Macron welcomes Burnham’s EU pitch, but Brussels may drive hard bargain
Charles Grant, head of the Centre for European Reform, said the rise to power of populist right-wing Eurosceptic parties was stiffening resolve in Brussels to refuse concessions on the movement of people, such as Britain has been seeking.
There is also no appetite in the EU for Britain, one of the biggest European economies, to forge a Swiss-style piecemeal arrangement with the EU.