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The new British prime minister wants tighter economic ties in areas like agriculture, chemicals, and professional qualifications. | Pool Photo by James Glossop via Getty Images<\/p>\nBut Berger and other EU diplomats have been keen to stress the significant differences between EU proposals on the matter \u2014 which are about making it easier for certain people to get conditional time-limited visas \u2014 and a return to freedom of movement.<\/p>\n
\u201cRegrettably, there was some misunderstanding about the proposal of the EU Commission to open negotiations with the U.K. which went to the member states,\u201d the ambassador said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd there was, I think, the misunderstanding that this could be interpreted like a kind of [free movement] for young people through the backdoor, which is definitely not the intention \u2014 I want to make that very clear.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that’s very important that people understand this has nothing to do with the migration dossier, because people come here to study, work, do internships, whatever, and then they would leave. So this is not about migration.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new British prime minister wants tighter economic ties in areas like agriculture, chemicals, and professional qualifications. | Pool Photo by James Glossop via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Mobility remains \u201cvery important, not only to Germany but to all 27\u201d as a component of a new Brexit settlement, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would include a youth mobility scheme. It would include the Erasmus program, school trips, youth exchanges, the question of visa costs, which are more than 10 times higher to come to the U.K. than the other way around. So I would say there are many, many things which affect the day-to-day mobility, especially for young people, and I would really like to see some progress there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Berger and other EU diplomats have been keen to stress the significant differences between EU proposals on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[3971,91179,5109,802,748,10684,6215,6217,34,51827,2000,299,5187,1699,36,1824,4884,807,11665,6657,5733,14791,91180,32949,809,7337,46,811,91181,1201,16,15,1220,6863,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-232413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-barbara-moens","10":"tag-boris-johnson","11":"tag-brexit","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-chemicals","14":"tag-cooperation","15":"tag-david-lammy","16":"tag-emmanuel-macron","17":"tag-erasmus","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-european","21":"tag-european-union","22":"tag-france","23":"tag-germany","24":"tag-great-britain","25":"tag-keir-starmer","26":"tag-meps","27":"tag-migration","28":"tag-mobility","29":"tag-munich-security-conference","30":"tag-nathalie-loiseau","31":"tag-nato-summit","32":"tag-negotiations","33":"tag-olaf-scholz","34":"tag-policy","35":"tag-security","36":"tag-supply-chain-security","37":"tag-trade","38":"tag-uk","39":"tag-united-kingdom","40":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","41":"tag-visas","42":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114784544174130783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232413","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=232413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}