On Wednesday 2 September, the EU’s negotiator for UK-EU relations, Michel Barnier, presented a new report of powerlessness in the face of the British government, which “so far has not engaged constructively”, he said in Dublin at a seminar organised by the Institute of International and European Affairs.
The negotiator was speaking on his return from London, where he had a further informal discussion with the British negotiator, David Frost, on 1 September. A formal round of...