeared between the two sides despite their desire to show a unified front because US President Donald Trump broke the global trading system and seeks to force Ukraine to make concessions to resolve the war against the Russian invasion.
The United Kingdom hopes that the EU will signal that it is ready to approve British participation in the European defense fund of EUR 150 billion ($ 170 billion), which were also unresolved, and the highest diplomat Kaja Kallas EU said on Friday that “we are not there yet.” At the beginning of the week of the Minister of Defense of British Defense John Healey, Bloomberg told Bloomberg that interviews with European officials were in their “most difficult yards”.
The United Kingdom and the EU are expected to outline their agreement in three documents: defensive and security partnerships that will build on their joint response to the Russian War in Ukraine, which is a joint understanding of future cooperation-which would include liabilities related to traveling-a statement of a closer alliance in uncertain geopolitical times. While the EU wants to re -build links with Britain, especially in security matters, many Member States are cautious that London Cherry chooses the benefits of closer ties without accepting obligations such as the free moment of people.
On Friday, Starmer met with the chairman of the European Commission von der Leyen on the edge of the European political community summit in Albania when the negotiations dropped to the wire. The British Prime Minister refused to engage in what he described as “Megaphone diplomacy” with the EU, although he said he was “positive” about interviews.
Under the pressure on Brexit-Campaigner Nigel Farage, the opposition Party of Reform UK, Starmer announced this week’s migration intervention and faced criticism from left to claim that Britain could become a “island of foreigners”, a rhetoric that emphasized his journey from a politician who promised to “defend free movement” when he won five years ago.
The summit comes in the middle of the busiest section of diplomacy since Starmer since he joined the office in July. In the last two weeks, he visited Kiev with another “coalition of willing” leaders, announced an agreement on free trade in India and sealed an agreement with Trump to ease tariffs.
“At this time, the United Kingdom will not react by turning in, but by the proud introduction of our place on the world scene – strengthening our alliances and concluding agreements in the interests of the British,” Starmer said on Saturday, adding that a new agreement with Europe would be good for our accounts and good for our borders. ”
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