EU to invite next UK PM to summit on new pan-European security body

Charles Michel says he has no doubt the UK will be invited to Prague despite ‘difficulties’ over the Northern Ireland protocol. Photograph: Georgi Licovski/EPA

The EU will offer an olive branch to the new British prime minister with an invitation to a summit to discuss a new organisation uniting the democracies of the European continent.

Britain’s next prime minister, widely expected to be Liz Truss, will be invited to join fellow leaders across Europe at a summit in Prague on 6 October to forge a European Political Community, a body dedicated to advancing security across the continent.