Brexit: Youth mobility 'reset' [print version]
The Starmer government intends to offer EU member countries a youth mobility scheme as part of its “reset” with the EU.
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Brexit: youth mobility ‘reset’
25 February 2025
The government plans to offer a youth mobility scheme for young EU students and workers. This is one of several policy initiatives attempting to realign Britain with the EU.
For Britain - assert independence!
The new government rules out rejoining the EU, but acts as if it wants to adopt by stealth all those things British workers rejected in 2016 – above all a return to free movement of labour, open borders.
European farmers demand a future
9 February 2024
Farmers’ protests are spreading across the EU. They are taking to the roads to demand that the EU supports food production.
Keep the EU out of Britain – and Ireland too!
10 March 2023
At the end of February the goverment announced a provisional agreement (the Windsor Framework) with the EU to resolve difficulties with the Northern Ireland Protocol. Rishi Sunak claims this will “take back control” of Northern Ireland. It won’t.
EU acts the bully
22 February 2022
The EU is trying to bully the governments of EU members Hungary and Poland into accepting EU policies, using using the European Court of Justice to do so.
Chocolate’s coming home
9 February 2021
International food giant Mondelez is shifting the bulk of its Cadbury’s Dairy Milk production back to Britain. This reverses much of the outsourcing that took place in 2017.
Ireland and the EU: a bad marriage
9 February 2021
The former Irish Ambassador to Canada describes his country's entanglement with the European Union and makes the case for Irish independence.
EU law breakers: a reader writes
5 October 2020
A Workers reader wrote to his local newspaper to rebut claims that the British government would break international law by passing the Internal Market Bill.
EU: no friend of workers
9 July 2020
This book lays bare the aims of the EU and its methods. Britain has left the EU, but it is still trying to force its world view on us through the transition period.
EU hopes for coronavirus extension
12 May 2020
The EU hopes the coronavirus emergency will keep Britain in its orbit. The impact of Covid-19 makes it more important there is no extension to the transition period.
Chaos and cost ahead as EU looks for more money
11 May 2020
Coronavirus is tearing the EU apart. The European Commission has a plan to grab money from members, and which threatens Britain with unknown extra costs if the Brexit transition is extended.
Financial standstill: the EU can't cope with Brexit
13 November 2019
Brexit has brought the EU’s plans to a financial standstill that shows little signs of easing.
Irish farmers protest
7 August 2019
Beef farmers in Ireland have held a series of protests calling on their government and the EU for support.
Poland trying to reverse impact of migration
6 August 2019
The Polish government wants graduates to return to Poland. More than half a million have left over the past 20 years. This is part of a wider problem affecting many countries.
Little belief in EU future
21 May 2019
A new survey reports that many people across the EU belive it is likely to collapse within a generation.
Populism and EU reaction
2 April 2018
This book argues that despite the supposed threat to democracy from populist movements, the anti-populist reaction is worse; a reactionary viewpoint characterising populist movements as xenophobic, anti-democratic and totalitarian.
EU army defeat
11 December 2017
On 13 November the government dramatically drew back from EU military integration schemes. It now refuses to absorb Britain’s armed forces into a Euro army and in doing has shown it respects our decision.
What has the EU ever done for us?
6 November 2017
A new book looks at the key ways the EU has changed Britain - and it's not good.
The psychological toll of Ukraine's war
EU-backed Ukrainian armed forces fire on the civilian population of the Donbass on a daily basis. None of this gets reported in the British media.
EU delusions: French style
22 May 2017
Hailed as Europe’s saviour, Emmanuel Macron’s first foreign trip as French President was to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They pledged to draw up a “common road map” for Europe and threatened Britain.
No to EU dodgy Brexit guidelines
12 May 2017
The EU continues to act in bad faith towards Britain over our vote to leave. Its negotiating guidelines aim to continue the European Court's influence over Britain.
With the single market, why train at all?
The EU Mutual Recognition of Professional Qualifications Directive – or MRPQ – is a fundamental component of the Single Market. It allows professionals to have their qualifications, obtained in one member state, recognised in another.
So why are we relying on EU healthcare staff?
Do British workers really not want to work in the NHS? No, they want to, but they struggle first to find the money to train, then to live on the wages. And have been reluctant to fight for pay…
Rising to the manufacturing challenge
The era of taking instructions from the EU is over. With the government reversing decades of free market ideology and creating an industrial strategy, unions need to radically recalibrate their own thinking…
A future for fishing
The EU almost snuffed out Britain’s fishing fleets. Now the industry is looking at a huge opportunity…
A spanner in the works of the EU war machine
One of the worst lies told in the referendum was that the EU is a force for peace. The opposite is true, and the vote to leave holds out the prospect of a reduction of the risk of war…
Dyson Institute: planning out of the EU
13 December 2016
Sir James Dyson intends to establish an Institute of Technology in 2017. This positive initiative it raises significant questions for our class. We must become the front runners in preparing for life after Brexit; it’s not enough to leave the future of Britain to others.
No trade deal for EU and Canada
24 October 2016
Belgium cannot sign the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, the EU’s proposed trade deal with Canada because of opposition from local elected bodies. That may block the whole deal.
Euro a 'house of cards'
The economic troubles of the EU will not go away, despite the sustained denials by politicians, echoed by some here in Britain. One expert tells a different story, explaining that struggling through crisises cannot go on endlessly.