European Commission has today recommended UK-EU negotiations for 2 agreements: UK participation in EU internal electricity market & UK financial contribution to reducing EU regional disparities—so, more developments since our Nov report on the UK-EU reset publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

The European Commission has today renewed the UK's EU data adequacy status, to 2031. Based on our earlier work on the issue, in our Nov report on the UK-EU reset we noted renewal "would avoid significant disruption to UK-EU cooperation across the board". publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

We've published a letter we've received today from Nick Thomas-Symonds about the agreement on the UK's association to Erasmus+ in 2027, plus updates on other negotiations following the 2025 UK-EU summit & confirmation of UK-EU aims before next summit in 2026 committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Our Chair @lordrickettsp.bsky.social is at the COSAC conference of European Affairs c'tees in Copenhagen. Noting participants' calls for a stronger Europe, he said Europeans must work together to achieve this—as in Geneva last week—& expressed hope for a pragmatic solution on UK association to SAFE

Our Chair @lordrickettsp.bsky.social is on this week's Parliament Matters podcast from @hansardsociety.bsky.social
(at 21' 25"). He discusses the UK-EU 'reset' & our recent report on it, & Parliament's current & future role in scrutinising UK-EU relations, including prospective dynamic alignment

Our Chair @lordrickettsp.bsky.social is on this week's Parliament Matters podcast from @hansardsociety.bsky.social (at 21' 25"). He discusses the UK-EU 'reset' & our recent report on it, & Parliament's current & future role in scrutinising UK-EU relations, including prospective dynamic alignment

We've written to the Government with Qs re: the European Commission 2026 Annual Work Programme & the Gov's Explanatory Memorandum on it—incl on migration, energy & competitiveness. We look at these documents every year as part of our regular EU scrutiny work. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Our Chair @lordrickettsp.bsky.social and several of our Members are members of the UK delegation to the UK-EU Parliamentary Partnership Assembly (PPA) and taking part in the Assembly's sixth meeting today & tomorrow at Westminster. 📺 Watch live on youtube 🔽

After publishing our UK-EU reset report on Weds, we've sent 2 scrutiny letters to the Gov re: youth experience scheme & SPS & ETS linkage negotiations—especially re: UK financial contributions, & plans re: EU CBAM start on 1/1/26. See all our publications 🔽 committees.parliament.uk/committee/51...

📢 We've published our report on the UK-EU reset - the 1st assessment by a parliamentary committee of the Government's progress so far ⬇️ committees.parliament.uk/committee/51...