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Merz Makes First Trip to London Amid Warming Post-Brexit Ties
UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 16 – The treaty includes a mutual defense pact, visa simplifications for school exchanges, and commitments to combat irregular migration, marking a major step in post-Brexit cooperation.
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a landmark friendship treaty in London on Thursday.
- The treaty follows a defense deal in October and a May agreement on developing strike missiles with a 2,000-kilometer range.
- The agreement includes a mutual defense pact, plans for improved train connections, visa simplifications for school trips, and cooperation on combating illegal migration.
- Merz called the day "historic for German-British relations," and a German official noted relations have improved since the "traumatic experience of Brexit."
- The treaty signals deeper post-Brexit cooperation across defense, economic, and people-to-people ties, with new German investments and a future UK-Germany rail connection planned.
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