Way back in 1986, many lifetimes ago in EU history, four Polish negotiators came to Brussels to negotiate a trade agreement for their country.
Over a liquid lunch, one of the negotiators strayed from his brief and said what he would really like to be doing was discussing Poland's membership of the European Economic Community, as the EU was at the time.
As Jan Truszczynski, who would go on to become the man who negotiated Warsaw's EU membership almost 20 years later, recounts it, ...
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