EU leaders urge Starmer to improve mobility treatment in the last ditch ‘reset’ conversations

Sir Keir Starmer’s European leaders will be urged to propose the British offer on youth mobility and fishing to unlock an agreement with the EU at a historic summit between the two parts on Monday.

It is expected that the Prime Minister will have leaders with leaders, such as the French President Emmanuel Macron and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in a last-ditch effort to end a Atzucace before the United Kingdom Summit in London.

EU negotiators are hitting before Tight According to Brussels officials, a better agreement for tourist artists in the United Kingdom, a cause defended by Sir Elton John, and a long -term agreement to eliminate barriers to agrifood trade.

In return, Starmer is pressured to grant better terms for EU students and other young people who want to travel to Britain, along with a long -term extension of current fishing rights in the United Kingdom waters for France and other coastal states.

British officials say they expect Starmer to meet EU leaders on the margins of a European political community summit, a pan -European group focused on security issues, in the Albanian capital of Tirana.

An EU diplomat said, “There is an opinion that, after Brexit, most” questions “in this negotiation are British.” The financial times informed Thursday that the 27 -member block wants Starmer to make last -minute concessions.

Other EU diplomats warned that the reestablishment of the EU-UK, which was signed at the first summit between the two parties, as the Brexit came into force in 2020, must include an exchange of “fish for food” with Brussels.

“They have to accept a bond between fish and (a food product sending agreement) and refuses,” said a EU diplomat, in reference to a health and phytosanitary agreement that would reduce barriers to products, fish and animal products.

The United Kingdom has offered to continue the current access to its fishing grounds for four years after 2026, but the EU wants at least seven, according to officials. Brussels wants to link the duration of the veterinary agreement to the fishing agreement.

A veterinary agreement and one to allow British musicians and artists to go to the EU were in the labor manifesto, and Brussels offers to commit to the latter.

A senior official told the FT that he would be willing to modify the post-bruise treaty between the two to allow British truckers and roads to move freely among EU countries in exchange for a scheme to allow young people from 18 to 30 years old to work and study in the United Kingdom more easily.

Starmer, speaking on Thursday in Tirana, said he would not negotiate with Brussels through “megaphone diplomacy”, but insisted: “We have made a good progress and I’m sure we will really move on Monday.”

The Prime Minister said that an agreement with the EU, including an security and defense pact, would mean that it had concluded agreements with India, the United States and the EU within three weeks. “This is incredibly beneficial for our country,” he said.

Starmer again ruled out what is expected to be a central part of the Monday Agreement: Britain would accept the change in Brussels’ rules and “aligning, dynamically” with new EU regulations, as part of an agreement to break down borders in food and electrical trade markets.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has criticized Starmer for being willing to commit British “sovereignty”. He told a conference in Brussels that “we can improve our relationship with European countries, but not to be a begging.”

Starmer faced the conservative leader again, saying: “Without knowing what is in the EU, he says he is against. The only saving grace is that no one in Europe takes her seriously.”