http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41604675
I want to see it done right, and I do believe that ultimately all the EU countries want it to be sorted out. There are whole swathes of farmland across the EU that are dedicated to producing food for the UK market. It is NOONE's interest to see this fail. As time goes on I think various lobbies - farming, automotive, industry etc. will put pressure on their governments.
Yes, of course it will be difficult, noone wants to give too much away, no leader wants to seem weak.
Interesting.
The simple fact the EU are willing to discuss amongst themselves the form any trading deal would take suggests they are not so intransigent as people make out and re prepared to work on multiple streams in parallel. If they were intransigent then they would take a very linear approach.
Job losses in the EU would be far less than in the UK.EU politicians of all flavours would be seriously neglecting their duty if this wasn't so especially our German friends who dislike disorder above all else. I wouldn't want to be a career politician of one of the 27 remaining states on the receiving end of failed Brexit negotiations which led to the loss of jobs, that would be the end of their career and possibly the party they represent, Merkel for example has other problems to contend with, mass immigration without a mandate for one
How do you figure that when 56% of their exports are to the EU?800,000 new German cars find their way into the UK pa, a sobering thought for the manufacturers with a large proportion high end vehicles. If goodwill evaporates the UK manufacturers will benefit massively