EU leaders urge Starmer to improve mobility transactions during last trench “reset” talk

European leaders will urge Sir Keir Starmer on Friday to propose UK proposals for youth mobility and fisheries to reach a deal with the EU at a historic summit between the two countries on Monday.

The Prime Minister is expected to hold eleven-hour talks with leaders including French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to end the deadlock ahead of the UK EU summit in London with a final effort.

EU negotiators are in cause advocated by Sir Elton John and a long-term agreement to remove barriers to agricultural trade, Brussels officials said.

In exchange, Starmer was forced to provide better conditions for EU students and other young people who want to travel to the UK and has long expanded current fishing rights for British waters in France and other coastal states.

British officials said they hope Starmer will meet with EU leaders at the European Political and Social Summit in Tirana, the capital of Albania.

“There is a view that most of the “questions” in this negotiation are from Britain after Brexit,” an EU diplomat said. The Financial Times reported on Thursday that the 27-member group hopes Starmer will make a last-minute concession.

Other EU diplomats warned that the EU reset, which will be signed at the first summit of both sides since Brexit came into effect in 2020, must include an exchange with “food fish” in Brussels.

“They have to accept the link between fish and (food transport agreement) and refuse,” an EU diplomat said.

Officials say the UK has proposed to continue using the current fishing grounds for the four years after 2026, but the EU hopes at least seven. Brussels hopes to link the term of the veterinary agreement to the fishing agreement.

A veterinary deal that allows British musicians and artists to visit a deal in the EU, Brussels is willing to compromise in the latter in the Labor Declaration.

A senior official told the UK bank it is willing to modify the post-Brexit treaty between the two to allow British truck drivers and roads to move freely between EU countries in exchange for a plan that allows children aged 18 to 30 to work and study more easily in the UK.

Speaking at Tirana on Thursday, Starmer said he would not negotiate with Brussels through “megaphone diplomacy” but insisted: “We have made good progress and I believe we will make good progress on Monday.”

The Prime Minister said a deal with the EU, including security and defense agreements, means he has reached an agreement with India, the United States and the EU in three weeks. “It’s very beneficial to our country,” he said.

Starmer once again refused to exclude the exclusion expected to be the central part of Monday's deal: Britain will accept the ever-changing Brussels rules and “dynamically aligned with new EU regulations), as part of a deal that breaks the boundaries of food trade and electricity markets.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch criticized Starmer for his willingness to compromise on Britain's “sovereignty”. “We can improve relations with European countries, but we cannot be supplicants” she said at a meeting in Brussels.

Starmer fights back at the Conservative leader, saying: “Without knowing a deal with the EU, she says she opposes this. The only saving grace is that no one in Europe takes her seriously.”