EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier insisted that the UK “reacted badly” to the EU’s Brexit stance. He argued that Brexit talks didn’t progress as the UK wanted as the EU was focussed on the past issues rather than the future relationship. He defended the EU’s intransigence and listed all of the issues the EU considered to be “non- negotiable”.
Mr Barnier said in the TV documentary The Clock is Ticking: “We sought to first negotiate the terms of the divorce to bring order to this separation, to restore security where Brexit created insecurity before starting discussions on our future relationships.
“The Brits reacted badly.
“They wanted a kind of broad bargaining to discuss the future to obtain special arrangements and positions and bits of the domestic market by settling past debts.
“We
