I mean the vaccine shambles thats been doing the round the last few days, that doesn't make them look like spoilt brats at all.
A row with a supplier over €300,000,000 cash in exchange for not very much (so far) in terms of the goods promised doesn't make their comms or their contract writing look good, but to say that this one spat undermines the economic and political foundations of the entire bloc is, I would say, over-selling it somewhat.
It's also only being cast in terms of Brexit in the UK, for obvious reasons that we are desperate to find anything we can show as a Brexit benefit.
But that's telling in of itself - Nissan not leaving is shown as a huge victory, not Nissan investing hundreds of millions in a new production line, but just not shutting up and fucking off is now presented as a success.
A row with a supplier over €300,000,000 cash in exchange for not very much (so far) in terms of the goods promised doesn't make their comms or their contract writing look good, but to say that this one spat undermines the economic and political foundations of the entire bloc is, I would say, over-selling it somewhat.
It's also only being cast in terms of Brexit in the UK, for obvious reasons that we are desperate to find anything we can show as a Brexit benefit.