Trade wonk, Brexit bore, globalisation defender, music lover, cricketer, gardener, supporter of mediocre football teams, who knows where the time goes?
David Henig
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Colour me shocked. And wake me up when anyone wants to talk about the realities of UK-EU relations.
Maybe, just maybe, the Chinese want economic success more than Europe or the US right now.
Might I suppose be cheating in its own way.
Across Europe there are huge gaps between how the politicians think the economy should operate, how it actually does, and what people want from it - and unreconciled these almost guarantee political dysfunction.
As I reported last Thursday, and Politico now has the exclusive, that the UK-EU summit is in doubt...
The ten-year-old story of a UK government putting itself under pressure by setting hasty deadlines thinking an agreement is just about text...
For what its worth I think there will still be a UK-EU summit on July 13. There will be texts, but that will only move us into the next phase of what is a permanent negotiation.
Genuinely though this is quite funny, because who set the July deadline to finish this round of UK-EU negotiations? Number 10.
Oh yes, and "everyone will play ball" on the EU side. Suppose there's a first for everything.
"There has been much talk about a TCA review or renegotiation in 2026, but this of itself is not significant, rather the UK and EU will need a joint political process to produce a joint ‘road-map’, a process well known in the trade world"
Me in June 2023. encompass-europe.com/comment/a-bl...
More UK-EU exclusives are here... and sorry to disturb you away from another discussion of what happened in 2016 and whether the UK could have an opt-out from the toenail regulation if we were to rejoin...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/decade...
Always keep the receipts... I'd note that I also had "the exclusive" that there wouldn't be a TCA Review several years ago... but then I also noted that UK discussions on EU relations have a tendency to be stuck with the same people saying the same things...
bsky.app/profile/davi...
"Despite widespread nostalgia for manufacturing jobs, new US factories often struggle to find reliable workers"
Hey, who'd have thought that young people wouldn't have the same nostalgic fervour as ageing politicians?
Maybe we get the economy we want?
www.ft.com/content/e7a3...
