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But you just summed up how the central government and bureaucrats of the EU treat nation states...

• jemmyw 3y ago
  The nation states in the EU agreed to join knowing they'd negotiate with third party countries as a bloc. And they benefit from that. The EU is doing to the UK what it's meant to do, protecting the interests of EU nation states. The UK wants to do 1:1 negotiating because then it's a more even playing field, but that's almost certainly a detriment to each state within the EU. Occasionally some politician in the EU is going to be swayed to argue in favour of individual negotiation. But, as far as I know, no nation is pushing for a change at the EU level. If they were I'd expect it to be for political rather than economic reasons anyway, i.e. somewhere like Hungary wanting to have a trade relation with Russia against EU policy.