UK offers up to £450m a year on EU student fees to join Made in Europe

Britain's government is prepared to spend up to £450m a year so EU students pay UK-level university fees, but only if Brussels admits the UK to its Made in Europe industrial scheme, the Guardian reports. The talks, due to conclude at a 20 November summit, also cover youth mobility, alignment on EU tariffs and UK access to EU biometric databases such as Eurodac. Together they show Britain moving step by step back toward Europe's institutions, trade rules and shared data systems, a shift of alignment that reinforces Europe's growing weight as a single bloc.