The pressure on Mrs May as she went to Florence last Friday to make what was billed as the UK’s “Big Offer” speech to the country’s EU partners was intense. She probably did just enough to keep the UK’s exit negotiations moving forward.
With the start of the Brexit negotiations, it is worth examining the issues from the EU’s perspective. And for the EU, Brexit has from the start been almost entirely an administrative and legal challenge to be executed with as little ongoing cost and disruption to the remaining members as possible.
