Plans to reset United Kingdom-UE Relations

Preparations for a post-Breexit reset of relations between the United Kingdom and the EU were launched on Wednesday after the EU Member States demanded more London concessions on fishing rights and youth mobility.

With only five days to the EU-regne summit joined in London, EU diplomats rejected the European Commission at the attempts to overcome the gaps between the two parties that have led to more and more full negotiations.

A draft of EU communities that establishes the terms of an EU-UK improved relationship will not be completed until Sunday, only one day ahead of the summit, after the EU Member States fell over the Terms of an agreement.

The Bloc wants to access the British waters for its cheap fishermen and university commissions for its students as a price to reduce the commercial barriers that followed the UK United Kingdom departure from the EU unique market and the Customs Union by 2020.

“We are all unhappy with the lack of progress, especially in youth mobility … and as the British are asking for wide concessions without offering anything in return,” said an EU diplomat on Wednesday about a meeting of the bloc ambassadors.

The proposal for the reestablishment of relationships, exposed to the EU text project, seen by the FT, seeks to deepen the links in areas included safetyEnergy and trade of agrifood products, but would force the United Kingdom to accept some of Brussels rules and a role for the European Court of Justice, as well as make some payments on the blog.

Another EU diplomat said that the United Kingdom had been dedicated to “intense pressure” of blog governments in recent days to oppose an EU decision to impose a term In any agreement to cut the red tape for British food exporters if the United Kingdom did not grant long -term access to its fishing ground.

But EU ambassadors rejected a proposed commitment to make this agreement “limited by time and renewable” without specifying a link to fishing rights.

“Even Earth -free Member States are supporters of the Commission to promote a hard bond” between fishing and a veterinary agreement to facilitate exports, said a third EU diplomat.

British supermarkets have put hard pressure For a veterinary agreement to soften the flow of food, fish and animals between the United Kingdom and the EU, but the industry executives privately warned that the agreement should be permanent to provide lasting cost reductions.

The veterinary agreement would also involve “an adequate financial contribution” by Britain.

Ministers in the United Kingdom have not denied the conservative party’s claims that the agreement provided with the EU would reverse the key elements of Brexit, including acceptance of the principle of dynamic alignment, so that it took new Brussels rules.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said Starmer is preparing to “market our sovereignty at the closed doors” and are investing the basic principles of Brexit.

But labor officials said that Starmer was not interested in fighting the “past battles” and wanted to build closer relationships with the EU, providing economic benefits to Britain, reducing the prices of goods and building better security links.

London and Brussels have approached in principle for a “Youth Mobility Outline”Offering visas to young people from 18 to 30 years old to work, study or travel to others, increasing the additional temporary migration perspective in the United Kingdom.

The proposed scheme would not allow participants a way to the permanent residence or the right to claim benefits of Social Security, with the final number of visas available with a maximum “acceptable for both parties”.

The EU Member States insist that their students should pay the same registration fees of £ 9,535 as their UK counterparts when they attended British universities, a stipulation that was eliminated from the project of the EU ambassadors. “The goal is the goal of equal rates for EU students,” another EU diplomat said.

Starmer allies insisted that EU students will not be charged the same fees as their UK counterparts, given the importance of international fees for the Britain’s university sector finances. “We cannot afford it,” one said.

The text draft also includes a “mechanism for resolving disputes with an independent arbitration box that guarantees that the ECJ is the definitive authority for all issues of the EU law”.

Britain would be invited “in an early stage” to discuss the next EU rules and would be part of the process of “conformation of the decision”, but it would have no vote or veto on the proposed changes.

A spokesman for the United Kingdom government said that the role of ECJ in a reestablishment agreement would be the same as in the Brexit withdrawal agreement, where he would give his opinion on the interpretation of the EU law, but an arbitral body would make the final decision in any dispute.

The spokesman added: “These are EU internal texts. No final agreement has been made.

He has approached the European Commission for comments.

Alice Hancock additional reports in Brussels