To be fair, the EU's preferred negotiating position is to have the EU on one side of the table, and a negotiating team that the EU has completely co-opted on the other side of the table, in effect leaving it negotiating with itself.

I'm not sure it's actually used to negotiating with people who aren't operating in the EU's interests - given how long it's taken to get trade deals with other nations, I'm not sure I'd be wrong to say that it simply can't do so...

Keep Calm and Molan Labe

Do you have a loicense for that rhetoric, sonny jim? I thought not, off to the cells...