British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has, in private sessions, asked his ministers to draw up plans to restore British relations with the European Union after Brexit. This reports Bloomberg.

Convergence is required on issues such as defense, immigration, and so-called economic statesmanship, which includes trade, energy, and international standards.

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British representatives are therefore hoping to provide a solution to the dispute between the EU and the UK over post-Brexit trade agreements for Northern Ireland in the coming days. Sunak will be able to use a potential breakthrough on this issue as a basis for further improving relations with the EU.

balance

But while Sunak wants this rapprochement, he can expect fierce opposition within his own party. He will first have to find the balance between keeping Brexiteers in his party and persuading the DUP in Northern Ireland to lift its veto power over the devolved government there.

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However, the biggest challenge comes only after he succeeds, when he has to sit down with European leaders who have been trying to do business in the UK for seven years. They see a country that decimated five prime ministers in record time, who too often used the European Union as a scapegoat for domestic problems.

Brexit did not fail

The UK’s renewed rapprochement towards the European Union does not mean that ‘Brexit has failed’, according to a British government representative. “It is, after all, a reflection of a changing reality.”