Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on London-EU holding first bilateral summit since Brexit

London and the EU will hold their first bilateral summit tomorrow since Brexit.

It’s a big moment for the bilateral bitterness provoked by Brexit.

UK Correspondent Gavin Grey says it’s ‘a really significant moment.’

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kevin growing Are, UK correspondent with US tonight evening his
time given. Good morning, Hi there right now. So we've
got this meeting between the EU and the UK. It's
a bilateral one, it's post brickset and what are we
going to get out of it? Do you think?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah? I think it's going to be very very interesting.
The Government's got a very very fine line to tread here.
This is the first bilateral summit since Brexit, described by
our Prime minister as a really significant moment, described by
others les keen on Europe as a time to really
watch the fine print of what might be agreed now.
Make no mistake, the EU is the UK's largest trading

(00:39):
partner and many think that we need a reset of
relations since these sort of slightly dismistrusting Brexit period. And
it is thought that we're likely to see announcements of
trade and security tie ups, including British access to about
two hundred and seventy billion New Zealand dollars worth of
the EU Defense Fund in what could be a big

(01:01):
boost for UK defense companies. But there are also reports
that this could be an agreement on allowing travelers from
Britain to use these e gates, the electronic gates at
European airports, which currently they can't do, and also big
question marks about food exports imports. Are we going to
be able to cut through the huge amount of red

(01:21):
tape that's been added since Brexit, which so many farmers
are complaining about. And another thing that's been well mooted
here is this youth mobility scheme where at the moment
we have, of course youngsters under the age of thirty
from Australia and New Zealand areowed to come and work
in the UK for a year, maybe two years depending
on the agreement. Nothing for the euse, so that may

(01:42):
be up for grabs as well. But plenty who voted
for Brexit here and are deeply untrusting of this government
are looking at the fine print of what's been agreed
saying we don't want Brexit by the back law.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Interesting, Gavin, thank you for that. Devin Gray, are you
you're a correspondent with us this morning?

Speaker 2 (01:58):
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