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KEY EVENTS
Starmer hosts Germany’s Merz for the signature of a bilateral treaty after Brexit
EKTA ADU In London And Deborah Cole In Berlin
Keir Starmer Will meet Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich MerzTo Downing Street on Thursday Signing a new bilateral agreement on smuggling gangs, expanded defense exports and closer industrial bonds. Between England and Germany.
Treaty contains a German commitment Make it illegal to facilitate unauthorized migration to England, The closure of an important supply path used by smugglers working from German territory.
British officials, the new law expected to pass by the end of the year Will Will Give police and prosecutors to the warehouses and logistics centers used to store small boats. and motors connected to channel transitions.
Police said that even in the absence of immigrants, it will be able to raid on warehouses, seize assets and arrest facilitates, and that the UK government’s supply chain will significantly disrupt the supply chain behind dangerous channel transitions.
This The first visit to the UK is relatively late for a German Chancellor. Merz started to work in May, but both sides say that the delay is deliberate.
Merz went to Kiev with French President Starmer in the first week. Emmanuel Macronand the Polish Prime Minister, Donald TuskIn the European Union show. London and Berlin admitted that Merz’s visit had to coincide with the signing of the agreement.
Is expected to be focused on mutual security, including cyber and hybrid attacks“There is no strategic threat for one for the other and a strategic threat to the other”.
A senior German official added that the agreement did not intend to “change” NATO guarantees or to intervene in a future UK-EU security regulation, but Brexit left “gaps ında in the coordination to be filled.
Jakub Krupa
We will be elsewhere Watching the visit of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to LondonIt will sign a treaty between Germany and England.
Bilateral Friendship and Cooperation Treaty It points to the final stage of Starmer’s proposal to rebuild England’s influence in Europe – Without reopening the official bonds with the EU – but at the same time A diplomatic win for Merz’s new managementn In Germany.
So let’s go EKTA ADU In London and Deborah Cole In Berlin for more details about the agreement.
Morning Opening: Preparations for delivery for Ukraine continue, NATO’s best European commander says that Russia is a threat and warns that it is a threat
Jakub Krupa
Preparations for the delivery of Patriot missile systems to Ukraine continue completely– NATO’s most senior commander in Europe approvedEven if there is a peaceful solution to the war in Ukraine, Russia warned that it is a threat to the alliance in Europe.
NATO’s Supreme Allied Command, Gen Alexus Grynkewichconfirmed this morning The guidance given to him was to deliver Patriots to Ukraine as quickly as possibleUS President Trump is good on the announcement of this week’s announcement.
“I will not explain the number of weapons that we transfer to the Russians or someone else, or when they will be, but I will say, the preparations continue.
We He works very close to the Germans in the passing of patriotic, And the guidance given to me Go out as quickly as possible.
So we do this. And then we are working on other abilities and what these needs are and offers for our political leadership.“
Added:
We will move as quickly as possible.
He said that Patriot Systems in Europe are currently quickly moving to UkraineAnd then he returned from the production line in the USA.
“Air defense is important and We saw the scale of the latest Russian attacks against Ukraine, so an important focus area,He said.
Grynkewich is an old fighter pilot, which was the most senior ally in Europe at the beginning of this month. Even if it was a peaceful solution in Ukraine, he warned that Russia would remain a threat.
“The war continues in front of our door in Ukraine.
While we are looking for a peaceful solution, Even if this decision comes, the Russian talents there will be reappeared And only their existence will be something we need to think of from the military perspectiveAnd understand how it threatens this alliance and the freedoms we love.
Russia, of course, will remain a permanent threat. “
Grynkewich He stressed that NATO accelerated more broadly because it warns the possibility of multiple conflicts at the same time. A war in Europe and a war in the Pacific.
“Those who listen to our Great Secretary General, Mark RuttE, I heard what you said that thing [China’s] Xi will probably do it before deciding to cross the Taiwan Strait.
This means that both of them can be together, but We will need every kit and equipment and ammunition that we can do to meet this.
And we all heard the year 2027, just two years away, when we think that Xi might be ready to take action and a phone call made to Putin.
So time is in essence. “
I will bring you all important updates from all over Europe today.
His July 17, 2025 Thursdayhis Jakub Krupa here and this Europe lives.
Good morning.
