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The British government is promoting a unilateral breach of the Brexit treaty and the EU reacts with a sharp ultimatum. But do Boris Johnson’s conservatives support the sling course? Or can the situation be further unblocked at the negotiating table?
Confidence has bottomed out, but EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier wants to continue free trade talks with London in Brussels next week.
The new German ambassador to London, Andreas Michaelis, is an old friend of the UK and a reluctant diplomat. The dramatic tone Michaelis used on Twitter Thursday night revealed that the UK and the EU have entered a serious crisis. “In more than thirty years as a diplomat, I have never seen such a rapid, deliberate and severe disintegration of a negotiation,” Michaelis wrote. “Anyone who, like me, believes in a partnership between the EU and Britain cannot accept that.”
