The UK’s attempt to leapfrog a divorce deal and move talks on to trade incensed EU negotiators during a third round of Brexit talks this week(see EUROPE 11852). But the two are inextricably and intricately linked.
Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker admitted as much during an address to the EU’s own ambassadors and special envoys this week, referring to“partial overlaps”.
Taken hostage?
Take Ireland as an example, which is one of the EU’s top three priorities for the first...