The House of Lords will debate the European
Affairs Committee's report Unfinished business: Resetting the UK-EU
relationship on Thursday 26 February.
The May 2025 UK-EU summit agreed a Security
and Defence Partnership and opened the way to
negotiations in a number of areas of economic
cooperation. The Committee's report concluded that the
Government had made a strong start in resetting the UK's
relationship with the EU, but it
was “unfinished business”.
The Committee
said that the reset
is a process not an event, and that much remains to be done to
achieve the Government's objective of reaching
agreements to enhance European security and foster economic
growth.
The report was the first overall
assessment by a parliamentary committee of the Government's
progress in resetting the UK's relationship with the European
Union and strengthening bilateral ties with key European
countries, fulfilling a commitment in its 2024 election
manifesto.
The Government responded to the report in
January. Thursday's debate will give Members of the
House the opportunity to question the Government on its response
and ask for progress on implementing commitments made at the
UK-EU summit in May 2025, including:
-
future cooperation on security
and defence after the failed negotiations on UK's
access to SAFE
-
negotiations on a sanitary and
phytosanitary agreement
-
UK and EU carbon emissions
trading
-
The UK's participation in the
EU electricity market
-
establishing a youth
experience scheme.
The debate is expected to start
at around 11:40am on Thursday 26 February. It
will be availble to watch live and on demand on Parliamentlive.tv. The
debate will be opened by who was Chair of the Committee when it published its
report.
Members due to speak in the debate
include:
of
Upholland
of Kentish
Town
of
Soho
Lord Redwood
The
