Keir Starmer to be invited to meet EU leaders in February

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Mujtaba Rahman, managing director for Europe at the Eurasia Group consultancy, said: "Costa is keen to engage the European Council in more strategically oriented discussions, and Rutte is going to be a key messenger of EU policies and ideas to Trump.
64% : The UK and EU are also working on plans for a summit in the first half of next year.
55% : Like his Tory predecessors Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, Starmer has met EU leaders as part of the wider European Political Community.
54% : Sir Keir Starmer will be invited to meet EU leaders to discuss European security as Brussels seeks closer ties with the UK, in a significant post-Brexit move.
50% : Brussels would like to collaborate more closely with the UK on defence spending and deployments but has no desire to replicate the US-dominated military alliance, EU officials have previously said.
44% : " "The UK also has a key role to play given the focus on security and defence, but Number 10 will be keen to avoid creating the perception of a binary choice between the US and EU," he added.

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