Dear United Kingdom, Emmanuel Macron would like you to take responsibility for the mess you have created. The French president spoke for the European Union as a whole when he called for the UK to find a solution to the impasse of the Brexit talks at the European council in Brussels. “There is no additional political compromise to be made on the European side as now,” he said.
When it comes down to Brexit, Macron has always been blunt. “Those who claim it is easy to operate outside of the European Union are liars,” he declared back in September at the fateful Salzburg summit. Furious Brexiteers advised Macron to “butt out” of British politics – but in doing so, they were only shooting the messenger. The French president, regularly attacked by UK politicians and pundits for daring to criticise Brexit, rarely speaks his own mind on the subject – he merely repeats, if in quite a direct phrasing, the EU’s line. Truth, it would seem, hurts more with a French accent.
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