An EU-UK summit will be held during the Polish presidency of the EU Council in the first half of 2025, KO MEP Michał Szczerba confirmed to PAP Studio. The UK wants to make a reset in its relations with the EU, he added.

Michał Szczerba, a member of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, confirmed media reports about a European Union-UK summit planned for the first half of 2025, during the Polish presidency of the EU Council.

“We have a new opening in the European Union, new priorities. They are consistent with the priorities of the Polish presidency and the UK government wants to make, it is not a fashionable word in Poland, but a reset in EU-UK relations,” MEP Szczerba said.

In the Polish MEP’s opinion, the UK should be a country with a special status in relations with the European Union.

Szczerba also said that echoes of Brexit are still strongly present in his conversations with British politicians. He pointed out that the fact that the UK and the EU are not bound by relevant agreements and that the country does not participate in any way in shaping EU foreign policy, security or research and development projects is disappointing.

Szczerba also said that Polish plans for the EU presidency will include projects such as East Shield (Tarcza Wschód), the European ‘Iron Dome’, addressing security and defence issues and strengthening relations with the US. 

Szczerba added that an EU-US economic summit is “technically scheduled” for the next year, and now all eyes are pointed at who will become the new resident of the White House.

Source: PAP

Photo: @MichalSzczerba

Tomasz Modrzejewski