Here's a selection of the front page stories across the EU.
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GR 🇬🇷 - Kathimerini
LABOR DAY: The Greek Labor Ministry is expanding its Digital Labour Card scheme to two new sectors, which tracks the clocking in and out times of all employees in companies with a 250+ headcount.
Yes, the govt are tracking their working hours.
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ES 🇪🇸 - La Razón
EQUALITY?: New and controversial amendments to abortion and trans laws in Spain have been approved by Congress, despite warnings from judges that they may have unintended and unwanted impacts.
The article looks to what happened in Scotland as a case study.
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FR 🇫🇷 - Le Figaro
ASSISTED SUICIDE: 13 organisations, representing over 800,000 care givers and health workers across France, have signed a letter to the govt stating that their proposals of legalizing assisted suicide are incompatible with their duty of care.
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DE 🇩🇪 - Rheinische Post
RELIEF DELAYED: Relief payments to energy customers, to help with the high energy prices, are to be further delayed due to "software issues".
Payments were already being backdated in March to cover Jan and Feb, adding further pressure on consumers.
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FR 🇫🇷 - Le Parisien
NUCLEAR WORRIES: To meet the promises made by the Macron govt, an additional 80,000 people will need to be hired in the next 10 years to build next gen nuclear reactors.
All in the climate of dismal financials and abysmal debt published by EDF today.
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I have collated 50 tangible Brexit benefits, fully evidenced and demonstrably true.
Some may not like that they exist - but that doesn't change the fact that they do.
👇Scroll down to see them in this megathread 👇
#BrexitBenefits2024
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As one of the larger economies of the EU, the UK was a net contributor to the EU budget - which means that it paid in more each year than it received in return.
The UK was responsible for 12.5% of the annual core budget of the EU, which in 2024 was €189 Billion - which would in turn have resulted in a gross contribution from the UK of around €24 Billion, were it still to be a member.
This would have meant a likely net contribution of around €14-16 Billion in 2024 - money that can now be spent in the UK instead.
As an EU member state within the Customs Union, 75% of all customs revenue (it was 80% at the time the UK voted to leave) goes into the budget of the EU.
Now outside of the EU, the UK HMRC receives 100% of that revenue, to spend on public services - currently estimated at around £2-3 Billion extra a year.
In March 2022, I was asked to provide 10 "Tangible Benefits" of leaving the EU. So over the course of a lunch break I wrote a list of 10 and sent it over.
Since then it has been shared thousands of times, and even made the press.
Since that time in March 2022, as more benefits came to fruition, I have done the research - and those where I was able to confidently demonstrate and verify a true Brexit benefit as existing, I added to the list.
Today I’m adding the 30th item onto the list. Triple the original challenge.
So to celebrate the task having been delivered many times over, and to reflect that time has passed and some items in the list needed updating as to current status, I have decided to rewrite the full 30 items in a new post - so please, sit back and enjoy.
Also worth noting that I have been asked many times to back up these claims, and many times I have provided the evidence – but this time through I will include the source material within the tweets, so you can see it for yourself.
Link: The original thread -
Link: The “One Year Later” thread -
Link: The Daily Express article:
Before I proceed to the list itself.
This is not intended to be an exhaustive list - merely one which I can say that I have fully researched and can defend as being truly a benefit of leaving the EU.
That is not to say that disbenefits do not exist - merely that benefits *definitely* do.
Oh and credit where it is due to all of you who have helped over the last few years in cultivating this list, and thanks to for the one or two AI images used in this opening.
With the CPTPP accession now signed and awaiting ratification, and the India FTA wrapping up the final tough nuts to crack, what else is going on with UK international trade?
Plenty!
Here's a quick rundown 🧵
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The negotiations that are known by me to be in flight right now:
CPTPP Accession (Ratification)
Canada FTA Upgrade
GCC FTA
Greenland FTA
India FTA
Israel FTA Upgrade
Maldives FTA
Mexico FTA Upgrade
Switzerland FTA Upgrade
Switzerland Fin Svs Agmt
USA State Specific MoUs
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UK 🇬🇧 -🌏🌎 CPTPP Accession
✅Agreement in Principle: 31 Mar 2023
✅Signed Accession Protocol: 16 Jul 2023
📅 UK Ratification: 2024
📅 CPTPP11 Ratification: 2024
📅 In Place: October 2024
This graph has really wound me up today. Not because it was saying something surprising - I don't think anyone would be surprised that the age category in question is more supportive of EU membership.
The reason that it has wound me up, is because it is a LIE.
Earlier this evening on GB News, the outspoken political commentator Marina Purkiss appeared on the Jacob Rees Mogg programme "State of the Nation" to debate the topic of the so-called "culture war".
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People can of course make their own minds up as to the overall quality of the debate, and I would recommend if you are genuinely interested, in actually watching it for yourself.
In the 9 minute segment, they each made 5 statements as fact - but are they actually fact?
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MP Statements:
1. Children are getting a poorer education 2. UK has the highest energy bills on the planet 3. JRM voted to stop people protesting "if it was annoying" 4. Austria has one of the highest inflations in the world 5. Austria GDP is billions, UK is trillions
Apologies for the delays, I haven't had chance to post one of these frontpage rundowns for a few days.
Lets have a look and see what stories were making the front pages of newspapers across Europe this morning.
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BE 🇧🇪 - Le Soir
NUCLEA-YAH: According to data gathered by Le Soir - their "Great Barometer" - the Belgian people are not only in favour of extending the life of existing Nuclear power stations, but also want to build new ones as well.
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FR 🇫🇷 - Le Monde
INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY?: To counter the rise of China, Joe Biden and the USA is promoting a proactive policy. But what is the strategy for the European Union?