Britain Rejoins E.U. Student Exchange Program That It Left After Brexit

[jaagu]

Britain is rejoining a Europe-wide student exchange program that it abandoned to the disappointment of many young Europeans in the fractious aftermath of Brexit.

The British government said on Wednesday that it would pay approximately 570 million pounds, or about $760 million, to take part in the program in 2027, adding that longer-term financing remained to be negotiated.

The exchange program, called Erasmus, began in 1987 and allows young people to study or train for a year at colleges across Europe while paying the same fees they would at home. As well as offering students the chance to live in a foreign country, with all the personal and language development that entails, it also had broader impacts — including, according to a European Commission study, a million babies born to participants who met their partners while on the program.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/world/europe/uk-eu-erasmus-scheme-students-brexit.html?campaign_id=301&emc=edit_ypgu_20251217&instance_id=168100&nl=your-places:-global-update&regi_id=33896451&segment_id=212408&user_id=6824c27a7b6ef3b8da605d4deae751fe

So many things went wrong for UK with Brexit.

[flyerboys]

Very good news, as the Erasmus program had and I am convinced will again have the huge benefit (besides those “incidental babies”) in UK of growing attachments to the shared and steadily more potent European culture. Economically, Europe benefits enormously from greater unity and softer borders, both physically and culturally.

Brexit was what prepared me psychologically for the election of our current POTUS….