Starmer appears to leave door open for potential EU youth exchange scheme
by Peter Walker in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#6QA2W)
PM does not rule out setting up system in future after meeting with Olaf Scholz, who stressed desire for closer ties
Keir Starmer has held the door open potentially for some form of youth mobility exchange with EU nations following talks in Germany with Olaf Scholz, who stressed to the British prime minister his wish for closer such ties.
While Starmer said at a press conference with the German chancellor that the UK did not have plans to join the EU's youth mobility scheme - with No 10 having previously ruled such a move out - speaking to reporters later, he pointedly did not rule out setting up some sort of system for other link-ups, for example student exchanges.
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