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EU-UK summit: It’s good that it’s taking place at all

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Published: May 18th, 2025,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

By Jake Benford
Jake Benford is Senior Expert Europe and Geopolitics at the Bertelsmann Stiftung in Berlin.

Luck is reality minus expectation. Anyone who believes in this wisdom will see good things in today’s summit simply because it is taking place at all. In fact, it is the first formal exchange at the highest political level since Brexit, an early break in the crumbling Western alliance, from what feels like a different era.

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Geopolitics Great Britain European policy