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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll Brexit correspondent

EU states working on fresh proposal for youth mobility scheme with UK

a young man wearing a striped top and dark denim apron pours frothed milk from a jug into a cup behind a coffee machine
Opportunities for young people to work across Europe as baristas or au pairs, learn languages or do short-term training were important in making connections, said the German ambassador to the UK. Photograph: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images

EU member states are working on an updated proposal for a youth mobility scheme with the UK after an earlier paper by the European Commission was rejected out of hand by Labour in April, it has emerged.

EU sources say the 27 countries hope to come up with viable negotiating points for Brussels in coming weeks to feed into the expected negotiations on a reset of EU-UK relations being sought by the British prime minister, Keir Starmer.

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