Will Britain lose the Elgin marbles?
Greece sets its own conditions for any future EU trade deal with Britain
LIKE PRIZE fighters before a bout, the EU and UK are taking up ever tougher stances ahead of upcoming trade talks. On February 17th David Frost, the British negotiator, said Britain’s rejection of any EU supervisory role was not a negotiating tactic but the point of the whole Brexit project. A day later his EU counterpart, Michel Barnier, reiterated that any deal would require acceptance of some EU rules. Meanwhile EU member states are gleefully adding conditions of their own to the negotiating mandate.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Will Britain lose its marbles?”
Britain February 22nd 2020
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