A reminder of the damage caused by euroscepticism, including Gordon Brow’s dead hand www.ft.com/content/080e...

A chance for Keir Starmer to look good by telling Trump to piss off.

China brokers 🇹🇭 🇰🇭 ceasefire. US ‘notably absent’ . FIFA demands peace medal return. Not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@paulnowaktuc.bsky.social comes out swinging for Europe and against a “Diet Coke” version of the Employment Act www.ft.com/content/ebd2...

@tuc.org.uk General Secretary @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social calls for “vastly improved” trading arrangement with EU given “fickle nature” of relations with US www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

@teresaribera.ec.europa.eu pushes back on deregulation agenda. 👏👏👏 www.ft.com/content/e04e...

Cannes Christmas Day ☀️🕶

Pathetic response to US visa ban on 2 UK-based campaigners

Has the police disclosed his ethnicity and that of his gang of rapists yet?

Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers. An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

UK fails to secure CBAM exemption. Negotiations to align with EU rules to continue next year. Meanwhile Brexit gutting our steel industry

New civics test for non-EU citizens seeking residence in France launched from 1 January www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers...

What’s the problem? Blue Labour cannot be as corrupt as the tories, surely? bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

More bureaucracy for UK fishers wanting to land at EU. Thx Brexit assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69452d...

Canada green lighted to join the European defence group SAFE. 🇨🇦 demonstrating autonomy from big brother. UK still haggling about the money -but is it also about US ties? www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

@consilium.europa.eu Conclusions: good to see they eschewed the praise heaped on Trump when the UK is involved in drafting the text www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

We're looking forward to working more closely with the Universal Postal Union after signing a four-year cooperation agreement this month. It means postal workers worldwide will have a greater say in decisions that affect them. https://ow.ly/rRq850XM7t7

The union card. HT @etuc-ces.bsky.social

@tuc.org.uk and @etuc-ces.bsky.social welcome UK joining EU’s Erasmus+ programme. Stress the benefits for workers, young people and apprentices from both sides www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

Good explainer By @stevepeers.bsky.social of the ‘enhanced cooperation’ mechanism that allowed funding for Ukraine while bypassing the Kremlin stooges. Reminds me in passing of the UK opposing in the CJEU the use of this tool to introduce the Financial Transactions Tax back in 2014

@tuc.org.uk welcomes Employment Act as ‘closer’ towards the European mainstream on workers’ rights www.tuc.org.uk/news/employm...

It’s a landslide! The results are in, and Equity members have made their position clear with a 99.6% YES vote. They are prepared and ready to take action to secure AI protections. www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/pe...

The NUJ and sister unions have written to UK culture minister Lisa Nandy to reiterate the key principles that must underpin the BBC Charter Review, including the need for the broadcaster to be universally available and properly resourced. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/bea...

Interesting piece by James Tibbits @labourlist.bsky.social about the hoops Andrea Egan would need to jump through if she wanted @unison.org.uk to disaffiliate from Labour. Unions are champions at constitutional procedurals labourlist.org/2025/12/unis...

UK trade ‘agreements’ with Trump “built on sand”.. Actually my beach constructions of past times were concrete bunkers compared to the ‘Prosperity Deal’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

@consilium.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu reach provisional agreement on Mercosur agri-food safeguards. www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

👍👏 Welcome back UK at @EUErasmusPlus! It is also a symbolic milestone in reset 🇪🇺🇬🇧because it is more than just an education programme. Has shaped generations on both sides. However, we must now continue to build on this momentum to promptly launch further concrete measures like SPS or youth mobility

Sorry that @christinamcanea.bsky.social lost, especially on this paltry 7% turnout, not because she did a bad job for @unison.org.uk members but cursed by her perceived links to the Party leadership. I doubt that Andrea will do better by them

Great news as UK rejoins Erasmus. But we’re paying the cost of Brexit (once more) www.ft.com/content/222c...

“While the review will consider recent cases, it will focus on contemporary events and threats and will not consider previous allegations over interference in the Brexit referendum”. Previous to what exactly? www.gov.uk/government/n...

Great exhibition at the musee d’Orsay currently

I knew I would get LOLs following this account

Whatever your elites may think @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu is doing a great job shafting Trump’s corporate mates

Wordle 1,638 2/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

@ec.europa.eu 🧵tells Trump and his tech mates to sod off

The Protect America’s Workforce Act passed the House of Representatives! This is a huge victory for workers. As the bill heads to the Senate with bipartisan support, we call on lawmakers to vote yes and reverse the largest act of union-busting in history. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc

Definitely rolling the turf

No wonder Trump wants to destroy @ilo.org with his DDG nominee www.ilo.org/resource/new...

@paulnowaktuc.bsky.social right pissed off with @houseoflords.parliament.uk still blocking employment bill. @tuc.org.uk agreed with employers to wave some day one rights as part of a deal to get the legislation trough quickly. Not gents obvs www.tuc.org.uk/news/tory-pe...

@charitycommission.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy must now stop IEA charity status. WTF should we give tax breaks to this bunch?

Very interesting exhibition at Musee d’Orsay showing George Seurat’s influence on Bridget Riley’s work

Human rights have no office hours. Wednesday is #HumanRightsDay.

Only fascists allowed to attend the World Cup, including commentators. No @garylineker.bsky.social No football. Boycott 🏆🌎

Trump declares war on San Serriffe www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@vdombrovskis.bsky.social : EU protects smaller states, doesn’t threaten them (as liar Trump asserts). Very true and shows up de Wever as selling out Belgium (let alone flemmland) www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

@consilium.europa.eu adopts European Defence Industry Programme www.consilium.europa.eu/media/uwraim...

We stand in full solidarity with @cgt.fr and their secretary general, Sophie Binet, indicted for “public insults” after a media intervention. This worrying case shows attempts to silence union voices. We stand with her✊ link.europa.eu/PW4qhc

GBR: improvements train operators in public ownership are making for customers. Lots of good stuff here, so why spoil it with the hideous new livery? www.gov.uk/government/c...

@teresaribera.ec.europa.eu strikes again✊. @ec.europa.eu opens investigation into possible anticompetitive conduct by Google in the use of online content for AI purposes. In case you missed the point: "Google, headquartered in the US" ec.europa.eu/commission/p...