{"id":1343,"date":"2020-01-21T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2020-01-21T14:44:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T13:44:02","slug":"eu-terror-panicking-officials-fear-union-breakup-amid-growing-brexit-worry-from-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"EU terror: Panicking officials fear union breakup amid growing Brexit worry from Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BREXIT is an existential threat to Brussels, because it will show that there is a better alternative to the EU, according to a leading UK economist.<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Roger Bootle argues that the EU has been failing economically over the past few decades. It has underperformed most major developed countries and seen its share of world GDP fall continuously. Despite this,\u00a0European leaders<\/a>\u00a0insist that the EU has been an unqualified economic and political success.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, Brexit is likely to prove the opposite and as a result Brussels will try everything it can to nullify the threat it poses.<\/p>\n

He argues that one way the Eu will try to frustrate Brexit is by dragging its feet over doing a deal.<\/p>\n

Mr Bootle writes: \u201cIf the EU\u2019s leaders see Brexit as a threat their response will be to try to nullify it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the EU\u2019s tactics in negotiations will be to rely on the ticking clock.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Brexit News: Boris Johnson\u00a0(Image: GETTY)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Brexit News: Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel\u00a0(Image: GETTY)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cAlready a number of EU figures are saying that a trade deal by the end of the year is impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

He adds: \u201cThis is pure political posturing.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf indeed it transpires that we do not get any sort of agreement by the end of the year the reason will be EU intransigence\u201d<\/p>\n

One strategy being considered by Brussels and the UK is to negotiate a new trading relationship in stages.<\/p>\n

JUST IN:\u00a0Boris Johnson DEFEATED in the Lords as changes to Brexit bill demanded<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Brexit News: Michele Barnier\u00a0(Image: GETTY)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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