Brexit-Diary 1: The Prelude

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The Brexit negotiations begin with confidence-building measures, a Hiking stick and a first-point victory for the EU.

There is a roadmap

After the first day is not clear, as the Brexit should look like, but at least the order was decided in the negotiations are ongoing. It is the original Plan of the EU-Chief negotiator Michel Barnier said: “We are talking about the rights of EU citizens, the final invoice and beyond the borders of Ireland”. For months, the British had claimed that they wanted to at the same time talk about the future relations, but since no one knows what they look like to begin with the well-known problems.

What has brought the British Brexit-Minister David Davis, however, according to Brussels, is the generous offer to the future Rights of the citizens of the EU after Brexit, of the London-rumored to be. Perhaps Theresa May would like to serve it at the dinner of the heads of government on Thursday Night, so the rumors kitchen in London.

Hard or soft, that is the question

Everything is a culinary Problem?

For months, will now be discussed via hard – or soft-boiled eggs, the Breakfast orders, a leading British politician. The Prime Minister May was the beginning of the year, among those who could not get their Brexit hard enough: “No Breakfast is better than a bad Breakfast”, or so. What depends basically from the particular Hunger. After it has lost an election, she switched to oatmeal. In any case, is of about the consistency of the food in Brussels to hear nothing more.

One of their three Brexiteers has, in turn, prefer Sweet. At the start of the great Rätselratens the Brexit, the UK foreign Minister said Boris Johnson: “I am to have the cake and eat it.” It must be a renewable Dessert, ecologically correct. Luxembourg’s foreign Minister is doing now, by the way, a further contribution to the Brexit-gastronomy: “these are not Peanuts, what is there to negotiate,” says Jean Asselborn. Peanut cake? Hard or soft baked?

Without Words

In the Distress of the couple therapist helps

Divorces bring forth are known to the Worst in people. Because the therapist can help teach the partners can say, at the beginning of the discussions, and Friendly over the other. Brexit-the Minister David Davis has taken the lesson to heart: “to Us there is more that unites, than separates us”, schleimte he at the meeting with EU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, to have a deep and special partnership. What is normally the simple question would be: “Why are we doing all this nonsense?” The answer to that had been months ago the Prime Minister: “Brexit remains Brexit”. That is a saying from a philosophical impenetrability, which must, therefore, remain so.

Gifts preserve the friendship

Not to come to the Party in Brussels with empty hands, after all, a lunch was offered, with David Davis, his new best friend, a Hiking book. Thus, Michel Barnier is in the future, knows where it’s at, if he runs in the mountains of his native Savoy around and look at the hair desperately, for God’s sake. The Frenchman handed the British a walking stick. The symbolism here is downright amazing: difficult climb, high mountains, deep valleys. And then: caution, risk of falling on the steep wall!

Only a year and three months for the Brexit negotiations

In the course of time

“The clock is ticking,” says Michel Barnier, after the first round of talks. He had already complained about the noodling around of the year since the Brexit Referendum. It should start: “I can’t negotiate with myself”. Where he would bring forth it’s definitely the best result. Because as long as there are from London no directives about the direction of Brexit-a hike, poking the Frenchman with the stick in the fog. Want to get off the British from the internal market, the customs Union, or both? And then in any Form in parts of it re-enter? David Davis wants a Deal, “as it was in the history”. Has he read too many Trump-Tweets?

And above all: the wall floor or not, why should we give him that one-time Deal? “There is no animosity,” says chief negotiator, Michel Barnier. As each speaks for itself.