As Keir Starmer seeks a new security deal with the EU, a 2019 agreement may offer a way forward. The Political Declaration, signed but never implemented, outlined ambitious cooperation on foreign policy, defence, and intelligence sharing. It promised UK involvement in EU-led missions and diplomatic efforts—commitments later abandoned by Boris Johnson. With global threats rising, is it time to revive these plans and reset UK-EU relations?

Written by Richard Corbett CBE, Former Labour Leader in the European Parliament

The Progressive Potential of the EU is a primer booklet for candidates standing for Labour's sister parties in next year's European Parliament election, authored by LME's very own Richard Corbett, the former Labour Party leader in the European Parliament.

the3million: The Challenges of Digital Status: EU Citizens’ Struggles in Post-Brexit UK

Denis MacShane - Europe’s Anti-System Left Has Paved Way for a Harder Right

Labour Movement for Europe nominated Labour candidate for Barking, Darren Rodwell, examines the European question in his borough of Barking and Dagenham and the UK

Former Labour Leader in the European Parliament, Richard Corbett's article on how public opinion on the consequences of Brexit is shifting and why this is providing the space to speak out on the issues it has raised 

Honorary President of the Labour Movement for Europe, the Rt Hon Neil Kinnock’s, speech to Cardiff University Labour Students on the 28^th January 2023.

The following is from Richard Corbett’s interview with UK in a changing Europe

“Please, please can you teach Keir Starmer, some German, Denis. We love him in Germany and if he could speak a little German he would be such a political super-star!”

The appeal was from a German woman in Brussels, a key political fixer for the centre-right CDU party of Angela Merkel, Helmut Kohl and Konrad Adenauer.

A decade ago the French Socialist Party won the presidency, formed a government, and seemed in the saddle. The French left has spent more than half of the last 40 years in power – a better record than Labour in Britain or the Social Democrats in Germany.