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European Political Community

May 2026

  • Starmer stands outside near a red carpet with journalists holding microphones to his right

    Starmer lauds £78bn EU loan for Ukraine amid increased Trump tensions

    Prime minister uses European Political Community summit to begin negotiations for UK participation in scheme
  • Carney, standing on a red carpet speaks into a large array of microphones

    Europe will not submit to an ‘insular and brutal world’, says Carney

    Meeting of European Political Community comes amid renewed doubts about the US commitment to Nato
  • Mark Carney  getting into a car on an airfield

    Canada to be first non-European nation at EPC summit as Carney seeks allies

    Attendance at European Political Community meeting in Yerevan seen as part of effort to build ties after US rupture

October 2025

  • Frederiksen and Zelenskyy stand in front of photographic backdrop of sunflowers

    Europe live with Jakub Krupa
    Europe needs political will to act and cut ties with Russia, says Zelenskyy after leaders summit – as it happened

    Comments from Ukraine’s president come after the seventh summit of the European Political Community

November 2024

  • Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel and Viktor Orban walk towards their microphones at a joint press conference

    EU leaders vow to make bloc more competitive in face of Trump threat

  • Ursula von der Leyen walks past cameras and men in suits

    Leaders urge stronger action to defend Europe after Trump’s re-election

  • John Crace

    The politics sketch
    Fresh from his international lap of honour, Starmer’s next role was Biden mourner-in-chief

    John Crace
    If things don’t work out for the PM in No 10, he has a glorious alternative career ahead of him delivering heartfelt eulogies
  • 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

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

    PM’s promise to draw line under years of fractious relations greeted with plaudits and relief by European media
  • Keir Starmer (right) and Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the European Political Community meeting at Blenheim Palace, 18 July.

    The Guardian view on the European Political Community summit: at last, Britain is back in the diplomatic room

  • Keir Starmer and other leaders including Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

    Starmer promises to repair ties with European countries

  • UK prime minister says government wants to rediscover common interests with neighbouring countries at opening of European political community summit

    Keir Starmer: 'We want to reset relationships' with EU – video

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  • Timothy Garton Ash

    The old European order is fraying. We will soon find out whether Keir Starmer can help hold it together

    Timothy Garton Ash
  • Simon Harris and Keir Starmer offer a toast with pints of Guinness while seated in garden chairs

    Starmer vows to repeal Troubles legacy act in first meeting with Irish PM

    PM and taoisech Simon Harris seek reset in UK-Irish relations on eve of UK-hosted European Political Community summit
  • Keir Starmer leaving 10 Downing Street

    Starmer to focus on border security and immigration at summit of European leaders

    Prime minister says he will renew relationship with Europe as he seeks defence and security agreements
  • Rafael Behr

    The Brexit fantasists may be beaten, but Brexit reality is a far tougher foe

    Rafael Behr
    Only when the blinkers of Eurosceptic ideology are removed does the full scale of the task of repairing EU relations become clear, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
  • Starmer speaking to media in front of EU HQ in Brussels

    EU leaders ‘open-minded’ about future relations with UK, says senior official

  • Keir Starmer speaks at a Nato event.

    Starmer must use EPC forum to offer hopeful vision for Europe’s future

  • Prime minister Rishi Sunak making his keynote speech on the final day of the annual Conservative party conference in Manchester.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    ​​Minister defends No 10 claim that HS2 decision had not yet been taken despite prerecorded announcement - as it happened

    Video of Rishi Sunak announcing the axing of the HS2 Manchester leg was filmed in No 10 before he travelled to conference
  • President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen (left) and Latvia's prime minister Evika Silina at the European Political Community summit in Granada, southern Spain.

    Europe live
    European leaders meet for summit amid tensions over migration and aid to Ukraine – as it happened

    European Political Community meet in Granada with migration, Ukraine, Kosovo and Nagorno-Karabakh on the agenda
  • Leo Varadkar speaking into a microphone in front of a white backdrop

    It is concerning to watch UK disengage from the world, says Irish PM

    Leo Varadkar warns that Brexit, aid cuts and talk of abandoning human rights treaty ‘not the Britain I know’
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