The UK minister for EU relations, Thomas-Symonds, emphasizes the need to move beyond a 'zero-sum' approach in relations with the EU. He calls for closer cooperation on defense, energy, veterinary border checks, professional qualifications, and tackling illegal immigration. The minister stresses the importance of rejoining the EU's Horizon science research program and highlights the many mutually beneficial interests between the UK and EU.
has to move away from something that is seen as a “zero-sum” game of winners and losers, the UK minister for EU relations has said.arrangements with the EU, he said. “We haven’t achieved as much together as we could have done,” he said.
“In a more uncertain world, we are regularly reminded that allies are more secure together than they are apart,” he said. Mr Thomas-Symonds said it was “vital” the UK had rejoined the EU’s Horizon science research programme, something it should “never have left in the first place”. The minister was speaking the day after Mr Starmer joined a meeting of the 27 EU leaders in Brussels on Monday, the first a UK prime minister has attended since Britain’s exit from the EU.
EU officials and diplomats have stressed that any deal on defence would need to be part of a wider package. The EU is pushing for such a deal to include an agreement on fishing rights and a scheme allowing young people to move between the EU and UK to study and work for a number of years.said work implementing the existing agreements setting the terms of the UK’s exit was ongoing and would “keep us busy”.
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