These Are NOT Brexit Negotiations - Because The EU Can't Negotiate

In 2000, a document was released in which the Con O’Neill, the lead negotiator (from 1970-72) when Britain joined the EU in 1973, called those negotiations “peripheral, accidental and secondary”,  because “what mattered was to get into the Community.” O’Neill was told he needed to swallow whole almost all of the acquis communautaire, the full trove of rules, regulations, laws and agreements of the European Community. This was not becau