Welcome to York European

York European City

keeping international

We maintain that the UK, having left the EU, will have its best interests served by retaining a close as possible relationship with the EU, its peoples and its cultures.
This site will serve as a bulletin board, a village pump, and information and interest exchange.

The aim of this site it to keep alive our already close ties with the countries of Europe which, we maintain, were more easily facilitated when the UK was a member of the EU.
We will also share any difficulties that arise from terminating membership and solutions to problems where they exist. Also, we will share advantages of leaving the union should they arise...

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It is becoming daily more obvious that dams are cracking and wheels are coming off Brexit. Some of us are not in green pastures.

To maintain a stronger opposition we need information and examples of Brexit failure from our daily lives. Please complete this survey — and send in more than one entry if you wish. In the New Year we will share our findings with you and have useful information for local and national campaigns.

Brexit is at a tipping point and it is the right time to start campaigning again!

What I Love About York EXHIBITION

See choices and comments from Alnoor Mitha, from Manchester School of Art.....

Volunteer and have fun at St Nicks

Our next monthly volunteering session with St Nicks at Heworth Holme will be on the morning of Friday 24th September - usual time and place, meeting at the Scout Hut on Bad Bargain Lane at 10.30 am and looking out for Maria Gill from St Nicks. After the (no doubt weather-related) low turnout last month we have decided to introduce a sign up sheet for these sessions. This will enable Maria to bring the right amount of equipment for us. This is important as she transports it all from St Nicks to Heworth Holme on a cycle-trailer which is hard going when loaded up with heavy gardening implements (especially if they don't even get used!) So from now on please indicate on this sign-up sheet when you intend to join.

a York Café

.....transformed by the Art of Protest

Conducting award for York musician, Ewa Salecka

.....awarded a 1st class Degree in Music and Education

the curious tale of.....

.....when York twinned itself with itself.

Sand Hutton Asparagus — raspberry picking problems

Sadly, we will not be harvesting our raspberries this year. The shortage of labour has made it unviable. We are sad because we will lose income and sad that we have a crop of beautiful fruit, that will just rot on the canes. On the plus side, if anyone wants to come and pick (for free) some raspberries and take them home, bring receptacles and come and help yourself. Come as often as you want and bring your friends - there's loads! As you come into the drive to Low Moor Farm, there's the Paw Park immediately on your right and just past that, there are 4 tunnels - park your car there and go in and pick. We envisage around 3/4 weeks picking. Regards, Ronda

For the latest news read Sand Hutton Asparagus Facebook page - follow this link

Cuts to York bus routes

Shortage of drivers

Letter from Silvana, old friend of York

living in Milan

Letter from K, an Erasmus student

living in Strasbourg

Letter from Nadia

an old friend of York, now returned to Germany

Life in Japan still challenging

... from a York University Student...

Life in Munich is similar but different

Cath Lodge explains the joys and misgivings

Bergen, Norway Photo by Joran Quinten

Make some Dutch bacon or cheese pancakes

a tasty simple meal

There are many ways to learn languages in York

Which is best for you? Explore these local options.

Make some Curly Kale Stew

a real Dutch Winter Warmer

Bruxelles Pita filling

a delicious meal from our Euro-Gastro-Correspondent

Scandinavians may be missing their tunnbröd

What is it? How to get it..

make Pasta alla Norma

from Sicily, for Montalbano lovers

York for Europe's new trail “York in Europe, Europe in York”

The trail explores York’s European heritage through the markers of 19 European countries in the city - buildings, businesses, communities, individual stories and belongings
- from Italy to Iceland, France to Finland, Portugal to Poland, Sweden to Slovakia and Norway to the Netherlands

Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central:

The negotiation framework in the EU/UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement gives us an opportunity to build a strong and creative relationship with the EU and we should work together to now shape that future.
Having a source of information in York is so important for us to look at this from a local perspective.”

Cllr Keith Aspden, Leader of the City of York Council, comments:

We may no longer be members of the European Union, but York and the UK will always be part of Europe. Our futures, like our histories, remain inevitably intertwined.
We must make sure we work together with our European partners to support our businesses and residents through what continues to be a very challenging time for us all.”

What's going on

LINKS - Books & Films

York's Twin Towns
Münster & Dijon

An individual has a right to seek asylum anywhere in the world. In practice it is easier in some places than others....

The EU Rights and Brexit Hub is the first of its kind: a nation-wide, legal action research hub. It is an interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, multi-method three-year project investigating how Brexit affects the social rights of EU/EEA nationals in the UK. It is funded by an ESRC large Governance After Brexit Grant.