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How the UK got a Brexit trade deal done
However, goodwill in future talks between London and Brussels could have been dented by the four-and-a-half
years of negotiations that one EU diplomat compared to a ‘tiresome melodrama’
By John Chalmers, Elizabeth Piper and Gabriela Baczynska / Reuters, BRUSSELS and LONDON
As trade talks with the UK ground to deadlock on Dec. 9, one EU official summed up the mood in Brussels, writing in a memo: “The Brits . are taking us for a ride, we must remain firm.”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had just met for dinner in the Berlaymont building, the headquarters of the 27-nation EU’s executive branch, and failed to resolve blockages on fisheries and competition policy.