LONDON — Over the past 40 years, the Brits have become used to watching their prime ministers swing their weight around on the European stage.
Margaret Thatcher’s so-called hand-bagging to secure a budget rebate gained semi-mythical status, as did Gordon Brown’s controversial decision to dodge the signing of the Lisbon Treaty.
So far, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ventures “on the Continent” echo, at least superficially, the decades during which the U.K. was at the heart of EU decision-making.
That won’t last.
What British politicians — Johnson especially — keep misunderstanding about Brexit is that leaving the engine room of EU policymaking does not mean …read more
Source:: European Voice
