Covering Brexit from Brussels: 'It's like a high-stakes poker game'

The Guardian’s Brussels bureau chief explains how the last 18 months have looked from the heart of European politicsBetween the Guardian’s offices in Brussels, two floors above the Old Hack pub on one side of Boulevard Charlemagne and the headquarters of the European commission on the other, stand 28 EU flags, towering over the passing traffic and pedestrians. At the stroke of midnight here, on the evening of 29 March 2019, one of those fluttering flags will be lowered. My view of Je