European Union leaders agree to spend more on migration, defence, security

The health secretary was not at the meeting of senior ministers at Chequers on Thursday but said a broad agreement had been reached ahead of a discussion by the whole cabinet and the prime minister’s speech next week.

“Despite usual differences, all leaders are ready to work on the modernization of the European Union budget and its policies and many are ready to contribute more to the post-2020 budget”, he said. The summit in Brussels will gauge the European Union’s ambitions as it sets a multiyear budget for the post- Brexit era, said Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, a former EU budget commissioner.

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EU President Donald Tusk is to ask leaders on Friday whether they are ready to pay more, and to urge them to focus on defence, education and migration. We will not have any say in the rules that are made.

Speaking to the BBC, Mr Mundell said the conclusions of the Brexit sub-committee would be discussed and signed off at a meeting of the full Cabinet on Tuesday.

Theresa May will give a major speech outlining the government’s negotiating position for the future relationship after Brexit next Friday.

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“I think we want to have new priorities, new policies, future-oriented policies, and if we can not reduce to the right extent old policies then countries have to pay more”, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on arrival.

The European Parliament recently torpedoed a plan backed by French President Emmanuel Macron for the 2019 elections to feature some pan-EU MEPs, rather than each MEP being directly elected by constituencies in member states.

“Technically, because we’re leaving the European Union, we can’t be in the customs union we are in now”, Emily Thornberry said.

“This is going to be a huge process”, Rutte said.

Downing Street has revealed that Theresa May will be announcing her post-Brexit vision for the UK’s relationship with the European Union, in a major speech next week.

Meanwhile on Twitter, the Vice-President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, hit back at UK Environment Secretary Michael Gove for suggesting that EU laws were hampering UK efforts to ban plastic drinking straws.

Britain’s EU Withdrawal Bill “is set to substantially reduce rights in the UK” and may also harm British citizens living overseas, Amnesty International has warned. His party has said it will have a strong emphasis on retaining the benefits of the EU’s single market and the customs union.

“Our country stands to lose significantly more than other parts of the United Kingdom and Brexit will cause misery to so many Scots – both those whose families have been here for generations and those who have recently decide to make Scotland their home and have already contributed so much to our economy and culture”.