Ten false beliefs that may lead to a hard Brexit
As talks restart, the EU’s ability to compromise isn’t helped by fallacies surrounding the issue
The Brexit negotiations restart this week; to make progress, each side will have to reach out across its red lines. But the EU’s ability to compromise (and Irish support for it) is being hobbled by a series of fallacious beliefs.
Repeated assertion of these ten fallacies, in Brussels and in Ireland, risks alienating Britain (as well as unionists) and making a hard Brexit more likely.
1. The four freedoms are indivisible
The four ...
