UK, welcome back to Erasmus+ 🇪🇺🇬🇧

[kdude@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission it would have been a good idea to summarize "what Erasmus+ **is**" in the post...

[marcas@mastodon.ie]

@EUCommission As a general matter, the EU should follow a strict anti-cake policy. But Erasmus participation isn’t cake. It doesn’t require EU or even EEA membership, and UK students should not be penalized for the belligerent stupidity of their Brexiteer grandparents.

[kamelot@social.vivaldi.net]

@EUCommission

En gros, rien n'a changé avec les Britaniques: ils veulent le beurre et l'argent du beurre. Comme depuis toujours.

[echedellelr@soc.masfloss.net]

@EUCommission hi, I want to ask how will you address trans people who want to participate in the Erasmus+ program, specially on universities and vocational training academies coming from trans-accepting countries (like Spain)?

I don't think people want to be excluded from participating into the program, or suffering consequences because measures were not taken. We, as trans people, may suffer different kind of discrimination in UK, even in a legal frame.

Some trans people undergoing HRT but who did not change data yet may suffer discrimination there, and even so, those who changed the data may be subject to special screening or misclassified, or directly excluded from going to certain spaces, even if it was accepted in their home countries.

That being said, it will be worse when taking into account the healthcare protections, or even security in the place. I would like a document specifying the procedure without letting this to be dealt at university/academies level, because let's say the truth, it will just finish in trans people being excluded to avoid the «issues» and the legal charge.

If there will be nothing to cover this, I prefer UK not being integrated back into the Erasmus+ program or any other program which implies the participation of EU-citizens, specially students and specially taking into account that some may be even underage trans people (16-17 yo usually participate in this program in the university or academies I studied at).

[largo@mstdn.social]

@EUCommission

As an EU citizen, and coming from Eastern Europe, I find it hard to find any sympathy for the English after all the vitriol and contempt they've treated us with.

I don't welcome these news. The UK wants to be an island unto its own. Let them.

[martin@libera.site]

@Allegro con Fuoco Do you know Malta or Ireland?

[largo@mstdn.social]

@martin it might shock you, but I know Cyprus too

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@EUCommission the UK is genuinely just doing EU membership without EU membership at this point

[andyger@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission This is great news. I am working at an Austrian Gymnasium in Vienna that has an Erasmus program, afaik ...

And maybe Great Britain itself finds the way back into the European Union.

[mfierst@mstdn.social]

@EUCommission
Welcome to the students, despite being unelected elite
It will be a while before the Boris Johnson bullshit in my face will wear off. Perhaps it is time to wash my face.

[schratze@todon.nl]

@EUCommission ERASMUUUS ERASMUUUS

[pasimolete@mastodon.social]

@obdriftwood Como se nota que se ha caído Bluusky y andamos haciendo el zángano.

[gurre@mastodon.nu]

@EUCommission
Every step closer to BRejoin is good.

(And the rejoin deal would obviously be without the carve-outs and exceptions the UK had before)

[martin@libera.site]

@Gurre Vildskägg Looks like idea of CANZUK is much real, ATM.
But why not CANZUK joining EU. ‍️

[veza85ue@eupolicy.social]

@largo
This is what healthy self-respect looks like, thank you. A needed reminder to all the (mostly) Northern EUros who treat this programme, which is not restricted to EU members and into which they pay to participate, like a 3am drunk text from the toxic ex. #SvenProblems

@EUCommission

[mihamarkic@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission great way to study Brexit consequences and imperialism