Britain's PM Seeks Strong Ties With Both The EU And Trump. That Could Be Tricky.
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Donald Trump’s trade battles complicate Keir Starmer’s aim of a “reset” with the European Union after years of bitterness over Brexit.
LONDON (AP) — Keir Starmer travels to Brussels on Monday, becoming the first British prime minster to attend a European Union leaders’ meeting since the U.K. left the bloc five years ago.
Starmer will head to dinner with EU leaders at Brussels’s neoclassical Egmont Palace walking a diplomatic and economic tightrope. He is seeking to rebuild ties with the EU while avoiding tariffs from protectionist U.S. President Donald Trump.
Trump has slapped import taxes on the United States’ biggest trading partners — Canada, Mexico and China — and says he will also impose tariffs on goods from the 27-nation EU, with which the U.S. has a trade deficit. His attitude to Britain is more ambiguous. Trump said early Monday that “the U.K. is out of line but … I think that one can be worked out.”
Starmer said Sunday that he had stressed to Trump that he wanted “a strong trading relationship” with the U.S.
Trump’s trade battles complicate Starmer’s aim of a “reset” with the EU after years of bitterness over Brexit. It’s already complicated enough by Britain’s domestic politics.
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