The EU and the United Kingdom reach agreements in Defense, Safety, Fisheries and Youth Mobility

The European Union and the Union opened a new chapter on Monday in their bilateral relations five years after the break of the ‘Bréxit’, with agreements in agreements Defense, Safety, Fisheries and Youth Mobility.

The agreements were announced during a Bilateral top who collected the British Prime Minister in London, Keir StarmerThe President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyenand the president of the European Council, António Costa. After the meeting, the three leaders offered a joint press conference.

Keir Starmer has defended that this agreement “marks a new era”, which “is a victory for both parties and achieves what the British voted: it gives us unprecedented access to the EU market, while retaining the red lines of our election program.”

For his part, Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that the European Union has opened a ‘new chapter’. “This is the story of some historical and natural partners who are elbow in the world scene, with the same challenges, are confronted, share the same goals outgoing and the same values.”

The joint statement released at the end of the meeting indicates that this new association responds to a complex and constantly evolving geopolitics Panorama.

So on the one hand they have reached a new one Fishing agreement for 12 yearsGuaranteeing mutual access to the waters until 2038, a measure that is greatly criticized by the right of the United Kingdom that has labeled it as ‘betrayal’.

In exchange, the EU will reduce administrative taxes So that the British Agri -Voedingsindustrie can export to ‘the twenty -seven’. This sanitary and phytosanitarian pact, of unlimited duration, will force the United Kingdom to tune its standards to those of the EU and allow controls to eliminate into animal and planting products and to reduce waiting times in customs.

A concept for “Collaborate” in a youth mobility program. Brussels and London have promised to negotiate a specific pact to facilitate the exchange of young people to travel, study, work or practice volunteers that require a visa issue and have age and temporary disabilities.

In terms of Security and defenseare committed to cooperation and an exchange of information with half -yearly meetings to the high level and periodic consultations on global issues. It is also considering the possibility that the British military industry participates in the Defense Fund Community.

Another of the agreements reached will Police and judicial cooperationSo the exchange of crime information: DNA data, fingerprints and vehicle registration are accelerated.

Likewise, the United Kingdom will open conversations to gain access to the community’s face database for the first time and British travelers will have access to the electronic access doors at airports.

Other areas of common interest for those who point out British and Europeans in ways to approach and the will to negotiate specific agreements in the coming months have to do with Energy cooperation And the entrance to the United Kingdom in the European electric market, fighting climate change and immigration control.

No achievement has been made in these agreements Gibraltar’s situationWhose status with regard to the European Union in a Limbo remains of the exit of the United Kingdom. However, the president of the European Council, António Costa, said that “negotiations are improving” and that the agreement is “not far away.”