Just spotted this:
Basically, they're considering giving students European passports so they can study abroad. Now, this is interesting, because - to my knowledge - there's no such thing as a European passport, only passports issued by member states which confirm EU citizenship as a side-effect of being a citizen of a member state.
So...if they do this, then they're actually creating a new type of passport for a particular class of people, which - to my understanding of EU discrimination law - they can't withhold from other classes of individual, on the basis that it's ageism-by-proxy (on average). Alternatively, if there's no age-based component, you could register as a student at any age and get the right to a passport (thus skipping any potential future visa requirements if freedom of movement isn't part of the exit deal).
Now, obviously I'm not a lawyer, but surely if they're successful this would open the door to the possibility of other UK citizens being able to challenge the class-specific nature of it and get an EU passport which is valid after we've left the EU?
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We already do a UK version of this for Hong Kong nationals in their Non-EU British Citizen passports. They have rights to enter and work in the UK, but none of the EU citizens rights to free movement on the continent.
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