Brussels is preparing to name a high price if the Prime Minister wants to get his desired deals on security and trade.
Sir Keir Starmer has been warned by European diplomats he needs to make major concessions to the EU or risk seeing
European diplomatic sources warned that most of the EU is happy with the current status quo and so Starmer faces difficult negotiations ahead.there was exasperation in some European capitals that the UK is making demands but has so far dismissed the EU’s own asks, citing the example that Starmer wants easier migration rules for touring artists but has given a cold shoulder to Brussels’ call for a youth mobility scheme for under-30s migration.
A report by the presidency of the European Council, leaked to several newspapers over the weekend after the body’s president Alberto Costa met Starmer in London on Thursday, set out stringent demands the EU is likely to make of the UK. The expiry of the agreement could be used as a major point of leverage in negotiations by the UK, but the EU appears to be trying to get an early deal, warning in the paper that: “This is needed for the facilitation of discussions on the other aspects under consideration .
Cohen also warned that the EU’s move on the sand eel ban, over which it has launched formal dispute proceedings, would leave the UK’s fisheries management policy “completely hamstrung” and “undo the little good that has been done for UK fishing since Brexit”.“All very nice but not necessarily something they are going to get.”
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