Elena Adaal

Everybody is free to design a faulty system, but it is unacceptable that we in EU should foot the bill for that.

If this is the attitude the UK should wither on the outside for a few more years

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You are hitting the nail on the head: the UK is increasingly anti-foreigner and wants to keep as many out as possible.

This flies in the face of the European mindset.

And university finance? How sustainable is a model where foreign students on high fees should subsidise home students?

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This shows that the UK has a long way to go:

Why would there need to be a cap? How on earth would EU students be charged as third country students?

The whole idea of the Reset is repairing ties and undoing some of the damage.

The UK is still in the Brexit mood: anything positive is slammed.

I very much concur with the first part, but not the second: the US are not our ally anymore. They explicitly seek domination. That means they want to subjugate Europe, not partner with it. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

This fits in a trend of the UK becoming ever more anti-foreigner.

Other examples are the high visa costs, the NHS surcharge and the student levy.

Coupled with the penny-pinching (SAFE) it means that UK is simply not ready for a Reset, and that we should try again in a few years.

My guess is this is a ‘bargaining chip’.

The EU will be fine with an EU-wide right to work for UK youth, but it knows that is valuable, so it can trade this in for an uncapped youth mobility scheme.

..it might also play a role that UK declined to participate in SAFE. This will without doubt influence the Reset.

The reasoning would be that if the Reset is doomed anyway - because UK does not want anything - it might as well crash now, so that we can forget everything and try again later.

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My guess is that some in the EU think that there is an opportunity to press on because of 1) the recent report on the huge damage done to UK by Brexit (6-8% of GDP) and 2) the recent Customs Union talk

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First of all, this is not a hostile briefing: It is simply restating the EU demands.

It was already known for a long time that the EU did not want caps on Youth Mobility and home fees for students.

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For sure they are continuing the proud tradition of UK cakeism - wanting EU benefits without obligations.

My hope/expectation is that at some point even UK people will learn. We in EU have endless patience.

For sure there is not a lot of appetite in EU for anything significant with UK.

UK recently declined to take part in SAFE, is increasingly foreigner-hostile, and balks at anything that even looks like FoM (Youth Experience, Erasmus+).

We are very, very far from anything like Single Market access.

This chapter needs to be thrown in the face of every European official who has spent the last 12 months optimistically saying things are the same.

Relying on the old Atlanticism is just malpractice at this point, and putting pro-Americanism ahead of leaders' own citizens.

To me its positive that there is in UK some thinking - any thinking - about getting closer to Europe.

We came from a situation where the UK was actively trying to sever all ties between itself and Europe.

More on the US national security strategy.

Key quote (in post 2): "The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over"

Anyone that thought the US are still allies, or that NATO has a future should know by now that is gone.

We in Europe will be under sustained attack from two fronts in the next few years. It is crucial that we build up our own autonomy as soon as possible.

I did a quantitative analysis of the article:

- times the EU is criticised: 15
- times the EU is praised: 0

- times the U.K. is criticised: 0
- times the U.K. is praised: 3

Good that the Dutch take no part in this. The Israeli gov. has had a detrimental influence on what should be a party.

Love the headline.

Its good to realise that - besides general sadness - it should also be named simply a failure that UK did not join SAFE bc of money.

Its hard to see how this will not affect the Reset.

Key issue is that when things turn out well, everybody benefits, but if things turn sour and Russia wants its money back, only Belgium is on the hook.

Everyone that advocates using these assets should be asked if their country is willing to take this responsibility from the Belgians.

Very much this:

An UK listening to the EU means also being smart and taking proper advantage of circumstances.

The UK has a long standing problem with respect to listening to EU - and that leads to the following (see post)

Will this help? There is always a small chance, but so far the UK has not listened.

Excellent explainer on the UK budget:

Quote: <UK gov has>"..deliberately chosen to keep in place the essentials of Brexit, a policy that ensures that the standard of living for most UK voters has and will continue to stagnate...".

Part of a grim 🧵and a Politico article on the US-UK "deal".

Basically, the orange wants a "special relationship" to ride roughshod over UK pharma standards and adopt the new, slipshod, unscientific, FDA standards pushed by his incompetent administration.

That's just for starters

My guess would be that this ‘one particularly bad appointment’ is now sitting in the House of Lords.

This makes all the current friendly words sound a bit hollow.

The words are ‘we are different now’ - the deeds are not.

lol....

The UK is too much a cheapskate for SAFE, and it does not want to pay for Erasmus student exchange.

It may be better to end the entire Reset, before the UK topedoes it because it costs one penny too much.

For sure nothing is a forgone conclusion.

I expect that its going to take a very, very long time before anything will happen: UK seems to be expecting that the EU will adapt - which it won't.

Also: UK is now out, and we are becoming more and more strangers to each other.

"An insult about the Dutch in WWII"

How in-character by Farage.

The Tories have made an absolute mess of governing in UK: stagnation for 15 years, and the UK now a laggard on nearly everything (economy, environment, human righs, etc).

Reform considering a merger with them means they want to continue this UK decline.

Protectionism sounds bad, until it is understood how valuable it is to protect what you have.

It seems that Nexperia is already memory-holed (China boycotting EU to ensure that they could continue to raid European knowledge)

The UK cannot access anything.

Participation 'up to 35%' means that EU Member states can buy up to 35% from non EU suppliers. This could be UK, but also other suppliers.

So UK cannot do anything except wait for EU buyers to come to the shop.