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After signing trade deals with both India and the US this week, UK prime minister Keir Starmer is expecting a defence pact with the EU (Photo: 10 Downing Street/Flickr)

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Defence and youth mobility deals the main prize ahead of EU-UK summit

Besides diplomatic niceties and rhetoric there is little of substance to show for the 10 months since UK prime minister Keir Starmer came to power promising to "reset" relations between London and Brussels. 

But the UK premier will host an EU-UK summit in London on 19 May hoping to sign off on a def...

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

After signing trade deals with both India and the US this week, UK prime minister Keir Starmer is expecting a defence pact with the EU (Photo: 10 Downing Street/Flickr)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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