Talks for reset the UK and the European Union “to the wire” are heading

On Monday, Britain and the European Union will agree to the main reconciliation after Britain’s exit from the European Union, but they wander in the main details, including fisheries, food trade and youth movement until Sunday evening, as the two sides were involved in the edge of the eleventh abyss.

A historical summit at Lancaster House in London will witness a security and defensive partnership, the axis of “reset” and the recognition that the entire continent needs to be collected to counter the threat from Russia.

Sir Kerr Starmer will sign the defense and agency agreement, which is considered in the deepest economic cooperation during a two -hour meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Lynn and European Council President Antonio Costa.

The European Union summit, the first since it entered Britain’s exit from the European Union in 2020, will bathe with a spirit of reconciliation, but the talks in Brussels on Sunday were a reminder that the relationship between the two sides is now very transactions.

British officials said on Sunday evening that “great progress” was made in some areas, but “negotiations reach the wires.” In Brussels, European Union ambassadors were asked to prepare for more talks at 10 pm.

Details of the European Union deal-UK is very sensitive. Conservative leader Kimi Badnosh warned that Starmer was about to “hand over” British interests.

In Brussels, the European Union ambassadors demanded more concessions from Britain in exchange for retreating from some economic damage caused by Britain’s exit from the European Union, including a long -term conservation deal in the long term Access to British hunting lands For France and other coastal countries.

British officials have admitted that the European Union will not agree to an open deal to remove the post-Britain’s exit from the European Union to trade in food and animals-one of the largest “asks” in the United Kingdom-what was not satisfied with a deal on fish.

“We want to give confidence in business,” said one of the UK officials, who will leave a lot of uncertainty for farmers and supermarkets. Market.

There was an inconvenience in Brussels that Starmer issued a press release during the weekend, in which he claimed a deal to reduce prices in stores had already been agreed. “This is not the case,” said a European Union diplomat on Sunday.

However, Britain has recognized that removing barriers that prevent food trade will require the UK “dynamically compatible” with the rules that take place in Brussels, as well as provide a financial contribution to the European Union to finance work on food and animal standards. Conservatives claim that this is “betrayal” in Britain’s exit from the European Union.

At the same time, the European Union is also trying to make Britain registration Youth transportation scheme Including better access to students to UK universities – in a “joint understanding” statement issued alongside the defense agreement.

the European Union Starmer has warned that the British tourists will not be easier to travel across the national border in Europe or for UK travelers from using electronic passports unless he was more bolder to move young people, according to officials who have been informed of the talks.

Starmer admitted that the youth transport scheme will happen, but it tries to maintain the language in the mysterious indication, allowing detailed talks on controversial areas such as numbers and student fees for more negotiations later this year.

The Lancaster House Summit will include an agreement to reduce the “holiday waiting lists”, with European Relations Minister Nick Thomas-Simmonds on Sunday, was looking for a deal to allow electronic gates to be used on the border.

But the second European Union diplomat denied the request – which was previously submitted by Starmer Rishi Sonak – was granted.

The diplomat said: “Starmer sees some of the results of the summit as a deal that has already been accomplished, and it is not, and he wants to appear as a deals maker.”

“UK negotiators need to show that they really want to reset on the basis of” victory “, not just looking at the potential gains of only one side.”

A person involved in talks on the European Union side said the discussions were always expected to go to the wire. “The British negotiating are difficult. But we must eventually make a deal.”

The European Union diplomats complained of the last Starmer tactics to force the deal. At the end of last week, the British ministers contacted their counterparts in the capitals of the European Union to pay for an agreement, bypassing the committee – which a diplomat called “the gap and judgment tactic”.

While both sides were trying to extract concessions from each other on Sunday evening, the talks will not hinder the comprehensive agreement. When issues are not resolved, British officials say it is possible to “see long grass” for more conversations later.

Details of the final text are expected to be published on Monday, but Starmer and its European Union axes will be painful in compatibility, instead of painful bargaining at the last minute by their negotiators on Sunday.

Additional reports by Barbara Mines in Brussels