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Brussels fears Britain’s ‘Brexit chaos’ part of cunning plan

Posted by seumasach on August 4, 2017

“I think it’s tactics: They are playing for time on purpose,” one attaché from a Western EU country said, “under the pretext of chaos in London.”

“In September they’re going to swamp us with [position] papers on the fault lines — exactly the issues where they know we [the EU27 countries] are divided,” he warned.

Good to see that some European leaders are twigging it. To complete the puzzle  we need to tie this in with the machinations of Congress aimed both at removing Trump and dividing Europe over the anti-Russian sanctions.

Politico

3rd August, 2017

Viewed from Brussels, the U.K. seemed so ill-prepared in the early rounds of Brexit negotiations that some EU countries think it must be a trap.

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