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Report: EU secretly scorns UK's Brexit paper
By EUobserver
The UK's new proposal for a bespoke EU customs deal would not fly, but Brussels did not want to publicly reject it in order to prevent a British government crisis, British daily The Guardian reported. "The white paper's not going to form the basis of negotiations," a "senior EU diplomat" reportedly said, but rejecting it "would likely prove an existential threat" to the British PM, "senior sources in Brussels" added.