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The last hard days'
The Guardian
|May 17, 2025
Quiet hopes summit will bring EU-UK reset and unlock growth
or veterans of the Brexit years such as Keir Starmer, the next 48 hours will feel painfully familiar. There will be negotiations - on fishing rights and time-limited deals on youth mobility - which will go up to the final hours. But this time there is belief on both sides that things can be different.
Monday's UK-EU summit is the most crucial piece of the jigsaw to unlock growth, after the recent deals with India and the US. Taken together, there are high hopes it will be a critical signal that the UK has fundamentally changed, drawing a line under the Brexit years and Conservative leadership putsches, and can show the world a stark contrast to Donald Trump.
This story is from the May 17, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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