Lisa O'Carroll

Significant gaps remain in negotiations on the reset in relations between the UK and the EU despite Keir Starmer's latest pledge to put Britain “at the heart of Europe” after last week's election drubbing.

Is it too soon? Is it even doable? Few expected that, 10 years after the Brexit referendum and barely six years after its exit from the European Union, the UK would be talking about rejoining.

The EU has finally agreed to implement its trade deal with the US after five hours of talks between members of the European parliament and member states in the hope of averting more tariffs threatened by Donald Trump.

The EU and UK have signalled an end to Brexit “sausage wars” with the first details of a new food exports agreement being published by the British government.

EU commissioners will meet on Friday for crunch talks aimed at imposing new restrictions on imports from China amid growing concern that Beijing is fuelling conditions for US-style rust belt towns in Europe.

The UK business secretary, Peter Kyle, is to raise concerns about EU plans to dramatically reduce tariff-free imports of British steel with its trade commissioner, Maroš Šefčovič, in Brussels on Friday.

The EU has said Keir Starmer's upcoming summit "resetting" the UK-Europe relationship may still happen in July, amid growing fears it could be postponed to the autumn as talks over youth mobility remain deadlocked.

While Joe Biden feted Jeffrey Donaldson at the White House during St Patrick's Day celebrations in March 2024, a handful of detectives back home in Northern Ireland were quietly completing the countdown to his unmasking.

Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called for an urgent meeting of EU interior ministers after what he called some member states' “selfish, polarising