Simon Usherwood

Guildford High Street

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The sleeping dog of UK-EU finances - UK in a changing Europe Simon Usherwood explains financial flows between the UK and the EU since the UK's withdrawal and how they may be affected by the UK-EU reset.

💶"But as the UK has started to develop new links with the EU, so too has it generated new financial obligations."

✍️ Simon Usherwood explains financial flows between the UK and the EU and how they may be affected by the UK-EU reset

🔗 https://ukandeu.ac.uk/the-sleeping-dog-of-uk-eu-finances/

Right now, I can live with that

Useful update on EU mandate for UK negotiations, plus a reminder that end Nov is deadline to agree participation in SAFE

www.ft.com/content/acf9...

Well, now I'm impressed by my uni's spam filter - hardly getting anything

#ThoughtsAndPrayers

disappointed we haven't yet got the "please don't reply all" reply all email yet

I did not have insider knowledge. I have just been around Brussels negotiations for a long time...

EU agrees a mandate for UK negotiations as I predicted. With the bonus that the future path becomes clearer - if you pay you can have more. www.politico.eu/article/uk-s...

It’s out! Here’s @LordsEUCom Report ‘Unfinished Business: resetting the UK- EU relationship’. The Gov’t have made a strong start, esp on security and defence, but there’s still much to do in turning aspirations and goodwill into workable agreements 1/8
publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

Issue not only within EU but also for signal it sends to counterparts across the table: if we can change the terms, then so can you

New report from @lordseuroaffairs.parliament.uk on the UK-EU reset

"A process, both an event"

committees.parliament.uk/committee/51...

EU still not agreed on its mandate for UK negotiations after yesterday's meeting, so trying again today

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Come for the forms, stay for the research funding shortfall

EU(27) moving towards adoption of mandates for negotiations on SPS and ETS agreements with the UK.

data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...

Me, for @ukandeu.bsky.social, on why we might be going back to talking about money in the UK-EU relationship

@oupolitics.bsky.social @openuniversity.bsky.social

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that wasn't very helpful. Sorry

Guildford, on the river Wey

Of course you can

The, um, Electricity Works, Guildford

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exactly - how do you define the policy area?

I've give you that cohesion wouldn't be my answer, but it's not a precise term

'appropriate' is doing work here, in allowing both sides to claim their meaning can hold

I read it as 'we agree there's some financial consequence that we'll need to sort out'

Not to negate @anandmenon.bsky.social's point that EU MS often can't see the wood for the trees, but UK has more than enough experience to know when promissory texts like Cmn Understanding are being vague for a reason

As with the rest of the Cmn Understanding, just because it didn't say it would be asked for, doesn't mean it wouldn't be asked for

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An update of progress on EU-UK negotiations of the Strategic Partnership/Common Understanding agenda from May's summit

tl;dr barring SAFE, not much to see

PDF: bit.ly/UshGraphic141

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Wrote about this last year: still holds true that arrangements have worked very well, that modelling was broadly correct and that no one seems to think it's been unfair (to the extent of complaining)

ukandeu.ac.uk/the-brexit-d...

Since I'm being asked about this story from the weekend, a quick reminder that the UK left the EU nearly 6 years ago and the financials have been the absolute least problematic part of it all

As the Netherlands moves to the center, Brussels is watching It seems the Euroskepticism that once dominated the political mood has given way to a quiet mandate for cooperation and reform.

My take on what 🇳🇱 elections may mean for 🇪🇺 @ Politico.eu

“What is already clear is that the Dutch electorate voted far more pro-European than it did in 2023. […] Euroskepticism that once dominated the political mood has given way to a quiet mandate for cooperation”

www.politico.eu/article/neth...

Given the broken state of my legs at the end of it, no