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Berlin, Germany – 28 August 2024
1. Starmer getting out of vehicle and being greeted by Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor, on red carpet, both shake hands
2. German, UK and EU flags waving
3. Wide of Starmer and Scholz arriving for press conference.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Keir Starmer, British Prime Minister:
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“As today shows, Britain can advance its interests much more effectively when we stand with our friends and partners. This treaty is part of a wider reset grounded in a new spirit of cooperation with our shared understanding that this will be developed at pace and that we hope to have agreed it by the end of the year. A Britain reconnected, resetting our relationship, rediscovering our common interests. Delivering for working people.”
5. Wide of Starmer and Scholz during conference
6. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
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“I am pleased about Keir Starmer’s announcement that he will seek a new start in relations with the European Union. We want to take this outstretched hand. The UK has always been an indispensable part of solving the big issues that affect the whole of Europe. That has not changed si nce they left the EU.”
7. Starmer and Scholz shaking hands at end of conference
STORYLINE:
The leaders of Germany and the United Kingdom announced plans on Wednesday to draw up a treaty meant to deepen the two nations’ trade, defense and other ties.
The move comes as new U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer moves ahead with plans for a “reset” of relations with the European Union.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he welcomed fellow center-left leader Starmer’s desire for a new beginning in relations with the EU, and “we want to take this outstretched hand.”
Starmer took office in early July after the previous Conservative government was trounced in an election.
Four years after the U.K. left the EU, he says he wants to rebuild ties strained by years of ill-tempered wrangling over Brexit terms.
He said that he hopes to conclude the bilateral agreement with Germany, which has Europe’s biggest economy, by the end of this year.
Starmer said that the two countries also plan to draw up a “joint action plan to tackle illegal migration."
His government still faces pressure to stop migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats, though it scrapped the Conservatives’ contentious plan to send them on a one-way trip to Rwanda.
Migration is also an issue on which Scholz’s government has long been under heavy pressure.
The proposed U.K.-Germany treaty is modelled in part on agreements that Britain struck in recent years with France on defence, security and closer law enforcement cooperation against people-smuggling gangs.
Starmer sent a signal by visiting Berlin early in his term — unlike predecessor Rishi Sunak, who took 18 months. But his talk of starting anew with the EU has its limits.
He has ruled out many of the major possible steps to closer ties and has been cool to the idea of a youth mobility agreement with the 27-nation bloc.
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