{"id":175557,"date":"2025-06-11T11:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175557\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T11:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:46:10","slug":"consequences-of-brexit-the-nen-north-edinburgh-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/175557\/","title":{"rendered":"consequences of Brexit \u2013 The NEN \u2013 North Edinburgh News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU Ambassadors to visit Bute House<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nen.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/edinburgh4europe.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/edinburgh4europe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77867\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>First Minister John Swinney will meet European Union Ambassador to the United Kingdom Pedro Serrano at Bute House today (11 June) to discuss the challenges and opportunities to arise from the recent deal between the UK and the EU.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">They will be joined by the Slovenian Ambassador Sanja \u0160tiglic and Bulgarian Ambassador Tihomir Stoytchev, as part of a delegation to Scotland. Later today the First Minister will also meet the Minister-President of Flanders at an event to celebrate 25 years of Flemish trade and investment in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The First Minister said he viewed both engagements as opportunities to reinforce the strong relationship that exists between Scotland and the EU. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nen.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FM-John-Swinney-2.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/FM-John-Swinney-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-207078\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>John Swinney commented: \u201cThe European Union is one of our most important economic and security partners. While the deal struck on the 19 May represents long-overdue progress in rebuilding our relationship, no agreement can deliver the economic, social and security benefits we lost with Brexit in 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThat is why I firmly believe Scotland\u2019s best future lies as an independent country within the EU. More than ever, the current uncertain economic and geopolitical environment reinforces the importance of Scotland having the security, stability and opportunity that comes with EU membership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIn the meantime we will continue to engage with nations and regions across Europe to maximise opportunities through trade, investment, innovation and academia. As we enter the next phase of negotiations, we stand ready to be closely involved as the UK Government develops its future priorities for working with the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EU Ambassadors to visit Bute House First Minister John Swinney will meet European Union Ambassador to the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-175557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114664569882897492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175557","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=175557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}