The EU’s Plan to Get a Brexit Deal: Let Johnson Claim He Won
- EU officials call Johnson’s walk-out predictable theater
- But bloc risks overestimating PM’s desire to secure accord
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Deep in the European Commission’s Brussels headquarters, officials are plotting how to make it look like Boris Johnson is a brilliant negotiator.
With talks between the U.K. and European Union still deadlocked after the British prime minister nearly-but-didn’t-quite stage a walkout Friday, that’s the only way EU officials say they can secure the trade deal both sides say they want.