{"id":1013719,"date":"2026-06-08T18:44:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1013719\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:44:40","slug":"city-calls-for-uk-eu-mobility-agreement-to-protect-competitiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1013719\/","title":{"rendered":"City calls for UK-EU mobility agreement to protect competitiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post-Brexit restrictions on UK financial services employees working in the EU are hampering productivity in both jurisdictions, a leading industry body has warned, calling for a fresh agreement for friction-free travel and short-term employment arrangements. <\/p>\n<p>UK Finance and law firm Freshfields are calling for a new bilateral agreement to allow UK financial services employees to work in the EU for a short period of time without requiring a special visa, scrapping the current requirement for a work permit.<\/p>\n<p>Want to continue reading The Banker?<\/p>\n<ul class=\"sc-hxAGuE fyYjPL\">Benefit from expert analysis, exclusive data and rankings, clear insight into innovation, regulation and strategy, and the context you need to stay ahead of critical developments in global finance.<\/ul>\n<p><a data-trackable=\"register-or-subscribe-barrier-cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebanker.com\/Subscribe?cdt=register-or-subscribe-barrier\" class=\"sc-eBfVOF dImkzx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View your subscription options<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Post-Brexit restrictions on UK financial services employees working in the EU are hampering productivity in both jurisdictions, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1013720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[78633,2000,299,5187,12681,16],"class_list":["post-1013719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-banking-markets","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-operations","tag-uk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116715970097891083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}