Stay European is a UK-based grassroots campaign working to regain the rights and benefits that Brexit took from us, by campaigning to rejoin the European Union.
It is an independent campaign, established in January 2020, not affiliated to any pre-existing pro-European group but hoping to work collaboratively with all.
We are European, but we were stripped of our European citizenship and freedom of movement rights against our will. We want to regain these rights.
We will keep scrutinising Brexit to show what a disaster it is for British people, and continue to defend our fellow Europeans’ rights to live, work and study in Britain.
The European project is too important to give up on. We stand loudly and proudly for rejoining the EU at the earliest possible opportunity.
We have three simple campaign goals as decided by our supporters.
When the Brexit transition period ended, British people lost our rights as European citizens overnight regardless of whether we voted for remain or leave.
We believe that a referendum and the governments that followed had no right to strip us of our status as Europeans, especially when many of us were born as EU citizens and had lived our whole life up to that point in the EU.
We now campaign to rejoin the EU as, we believe, the most likely route to regain our European citizenship and freedom of movement, as well as the many other benefits of EU membership.
We’re only a few years into the experiment that is Brexit and already the effects have been felt throughout the country. Sending things to and from the rest of Europe to the UK is now far more complicated and British companies are struggling to export to EU member states.
With the loss of freedom of movement we face barriers to travelling across Europe, and younger generations are prevented from living and working abroad in the way that we were used to.
Stay European will keep highlighting what is happening with Brexit, as it develops over time, to show just what a disaster it is for British people. We will also continue to defend the rights of our fellow Europeans to continue to live, work and study in Britain.
We want our rights as European citizens back, but we also believe in the European project as a whole. That is why we stand loudly and proudly for rejoining the EU at the earliest possible opportunity.
We work with a wide range of organisations that support Rejoin, most notably through the National Rejoin March alliance, which has become both an annual march and a year-round campaign.
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We asked Stay European members and supporters what they’re most looking forward to being able to do once the UK rejoins the EU. Read a selection of their answers.
