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Starmer will be the first British prime minister to attend a European Council meeting from Brexit on Monday. It will discuss the plans for an EUK-EE defense and security association to address “generational threats.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will attend the European Council meeting on Monday. (Reuters)
Prime Minister Keir Starmer will urge European leaders to “continue to attack” Russian President Vladimir Putin when the United Kingdom Prime Minister becomes the first to attend a meeting of the European Council from Brexit on Monday.
Starmer said Sunday during a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that he was “very waiting” to attend the informal retirement of EU leaders on Monday in Belgium.
While there, the Prime Minister will discuss plans for a defense and security association of the UK-EE “to address the generational threats that we all face,” according to a press release sent by his Downing Street office on Sunday night.
It will also ask European countries to continue going down in Putin “and” intensify and assume the burden to keep Europe safe against the growing sabotage and destruction campaign of Russia in our continent. “
In conversations with Scholz, Starmer emphasized that it was important force”.
The return of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to the White House, has given renewed urgency to the support of Ukraine in Europe, since the Republican Mercurial has promised to put a quick end to war, leaving the EU leaders fearful of being able to put them aside and force kyiv to a bad business.
“President Trump has threatened Russia with more sanctions and it is clear that Putin has shaken,” Starmer said before the trip. “We know he is concerned about the state of the Russian economy.”
By maintaining the penalty pressure on energy income and Russia companies that supply their missile factories, the United Kingdom and its European partners could “crush the Putin war machine,” he added.
Starmer will meet with the general secretary of the NATO Mark Rutte on Monday, before traveling to meet with the leaders of the 27 EU member states at an informal meeting of the European Council.
The session is part of the “continuous commitment of Starmer to strengthen our association with the European Union,” Downing Street said.
Restoring later Brexit relations with the EU is a key foreign policy strategy for Starmer, who was a firm defender of remaining in the block during the 2016 referendum.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED – AFP union news agency)
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