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In April, the Young European Movement (YEM) elected its National Board for 2024/25, tasked with leading the organisation into the future, championing the policies and ideas which matter to young people and organising events nationwide to help build a national movement for change. 

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President of European Movement UK, Lord Heseltine, wrote for The Independent about how and why the big issues in the 2024 general election – from the economy, to immigration and defence – "all need to be debated in the context of the UK’s relationship with the EU."

Read the piece in full, here.

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The European Movement UK welcomes Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s announcement today that the United Kingdom will hold a General Election on Thursday 4th July.

Sir Nick Harvey, CEO of the European Movement UK said: “The election will mark the end of a turbulent Parliament, one that has done untold damage to our relationship with our European neighbours. The backdrop to this Parliament was the decision for the UK to leave the European Union, an act of economic self-harm that has compounded a crisis-ridden period in our politics.

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This week, new post-Brexit border checks are being rolled out for goods being imported from the EU. It's estimated that the new checks will cost British businesses up to £2 billion and add 10% to import costs in the first year.

It's just one example of how the government's hard Brexit is harming businesses and increasing costs for all of us. Brexit has become a hole in the pocket of millions of hardworking British families.

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It’s been a huge week for our Face the Music campaign in Scotland – we’ve been in Holyrood, on the news, and out on the streets, making noise for musicians.

Together, with European Movement in Scotland, European Movement activists are making waves and change is now on the horizon for our live music sector.

Here are the highlights:

• Organised by our partners, European Movement in Scotland, our mass busk on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile was covered by BBC Scotland, STV and The National, bringing attention to the post-Brexit issues facing musicians and the need for solutions
• Our campaign got multiple mentions during a Scottish Parliament debate on Scotland's new International Culture Strategy, with MSPs from across the political spectrum highlighting the need for a visa waiver scheme for musicians
• We then joined Michelle Thomson MSP, Convenor for the Cross-Party Group on Music, inside Holyrood for what will be the first Face the Music roundtable event.

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Last week, in a landmark ruling, a group of Swiss pensioners won a case through the European Court of Human Rights that made protection from climate change a human right.

The ruling has been described as ushering in 'a new era' of environmental action, because it could pave the way for citizens in 50 European countries to hold governments to account if they fail to tackle the effects of climate change.

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