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To win the race for rare earths, the UK needs to be in Europe’s team

By Mark English, Policy and Media Advisor to European Movement UK (personal views) To make smartphones, electric cars, military hardware and much else, you need minerals known as ‘rare earths’. You need to mine them, refine them and put them...

November 14, 2025
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November 14, 2025

To win the race for rare earths, the UK needs to be in Europe’s team

By Mark English, Policy and Media Advisor to European Movement UK (personal views) To make smartphones, electric cars, military hardware and much else, you need minerals known as ‘rare earths’. You need to mine them, refine them and put them...
Opinion

August 28, 2025

EM welcomes Labour’s push on Europe – and asks: what’s Nigel leaving this week?

By Joe Meighan - “And for his next trick…”  After the disaster that was Brexit, Nigel Farage’s latest big idea is… to leave something else. This time, it’s the European Convention on Human Rights, supposedly to tackle immigration. Where have...
Opinion

August 27, 2025

When Stormont failed us, the ECHR protected us

By Pierce Robinson - Growing up in Enniskillen, a town scarred by the 1987 IRA bombing that killed 11 people, I was reminded daily of how fragile peace can be. After decades of violence, mistrust, and grief, it took years...
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July 11, 2025

Macron's State Visit to UK - Is This Progress?

This week saw the first state visit by a European head of state to the UK since Brexit. That sentence in itself speaks volumes, both about how damaging the vote to leave the EU was to the UK's relationship with...
Opinion

May 15, 2025

UK-EU talks on the hook because of fishing - here's why

Today’s news brings us another splashy headline: reports that a fish deal—or lack thereof, could sink UK-EU summit talks. Yes, you read that right. Not nuclear policy. Not AI regulation. Fish. Once again, the humble haddock finds itself thrust to...
Opinion

April 14, 2025

From Trump’s tariffs to resetting the reset

Brexiter gloating the other week about Donald Trump hitting the EU with heavier tariffs than those on the UK was both absurd and short-lived.
Opinion

January 24, 2025

Yes, the UK should join PEM. Here's why.

CEO, Sir Nick Harvey, outlines what the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean (PEM) Convention is and why the UK would benefit from joining. At Davos, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič suggested that Brussels is open to the UK joining the Pan-Euro-Mediterranean (PEM) Convention to strengthen...
Opinion

October 28, 2024

Will the Budget Mention the B-word?

Ahead of the announcement of the budget on Wednesday, Senior Vice Chair of European Movement UK, Molly Scott Cato, asks if the elephant in the room, the UK's departure from the EU, will be mentioned in this huge political moment. Molly...
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October 07, 2024

Brexit is bad for the NHS, but few are prepared to say it

Martin McKee, CBE, is professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was president of the British Medical Association (BMA) from 2022-23. Among the stranger features of the Soviet Union were the photographs from...