The United Kingdom is refusing to grant the same diplomatic status as that granted to national diplomats to the European Union ambassador in London, João Vale de Almeida, and his team because the EU is not a nation state, the BBC reported on Thursday 21 January.
Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs, has written to the British Foreign Minister, Dominic Raab, to challenge this decision.
“Due to the specific characteristics of the Union, EU delegations...