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What are the economic implications of the UK-EU reset deal? - Economics Observatory The summit meeting of the European Union (EU) and the UK held at Lancaster House in May 2025 marked a symbolic thaw in post-Brexit relations. The event brought together EU leaders (including European ...

The economic implications of the UK-EU reset deal: @anandmenon.bsky.social & me for Economics Observatory.

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I agree!! Here is a snippet from senior remain campaigner inside n.10, on his reaction 9 years ago today… 👇 maybe remembering the lessons of that period may come in useful one day rather than recalling Hannan’s speculations

'I suddenly retch harder than I have done in my life. Nothing comes up. I retch again - so hard, it feels I will turn inside out...tears are streaming down my face - not from sadness, but from the sheer physical exertion' 👉Craig Oliver, Cameron's director Pol&Coms, outside N.10, 4:45am, 24 June 2016

An important, useful + really accessible report and a 👌👌 check on revisionist takes! @husseinkassim.bsky.social & I contributed a chapter on the 🇪🇺's Brexit strategy. That is one aspect that gives rise to some overblown, even conspiratorial takes... 2.5 pages to set the record straight 🙂 👇

How Europe would fill an America-shaped hole in NATO The likeliest replacement for the U.S. is a grouping of France, the U.K., Germany and Poland, but it would be much more vulnerable than an America-led alliance.

"This is now a window of opportunity [for cooperation], but the domestic political trajectory in the two nuclear powers does make other Europeans wonder about their future reliability.”

Thanks for quoting me in this piece, @laukaya.bsky.social!

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Great 🧵 Steve 👌! Do you know is this is first time 🇪🇺 adopts a Decision to negotiate an agreement on youth mobility with a 3rd country? If an agreement is reached, does this mean that going forward, it sets a precedent limiting individual member states to nego bilateral deals with 3rd countries?

Excellent 🧵 detailing the decision-making process at EU level on reaching a council decision on mandate for negotiating a youth experience deal with the 🇬🇧.

Let’s play a game of “spot the woman”. Press box equivalent of where’s wally

After my grumbles yesterday (but not because of them), final legal texts on fisheries access and TCA Energy title extension now concluded, both precursors to the EU-UK Reset negotiation package

Federal Council opens consultation process on Swiss-EU package On 13 June 2025, the Federal Council approved the texts of the agreements negotiated with the EU in 2024 and opened the consultation process on the Swiss‒EU package. In addition to the agreements with the EU, the package includes legislation to authorise the domestic implementation, including accompanying measures (see press release, 13 June 2025). The Federal Council has come out in favour of an optional referendum on the Swiss‒EU package. The consultation process will run until 31 October 2025.

News for EU policy nerds: the legal texts for 20 new or updated EU-Switzerland agreements were published earlier this week. Happy trawling!

Event covered not only 🇬🇧-🇪🇺 dimension, but also views from different member states. Comes with 👌👌 report with short chapters from ⭐ contributors from across national capitals (🇪🇸🇳🇱🇨🇾🇮🇪🇩🇰🇩🇪🇵🇱🇨🇿🇫🇷) is really worth the read @husseinkassim.bsky.social @ukandeu.bsky.social 👉 ukandeu.ac.uk/other-public...

Britain’s got an EU deal — but the Brexit red tape keeps coming U.K. plows ahead with unpopular ‘Not for EU’ labels in Northern Ireland, despite planned deal with Brussels.

🚨🚨 Whilst the EU-UK deal was a clear improvement and win for Starmer, we should not forget that it does not change the major premises of relationship which is enshrined in the TCA and that #brexit still is a long and dragging beast of misery and pain. 🧵
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Starmer proves adept at juggling egos and issues at tricky G7 summit PM managed to successfully balance foreign and domestic political considerations during his three days in Canada

Interesting article on Starmer's summitry skills. I am reminded of @consuelothiers.bsky.social 👌 blog @lseblogs.bsky.social analysing Starmer's leadership traits and implications for an effective foreign policy (👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...)
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Characteristically bombastic style for this: all 🇬🇧 leaders except Cameron combine lack of charisma & pathological need to please, which is incompatible with fiscal rigour (read welfare retrenchment) to reduce debt. Starmer possibly the worst. If only it were all so simple. PS: no mention of Boris

Looks like the deal over Gibraltar is done:

🇪🇸 media reporting on upcoming deal between 🇬🇧 and 🇪🇺 over Gibraltar.

Isabelle Merle, historienne : « En Nouvelle-Calédonie, la méthode qu’engage Manuel Valls, fondée sur la recherche d’un consensus le plus large possible, a fait ses preuves » TRIBUNE. Un an après la crise violente qui a secoué la Nouvelle-Calédonie, l’historienne Isabelle Merle analyse, dans une tribune au « Monde », l’état des relations et discussions entre le territoire ...

interesting overview of what current 🇫🇷 minister & former PM Valls is doing for situation in New Caledonia. One of the positives of having a government that is not completely directed or under orders from the Élysée/Macron… www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

A must read @anandmenon.bsky.social unpicking a report’s dubious predictions and even more problematic aims: ‘If the problem that this country simply isn’t white enough, someone may as well just come out and say it. Because it’s clear the issue here isn’t Britishness’.

A great show with 2,800 drones in Nice (France)for the opening of the United Nations Ocean Conference - UNOC3

All of Austen 👌

Graves' Good bye to all that.

« Le silence sur Gaza met à nu de façon dramatique un point aveugle de nos cultures mémorielles » TRIBUNE. Les politiques mémorielles censées immuniser nos sociétés contre le risque de crimes de masse et de génocides sont en crise, estime un collectif d’historiens dans une tribune au « Monde ». Il...

‘La qualification de génocide n’appartient pas exclusivement aux historiens. Se défausser sur eux n’ôte rien à l’urgence d’une action politique ici et maintenant.’ www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

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Great thread - great ep.

I struggle with finding work-life balance. I know when it gets very bad because I get this urge/longing to see beautiful things and places (I miss Edinburgh's botanic gardens). It is cliché, but yesterday I got to The Louvre just before late closing.

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I read this last year and it is very illuminating.
And a reminder how little Northern Ireland is understood, and, to make things worse, how little it is often at least considered. @katyhayward.bsky.social

Bashing the French is a weekly headline occurrence in The Telegraph. It’s weird… the French don’t have the same obsession. Her article is about ‘stopping the boats’ though and peddles some more subtle framing of a really tough issue in cooperation between the two countries