Brexiters, Barnier writes, had behaved “irresponsibly, with regard to the national interests of their own country. How else could they call on people to make such a serious choice without explaining or detailing to them its consequences?” theguardian.com/world/2021/may…
Bernier was “stupefied” by the Lancaster House speech in which Theresa May laid out UK red lines.
“The number of doors she shut, one after the other,” he marvels on 17 January 2017. “I am astonished at the way she has revealed her cards…before we have even started negotiating”
“The number of doors she shut, one after the other,” he marvels on 17 January 2017. “I am astonished at the way she has revealed her cards…before we have even started negotiating”
There remains “real incomprehension, in Britain, of the objective, sometimes mechanical consequences of its choices,” Barnier writes.
The political class "simply refuse to acknowledge today the direct upshot of the positions they adopted a year ago.”
The political class "simply refuse to acknowledge today the direct upshot of the positions they adopted a year ago.”
In a postscript, Barnier warns that British “provocations” over the Irish protocol will continue. "In an attempt to erase the consequences of the #Brexit it provoked, it will try to re-enter through the windows the single market whose door it slammed shut."
Barnier expects London will soon “try to use its new legislative and regulatory autonomy to give itself, sector by sector, a competitive advantage. Will that competition be free and fair?"
"We have tools to respond.”
"We have tools to respond.”
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