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UK and EU leaders may not be able to agree on a trade deal yet, but one Brexit issue they can agree on is their fondness for cake metaphors.
French President Emmanuel Macron became the latest leader to offer an analogy on Friday when asked about EU contingency planning.
In the event of a no-agreement outcome of Brexi In trade negotiations, Brussels has proposed a series of short-term mini-deals with the UK to keep planes flying, trucks moving and allow fishing boats to keep working.
The EU is considering continued access to UK waters in the event of no trade deal
However, this has ran the risk of causing a new fishing line with Britain on plans for EU ships to continue to work in UK waters, on a reciprocal basis, for up to one year.
Some Brexiters have viewed the fishing demand as an attempt at ‘blackmail’, and the EU, in exchange for continued access to UK waters, has not paralyzed UK flights or paralyzed British carriers since the January 1 after a no-deal result.
Meanwhile, parts of the mini-deals offered by the EU to the UK contain the same demands for the so-called level playing field provisions that, along with fishing rights, have been such a contentious aspect of post-Brexit trade negotiations.
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When asked after an EU summit on Friday if the bloc’s one-year fishing proposal was similar to “have your cake and eat it,” Macron replied: “I’m not asking to have my cake and eat it, no.
“All I want is a cake worth its weight. Because I won’t give up my part either.”
The French president is under internal pressure to preserve access to UK waters for his country’s fishing fleets during the ongoing Brexit negotiations.
The use of the cake metaphor on Brexit issues has been a regular occurrence for the past four years, and the UK is often accused of wanting to ‘have its cake’, by exiting the EU, and ‘eat it’, by continuing to enjoy the same. benefits of EU membership.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson once said that his “policy on cake is in favor of having it and in favor of eating it.”
