Negotiations between countries aren't really very different from those between companies. You have to understand what and how your counterparty is thinking, and when it doesn't, perplexity ensues.
«A senior UK government official said: “Over the last four or five weeks it has become clear that it won’t happen without early assurances on fish and mobility. We’re back to the ‘nothing agreed until everything is agreed’ world.”»
«“It’s a little perplexing for the Brits to claim things are stalled when they can’t tell us exactly what they want to achieve,” said a fourth EU official. “A defence deal as a first positive signal is fine. But a positive signal for what?”»
It sounds to me as if the EU people don't trust the UK people to agree on a modestly accurate roadmap, so they want more assurances, and the UK people don't understand that there's a degree of agreement between "nothing" and "everything is agreed", and that leads to a communication breakdown.
> member states’ demands over fishing rights and a youth mobility scheme
> without early assurances on fish and mobility
> bloc’s demands for continued fishing rights and a youth mobility deal
> The EU has made clear that a youth mobility agreement to allow for 18 to 30-year-olds to study and work in the UK — which Brussels is calling a youth experience scheme — is vital to any wider reset with the UK.
Why is the EU so desperate for EU people to go live and work in UK? I thought the EU was superior in every way and the UK was 3rd world gutter, a money laundering country that produces nothing with worse pay and living conditions inflation than glorious world super power EU?
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 7.1 ms ] thread«A senior UK government official said: “Over the last four or five weeks it has become clear that it won’t happen without early assurances on fish and mobility. We’re back to the ‘nothing agreed until everything is agreed’ world.”»
«“It’s a little perplexing for the Brits to claim things are stalled when they can’t tell us exactly what they want to achieve,” said a fourth EU official. “A defence deal as a first positive signal is fine. But a positive signal for what?”»
It sounds to me as if the EU people don't trust the UK people to agree on a modestly accurate roadmap, so they want more assurances, and the UK people don't understand that there's a degree of agreement between "nothing" and "everything is agreed", and that leads to a communication breakdown.
> without early assurances on fish and mobility
> bloc’s demands for continued fishing rights and a youth mobility deal
> The EU has made clear that a youth mobility agreement to allow for 18 to 30-year-olds to study and work in the UK — which Brussels is calling a youth experience scheme — is vital to any wider reset with the UK.
Why is the EU so desperate for EU people to go live and work in UK? I thought the EU was superior in every way and the UK was 3rd world gutter, a money laundering country that produces nothing with worse pay and living conditions inflation than glorious world super power EU?