What diplomats know about the EU’s ‘skin you alive’ Brexit negotiators
The EU’s executive arm will not shy away from outright manipulation of diplomats on the opposite side of the table, one negotiator says
27 January 2020 - 11:07
Brussels/Brasiliain/Geneva — If UK officials harbour any hope of reaching a post-Brexit deal with the EU quickly or easily, they need only speak to others who have faced the bloc across the table to be disabused.
Negotiators who have worked on other market access deals with the EU describe the process as deeply frustrating. “Europe still tends to see itself as the centre of the universe,” says Aloysio Nunes, who as Brazil’s then foreign minister helped to negotiate the landmark agreement between the EU and Mercosur group of South American countries...
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