Brussels: Europe and the Arabs
The European Ministerial Council in Brussels said that a meeting of public affairs ministers in the unified bloc countries will be held on Monday in Brussels under the chairmanship of Sweden, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Union.
  And also preparation for the extraordinary European summit, which will be held on February 9 and 10, in the presence of the leaders of the member states
  This is in addition to assessing the relations between the European Union and Britain at the present time, and after a period of London's exit from the membership of the unified bloc
This coincides with warnings published by the Observer newspaper, which said that London risks a trade war with Brussels because of its position on European laws.
Senior figures in the European Union have warned that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's plan to scrap thousands of EU laws by the end of this year could lead to a full-scale trade war between the UK and Brussels, according to the British newspaper, The Observer.
The letters from senior EU politicians, seen by The Observer, reveal deep concern that the UK is about to lower standards in areas such as environmental protection and workers' rights - and breach the 'level playing field' provisions that were at the heart of the trade and cooperation agreement at one point. After Britain's exit from the European Union.
In response, EU leaders in the European Commission, Parliament and Council of Ministers are preparing what they call "unilateral rebalancing measures" in secret meetings in Brussels. It will almost certainly include the option of imposing tariffs on British goods entering the EU single market, the sources say.
The dispute, stemming from the Sunak government's determination to scrap thousands of EU laws in order to prove it "gets Brexit done", now threatens to strain EU-UK relations despite progress on the thorny issue of the Northern Ireland Protocol.
The prospect of a trade war with the European Union comes amid mounting evidence that Brexit is inflicting serious damage on the UK economy. The International Monetary Fund said last week that it expects Britain to grow at a slower rate than any of the other major industrialized countries in the Group of Seven, including Russia, which has been drained economically by its war with Ukraine.