{"id":142921,"date":"2025-05-30T02:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T02:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142921\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T02:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T02:06:18","slug":"the-eternal-recurrence-of-the-brexit-summits-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/142921\/","title":{"rendered":"The eternal recurrence of the Brexit summits \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The EU delegation brought their usual toolkit: big, fat folders of bureaucratic jargon; passive aggression; and gift baskets of rules. The Brits responded in kind: tea, tight smiles, and vague allusions to \u201ctaking back control\u201d \u2014 now rebranded as \u201ccommon understanding.\u201d Not quite as catchy.<\/p>\n

Big wins, aka \u201cdynamic alignment,\u201d were claimed by both sides on youth mobility and easing food exports \u2014 concepts so gloriously noncommittal, they could have been borrowed from a Tinder bio. In short: Britain agreed to let French boats chase haddock around the Channel for the next 12 years, but only if they received in return the right to sell cheddar to Belgium again.<\/p>\n

National sovereignty never tasted so sharp.<\/p>\n

Nige \u201cThe Rage\u201d Farage, in his usual reasonable and objective tone, called the deal \u201cthe end of the fishing industry.\u201d Meanwhile, former prime minister and man allergic to hair brushes Boris Johnson simply labeled the whole thing a deliberate betrayal. The Brexit power couple knows how to keep it classy.<\/p>\n

The summit ended in the usual flurry of statements, awkward group photos, the occasional love-bombing X posts and \u2014 in true European style \u2014 a joint press release simultaneously saying everything and absolutely nothing at the same time.<\/p>\n

God save the agreement. Until the next summit.<\/p>\n

CAPTION COMPETITION<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cDo you really think they bought our deal?\u201d<\/p>\n

Can you do better? Email us at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a> or get in touch on X @POLITICOEurope<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week, we gave you this photo:<\/p>\n

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Thanks for all the entries. Here\u2019s the best from our mailbag \u2014 there\u2019s no prize except for the gift of laughter, which I think we can all agree is far more valuable than cash or booze.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour Holiness, do you have the Almighty\u2019s phone number for me? Pete and I want to make a new Signal group and, instead of a reporter, we want to add God to it.\u201d
by Mark van Kranenburg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU delegation brought their usual toolkit: big, fat folders of bureaucratic jargon; passive aggression; and gift baskets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1789,5109,802,19132,2000,7335,299,5187,1699,1214,806,384,48,15,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-142921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-boris-johnson","10":"tag-brexit","11":"tag-declassified","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu-commission","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-exports","18":"tag-industry","19":"tag-nigel-farage","20":"tag-rights","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114594341909415837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}