UK government’s EU reset summit could be delayed again unless the EU agrees to include “Made in Europe” legislation on the agenda, government sources have said, according to The Guardian's Elgot

The sticking point here is instructive: Brussels pressing local-content or preference rules of the 'Made in Europe' type into the agenda cuts against the UK's interest in a looser sanitary, defence and mobility package, and agenda control has historically been the EU's preferred instrument when it wants concessions before a meeting rather than after. On the UK side, floating a delay through sourced briefing to a sympathetic outlet is a standard negotiating signal rather than a breakdown, and past episodes of this kind have tended to resolve with a partial agenda compromise and a rescheduled date rather than abandonment. The channel that matters for markets is narrow in the near term: sterling and domestically focused UK equities have generally reacted only when reset talks produce concrete movement on food and plant checks, energy linkage or youth mobility, not on summit logistics. The tells are whether the EU side formally responds, whether a new date emerges quickly, and whether the briefing war extends to the substance of the trade and defence tracks.