Keir Starmer travels to Brussels on Monday, becoming the first British prime minster to attend a European Union leaders’ meeting since the U.K. left the bloc five years ago. Starmer will head to dinner with EU leaders at Brussels’s neoclassical Egmont Palace walking a diplomatic and economic tightrope.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz departed on Sunday morning for Britain, where he is due to meet Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the Chequers country estate outside of London. In a one-to-one conversation and a subsequent lunch,

Sir Keir Starmer is heading to Brussels to join a gathering of European Union leaders – the first time a British prime minister has done so since Brexit. Starmer is heading over the English Channel for talks focused on defence and security co-operation and will also meet Nato secretary general Mark Rutte.