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15 February 2018 / David Greene
Issue: 7781 / Categories: Opinion , Brexit
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Brexit manoeuvres

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David Greene charts the progress of the UK’s transition out of Europe

It is, of course, an old political trick to keep going on about the detailed mundane issues relating to a policy, in order to bore stakeholders into submission. Brexit might be taking on that guise. There are many who will have lost interest in the process and who might be saying, like many Europeans, ‘just get on with it’.

It is, however, a crucial time for the detail of our future of relations with our neighbours. Unfortunately we have come to an impasse, bogged down in the political quagmire of just how that future should look. It does seem amazing that with just a year to go until we become a third country to the EU, we still have yet to agree among ourselves the fundamentals of the relationship. It is only when that happens we can start fitting in the detail.

In a paper at the end of November, the European Commission issued a Notice to Stakeholders as to the consequences for the

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