Well it's hardly ideal that there's an apparently belligerent mood developing across the Channel. Might end up encouraging the same over here, which benefits nobody.
These people want the UK to fail because they don't want us to leave. It's a bit like a parent suddenly realising their child has grown up and wants to leave home, it upsets the parents more then the child.
I'm sure that it suits their collective purpose to make these sort of noises, whether you think there is something in what they say depends upon your own beliefs over Brexit.
Oh my goodness how I laughed when I read the link.
Can anything that comes out of the mouths of these burocratic europhiles be believed? It really is just wishful thinking on their part.
There may well have been little or no preparation for a Bretix before the leave vote WON but they are knuckling down to it now. (Albeit most of it we are unaware of).
We actually have a strong position. We negotiate for the benefit of the UK (and the rest of Europe) sensibly or we revert to the WTO rules. Either way we win.
Junker as usual is a scared little boy running backwards to try to deflect from his own shortcomings....
Also I think it has got to the stage now that they are more looking to discourage other countries defecting and going independent. The U.K. a leaving the EU might be the start of the death knell of the EU but it will take others to go for it to actually happen.
I tend to think, like the UK the EU will survive. There is too much vested interest for it to collapse. Once we have gone the undemocratic EU will become more undemocratic and eventually be a big USSR type thing pretending to be the EU
I think it sad that European officials have to come out with such tripe simply because they know that they have no strengths to argue with, and hope fantasy may achieve something. I'd suggest Juncker and his officials have now embarassed themselves so much they surely, if they have any sense of honour at all, must resign and make way for folk capable of holding the positions that they, the incumbents, are now blocking.
Also G20 leaders trying to strongarm the UK into doings what is convenient for them, rather than what is good for this nation, didn't work pre-referendum and that sort of carp won't work now either. If they get satisfaction from what happened at the G20 meeting then they are weak men clutching at straws; but I suspect they are just being daft and hoping it'll start having an effect. Which confirms that they know nothing of the British character.