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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Lisa O'Carroll, Deborah Cole and Sam Jones

No more ‘basket-case Britain’: Europe welcomes Starmer reset in UK-EU ties

France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) talks to Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Meeting of the European Political Community at the Blenheim Palace garden in Woodstock, near Oxford, on July 18, 2024
Keir Starmer knows he needs Emmanuel Macron and a future French government to complete the ‘reset’ after the damage caused by Brexit, noted Le Monde. Photograph: Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Images

Keir Starmer’s promised “reset” of the UK’s ties with the rest of Europe has drawn a positive response in European media, with one longtime journalist rejoicing that she will never again have to cover “Britain as a basket case”.

The prime minister told leaders at a meeting of the European Political Community at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire on Thursday that he wanted to draw a line under years of fractious relations with the rest of Europe. The relaunch was greeted with a sense of relief that after years of chaotic leadership in London a new age of cooperation was beginning.

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