The champion of progressive realism says the first bilateral UK-EU summit in the post-Brexit era has begun to improve relations that had been ‘run into the ground’

Britain has struck new agreements with the European Union on boosting defense cooperation, easing food trade and border checks.

It’s testament to the shock in the United Kingdom over what is being called Prime Minister Starmer’s “Brexit betrayal” that some of the fiercest criticism of the “reset” deal is coming from his own Labour party.

A summit on Monday between Britain and the European Union, expected to include a defense pact, may kick-start a new era.

Britain and the European Union have hailed a new chapter in their relationship. They have signed fresh agreements on defense cooperation and easing trade flows at their first formal summit since Brexit.

The "roadmap," as Von der Leyen called it, is ambitious, and although both parties are willing to carry it out, the details are subject to the uncertainties of negotiations among 28 countries. The United Kingdom and the European Union have reached a framework agreement that marks the first approach between both since Brexit.

The stage has been set for a rapprochement between the UK and European Union, as the bad blood of the Brexit years morphs into a high-stakes hunt for allies in a region squeezed by Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping.

António Costa, President of the European Council, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, will be meeting with Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in London for the first EU-UK summit since the UK’s withdrawal from the EU,