Published: EUobserver

Both countries decided at some point that they could continue their relationship with Europe but without being bound by the rules that applied for everyone else. Indeed, they thought that an exception in their case could be enforced promptly and easily. “We will cancel the memorandum with a one-article law”, Tsipras said in 2012. In 2017 Liam Fox, the British minister for international trade, was making a similar assumption when he described the free trade agreement with the EU as “one of the easiest in human history” (…) Read full article