UK will get no special treatment from EU, European ministers say

European ministers have stated that the UK will receive no special treatment in its economic relationship with the EU, rejecting Prime Minister Keir Starmer's hopes of negotiating a single market for goods. The EU reaffirmed its principle of "no cherrypicking," insisting that any deeper cooperation must include all four freedoms—free movement of goods, services, capital, and people—rather than goods alone as the UK has proposed. EU officials have already rejected the British government's pitch for a goods-only single market, emphasizing the indivisibility of the four freedoms and the autonomy of EU decision-making.