Britain will offer European countries a youth mobility scheme as part of Keir Starmer’s reset with Brussels, says The Times. Under the plans, thousands of 18-to-30-year-old EU citizens would be allowed to live and work in the UK for two years, with young Britons allowed similar access to the EU. Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas of a “cruel and evil violation” of the ceasefire agreement, after forensic testing showed that one of the bodies returned by the terror group yesterday was not that of the hostage Shiri Bibas. A Hamas spokesman claimed the remains may have been mixed up with others after an Israeli airstrike. The James Bond franchise will now be owned by Amazon, after its long-time custodians, the Broccoli family, handed all creative control to Jeff Bezos’s company. With the iconic British character now in American hands, says the Daily Mirror, “will the Skyfall in?”

We Europeans know the perils of negotiating with Putin

Europeans watching Donald Trump negotiate with Vladimir Putin may be experiencing a certain déjà vu, says Sylvie Kauffmann in Le Monde. Those who have agreed ceasefires with Russia during his reign tend to have “not so fond memories” of the experience. The one negotiated by Nicolas Sarkozy after Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2008 is a “model of its kind”. Moscow simply imposed terms on then-President Mikheil Saakashvili, and “never really withdrew from Georgia”. Today, Georgia’s two small separatist republics – Abkhazia and South Ossetia – are occupied by the Russian army and the country is “unable to function democratically” because of the influence of Moscow.

It was a similar story when Russian troops invaded Ukraine’s Donbas region in 2014, having already annexed Crimea. French and German officials painstakingly negotiated the “Minsk agreements” to end the conflict, but the first ceasefire collapsed after only a few days. “With the best of intentions”, Angela Merkel and François Hollande launched a fresh round of negotiations the following year. One night during the talks – which Putin slowed down as much as possible to allow his forces to gain ground – the Russian president sent for his chief of staff. In front of the then Ukrainian president, Petro Poroshenko, Putin asked his man what would happen if his forces stormed a particular city. “Ten thousand dead,” replied the general. “Do you get it now?” Putin asked Poroshenko, “who turned pale”. The ceasefire was signed the following morning, on Russian terms. Who knows, perhaps the Americans can do better. But don’t count on it.