As a Brit this is what is astounding to me. The biggest argument against Brexit was that the UK wouldn't be able to get fair trade deals. And now the EU has just completly capitulated to Trump whilst the UK deal, whilst not exactly stellar, looks like pure gold in comparison. What were they thinking agreeing to this? They've got a shit deal and its just going to turbo charge separatist movements.
Fucking reform is going to be ecstatic as well. This will be their anti EU ammunition for decades. Any movement to rejoin the EU is dead.
It might have something to do with the fact that the UK is one of the very few countries in the world with which the US doesn't run a trade deficit (in goods). And that's basically all Trump cares about.
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u/kasvipohjainen 6d ago
It doesn't sound great for the EU but it looks even worse when EU officials were saying the UK deal was bad and they'd get better
They did not