EU Pushes for Massive Youth Migration Deal with UK Under Starmer’s New Brexit Reset

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Brussels is calling on the United Kingdom to allow up to half a million young Europeans to live and work in Britain as part of a proposed "youth experience scheme" negotiated under Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s post-Brexit reset agenda. The EU’s demands significantly exceed the UK government’s intended cap and have sparked fears of a renewed political storm over migration.

 

Sir Keir Starmer has agreed in principle to a reciprocal youth mobility scheme with the EU, allowing adults aged up to 30 to work and study in Britain, while offering the same opportunity to young Britons across the continent. However, while UK ministers are aiming to limit the number of EU nationals entering the country through this route to below 100,000, Brussels appears to have other ideas.

 

An EU official speaking to The Times argued that the scheme should mirror the scale of the UK’s existing arrangement with Australia. But since the EU’s population is vastly larger — roughly 450 million compared to Australia’s 26 million — this would equate to potentially admitting around 500,000 young Europeans. “Are Australians better than Europeans? If the same model applies, then the numbers would have to be much higher or it would be hurtful,” the official said. “What is the British problem with our young people, our children?”

 

Such a scale would undoubtedly ignite fresh controversy over immigration at a time when the Prime Minister is under growing pressure to reduce net migration, which surged under the previous Conservative government. 

 

EU member states had demanded a youth mobility scheme in exchange for the Prime Minister's desire for closer post-Brexit defence and trade ties with the bloc. Following Monday's UK-EU summit in London, it was announced that both sides would 'co-operate further' on establishing such a scheme.

 

But Downing Street last night insisted the Government had set a series of 'red lines' for those continuing discussions.

 

  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Times  2025-05-23

 

 

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

Excellent news.

 

The UK’s return to the Erasmus program is the big prize here, great news for UK students, British universities, British athletes and British sports professionals.

 

The Tories taking the UK out of Erasmus was an act of wanton vandalism.

 

Get it done, you know it makes sense.

 

[JonnyF]

Starmer will agree to this.

 

He wants to damage the UK as much as possible and he is realizing he will only have one term in which to do it. This is an excellent opportunity for him, quick on the heels of giving away the Chagos islands and renting them back for millions per year. 😃

 

It seems his anti immigration stance ended at the same time as his "island of strangers" speech. What a surprise!

[The Cyclist]

23 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Excellent news.

 

The UK’s return to the Erasmus program is the big prize here, great news for UK students, British universities, British athletes and British sports professionals.

 

The Tories taking the UK out of Erasmus was an act of wanton vandalism.

 

Get it done, you know it makes sense.

 

 

English comprehension skills failure

 

Erasmus ?
 

3 hours ago, Social Media said:

Brussels is calling on the United Kingdom to allow up to half a million young Europeans to live and work in Britain as part of a proposed "youth experience scheme"

 

Did you not understand the words " Live and WORK "

 

And people up to the age of 35, are not youths. Certainly not in the UK, nor the EU, or anywhere else on Planet Earth.