In a first visit, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in an effort to reset the relations between the UK and the European Union. It remained unclear how Britain aims to improve ties with the EU but the Labour prime minister identified migration, among others, as an area for cooperation with the bloc.
German lawmakers, including MEP Katarina Barley (S&D), welcomed the Labour Party’s landslide victory in the United Kingdom’s general election.
The United Kingdom’s House of Lords has approved a bill to establish a controversial asylum pact with Rwanda. The Council of Europe – a human rights body independent of the EU – has strongly criticised the bill.
The volume of British-German trade has fallen significantly after Brexit, according to a survey by the British Chamber of Commerce in Germany. The United Kingdom left the European Union in 2020, which had a negative impact on bilateral trade with the bloc.
The G7 agreed on a code of conduct for AI developers. Leaders urged the EU to move faster on lawmaking but pointed out that overregulating may be harmful, especially looking at competition from China and the US. In the UK, political and industry leaders have come together to discuss AI at the world’s first global AI Safety Summit, committing to collaboration.