Glasgow For Europe

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Barnier seems very positive about terms for Rejoin as well as immediate collaboration in specific areas.

“Barnier, who is yet to announce his candidacy for the French presidency but who is thought to be manoeuvring to be a potential unity figure of the centre and centre right, said he believed the UK should join the EU member states, along with Ukraine and Norway, on a new European council for defence and security.

The members would cooperate and potentially jointly borrow for military initiatives and those related to artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies, he said. “It is my proposal to create this independently of the EU institutions,” he said.”

UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’

On this day in 1989, Poland voted out communism — and changed the world. 🇵🇱🗳️

In the first partially free elections in the Soviet bloc, Solidarity won 99 out of 100 Senate seats. The communist party was crushed at the ballot box.

It was the beginning of the end of the Iron Curtain. Within months, the Berlin Wall fell. Within two years, the Soviet Union collapsed.

Poland didn't wait for permission to be free. They voted for it.

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“Ten years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, there are signs that their relationship in research is healing.

One big win came with an agreement in April: starting in 2027, the United Kingdom will rejoin Erasmus+, an EU exchange scheme used by PhD students and university staff. Another is the news that the UK share of funding from the EU’s flagship €95-billion (US$110-billion) Horizon Europe funding scheme has begun to recover after the country rejoined the programme in 2024.

UK participation in EU research projects had tanked in the wilderness years between Brexit and the country’s reassociation with Horizon Europe, but has increased since 2024 (see ‘EU funding access’).”