{"id":58639,"date":"2025-04-28T22:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/58639\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T22:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T22:59:17","slug":"britain-wants-to-reset-its-brexit-reset-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/58639\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain wants to reset its Brexit reset \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britain\u2019s new government spent most of the fall bogged down in questions over where it stands on EU demands for a youth mobility scheme \u2014 which Brussels sees as essential to the reset. The young Labour administration is worried the idea smells too much like EU migration, a difficult political issue in Britain. It hasn\u2019t ruled the idea out, but the official line is that it has \u201cno plans.\u201d That hasn’t stopped the questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been clear from the get-go that freedom of movement is a red line for us, and no plans in relation to free movement on any level, but we\u2019re entering into discussions,\u201d Starmer told the Brexit-supporting Sun newspaper <\/a>when asked about the scheme in the run up to Christmas.<\/p>\n

Unlike freedom of movement, a youth mobility program would simply make it easier for British and European youngsters to access time-limited visas to move across the Channel for a few years. The idea polls well, but Labour strategists remain worried.<\/p>\n

\"\"Brexit Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds is planning to meet his EU counterpart Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d roughly every two weeks. | Benjamin Cremel\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Despite a careful start to talks and few solid demands, Starmer has already found himself accused of betraying Brexit by Euroskeptics back home. Tory opposition leader Kemi Badenoch used her last parliamentary question before Westminster\u2019s Christmas break to lambast the prime minister for \u201cplanning to give away our hard-won Brexit freedoms,\u201d while Euroskeptic newspapers have already characterized a corps of civil servants set up to work on talks as a \u201csurrender squad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the perceived indecision is starting to grate on the other side of the Channel. A recent delegation of members of the European Parliament to the U.K. ended with the chair of Strasbourg\u2019s Committee on Foreign Affairs quoting ’90s girl band the Spice Girls: \u201cTell us what you want, what you really, really want.\u201d The Parliament\u2019s standing delegation to the U.K. in December also passed a text warning that \u201cconcrete commitments\u201d were needed to prevent Starmer\u2019s diplomatic exercise turning into a \u201creset in name only.\u201d<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s political tides have also conspired against Starmer. The British prime minister spent much of his first six months in office building a close relationship with social democratic German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who is now on his way out and widely expected to be replaced by a conservative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s new government spent most of the fall bogged down in questions over where it stands on EU…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,28,6215,30,473,33,2000,299,5187,1699,21604,14092,4884,807,1198,1216,6657,5733,809,810,7337,5111,11666,811,30643,16,15,6863,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-58639","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-buildings","11":"tag-cooperation","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-defense","14":"tag-elections","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-european","18":"tag-european-union","19":"tag-euroskeptics","20":"tag-fishing-fleets","21":"tag-great-britain","22":"tag-keir-starmer","23":"tag-kemi-badenoch","24":"tag-maros-sefcovic","25":"tag-migration","26":"tag-mobility","27":"tag-negotiations","28":"tag-nick-thomas-symonds","29":"tag-olaf-scholz","30":"tag-parliament","31":"tag-produce","32":"tag-security","33":"tag-spices","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-visas","37":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114418074491600699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58639","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=58639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}