Europe offers the UK a 'backpackers and baristas' deal on free movement that ... trends now
The EU yesterday offered to restore freedom of movement for young Britons Rights to work, travel and study across the EU had been curtailed by Brexit Downing Street said it prefers to deals with individual countries, not the EU
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Brussels last night offered Britain a 'backpackers and baristas' deal on free movement.
The European Commission is proposing a 'youth mobility' scheme that would let 18- to 30-year-olds from anywhere across the EU, for up to four years, move to the UK for work, travel or study.
Young Britons would have reciprocal rights to live in the EU.
EU arrivals would pay domestic rates for university tuition fees rather than the higher ones usually charged to foreign students, and would be exempted from paying a healthcare surcharge imposed on other