PFORZHEIM (dpa-AFX) – “Pforzheimer Zeitung” on Brexit negotiations:
The European Union simply cannot do without great drama. In all important questions there is hard wrestling, poker, threats, blackmail and torture. Until at the last moment and after what seemed like an endless marathon session, there was a compromise with which every negotiator could appear in front of the people and clientele and proclaim that they had fought like a lion – but that was all there was to it. It will be the same this time with Brexit. The interruption of the talks, Johnson’s crisis phone call with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen – all of this is part of the ritual. In the end, however, and very soon, it will be signed. Anything else would be irresponsible, negligent – and a shame for Europe as well as for Great Britain. / Yyzz / DP / mis
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