The most valuable lesson that the Tsipras experience can teach Johnson? The EU is not about to give up representing its 27 member-states in order to indulge the whims of a populist leader
Boris Johnson also resorts to Manichaeism in order to explain his own proud negotiation. In a recent Q&A session at Facebook, he called those MPs who oppose his plans “collaborators”. Just like the SYRIZA supporters, Boris has referred to the EU as a super-state.Johnson’s rhetoric may be politically useful for him, but Brussels pays it scant attention. In 2015 the EU deployed the same dry and monotonous manner in ignoring Tsipras’ rhetoric.
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