Theresa May to meet Angela Merkel: Focus on EU and bilateral relations

Berlin, February 16: British Prime Minister Theresa May is on the visit to Berlin with the aim to hold talks on European Union. This proves as a sign that she wants to discuss Britain’s and the Union’s future relationship with Germany’s leader Angela Merkel.

That notwithstanding, Brexit is by no means the most pressing thing on Merkel’s agenda: not only is she still in the throes of forming a new government herself, but she is more focused on what reforms to the EU bloc will be needed once Britain has left; her talks with May come only after she has had meetings earlier in the day with the Italian and Polish prime ministers.

After Berlin, the British leader heads to a security conference in Munich where she will give a speech on Saturday on future security cooperation between Britain and the EU. She hopes that offering to keep some of its security arrangements with the bloc will help it win concessions on future trading relations.

Recently we saw many twists and turns in Britain’s and European Union’s relations. After many warnings and welcomes, Britain and EU both are somewhere are thinking what to do and what to not.

Britain is set to leave the bloc on March 29, 2019, but the negotiations must be wrapped up in less than a year to leave parliaments time to ratify the agreement.