Live: Keir Starmer joins EU defence meeting – first UK PM post-Brexit
Live: Keir Starmer joins EU defence meeting
Latest: German Chancellor: EU can react with its own tariffs against the United States. This in response to the announcement by President Donald Trump threatening EU levy – but cooperation with the U.S is more important.
Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer and other European leaders arrive in Brussels on Monday, 3 February. Starmer is the first UK prime minister to join a meeting of European Union leaders since Brexit.
The PM will place security and defence at the heart of his post-Brexit reset with the EU. He will call on leaders in Brussels to stand together and double down on their support for Ukraine.
Sir Keir will challenge Britain’s European allies to ramp up their defence spending to keep the continent safe from Vladimir Putin’s “campaign of sabotage and destruction” in a discussion with EU heads of state.
He will also call on fellow leaders to maintain pressure on the Russian president by continuing sanctions that have crippled Putin’s nation since his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Monday’s meeting is set to be overshadowed by the threat of an international trade war as Donald Trump warned tariffs would be imposed on the EU “pretty soon”.
Asked by the BBC early on Monday if he would target the UK with tariffs, the American president said: “UK is out of line but I’m sure that one, I think that one can be worked out. “But the European Union, it’s an atrocity what they’ve done.”
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