Il Regno Unito ha bisogno dell’accordo di migrazione “ambiziosa” dell’UE, afferma Rachel Reeves
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/uk-needs-ambitious-eu-youth-migration-deal-says-rachel-reeves-ctb7fv5mg
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Il Regno Unito ha bisogno dell’accordo di migrazione “ambiziosa” dell’UE, afferma Rachel Reeves
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/uk-needs-ambitious-eu-youth-migration-deal-says-rachel-reeves-ctb7fv5mg
di rose98734
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Why? Europes youth unemployment is a lot worse than ours in general, but ours is increasing over time. It would only make it more difficult for our youth to get employment so would need to come with some big benefits like a wider trade deal, which it wont.
Wondering if she can explain on why we need this deal.
What is the percentage of UK citizens that can speak a foreign European language vs the percentage of EU citizens that can speak English? Idk the numbers but I’m willing to bet the latter is higher than the former.
And what will these young people coming here do when we’ve already got so few job vacancies right now and companies are cutting back on hiring further?
How will this help avoid massive tax rises? If it’s a 1 in, 1 out deal, we won’t have any change in tax base since an equal number of taxpayers would leave. And if it isn’t 1 in, 1 out, how many would we need to take in to make a dent in that £30bn hole?
It just sounds like she’s thrown out whatever seems reasonable on a surface level and hoped people wouldn’t think about it any deeper.
Reminder: In June 2025, the Dept of Work and Pensions said there was a staggering **770,000** EU citizens on Universal Credit.
The information was released reluctantly due to a FOI request. The OBR would not have had this info previously – they would have assumed unemployed EU citizens returned to the EU instead of remaining in Britain to be a drain on the taxpayer.
Remember also that unemployment is now 4.8%, up from 4% at the election. Given how graduates have been struggling this summer, unemployment is set to climb higher.
In 2010 when the Tories took office, unemployment was 7.8%, when they left office in 2024, it was 4%. Looks like Reeves wants to jack it up to 7% again.
Must get that sweet, cheap labour for our sponsors by all means possible
Like Sunak and the Boriswave, here comes Rachel’s Kiernami.
A politician pointing to a change in our relationship with the continent as a cure for our ills rather than having the guts to fix obvious domestic issues? What a new and novel experience!
Just deploy a fucking quota system.
We need more nurses, allow more nurses in while forcing universities to train more.
IT roles are saturated? No more visas for this job role, cap the places for it for a few years.
Literally tons of other country do this and it works.
British Universities are some of the best in the world and of course teach in English. Many European students are keen to get a good degree from a high ranked University taught in English as it makes them very employable. The Commission has linked youth mobility to other aspects of the “reset” and as one knows nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.
Reeves is rolling the pitch so Starmer can appear to compromise by agreeing a lower figure, the Commission does like to play these sorts of games, this time however its not the French pushing this its the Germans (Engineering Degrees from Manchester, Imperial etc are very highly prized).
This is good for a very select few Brits who are under the age limit, can speak a different language enough to get a job abroad, and have enough savings to make moving countries work.
This is bad for almost everyone else.
Why is the answer to every issue more and more immigration. We have a housing crisis. And our own grads can’t find jobs. Roads are full
I’d actually be concerned if anyone in the Labour government was actually in touch with public opinion/sentiment.
We need to have more children. We need to change the selfish culture.
A holiday in the continent is coo, but having an extended stay and experiencing life as someone would say in Denmark, Germany, Netherlands or Italy, Spain is incredibly rewarding at a young age. You get experienced to different cultures, nice life styles (in the context of Northern Europe you honestly see a better country with better services, higher quality of lives for people). And the benefit of all this? ITS AT OUR DOORSTEP.
The detail here is the EU wants to push their expensive students onto our education system and have those youths pay only domestic student fees, which our universities make a net loss on. This would have to be paired with British students paying higher fees to subsidise those Europeans.
Italians and french already run white collar work in the south, why do we need more 😭
Our own kids can’t get jobs so we’re going to import Europe’s unemployed? Every time this government negotiates anything, the other side walk out of the room laughing.
Yeah, this is just spin because a requirement of the improved EU deal that was announced a few months ago was that we negotiate a youth scheme. Thank the French for that.
The government will absolutely cap numbers, they will absolutely put requirements about investment in training UK staff. This is going to be unpopular.
But this is part of the price we’re paying for access to food from and to the EU without going through customs (cheaper food), cheaper energy and most importantly, access to the EU defense fund for British companies.
If you remember, the EU also got to continue the current fishing deal as well. We also agreed to be a “rule taker” on agricultural standards but honestly, that’s less of a bad thing than it sounds. I don’t care which unelected bureaucrat is controlling food standards just as long as they’re banning the stuff that causes cancer.
Someone has basically made a calculation and figured out that it’s a net win and worth paying the political cost.
I know people in their late teens / early twenties and their problem is lack of opportunity. They get degrees and follow on jobs are very hard to find. Even the sort of casual part time work I used to do at that age is much harder to come by right now.
Europe has the same problem, worse in certain countries, and they think we will help solve it. I get we need to make friends again after the way we treated them and showing that the country accepts youth migration from Europe is part of this, but what we need now is to increase opportunity. We absolutely do not need eager self starters who will work for lower wages competing with our own next generation for the few opportunities which exist!
I know there are some people with sour grapes about this because Brexit was dumb or they just think rah rah youth unemployment. This swap benefits British students greatly. Erasmus etc was fantastic programs and if this means some random kid that grew up in some poor underdeveloped part of the UK gets the chance to study abroad and meet the love of his life while studying then working in Italy or France or something I am thrilled for that.
Give the 18-30s a chance to get out of this misery
Do these maniacs not understand that the population do not want any more immigration.
Almost 1 million people come into this countey every year – at least 5 million need to leave
Reeves listening to her masters. Multi billionaire corporations. I wonder how much commissioning she got for approving the new runway at gatwick