{"id":68223,"date":"2016-03-03T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6ec98773ebaa442b0aab056746497273"},"modified":"2016-03-03T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T18:00:00","slug":"news-story-uk-france-summit-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68223","title":{"rendered":"News story: UK-France Summit 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Prime Minister and President Hollande met on 3 March for the 2016 UK-France Summit at Amiens in France. The Summit is the first since last year\u2019s terror attacks in Paris and the 2 leaders discussed the fight against terrorism through intensified police and security co-operation. <\/p>\n<p>The Foreign, Home and Defence Secretaries also attended, meeting their French counterparts to discuss with topics including counter-terrorism, the migration crisis, Syria and Libya. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"uk-france-relationship\">UK-France relationship<\/h2>\n<p>France is one of our most important partners and this summit was an opportunity to further strengthen the co-operation between our 2 countries. Membership of the European Union also gives both countries greater security and greater capacity to project power.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/uk-france-summit-3-march-2016\">Prime Minister\u2019s summit statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>During the summit, ministers made the following announcements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/defence-secretary-secures-progress-on-brimstone-sales-as-unmanned-aircraft-project-moves-forward\">Defence Secretary secures progress on Brimstone sales as unmanned aircraft project moves forward<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/further-joint-action-between-uk-and-france-in-calais-region\">further joint action between UK and France in Calais region<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/uk-france-summit-2016-documents\">summit documents<\/a> on issues including counter-terrorism, migration, defence and nuclear energy. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Prime Minister, President Hollande and their ministers at the UK-France Summit 2016.\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/50413\/No_10-2019-_201_0057_960.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>The Prime Minister, President Hollande and their ministers at the UK-France Summit 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister and President Hollande discussed UK-France co-operation on counter-terrorism, migration, defence and nuclear energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}